Konfliktin koreografiat: Maisema, tarina ja kehollinen geopolitiikka opastetuilla turistikierroksilla Jerusalemissa

How are embodied experiences of geopolitical relations produced through guided walking tours? Thearticle examines this question by integrating critical geopolitics with the performance turn in tourismstudies. From this perspective, tours are approached as choreographed tools of social spatialization/spatialsocialization that use urban space as their stage. The case study took place in the highly contested Old Cityof Jerusalem. The ethnographic data, which is analyzed with an iconographic framework, consists of bothhegemonic mainstream tours and counter-hegemonic alternative tours. By comparing the performancesthe article illustrates how contrasting geopolitical imaginations are enacted corporeally on three differentstages: Western (Wailing) Wall, a security checkpoint and the Muslim Quarter. Empirical evidence illustrateswhat kind of strategies the guides employ to connect different meanings and emotional registers withcertain identity categories and landscapes. The article demonstrates how touristic performances can bothreproduce and contest hegemonic understandings of the landscape