Black, white, & read all over: is wearing a keffiyeh enough for Palestinian justice?

Following the Hamas attacks on 7 October 2023 levied against Israel, Israel launched an ongoing military campaign in Gaza which many pundits, scholars, and officials have deemed at a minimum disproportionate retaliation if not a genocide against Palestinians. These atrocities spawned international p...

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Publicado en:Cultural Studies Vol. 40; no. 3; pp. 531 - 552
Autor principal: Porter, Matthew
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Publicado: Taylor & Francis Ltd May2026
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        cultural memory
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      ab: Following the Hamas attacks on 7 October 2023 levied against Israel, Israel launched an ongoing military campaign in Gaza which many pundits, scholars, and officials have deemed at a minimum disproportionate retaliation if not a genocide against Palestinians. These atrocities spawned international protests which were underscored by a variety of artistic and material cultural artefacts to bring awareness to this violence and demonstrate solidarity with the Palestinian people. As a result, the keffiyeh – which was knighted as a political accessory in the 1960s – has reemerged as a central garment of protest for demonstrators in the West [Renfro, E., 2018. Stitched together, torn apart: The keffiyeh as cultural guide. International Journal of Cultural Studies, 21 (6), 571–586. ]. As an inherently political medium, fashion has a long-standing track record as a vehicle of politico-cultural change. Building from the Ted Swedenburg's (1990. The Palestinian Peasant as National Signifier. Anthropological Quarterly, 63 (1), 18–30. , 1992) pioneering study of the keffiyeh, here, I situate fashion as an integral medium through which to interrogate geopolitical histories and transnational collective action by analyzing the keffiyeh as an object of protest through the lenses of enmity [Mbembe, A., 2019. Necropolitics. Durham, NC: Duke University Press], proximate precarity [Butler, J., 2012. Precarious Life, Vulnerability, and the Ethics of Cohabitation. The Journal of Speculative Philosophy, 26 (2), 134–151. ], and vulnerable solidarity [Cherry, M., 2017. State Racism, State Violence, and Vulnerable Solidarity. Oxford University Press].
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