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.