Red Scare

Undoing settler imaginaries: (Re)imagining digital knowledge politics

“…Visual sovereignty as a framework refuses the settler enrollment of digital knowledge regimes that render Indigenous worlds outside their consent (Raheja, 2015;Wemgiwans, 2018). This includes the spaces of Indigenous resistance which continue to be surveilled and demonized by settler-states, including pipeline and mineral development sites, and urban spaces rendered as non-Indigenous (Barker, 2022).…”

“…The digital knowledge regime operates across multiple scales of computation, shaping the artifacts and spaces rendered as geo-visual representations of place (Rose and Willis, 2019;Zook and Graham, 2007a;Graham and Dittus, 2022). For instance, the mass mediated spectacle of sexist and racist visual images of Black and Indigenous resistance throughout digital information and social media platforms demonstrates the white patriarchal logics implicated in digital knowledge practices (Noble, 2016;Barker, 2022). The violent hyper abstraction represented through forms of digitally mediated spectacle reflects the situatedness of settler colonialism in digital-visual knowledge practices.…”

“…Such engagement has expanded into the sites and spaces in which technology shapes sociospatial relations and the production of geoimaginaries (Ash et al, 2018;Kitchin and Dodge, 2011;Leszczynski, 2013, 2018;Rose, 2016a). This includes the multiscaler impacts in which the visual aesthetics of anticolonial movements' demands for self-determination have been co-opted, criminalized, and depoliticized by the mediated ways in which visual and digital artifacts are circulated, accumulated, and regulated by state apparatuses (Barker, 2022;Summers, 2019;Mattern, 2021).…”

Settler colonial counterinsurgency: Indigenous resistance and the more-than-state policing of #NoDAPL

“…Counterinsurgency is generally defined as an array of efforts employed by an authority for reestablishing or maintaining legitimacy in the face of threat within a contested territory (Kelly et al, 2010; United States Department of the Army, 2007; Williams et al, 2013). In 2016-2017, a partnership of private organizations and state agencies waged a counterinsurgency (COIN) campaign to repress, delegitimize, and brutalize the movement of Indigenous water protectors at Standing Rock (Barker, 2021). The tactics made headlines for their cruelty, and civil rights organizations reacted with shock and dismay, decrying the violence as an example of the 'militarization of American policing' (Dakwar, 2017).…”

Indigenous Matriarchal Leadership – Our Methods to Healing

“…The data I derived from these experiences is that stress made women more alert; they She challenged the women's liberation theory as "mainly a white, upper-middle-class affair with little use to a reservation Indian woman," (Crow Dog, p. 244). Her passage may draw comparisons to Dr. Baker's Kinless Indian category because a Native person indeed cannot blend into a white crowd like Elizabeth Warren can (Barker, 2021). Indigenous women's activist experiences define Indigenous feminism in action.…”