What is it about?
In this article, I show how the Standing Rock Sioux Nation successfully employed social media to rally support from both indigenous and non-indigenous individuals to stop the Dakota Access Pipeline on its native lands.
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Why is it important?
Chief Arvol Looking Horse (2018) said it best: “Standing Rock has marked the beginning of an international movement that will continue to work peacefully, purposefully, and tirelessly for the protection of water along all areas of poisonous oil pipelines and across all of Mother Earth.”
Perspectives
Influenced by Jeffrey Juris (2008), my research trajectory embraces an “engaged and embodied ethnographic praxis,” which includes a necessary acknowledgment of how I engaged in participatory social media action research and visual ethnography to examine the complicated audiovisual cultural production of the Standing Rock Protest movement (p. 61). It is from this individuated political position that I left the protest cloud to join the “connected” others on the street to demonstrate against the destruction of our ecological biodiversity and threats to the sustainable livelihoods of indigenous communities.
Dr. Mary Louisa Cappelli
USC
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This page is a summary of: Standing With Standing Rock: Affective Alignment and Artful Resistance at the Native Nations Rise March, SAGE Open, April 2018, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/2158244018785703.
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