Orientalist imaginaries of travels in Kashmir: Western representations of the place and people

Ahmad, Rafiq

doi:10.1080/14766825.2011.620117

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“…Early exposure to unfiltered information, which is passed on to tourists from interested bodies, echoes within them and adds to the ideas and conceptions they already hold (Salazar and Graburn, 2014). Ahmad (2011) maintains that "Western" tourists hold pre-existing images of destinations that are "exotic" or "unknown." When traveling, they attempt to justify and prove their own truths to themselves and to others.…”

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“…The geographic distance that separates between "Western" tourists and destinations in developing countries makes them feel such as traveling back in time (Salazar, and Graburn, 2014). Such feelings intersect with oriental perceptions, by which "Western" tourists conceive of locals as ethnically "different" and, hence, less powerful (Ahmad, 2011). Finally, touristic imagination of developing areas and populations includes contrasting opinions and conceptions (Theodossopoulos, 2014).…”

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The Geographical imagination of Israeli tourists to Turkey

Shmuel

Cohen

2020

IJCTHR

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Purpose This study aims to examine changes in the discourse concerning Israeli tourism to Turkey between 2000 and 2014. Design/methodology/approach Drawing on the concept of geographic imagination and using a critical cultural discourse analysis of travel stories published in the Israeli media, the authors analyze the extent to which changes have both reflected and resulted from changing relations between the two countries. Findings The analysis reveals that before 2010, Turkey was depicted in largely positive geo-cultural terms, imagined as a desired cosmopolitan, culturally “authentic” destination, which elicits feelings of joy and peacefulness. More recent narratives, however, highlighted its negative geopolitical qualities, underscoring its anti-Israel stance and invoking a fearful discourse of political and ethno-religious radicalization. Originality/value The study makes three contributions. First, by attending to the significance of perceptions in the social construction of tourist destinations it brings the fields of tourism and cognitive geography into a closer dialogue. Second, by using a critical discourse analysis it highlights the changing cultural contexts within which places are imagined and constructed by tourists. Finally, by uncovering the geographic complexities that undergird the discursive construction of places as tourist destinations, it illustrates how everyday narratives change over time, reflecting the dynamic nature of inter-state relations.

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The Geographical imagination of Israeli tourists to Turkey

Shmuel

Cohen

2020

IJCTHR

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India's Obsession with Kashmir: Democracy, Gender, (Anti-)Nationalism

Kaul

2018

Feminist Review

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This article attempts to make sense of India's obsession with Kashmir by way of a gendered analysis. I begin by drawing attention to the historical and continuing failure of Indian democracy in Kashmir that results in the violent and multifaceted dehumanisation of Kashmiris and, in turn, domesticates dissent on the question of Kashmir within India. This scenario has been enabled by the persuasive appeal of a gendered masculinist nationalist neoliberal state; currently enhanced in its Hindutva avatar. My focus is on understanding how the violence enacted upon the Kashmiri bodies is connected to feminised understanding of the body of Kashmir in India's imagination of itself as a nation-state. I argue that the gendered discourses of representation, cartography and possession are central to the way in which such nationalism works to legitimise and normalise the violence in Kashmir. I conclude with a few reflections on how Kashmir is a litmus test for the discourse on (anti)nationalism in contemporary India.

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Representing Bhutan: A Critical Analysis of the Politics of Knowledge Production

Kaul

2021

The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History

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Historical knowledge production about Bhutan by outsiders has generally relied upon the dominant lens of understanding the place and people through accounts that combine narratives of travel and strategy. In this article, I interrogate the complexly layered itinerary of such accounts to demonstrate how their imperial ethos has either been ignored or underplayed. I critically analyse the systematicity, selectivity, and the positionality in knowledge-making on Bhutan. I find that imperial knowledge production endeavour tends to be projected as casual and unintentional, innocent of its biases, unaware of its calculations, and oblivious to how it prioritises its own interests at the expense of the native Others and their worldviews. Thus, the sourcing of knowledge on Bhutan is linked to the histories of power in the region and marked by asymmetries in terms of whose views were heard and reproduced over time. Understanding the politics of knowledge-making on Bhutanconstructed as a peripheral non-Western region of the world, and having been subjected to multiple and overlapping imperial forceshas the potential to inform, and be informed by, other similar understudied areas.

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Orientalist imaginaries of travels in Kashmir: Western representations of the place and people

Cited by 10 publications

References 8 publications

The Geographical imagination of Israeli tourists to Turkey

The Geographical imagination of Israeli tourists to Turkey

India's Obsession with Kashmir: Democracy, Gender, (Anti-)Nationalism

Representing Bhutan: A Critical Analysis of the Politics of Knowledge Production

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