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Michele Acuto, Holidays in the danger zone: entanglements of war and tourism. By Debbie Lisle, International Affairs, Volume 92, Issue 6, November 2016, Pages 1530–1531, https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2346.12767
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Holidays in the danger zone: entanglements of war and tourism. By Debbie Lisle. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. 2016. 392pp. £79.30. ISBN 978 0 81669 856 1. Available as e-book.
Holidays in the danger zone speaks to the reader in a way that few other academic books have done in the past few years. If it was not for some more heavy, theoretical considerations peppered through the introduction and conclusion, making it less suited to the general public than one could have hoped, Debbie Lisle's book could justifiably be placed in airport bookstores around the world. And what an apt read it would make there, on our way to leisure locations and exotic conference facilities. The book offers an engaging view into the ‘entanglements’ between conflict, global power dynamics and the realms of leisure and vacationing. Yet Holidays in the danger zone provides a lucid and challenging discussion that is about more than holidays: it is a reminder of the critical importance of connecting international political matters, as much as global power dynamics, to the often sidelined mundanity of everyday issues—like tourism—that are all too often talked about apolitically.
