Abstract
This article analyses a form of diasporic activism that breaks the seeming duality between diasporic imaginaries and colonial realities, diasporas and refugees. By focusing on the Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM) it analyses a diasporic standpoint which is not confined to identity politics, nor to the Palestinian nationalist struggle of territorial liberation, but conceives of Palestine as one of the most visible, present-day materializations of Western colonial modernity. The condition of this diasporic political subjectivity lies in what we call here an “intersectional ‘space of appearance’”: an affective multi-sited political space that exposes and makes visible the continuum of systems of subjugation and expropriation across liberal democracies and settler-colonial regimes, and the whiteness of mainstream activist spaces. This space encompasses key sites of Black, Indigenous, Arab and Muslim mobilization: from Ferguson to Standing Rock, from the Mexico-US border to Palestine and Palestinian camps, from Tunis to Paris.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 1135-1153 |
Number of pages | 19 |
Journal | Ethnic and Racial Studies |
Volume | 44 |
Issue number | 7 |
Early online date | 7 Jul 2020 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2021 |
Keywords
- race
- Anti-Colonialism
- intersectionality
- diaspora
- Palestinian youth
- decolonization