Detours: A Decolonial Guide to Palestine

[Waleed Hazbun]

Detours: A Decolonial Guide to Palestine (Duke University Press)

Call for Contributors

 

Editors:

Lila Adib Sharif (University of Illinois - Urbana Champaign)

Jennifer Lynn Kelly (University of California - Santa Cruz) 

Somdeep Sen (Roskilde University)

Detours: A Decolonial Guide to Palestine is a co-edited volume in the “Detours” series of alternative guide books published by Duke University Press. This interdisciplinary project will use a decolonial praxis to approach and upend the guidebook genre. Detours: A Decolonial Guide to Palestine will showcase how Palestinians across Palestine and in the diaspora reshape forms of tourism to their homeland in order to lay a claim to it in the midst of Israel’s settler colonial project. As a collaborative and co-edited volume, Detours: A Decolonial Guide to Palestine provides a window into the creative, nuanced, and complex work of Palestinian solidarity tour guides, scholars, artists, writers, and activists. For this volume on displacement, anti-colonial forms of rethinking and redistributing space in Palestine, and the role of tourism in both, we seek contributions that include (but are not limited to) anti-colonial tour itineraries, visual cartographies, satiric postcards, artwork, literary prose, redrawn maps, poetry, original lyrics, de/anti-colonial culinary narratives, collages, cartoons, and narrative essays about the everyday manifestations and impacts of tourism, militarism, and colonialism. The questions that guide us in this project are: in Palestine, where tourism animates and inundates the entire landscape, how do Palestinians subject to displacement and exile reclaim tourism and its forms to work against colonialism? What do these initiatives look like? What do they produce? What knowledge do they impart to the tourist, pedagogically and otherwise? And how do those who do this work understand their labor and its effects? Furthermore, how else can one imagine a decolonial “tour” of Palestine? In posing these questions, we aim to collect diverse materials that highlight themes of return, loss, survivance, cultural identity, activism, art, poetry and literature, memory, family history, knowledge of place, connection to land, ritual, storytelling, and beyond. Submission should be written in clear prose for a general reader, no more than 3000 words maximum, and with no more than 10 citations. Per Duke University Press guidelines, digital art files should be at least 1500 pixels on the longest edge and charts, graphs, diagrams, and maps must be created in Adobe Illustrator.

           

Deadlines:

250 Word Abstract or Proposal Due              December 15, 2021

First Draft of Submissions Due                      February 15, 2022

Expected Publication Date                             Fall  2023

 

Please send submissions and queries to detoursp...@gmail.com.