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This is the authors' accepted manuscript of a book chapter that has been published in its final definitive form by Edward Elgar , 2023.
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This chapter maps existing theory on migration, home, home-making and visual art across Art History and the Social Sciences, noting the recent increase in focused analytical engagement with the work of artists attending to this convergence of concerns. The chapter progresses via a discussion of representations of home and displacement within Palestinian contemporary visual art, by focusing on the work of two artists who use representations of domestic spaces to address the relationship between the Palestinian national struggle for statehood and homeland, questions of protracted asylum foregrounded by longstanding refugee camps, and contemporary social, political and religious dynamics, particularly concerning gender roles and feminism. The chapter uses a mixture of theoretical literature review, empirical material, and art historical case studies, engaging with selected artwork to unpick the productive differences between analyzing artworks themselves, using art to illuminate issues of home and migration, and taking artistic approaches as a provocation to extend the methodological and theoretical reach of social science engagement with what I shorthand here the home-migration-art nexus.
Author(s): Underhill H
Editor(s): Boccagni, P
Publication type: Book Chapter
Publication status: Published
Book Title: Handbook on Home and Migration
Year: 2023
Pages: 279–290
Online publication date: 15/06/2023
Acceptance date: 03/12/2021
Publisher: Edward Elgar
URL: https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800882775.00033
DOI: 10.4337/9781800882775
Library holdings: Search Newcastle University Library for this item
ISBN: 9781800882768