Invited to Witness : Solidarity Tourism across Occupied Palestine / Jennifer Lynn Kelly.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kelly, Jennifer Lynn, Author.

Contributor:

Kelly, Jennifer Lynn, Funder.

funder.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Palestinian Arabs--Social conditions.

Palestinian Arabs.

Solidarity--Palestine.

Solidarity.

Tourism--Social aspects--Palestine.

Tourism.

Tourism--Palestine.

Volunteer tourism--Palestine.

Volunteer tourism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (339 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, [2023]

Language Note:

In English.

Biography/History:

Jennifer Lynn Kelly is Associate Professor of Feminist Studies and of Critical Race and Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Summary:

In Invited to Witness, Jennifer Lynn Kelly explores the significance of contemporary solidarity tourism across Occupied Palestine. Examining the relationships among race, colonialism, and movement-building in spaces where tourism and military occupation operate in tandem, Kelly argues that solidarity tourism in Palestine functions as both political strategy and emergent industry. She draws from fieldwork on solidarity tours in Palestine/Israel and interviews with guides, organizers, community members, and tourists, asking what happens when tourism is marketed as activism and when anticolonial work functions through tourism. Palestinian organizers, she demonstrates, have refashioned the conventions of tourism by extending invitations to tourists to witness Palestinian resistance and the effects of Israeli state practice on Palestinian land and lives. In so doing, Kelly shows how Palestinian guides and organizers wrest from Israeli control the capacity to invite and the permission to narrate both their oppression and their liberation.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

INTRODUCTION

ONE THE COLONIAL CALCULUS OF VERACITY DELEGATIONS UNDER ERASURE AND THE DESIRE FOR EVIDENTIARY WEIGHT

TWO ASYMMETRICAL ITINERARIES MILITARISM, TOURISM, AND FRAGMENTATION UNDER OCCUPATION

THREE RECITATION AGAINST ERASURE PLANTING, HARVESTING, AND NARRATING THE CONTINUITIES OF DISPLACEMENT

FOUR ITINERARIES UNDER DURESS TOURS ACROSS THREE OCCUPATIONS OF ONE CITY

FIVE COLONIAL RUINS AND A DECOLONIZED FUTURE WITNESSING AND RETURN IN HISTORIC PALESTINE

SIX “ WELCOME TO GAZA” ON THE POLITICS OF INVITATION AND THE RIGHT TO TOURISM

SEVEN WITNESSES IN PALESTINE IMPERFECT ANALOGIES, ACTS OF TRANSLATION, AND REFUSALS TO PERFORM

CONCLUSION ON FUTURITY, FAILURE, AND PRECARIOUS HOPE

NOTES

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX

Notes:

This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 20. Mar 2025)

ISBN:

9781478093046

1478093048

OCLC:

1346543761