Summary
Author of Invited to Witness — Solidarity Tourism across Occupied Palestine (2023), a faculty member in Critical Race and Ethnic Studies and Feminist Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz, whose decade of research on solidarity tours in Palestine — one hundred tours, with interviews of guides, organizers, community members and tourists — forms the book’s ethnographic basis (Invited to Witness — Solidarity Tourism across Occupied Palestine, PDF p.15-16, 32-33).
Details
- Kelly positions herself in the work: she traveled Palestine with a tourist’s mobility, was questioned at Ben Gurion Airport but let through, and could follow tourists through checkpoints that West Bank Palestinian guides could not cross; she tells the story “as a settler in two places, a non-Indigenous faculty member working on Amah Mutsun Tribal Land” at UC Santa Cruz and a non-Palestinian researcher in Palestine (PDF p.34).
- Her stated method refuses to ask Palestinians to relive the trauma of displacement in interviews, and her citational practice centers Palestinian authors as theorists of their own conditions (PDF p.30-32).
- The book is dedicated to her mother, “who has read every word of this more than once” (PDF p.6).
Related pages
Invited to Witness — Solidarity Tourism across Occupied Palestine, Solidarity Tourism, Witnessing