ABSTRACT
This chapter considers the relationship between tourism and violence by using the idea of symbolic violence first explored by Bourdieu and Passeron with regard to education in general to look at the politics and political implications of certain types of tourism and the cultural industries' in BiH and Israel or Palestine. In addition to looking at the deployment of symbolic violence in the construction of nationalist or exclusivist versions of human and political relationships. The chapter concerns the cultural capital produced and reproduced in BiH and Israel or Palestine by aspects of tourism and the cultural industries widely defined. Bourdieu and Passeron defined the purposes of symbolic violence in education in terms of the extent to which the pedagogic work and consequent cultural capital help legitimate ruling ideas and values in any society. One preliminary point needs making. Bourdieu and Passeron use the notion of symbolic violence to reveal how education works ideologically and politically.
