Del lujo al terorrismo : turismo, el terrorismo por otros medios

• Main Authors: Maximiliano E. Korstanje, Geoffrey Skoll
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Université des Antilles 2015-04-01
• Series: Études Caribéennes
• Subjects: luxury; opulence; organization of labor; terrorism; tourism; luxury tourism destination
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/etudescaribeennes/7388
• ISSN: 1779-0980; 1961-859X

Terrorism-led studies pointed out to tourism as a pleasure industry where visitors experience hedonism and luxury. Many analysts see in tourism a secular activity that intrudes in the religious forms of Middle East, while others signals to the resentment generated by unlimited luxury and ostentation these types of establishment offer. A third view is oriented to discuss a new fresh thesis. We argue that are inextricably intertwined by means of the industrial organization of labor. Nor terrorism is a monopoly of Islam, neither it is a modern phenomenon. If, on one hand, the worker union struggle resulted in a set of monetary and legal benefits for workforce, advantages that led to a mass-tourism, no less truth was that, on another hand, those claims which defied the capitalist order were rejected and expulsed towards the periphery of system. With no fear to any mistake, this validates the idea that tourism is terrorism by other means. Within society, strike and worker union organization served as two legal mechanisms to discipline workers, but beyond the control of society, the same was labeled as terrorism. At time the logic of production was decentralized, as main target of terrorism, politicians and important celebrities set the pace to lay people and tourists. By understanding the role played by luxury at this stage, is a good first step to acknowledge that organization of labor and terrorism converge.