We started our conversation with my struggle to unlearn the right of the nation-state to become the adjective that defines me: “an Israeli.” This struggle cannot be detached from the one against the imperial premises of scholarship, the refusal to let institutions define what I see or expect to see, what I can say and what I’m not allowed to say. Both citizenship and scholarship come with a set of privileges that should be unlearned. Going on strike against the archive is one way to do so.
– from Ariella Aïsha Azoulay: “It is not possible to decolonize the museum without decolonizing the world”, with Sabrina Alli, Guernica Magazine, March 12, 2020
