ABSTRACT
Beverley Butler outlines the myriad ways in which activists challenge the sovereignty of power and act back by deploying archives to agitate for recognition and redress of the violent dispossession of the Palestinian peoples. Through acts of interpretation and storytelling, Palestinians, including refugees and members of the diaspora, as well as organisations such as the Palestinian Association for Cultural Exchange, Riwaq Centre for the Preservation of West Bank Architecture, Hebron Rehabilitation Committee, and Open Bethlehem, build the archives and memory sites that each group and its members need for their social justice pursuits. Their interventions centre the marginalised and include acts such as gathering oral histories, renaming sites with Palestinian place names, and creating online archives to counter settler-colonial narratives
