Demonstrating the desired future : performative dimensions of internally displaced Palestinians’ return activities
Järvi, Tiina (2021-02-01)
Järvi, Tiina
01.02.2021
Julkaisun pysyvä osoite on
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:tuni-202104273741
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:tuni-202104273741
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Peer reviewed
Tiivistelmä
In this paper, I examine the activities of internally displaced Palestinians as performative resistance against the settler-colonial dispossession. Since 1948, when close to 800,000 Palestinians were displaced from their homes in the process of establishing the state of Israel, return has been a key political objective of the displaced. By concentrating on the recent activities organized by internally displaced Palestinians, I scrutinize the power of performative practices in challenging present conditions of continuing displacement. Based on interviews, participatory observation, and published source material, I show how the return activities concentrating on the lost villages do not only commemorate the past but also utilize it in performative claim-making in achieving the desired future. I make the argument that the performative dimensions of claiming work to undermine the settler-colonial reality by issuing a call for a right to belong and for a more just future.
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- TUNICRIS-julkaisut [16983]