CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2018
| Author | Ribeiro, Breanna Marie |
|---|---|
| Title | (Re)Imagining Solidarity in Anticolonial Resistances: The Standing Rock Movement and Unsettling the Logics of White Settler Colonialism in the Politics of Allyship |
| Summary | From April 2016 to February 2017 thousands of Indigenous peoples, representing more than three hundred Indigenous tribes and nations, and non-Indigenous allies from diverse backgrounds and movements opposed the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) by living in encampments on the unceded treaty-protected land of the Oceti Sakowin (the Sioux Nation). The naturalization and diffused nature of settler colonialism in North America meant that many of the white settler allies came to the encampments with a lack of understanding of how the struggle against DAPL is situated within centuries of anticolonial resistances against settler colonialism. As a result, the aims of this thesis are twofold. On the one hand, I explore the ways the Standing Rock movement creates alternative politics, solidarities, and communities rooted in Indigenous land-based knowledges through its resistance against the ongoing forms of settler colonial expropriation and industrial extraction. On the other hand, I examine how the logics of white settler colonialism were reproduced and interrupted in the intimate geographies of solidarity at the Standing Rock encampments. Through an anticolonial feminist activist ethnography consisting of twenty-one in-depth, semi-structured interviews with individuals who participated in the encampments, this thesis contributes to anticolonial scholarship on resistance and solidarities by unpacking the multivocalties in the grassroots Standing Rock movement, and exploring the tensions and opportunities they create, in order to interrogate white settler coloniality as it intersects with processes of allyship. Ultimately, I demonstrate how solidarities between white settlers, people of color, and Indigenous peoples in the Standing Rock movement produce ruptures in the settler colonial social order, and reimagine settler decolonization by generating possibilities for decolonial subjectivities, relationships, and futurities. KEY WORDS: Standing Rock movement, solidarity, settler colonialism, whiteness, anticolonial resistance, feminist ethnography, decolonization, social movements |
| Supervisor | Smith, Sarah |
| Department | Gender Studies MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2018/ribeiro_breanna.pdf |
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