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Record Nr.

UNISA996647828503316

Autore

Kelly Jennifer Lynn

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Durham : , : Duke University Press, , [2023]

2023

ISBN

9781478093046

1478093048

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (339 p.)

Soggetti

Palestinian Arabs - Social conditions

Solidarity - Palestine

Tourism - Social aspects - Palestine

Tourism - Palestine

Volunteer tourism - Palestine

HISTORY / Middle East / Israel & Palestine

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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.