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id	eprints-42455
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institution	SOAS, University of London
collection	SOAS Research Online
language	English
language_search	English
description	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.
format	Journal Article
author	Matar, Dina
author_facet	Matar, Dina
authorStr	Matar, Dina
author_letter	Matar, Dina
title	What it Means to be Palestinian: Reflections on Anti-colonial Identities in Times of Excessive Production and Destruction
publisher	Brill
publishDate	2024
url	https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/42455/