“Extra-Activism”

Kidd, Dorothy

doi:10.1080/10402659.2016.1130365

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“…Indigenous resistance to oil pipelines in North America dates back at least to the battle in 1968 against the Trans-Alaska pipeline (Gilio-Whitaker, 2019, p. 2), and then in the 1970s by the Dene, Inuit and Métis downstream in the MacKenzie Valley in Canada (Kidd, 2019). Then during the 1980s, oil and natural gas fracking around the world began to be promoted by the International Monetary Fund and World Bank as part of the Washington neo-liberal consensus; national governments were strongly encouraged to adopt corporate friendly laws and taxation policies for extractivist companies, and to deregulate their environmental and labor laws with the argument that potential profits could provide employment, tax revenue, trickle down wealth, and spill-on effects for local and national economies (Kidd, 2016).…”

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“…Oil and natural gas pipelines are particularly vulnerable to contention as they stretch very long distances, and engage a long chain of people through rural and urban, Indigenous and non-Indigenous communities. What neither the two governments nor the fossil fuel industry didn't count on was the slow but steadily growing movement among front-line communities and their supporters against the pipelines and the larger ideology of extractivism (Kidd, 2016;Klein, 2014). In the last decade, communities within the larger Oceti Sakowin first mobilized against the Keystone XL and then the Dakota Access Pipeline (Estes, 2019;Gilio-Whitaker, 2019).…”

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“…Inspired by them, I began a longer research project about the communications practices of extra-activist movements. First, I reviewed the historical and current extra-activist struggles, and conducted a content analysis of dominant news representations of extra-activist struggles (Kidd, 2014a(Kidd, , 2014b(Kidd, , 2016. Secondly, I conducted case studies of communications practices used by extra-activist movements in Latin America and Canada (videos (Kidd, forthcoming); and counter-mapping (Kidd, 2019).…”

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Standing rock and the Indigenous commons

Kidd¹

2020

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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 bestknown 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 antiextractivist encampments of Standing Rock.

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Standing rock and the Indigenous commons

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2020

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“…9 Over the succeeding years, the network lobbied for the formal recognition of Indigenous human rights in international forums, and then, importantly, called out Canada and other national governments for their abuses of them. They were also instrumental in establishing the United Nations Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, which is actively used by Indigenous peoples to challenge extractivism throughout the world (Kidd, 2015(Kidd, , 2016.…”

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Extra-activism: counter-mapping and data justice

Kidd

2019

Information, Communication & Society

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Neither big data, nor data justice are particularly new. Data collection, in the form of land surveys and mapping, was key to successive projects of European imperialist and then capitalist extraction of natural resources. Geo-spatial instruments have been used since the fifteenth century to highlight potential sites of mineral, oil, and gas extraction, and inscribe European economic, cultural and political control across indigenous territories. Although indigenous groups consistently challenged maintained their territorial sovereignty, and resisted corporate and state surveillance practices, they were largely unable to withstand the combined onslaught of surveyors, armed personnel, missionaries and government bureaucrats. This article examines the use of counter-mapping by indigenous nations in Canada, one of the globe's hubs of extractivism, as part of the exercise of indigenous territorial sovereignty. After a brief review of the colonial period, I then compare the use of counter-mapping during two cycles of indigenous mobilization. During the 1970s, counter-mapping projects were part of a larger repertoire of negotiations with the state over land claims, and served to re-inscribe first nation's long-standing history of economic, social and cultural relations in their territories, and contribute to new collective imaginaries and identities. In the current cycle of contests over extractivism and indigenous sovereignty, the use, scope and geographic scale of counter-mapping has shifted; maps are used as part of larger trans-media campaigns of Indigenous sovereignty. During both cycles, counter-mapping as data justice required fusion within larger projects of redistributive, transformative and restorative justice.

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Pursuing a voice in the extractivism debate in Brazil

Lyra

2019

Environmental Sociology

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“Extra-Activism”

Cited by 4 publications

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Standing rock and the Indigenous commons

Standing rock and the Indigenous commons

Extra-activism: counter-mapping and data justice

Pursuing a voice in the extractivism debate in Brazil

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