Matar, Dina (2024) 'What it Means to be Palestinian: Reflections on Anti-colonial Identities in Times of Excessive Production and Destruction.' Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication, 17 (3). pp. 246-253.
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Abstract
In this essay, I argue that during moments of extreme flux and danger, such as the ongoing Israeli war against Gaza, it becomes relevant to consider how Palestinian identity is constructed and performed by a variety of actors, by Palestinians and by their supporters, as the most compelling contemporary form of a transnational anti-colonial identity emerging within and in opposition to persisting colonial structures, oppression and subjugation. It is also in these moments, I propose, that it becomes necessary to resituate, reconfigure and re-center Palestine in the imagination, not as a pre-determined bounded entity, but as an entity that is always in conversation with its imagined spatiality and temporality and with national and transnational communal anti-colonial struggles.
| Item Type: | Journal Article |
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| Keywords: | anti-colonial; oppression; Palestinian identity; spatiality; temporality; transnational |
| SOAS Departments & Centres: | Departments and Subunits > Interdisciplinary Studies > Centre for Global Media and Communications |
| ISSN: | 18739857 |
| DOI (Digital Object Identifier): | https://doi.org/10.1163/18739865-01703001 |
| Date Deposited: | 04 Sep 2024 12:40 |
| URI: | https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/id/eprint/42455 |
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