Invited to Witness: Solidarity Tourism across Occupied Palestine by Jennifer Lynn Kelly, published in 2023.
Key words: solidarity, tourism, militarism, settler colonial studies, movement work
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Free version: A digital version of the full manuscript is freely available via Open Access on Duke’s website.
Discussion Questions
- What does the need for and presence of solidarity tourism in Palestine tell us about Zionist statecraft?
- Palestinian tour guides’ labor hinges on inviting tourists to corroborate their own narration. How do they navigate this racialized tension in their daily work?
- What kinds of anti-colonial work can tourism do under military occupation? How might we think about different forms of solidarity tourism in different contexts and what might these contexts have to teach us about Palestine?
- How might or can this kind of anti-colonial work diagnose, detail, and and derail Zionism?
- How does a focus on (im)mobility via tourism in Palestine shed light on Zionist land theft, past, present, and aspirational?
Supplementary Materials and Resources
UC Santa Cruz the Humanities Institute Interview
University of Tennessee Knoxville Talk: Teaching Life in Gaza
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