‘From Standing Rock to Palestine We are United’: diaspora politics, decolonisation and the intersectionality of struggles

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Main author: Salih, Ruba
Other authors: Zambelli, Elena
Welchman, Lynn
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recordtype eprints
institution SOAS, University of London
collection SOAS Research Online
language English
language_search English
topic GN Anthropology
H Social Sciences (General)
description 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 materialisations 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.
format Journal Article
author Salih, Ruba
author_facet Salih, Ruba
Zambelli, Elena
Welchman, Lynn
authorStr Salih, Ruba
author_letter Salih, Ruba
author2 Zambelli, Elena
Welchman, Lynn
author2Str Zambelli, Elena
Welchman, Lynn
title ‘From Standing Rock to Palestine We are United’: diaspora politics, decolonisation and the intersectionality of struggles
publisher Taylor and Francis
publishDate 2021
url https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/32997/

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