| Date: | 2 July 2014 |
| Venue: | Delfina Foundation |
The notion of “return” has defined the diasporic and extraterritorial nature of Palestinian politics and cultural life since the Nakba in 1947-48. Often articulated in the “suspended politics” of political theology it has gradually been blurred in the futile limbo of negotiations.
Return is a political act that is both practiced at present and projected as an image into an uncertain future. But return cannot be understood only as the suspended politics of an ideological projection, but also as a varied form of politics constantly practiced, grounding a future ideal in present day material realities. This represents a varied set of practices that we would like to call “present returns”. This project seeks thus to chart out and intervene within a wider field of possible political, social and cultural practices of returns.