2024/06/01 by Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh · 1 voice
Social Sciences · #Race, History, and American Society #Asian American and Pacific Histories #Tourism, Volunteerism, and Development
paper · doi:10.3167/arms.2024.070102
openalex publication_date 2024/06/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/19
Abstract In the midst of the mass displacement, dispossession and systematic killing of Palestinians in Gaza, this manifesto for “bread and roses” centralizes not only the rights of Palestinians in Gaza to life, safety, and security but also displaced people's rights to joy, beauty, and happiness. At a time when Palestinians in Gaza are being massacred and openly deprived of aid, it is, precisely, Palestinians’ commitment to joy and beauty being projected and practiced by displaced and dispossessed Palestinians in Gaza, which provides the impetus for this manifesto. Created around and centering the words and lifeworlds of Palestinians in Gaza, this piece is offered as an inevitably partial but needed archive of this more-than-massacre and as an archive that stands for the future. Starting with roses pushes us to reimagine what meaningful responses to displacement could, and should, entail.