Indigenous Peoples Rise Up

The Global Ascendency of Social Media Activism

Bronwyn Carlson, Jeff Berglund, Bronwyn Carlson, Jeff Berglund

• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Year: 2021
• Print ISBN: 9781978808775, 9781978808782
• eBook ISBN: 9781978808799
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Discrimination & Race Relations
• Index: Social Sciences

Indigenous Peoples Rise Up: The Global Ascendency of Social Media Activism illustrates the impact of social media in expanding the nature of Indigenous communities and social movements. Social media has bridged distance, time, and nation states to mobilize Indigenous peoples to build coalitions across the globe and to stand in solidarity with one another. These movements have succeeded and gained momentum and traction precisely because of the strategic use of social media. Social media—Twitter and Facebook in particular—has also served as a platform for fostering health, well-being, and resilience, recognizing Indigenous strength and talent, and sustaining and transforming cultural practices when great distances divide members of the same community.
 
Including a range of international indigenous voices from the US, Canada, Australia, Aotearoa (New Zealand) and Africa, the book takes an interdisciplinary approach, bridging Indigenous studies, media studies, and social justice studies. Including examples like Idle No More in Canada, Australian Recognise!, and social media campaigns to maintain Maori language, Indigenous Peoples Rise Up serves as one of the first studies of Indigenous social media use and activism. 
 

Table of contents

• Cover
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Introduction
• 1. Shifting Social Media and the Idle No More Movement
• 2. From #Mniwiconi to #StandwithStandingRock: How the #NoDAPL Movement Disrupted Physical and Virtual Spaces and Brought Indigenous Liberation to the Forefront of People’s Minds
• 3. Anger, Hope, and Love: The Affective Economies of Indigenous Social Media Activism
• 4. Responding to White Supremacy: An Analysis of Twitter Messages by Māori after the Christchurch Terrorist Attack
• 5. ⵉⵎⴰⵣⵉⵖⵏ ⵏ ⵍⵎⵖⵔⵉⴱ ⴷ ⵓⵣⵍⵓⵣⵣⵓ ⴳ ⵓⴼⴰⵢⵙⴱⵓⴽ: ⴰⵙⵉⴷⴷⵔ ⵏ ⵜⴷⵍⵙⴰ ⴷ ⵜⵓⵜⵍⴰⵢⵜ ⵉ ⵉⵎⵣⴷⴰⵖ ⵉⵥⵖⵓⵕⴰⵏ The Imazighen of Morocco and the Diaspora on Facebook: Indigenous Cultural and Language Revitalization
• 6. How We Connect: An Indigenous Feminist Approach to Digital Methods
• 7. Indigenous Social Activism Using Twitter: Amplifying Voices Using #MMIWG
• 8. Radical Relationality in the Native Twitterverse: Indigenous Women, Indigenous Feminisms, and (Re)writing/(Re)righting Resistance on #NativeTwitter
• 9. The Rise of Black Rainbow: Queering and Indigenizing Digital Media Strategies, Resistance, and Change
• 10. Artivism: The Role of Art and Social Media in the Movement
• 11. Interview with Debbie Reese, Creator of the Blog American Indians in Children’s Literature
• 12. United Front: Indigenous Peoples’ Resistance in the Online Metal Scene
• 13. Interview with Carly Wallace, Creator of “CJay’s Vines”
• 14. “We’re Alive and Thriving … We’re Modern, We’re Human, We’re Here!”: The 1491s’ Social Media Activism
• Acknowledgments
• Notes on Contributors
• Index