This reflection on Palestine’s political impasses in relation to the experiences of other colonized places and peoples was inspired by the current ferment in critical indigenous and native studies, and now Palestinian studies, about settler colonialism. Tracing the promises and pitfalls of new imaginations of sovereignty and self-determination emerging through indigenous activism, the essay reflects on museums and contested rituals of liberal recognition in North America and Australia to highlight both the stark differences in the situations of Palestinians under Israeli rule and the radical significance of the recent efflorescence of Palestinian cultural projects. Focusing particularly on the history of the Palestinian Museum (that opened in Birzeit in 2016), the article argues that the productivity of the settler-colonial framework lies less in the way it maps directly onto the situation on the ground than in the new solidarities it engenders and its potential to burst open the Palestinian political imagination.

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想象巴勒斯坦的另类原住民：定居者殖民主义和博物馆政治

这种对巴勒斯坦政治僵局的反思与其他殖民地地方和人民的经历有关，其灵感来自当前关于定居者殖民主义的批判性土著和本土研究以及现在的巴勒斯坦研究中的骚动。这篇文章追溯了通过土著激进主义出现的关于主权和自决的新想象的承诺和陷阱，反思了北美和澳大利亚的博物馆和有争议的自由承认仪式，以突出以色列统治下巴勒斯坦人的处境和最近巴勒斯坦文化项目蓬勃发展的根本意义。特别关注巴勒斯坦博物馆的历史（于 2016 年在比尔宰特开幕），