ABSTRACT
Chapter Three examines tours of Jaffa guided by second- and third-generation Internally Displaced Palestinians, to theorize how refugees influence the public memory of a colonized city. It begins by analysing the Zionist reformation of Yaffa as a tourist site – illustrating how capitalist, colonial, and nationalist logics intersect to fuel continued erasure of Palestinian place and memory. From this, it turns to examine counter-memory tours, noting the global and local commemoration rituals and tourist genres they are inspired by or problematize, and their use of vernacular architectural ruins to resist the ongoing colonial erasure. The chapter further stresses the future-oriented vision of these commemorative tours and reflects on participants’ positionalities as they impact on the tours’ political intervention.
