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Standing rock and the Indigenous commons
- Author(s):
- Dorothy Kidd (see profile)
- Date:
- 2020
- Group(s):
- Communication Studies, Environmental Humanities, Global & Transnational Studies
- Subject(s):
- Commons, Indigenous peoples, History, Social movements
- Item Type:
- Article
- Tag(s):
- communication and media, cultural commons, Indigenous resistance, Resistance, Indigenous history
- Permanent URL:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/0asx-nr11
- Abstract:
- A new cycle of communications commons has become part of the contemporary repertoire of Indigenous first nations in North America. The mobilization of the Standing Rock Sioux is perhaps the best-known example of a continent-wide cycle of resistance in which Indigenous communities have employed a combination of collectively governed land-based encampments and sophisticated trans-media assemblages to challenge the further enclosure of their territories by the state and fossil fuel industries and instead represent their political and media sovereignty, and prefigure a more reciprocal relationship with other humans and with nature. Although their practices of commoning resemble other radical commons projects, the contemporary Indigenous commons begs for a reassessment of the critical framework of the commons. In this article, I discuss the critical commons literature and compare it with the practices of commoning in the anti-extractivist encampments of Standing Rock.
- Metadata:
- xml
- Published as:
- Journal article
- Status:
- Published
- Last Updated:
- 2 years ago
- License:
- All Rights Reserved
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