Description: Grounded in ethnographic research over five years in Palestinian villages near Bethlehem, Olive Growing in Palestine follows the lives of four families and fifty other individuals involved with olive growing as a form of resistance.
Brief description: JUMAN SIMAAN (he/him) is an associate professor of occupational therapy at Edinburgh Napier University. He is an associate editor at the Journal of Occupational Science, and he works with communities in Palestine and in Scotland, where he currently lives, on issues of social justice, food sovereignty, and land rights.
Review Quotes: The topic and questions presented in Olive Growing in Palestine are timely, the research material is excellent, and the argument is fundamentally sound. It offers an important contribution to the disciplines of occupational therapy and occupational science. But more importantly for me as someone outside of those disciplines, the book contributes to our understanding of daily resistance and decolonial epistemologies.--Muhannad Ayyash "author of Lordship and Liberation in Palestine-Israel: The Promise of Decolonial Sovereignties"