Performing Palestinian Identity on the international art market
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2024-05-06
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In recent decades, Palestinian cultural production has mostly been analyzed within the framework of resistance to the Israeli occupation – a perspective that tends to romanticize resistance and reinforce nationalist symbolisms, ultimately trapping Palestinian representation within hegemonic Zionist logic. This research challenges that approach by exploring the dynamics of the international art market and its impact on representations of Palestine and Palestinian identity. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork, literature review, and interviews, the study centers a Palestinian critique of audience expectations, funding mechanisms, the burden of representation and the fetishization of resistance. It highlights fragmentary and dis-identitarian approaches as counterpoints to nationalist imagery of heroism and victimhood, arguing that while the latter may perpetuate hegemonic power structures, the former offer radical imagination and subversion of multiple systems of oppression.
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Faculteit der Managementwetenschappen