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In the Balance: Indigeneity, Performance, Globalization
Introduction: Indigenous Performance and Global Imaginaries
2017 •
Helen Gilbert
Indigenous arts, simultaneously attuned to local voices and global cultural flows, have often been the vanguard in communicating what is at stake in the interactions, contradictions, disjunctions, opportunities, exclusions, injustices and aspirations that globalization entails. Focusing specifically on embodied arts and activism, this interdisciplinary volume offers vital new perspectives on the power and precariousness of indigeneity as a politicized cultural force in our unevenly connected world. Twenty-three distinct voices speak to the growing visibility of indigenous peoples' performance on a global scale over recent decades, drawing specific examples from the Americas, Australia, the Pacific, Scandinavia and South Africa. An ethical touchstone in some arenas and a thorny complication in others, indigeneity is now belatedly recognised as mattering in global debates about natural resources, heritage, governance, belonging and social justice, to name just some of the contentious issues that continue to stall the unfinished business of decolonization. To explore this critical terrain, the essays and images gathered here range in subject from independent film, musical production, endurance art and the performative turn in exhibition and repatriation practices to the appropriation of hip-hop, karaoke and reality TV. Collectively, they urge a fresh look at mechanisms of postcolonial entanglement in the early 21st century as well as the particular rights and insights afforded by indigeneity in that process.
Routledge Handbook of Critical Indigenous Studies
Routledge Handbook of Critical Indigenous Studies
2020 •
aileen moreton-robinson
Anthropology in a glass case: Indigeneity, collaboration, and artistic practice in museums
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Decolonizing Futures: Collaborations for New Indigenous Horizons
DIG DECOLONIZING FUTURES
2022 •
Hiroshi Maruyama, Leena Huss
Over the course of seventeen chapters, the authors of this volume employ an assemblage of local knowledges to imagine Indigenous futures in the post-UNDRIP era. It follows that their evaluation of UNDRIP is not limited to the boundaries within which the Declaration was formulated - state legal systems or international law - but also considers broader Indigenous and decolonial perspectives. This volume takes seriously the call to multivocality and asks what it truly means to be Indigenous in the post-UNDRIP era from the perspective of research, art, and activism. As such, it features both academic and artistic contributions, building pathways towards decolonizing Indigenous futures through multivocal expressions.
Canadian Journal of Film Studies
Indigenous Cinema and Media in the Americas: Storytelling, Communities, and Sovereignties
Isabelle St-Amand
American Indian Cultural Revitalization Annotated Bibliography 1
Bonnie Duran
This paper summarizes over a decade of collaborative eco-archaeological research along the central coast of California involving researchers from the University of California, Berkeley, tribal citizens from the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band, and California Department of Parks and Recreation archaeologists. Our research employs remote sensing methods to document and assess cultural resources threatened by coastal erosion and geophysical methods to identify archaeological deposits, minimize impacts on sensitive cultural resources, and provide tribal and state collaborators with a suite of data to consider before proceeding with any form of invasive archaeological excavation. Our case study of recent eco-archaeological research developed to define the historical biogeography of threatened and endangered anadromous salmonids demonstrates how remote sensing technologies help identify dense archaeological deposits, remove barriers, and create bridges through equitable and inclusive research practices between archaeologists and the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band. These experiences have resulted in the incorporation of remote sensing techniques as a central approach of the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band when conducting archaeology in their traditional territories.
Canadian Journal of Films Studies
"Introduction. Indigenous Cinema and Media in the Americas: Storytelling, Communities, and Sovereignties"
2020 •
Isabelle St-Amand, André Dudemaine
In the passage we have chosen as our epigraph, Ojibwe writer, broadcaster, and producer Jesse Wente refers to the “New Wave” of Indigenous cinema “in an effort to explain the global coalescing of Indigenous artists finding new expression in cinema over the past decade and a half.”2 Wente is the director of film programming at the TIFF Bell Lightbox and has been heading up Canada’s Indigenous Screen Office since it was established in 2018, with the goal of providing concrete ways to support the “narrative sovereignty”3 of Canada’s First Peoples. The perspective he describes coincides with the methodological and philosophical principles outlined by Barry Barclay (Ngāti Apa and Pāhekā), the Māori film director, philosopher, and writer who originated the concept of “Fourth Cinema.”4 Wente describes today’s Indigenous cinema as characterized by an organic evolution in constant interaction with the many realities, local and transnational, of First Peoples individuals, families, and communities. It is a movement made up of artists who are motivated by similar concerns working on projects that interconnect, a movement driven by festivals that function as places for gathering, exchange, and dissemination. This resolutely engaged and transnational Indigenous film movement must be understood in all of its various aspects.
Settler Colonialism and Indigenous Annotated Bibliography
Bonnie Duran
Settler Colonialism and Indigenous Annotated Bibliography 1 3/16/22
Bonnie Duran
(2022). "Beyond 'causes of causes': Health, stigma and the settler colonial urban territory in the Negev/Naqab." Urban Studies (Sage Publications, Ltd.) 59(3): 572-590. This article critically analyses and theoretically conceptualises the links between settler colonialism, planning and health. Based on the case of the Bedouin community in the Negev/Naqab, we argue that the production of settler colonial space has a profound impact on health, and should therefore be referred to as a specific category for analysing health disparities, simultaneously entangling territorial control and biopolitics towards indigenous communities. Furthermore, we suggest that this relationship between space and health constructs stigma that justifies and facilitates-in turn-the ongoing territorial control over the indigenous Bedouin population in Israel. By reviewing existing data on health and planning, especially in relation to infrastructure and access to services, we contribute to the growing literature on the nexus of settler-colonialism/health with urban and regional planning. Importantly, throughout this paper we refer to the Bedouin localities as part of the production of urban territory, illuminating the urban as a multidimensional process of political struggle, including the metropolin informal fringes. (English)
Canadien Review of COmparative Literature
Introduction. Environmental Ethics through Changing Landscapes: Indigenous Activism and Literary Arts
2017 •
Isabelle St-Amand
Extrait/Excerpt: Often, and in many ways, the contemporary productions of Indigenous scholars, activists, writers, and filmmakers relate to Maracle’s assertion that “violence to earth and violence between humans are connected” (53). In their respective works, for instance, Innu poet Natasha Kanapé Fontaine (2014), Blood and Sámi filmmaker Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers (2011), and Mohawk scholar Audra Simpson (2016) have exposed the intricate connections between the settler colonial project, the devastation of ecosystems, and the lives of Indigenous women and girls. Their poetic, filmic, and scholarly narratives contribute to ongoing conversations on environmental ethics and social justice at times of climate crisis by exposing the planetary and the community implications of the state of relationships between the land and the people.
