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"The Native and the Refugee is a long-term multimedia project by Matt Peterson and Malek Rasamny profiling the terrains of the Indian reservation and the Palestinian refugee camp, “spaces of exception” that have become essential in the struggle for decolonization and indigenous autonomy. While the existence of such spaces is the result of settler-colonialism (albeit at different stages) and are repositories for its ongoing violence, they also open up new possibilities for resistance and for conceptualizing existence outside the boundaries of the nation-state.
"Since 2014, Peterson and Rasamny have produced more than a dozen films, including the feature length Spaces of Exception, as well as a book, radio program, writings, and lectures. These works are not just documentation of modern life in reservations and refugee camps, but rather political collaborations and re-articulations of sovereignty and identity."