What It Means To Be Palestinian
Reflections on Anti-colonial Identities in Times of Excessive Production and Destruction
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12955610 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Dina Matar (0000-0002-5309-9740, SOAS University of London, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 246-253 |
| Publication date | 2024-10-10 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1873-9857 • E-ISSN: 1873-9865 |
| Publisher | Brill (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.1163/18739865-01703001 |
| OpenAlex | W4403360874 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 1 |
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
Data science · Political science · Computer Science · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies
| Unique citing works | 4 |
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| Citations per year | 4 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2026 (2) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |