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August 28, 2026Marketing TheoryOpen Access

Centring the curated margins: Exclusionary inclusion as decolonial borderwork in First Nations art markets

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ACAi Ming ChowRVRohan Venkatraman

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Overview

Qualitative study uncovers exclusionary inclusion practices among First Nations art market intermediaries, suggesting that strategic exclusion can foster safer decolonial spaces.

Key Points

  • To examine market exclusion as a mechanism of decolonial resistance, reclamation, and boundary enforcement within First Nations art markets.
  • Applied a decolonial borderwork theoretical framework to qualitative empirical data from Australian First Nations art markets.
  • Analyzed the marketplace tactics of First Nations artists and intermediaries navigating settler colonial institutions.
  • Identified that artists and intermediaries deploy 'exclusionary inclusion' by repurposing exclusionary tactics to establish culturally safe commercial environments.
  • Demonstrated that strategic border-making and boundary maintenance disrupt settler colonial power hierarchies to foster market self-determination.

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Chow et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a916ea0d15324a1df3aa759https://doi.org/10.1177/14705931261481233
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