Walled off: Tourism and justice in oppressed communities

Rami K. Isaac and Jelena Farkic

Annals of Tourism Research, 2024, vol. 108, issue C

Abstract: Attending to the emergent debates on tourism and (in)justice, this study critically examines the role of the Walled Off Hotel, Banksy's tourism-artistic intervention in Palestine, in constructing justice. Utilising the evidence from 15 in-depth empathetic interviews, it explores the ways in which local residents make sense of the Hotel and how they frame and experience (in)justices. While demonstrating how these interpretations are entangled with the broader geographic, social and political context, the paper discusses how different forms of justice circulate in this particular context. The new knowledge generated contributes to our further understanding of achieving justice-through-tourism as an affirmative praxis, while addressing the broader humanitarian, earthly, or otherwise existential crisis.

Keywords: Social sustainability; Artistic interventions; Justice; Walled Off Hotel; Banksy; Palestine (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.1016/j.annals.2024.103816

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