Summary
Author of Chapter 4 of Rethinking Statehood in Palestine, “The State, the Land, and the Hill Museum”, on the Palestinian Museum; the chapter is reprinted from Radical Philosophy, where it first appeared in December 2018 (Rethinking Statehood in Palestine, PDF p.126, p.140).
Details
- Toukan frames the museum through four phenomena: the Oslo process as a “postcolonial colony” in which the Palestinian Authority became the middleman of the occupation; Israeli colonial practices of cultural exclusion and bureaucratic racial discrimination; the museum’s interrogation of the European museum’s universalizing, nation-state mission; and the Gulf-led regional museum boom from which the Palestinian Museum is set apart as representing a transterritorial, stateless nation (PDF p.126-128).
- Her account draws on interviews and conversations with people working closely with the museum project and others observing it (PDF p.129).
Related pages
Rethinking Statehood in Palestine, Palestinian Museum, Taawon