About

Jennifer L Kelly is an Associate Professor in the Department of Feminist Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her research focuses on feminist studies, critical race and ethnic studies, and related interdisciplinary areas. As a faculty member, she contributes to the academic community through her teaching and scholarly work, supporting the Critical Race & Ethnic Studies program.

Research topics

• Political Science
• Sociology
• Law
• History
• Gender studies
• Computer Science
• Media studies
• Psychoanalysis
• Psychology
• Ancient history
• Aesthetics
• Geography
• Art
• Anthropology
• Meteorology
• Criminology

Selected publications

• Invited to Witness

  Duke University Press eBooks · 2022 · 5 citations

  1st authorCorresponding
  • Political Science
  • Sociology
  • Political Science

  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.

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• Israeli Gay Tourist Initiatives and the (In)visibility of State Violence

  GLQ A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies · 2020 · 18 citations

  1st authorCorresponding
  • Political Science
  • Sociology
  • Political Science

  Research Article| January 01 2020 Israeli Gay Tourist Initiatives and the (In)visibility of State Violence Jennifer Lynn Kelly Jennifer Lynn Kelly Jennifer Lynn Kelly is assistant professor of feminist studies and critical race and ethnic studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She received her PhD in American studies with a portfolio in women's and gender studies from University of Texas at Austin, her master's degree in interdisciplinary humanities from New York University, and her bachelor's degree in feminist studies and literature from the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her research broadly engages questions of settler colonialism, US empire, and the fraught politics of both tourism and solidarity. She is currently completing the manuscript for her first book, a multi-sited ethnographic study of solidarity tourism in Palestine. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google GLQ (2020) 26 (1): 160–173. https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-7929199 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Jennifer Lynn Kelly; Israeli Gay Tourist Initiatives and the (In)visibility of State Violence. GLQ 1 January 2020; 26 (1): 160–173. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/10642684-7929199 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search Books & JournalsAll JournalsGLQ Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. Copyright © 2020 Duke University Press2020 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal Issue Section: Queer In/Security Dossier You do not currently have access to this content.

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• Subjection and Performance: Tourism, Witnessing, and Acts of Refusal in Palestine

  Feminist formations · 2020 · 2 citations

  1st authorCorresponding
  • Sociology
  • Political Science
  • Sociology

  Drawing from multi-sited ethnographic research on solidarity tours in Palestine, this essay shows how Palestinian solidarity tour guides reject performing subjection in an industry that treats the recitation of subjection as a prerequisite. Building from feminist analyses of colonial knowledge production, I first detail how epistemic violence shapes tourists' expectations of Palestine and predetermines how they understand Palestinian freedom struggles. On solidarity tours, Palestinians are expected to rehearse their displacement and provide evidence of their (extremely well-documented) dispossession against a constellation of US and Israeli state sanctioned narratives that have rendered them unreliable narrators. Working at the intersections of Palestinian studies, critical tourism studies, feminist studies, and decolonial ethnography, I then document how Palestinian tour guides disrupt tourist expectations by refusing to perform subjection for the tourist gaze. In alternative performances of pleasure and through acts of "hanging out," Palestinian tour guides intervene in tourist desire for a performance of trauma and instead ask tourists to confront the violences of their own expectations and assumptions. I thus explore how solidarity tourists and Palestinian organizers struggle, on uneven terrain, to craft an anti-colonial movement outside of a strictly witness/witnessed relationship and despite the epistemic violence and settler logics that structure their encounter.

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Frequent coauthors

• Louis S. Constine

  Prisma Health

  409 shared

• David Wiljer

  University of Toronto

  400 shared

• Jacqueline P. Williams

  400 shared

• Kevin C. Oeffinger

  400 shared

• Jan Oldenburg

  Akershus University Hospital

  400 shared

• Lawrence H. Einhorn

  Indiana University Melvin and Bren Simon Comprehensive Cancer Center

  400 shared

• Flora E. van Leeuwen

  The Netherlands Cancer Institute

  400 shared

• Gedske Daugaard

  University of Copenhagen

  400 shared

Labs

• Jenny Kelly LabPI