This study is a comprehensive attempt to grapple with diasporic Palestinianness in Santiago de Chile. Based on long-term fieldwork from 2013 to 2014 within Palestinian-Chilean networks, organizations, and places it explores how an inherently political Palestinianness is constituted, expressed and explored via memory on the one hand and processes related to space and place on the other. Palestinianness is employed here as a concept that captures all that goes into maintaining a Palestinian presence in Santiago. Rather than a fixed category, Palestinianness is something that works and is worked upon in ways that are inseparable from, in this case, the context of lived life in the Chilean capital. It is a host of experiences and practices that cannot be neatly separated, but that are constantly weaved together in steadily recurrent, but sometimes disruptive and surprising patterns. By interrogating Palestinianness within the distinct context of present-day Santiago, the thesis unsettles and reconfigures conceptualizations of the relationship between memory, space, and politics. It does so by delving into the ambiguities at play in Palestinian-Chilean relationships to the often uncomfortable memory politics of post-dictatorship and the ongoing Palestinian struggle respectively. To shed light on the dynamics at play, transmemory is introduced as a concept that seeks to capture the spatial and spatially mobile qualities of memory. The thesis argues that by engaging with traveling memories of life and conflict in the old land and simultaneously rejecting involvement with continuously troubling memories of the recent Chilean past, Palestinian-Chileans form a collective politics of Palestinianness that is nonetheless distinctly marked by an inescapable Chileanness.

Este trabalho pretende investigar a diáspora palestina no Brasil, através do olhar dos integrantes\\simpatizantes da Federação Árabe Palestina do Brasil (FEPAL). A entidade, fundada em novembro de 1980, uniu e politizou a comunidade palestina do Brasil, no mesmo momento em que o Brasil acompanhava o esgotamento do regime militar. A presença de manifestações políticas pelas Diretas Já! foi a oportunidade encontrada pelos imigrantes palestinos e descendentes de difundirem a causa palestina para o público brasileiro. Mais adiante, o aumento da violência contra os refugiados palestinos no Líbano na década de 1980 foi fundamental para a formação de uma segunda entidade, a Associação Cultural Sanaúd, em 1982, criada pelos jovens da comunidade síria, libanesa e palestina a fim de se manifestarem pela causa palestina em muitos eventos promovidos em São Paulo. A efervescência política em apoio à questão da Palestina durou até meados da década de 1990, o desânimo gerado pelos Acordos de Paz de Oslo interrompeu a militância política palestina até a sua retomada em 2000, quando estourou a segunda Intifada. Foi nessa ocasião em que foram formadas novas organizações nacionalistas: o Shalom, Salam, Paz (2000), uma associação entre a comunidade judaica e palestina; o GT Árabe (2010) e o comitê Estado da Palestina Já! (2011). Foi através da observação participante nas reuniões do GT Árabe e do comitê Estado da Palestina Já! e através das entrevistas realizadas com 13 colaboradores que foi possível compreender as relações entre a FEPAL e o Hamas; o aumento da oposição às diretrizes da FEPAL em São Paulo e sobre as impressões da política externa entre o Brasil e a Palestina durante o governo Lula (2003-2010) e o início do governo Dilma Rousseff (2011-2012). O recorte para esta pesquisa começa desde o ano 2000, início da segunda Intifada e vai até a votação pelo reconhecimento do Estado da Palestina na Assembleia da ONU, em 2012. No mesmo ano que acontecia o Fórum Social Mundial Palestina Livre, na cidade de Porto Alegre-RS. / This work intends to investigate the Palestinian diaspora in Brazil, through the eyes of the members\\ sympathizers of the Palestinian Arab Federation of Brazil (FEPAL). The entity, founded in November 1980, united and politicized the Palestinian community of Brazil, at the same time that Brazil was following the exhaustion of the military regime. The presence of political demonstrations for the Diretas Já! was the opportunity found by Palestinian immigrants and descendants to spread the Palestinian cause to the Brazilian public. Further, the increase of the violence against Palestinian refugees in Lebanon in the 1980s was the key to the formation of a second entity, the Sanaúd Cultural Association, in 1982, created by the youngers from the Syrian, Lebanese and Palestinian communities to demonstrate the Palestinian cause in many events promoted in São Paulo. The political effervescence in support of the Palestine question lasted until the mid-1990s, the dismay generated by the Oslo Peace Accords interrupted the Palestinian political militancy until its resumption in 2000, when the second Intifada broke out. It was at this time that new nationalist organizations were formed: Shalom, Salam, Paz (2000), an association between the Jewish and Palestinian community; the GT Árabe (2010) and the committee \"Estado da Palestina Já! (2011). It was through participant observation at the meetings of the GT Árabe and at the committee Estado da Palestina Já! and through the interviews with 13 collaborators that it was possible to understand the relations between FEPAL and Hamas; the increasing opposition to the directives of FEPAL in São Paulo and on the impressions of the foreign policy between Brazil and Palestine during the Lula government (2003-2010) and at the beginning of the Dilma Rousseff government (2011-2012). The clipping for this research starts from the year 2000, at the beginning of the second Intifada and goes until the vote for the recognition of the State of Palestine in the Assembly of the UN, in 2012. In the same year that the Free Palestine World Social Forum took place, in the city of Porto Alegre-RS.

Este trabalho pretende investigar a diáspora palestina no Brasil, através do olhar dos integrantes\\simpatizantes da Federação Árabe Palestina do Brasil (FEPAL). A entidade, fundada em novembro de 1980, uniu e politizou a comunidade palestina do Brasil, no mesmo momento em que o Brasil acompanhava o esgotamento do regime militar. A presença de manifestações políticas pelas Diretas Já! foi a oportunidade encontrada pelos imigrantes palestinos e descendentes de difundirem a causa palestina para o público brasileiro. Mais adiante, o aumento da violência contra os refugiados palestinos no Líbano na década de 1980 foi fundamental para a formação de uma segunda entidade, a Associação Cultural Sanaúd, em 1982, criada pelos jovens da comunidade síria, libanesa e palestina a fim de se manifestarem pela causa palestina em muitos eventos promovidos em São Paulo. A efervescência política em apoio à questão da Palestina durou até meados da década de 1990, o desânimo gerado pelos Acordos de Paz de Oslo interrompeu a militância política palestina até a sua retomada em 2000, quando estourou a segunda Intifada. Foi nessa ocasião em que foram formadas novas organizações nacionalistas: o Shalom, Salam, Paz (2000), uma associação entre a comunidade judaica e palestina; o GT Árabe (2010) e o comitê Estado da Palestina Já! (2011). Foi através da observação participante nas reuniões do GT Árabe e do comitê Estado da Palestina Já! e através das entrevistas realizadas com 13 colaboradores que foi possível compreender as relações entre a FEPAL e o Hamas; o aumento da oposição às diretrizes da FEPAL em São Paulo e sobre as impressões da política externa entre o Brasil e a Palestina durante o governo Lula (2003-2010) e o início do governo Dilma Rousseff (2011-2012). O recorte para esta pesquisa começa desde o ano 2000, início da segunda Intifada e vai até a votação pelo reconhecimento do Estado da Palestina na Assembleia da ONU, em 2012. No mesmo ano que acontecia o Fórum Social Mundial Palestina Livre, na cidade de Porto Alegre-RS. / This work intends to investigate the Palestinian diaspora in Brazil, through the eyes of the members\\ sympathizers of the Palestinian Arab Federation of Brazil (FEPAL). The entity, founded in November 1980, united and politicized the Palestinian community of Brazil, at the same time that Brazil was following the exhaustion of the military regime. The presence of political demonstrations for the Diretas Já! was the opportunity found by Palestinian immigrants and descendants to spread the Palestinian cause to the Brazilian public. Further, the increase of the violence against Palestinian refugees in Lebanon in the 1980s was the key to the formation of a second entity, the Sanaúd Cultural Association, in 1982, created by the youngers from the Syrian, Lebanese and Palestinian communities to demonstrate the Palestinian cause in many events promoted in São Paulo. The political effervescence in support of the Palestine question lasted until the mid-1990s, the dismay generated by the Oslo Peace Accords interrupted the Palestinian political militancy until its resumption in 2000, when the second Intifada broke out. It was at this time that new nationalist organizations were formed: Shalom, Salam, Paz (2000), an association between the Jewish and Palestinian community; the GT Árabe (2010) and the committee \"Estado da Palestina Já! (2011). It was through participant observation at the meetings of the GT Árabe and at the committee Estado da Palestina Já! and through the interviews with 13 collaborators that it was possible to understand the relations between FEPAL and Hamas; the increasing opposition to the directives of FEPAL in São Paulo and on the impressions of the foreign policy between Brazil and Palestine during the Lula government (2003-2010) and at the beginning of the Dilma Rousseff government (2011-2012). The clipping for this research starts from the year 2000, at the beginning of the second Intifada and goes until the vote for the recognition of the State of Palestine in the Assembly of the UN, in 2012. In the same year that the Free Palestine World Social Forum took place, in the city of Porto Alegre-RS.

In his analysis of modern theatre aesthetics, Hans-Thies Lehmann notes that performance has the ability to "destabilize the spectator's construction of identity and the 'other' " (Lehmann 5). This research project endeavours to test Lehmann's statement by applying it to the hybrid diasporic identity. Through the creation of a postdramatic performance text that focuses on the Palestinian diaspora and what Salman Rushdie refers to the longing for the 'imaginary homeland,' this thesis documents the creation of a performance text inspired by Edward Said's contrapuntal analysis. In the first chapter, I define diaspora and hybridity and I provide the necessary context for my hybrid identity: Palestine and its diaspora. I detail the relationship between postdramatic theatre and identity, and I explore how the hybrid identity can be embodied in performance through an understanding of counterpoint and Said's contrapuntal analysis. In the second chapter, I explain the methods I used to create my performance text and to analyze my research and creative process. Finally, in my third chapter, I articulate the successes and failures of my research process and performance text through a final reflection.

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