Policing indigenous movements: dissent and the security state

Gordon, Faith

doi:10.1080/15614263.2019.1598077

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“…Investigative journalism revealed knotty mergers of public and private interests, such as through the “fusion centres” like the DHS Critical Infrastructure Partnership Advisory Council (CIPAC). Such information sharing networks facilitate relationships among pipeline firms, local and state law enforcement, and federal agencies like the FBI—networks which have also been used against First Nations pipeline opponents in Canada (Crosby and Monaghan 2018). Freedom of Information Act requests revealed the FBI infiltrated and surveilled direct action trainings for pipeline blockades, in the name of critical infrastructure security (Federman 2013).…”

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“…Legislation attempts to heighten penalties for those who “interfere with economic activities” (Georgia SB 1, 2017), and criminalises anti‐pipeline protests as “riots” and “economic terrorism” (North Carolina HB 249, 2017; Washington SB 5009, 2018). These bills reveal the way that extractive industries and settler governments are evolving their responses to land disputes with Indigenous communities (Crosby and Monaghan 2018), casting racialised efforts to prevent Indigenous resistance as purportedly non‐racial security measures to protect the operation of the national economy.…”

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The Countersovereignty of Critical Infrastructure Security: Settler‐State Anxiety versus the Pipeline Blockade

Bosworth

Chua

2021

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Scholars argue that blockades of infrastructure pose an economic threat to capital circulation. This explains how activists can gain power through strategic spatial occupations and why states seek to protect “critical infrastructure” from disruption. However, Indigenous‐led blockades of pipelines gain power not (only) by disrupting economic flows alone, but by eliciting state anxieties about the racialised political, psychic and economic project of settler colonialism. Analysing public discourse surrounding the Keystone XL and Dakota Access pipelines, including legislative measures introduced to criminalise protest since the blockade at Standing Rock, we reframe critical infrastructure security as a component operation of settler countersovereignty. The criminalisation of Indigenous dissent through the state’s escalation of protest legislation is an investment in maintaining settler political authority, leading us to conclude that blockades must be understood not only as a form of anti‐capitalist resistance, but also as a locus of anti‐colonial struggle.

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The Countersovereignty of Critical Infrastructure Security: Settler‐State Anxiety versus the Pipeline Blockade

Bosworth

Chua

2021

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“…Such actions attempt to criminalize Indigenous resistance (Pasternak, 2017). Considering the high saliency of injunctions and police arrests by the media, additional research can connect how these practices, alongside media attention, shape the state's engagement with Indigenous resistance (see Crosby and Monaghan, 2018).…”

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Salient Indigenous Acts of Resistance in Canada, 2010–2020: Current Trends

2023

Can J Pol Sci

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Indigenous peoples continue to challenge Canadian colonial policies through nonroutine acts of resistance. Sustained scholarly attention on the frequency and characteristics of Indigenous resistance has dropped precipitously, with the time span of this scholarship typically ending by the early 2000s. Research on more recent acts of resistance is directed to small-n case studies. This research note examines Indigenous resistance in Canada between 2010 and 2020 as reported by news articles from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) to identify key characteristics of salient Indigenous resistance: What issue areas were the subject of resistance movements? Which Indigenous communities or groups contributed to acts of resistance? What strategies were employed? The research note's findings suggest that salient acts of resistance rarely result in immediate policy change from the state; instead, resistance has transformative potential to develop Indigenous governance that departs from settler-colonial state processes.

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“…Scholars in Indigenous, Black, Latinx, feminist, and settler colonial studies have long chronicled the ways in which surveillance, mapping, media, and computational technologies are implicated in the capture, distortion, and criminalization of liberation movements (Browne, 2015;Fanon, 1994;González, 2019;Hall, 1981;Crosby and Monaghan, 2018). These practices take many forms, including through the regulation of Black liberation movements' in Attica, Ferguson, Minneapolis, and Denver, among other global sites of resistance, to surveillance regimes deployed onto Indigenous lands rendering water and land protectors as criminals at the No-DAPL and Line 3 resistance camps, to the deputizing of white property bearing citizens to regulate Black, Latinx, and Asian neighborhoods through state sanctioned surveillance apps (Camp, 2016;Estes, 2019;Jefferson, 2017).…”

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Undoing settler imaginaries: (Re)imagining digital knowledge politics

Rivera

2023

Progress in Human Geography

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Geography as a discipline is entangled in settler colonial regimes that continue to shape geographic practice and the boundaries of geographical knowledge. Digital technologies play an instrumental role in shaping the view of geography and sociospatial relations. This paper traces the construction of the settler imaginary in geographic thought through scholarship in digital geographies and anticolonialism. By bridging anticolonial scholarship in digital geographies, this paper contributes to debates on anticolonial and decolonial refusal politics and its role in realizing reciprocal land-life relations. The (re)imagining of digital knowledge politics begins with accountable digital geographic practices on the terms of Indigenous peoples’.

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Policing indigenous movements: dissent and the security state

Cited by 8 publications

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The Countersovereignty of Critical Infrastructure Security: Settler‐State Anxiety versus the Pipeline Blockade

The Countersovereignty of Critical Infrastructure Security: Settler‐State Anxiety versus the Pipeline Blockade

Salient Indigenous Acts of Resistance in Canada, 2010–2020: Current Trends

Undoing settler imaginaries: (Re)imagining digital knowledge politics

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