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This article studies ways in which art education is mobilized to modify subjective and aesthetic performances of Palestinian students, considering debates surrounding depoliticization and development funding in Palestine. It explores the subject matter and critical stance deemed appropriate for self-directed art projects within a Ramallah art school. Moving beyond arguments put forward within existing literature on the depoliticizing impact of aid funding by drawing on ethnographic detail, the article explores how students experience and respond to this education. Despite being shaped by structures of control that arguably encourage depoliticization, many students understood this education as also opening a space for unpicking and critical examination of such structures. The article locates instances in which this re-politicization was invoked by students, in balance with their awareness of the complexity and contingency of this process.
Author(s): Underhill H
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
Year: 2023
Volume: 29
Issue: 4
Pages: 917-938
Print publication date: 01/12/2023
Online publication date: 15/08/2023
Acceptance date: 07/01/2023
Date deposited: 11/01/2023
ISSN (print): 1359-0987
ISSN (electronic): 1467-9655
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing, Inc.
URL: https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9655.14010
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9655.14010
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