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Decolonizing Dissent: Mapping Indigenous Resistance onto Settler Colonial Land

Presley, Rachel E.
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou156346106453335

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2019, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Ohio University, Communication Studies (Communication).
This project is concerned with the historical legacy of settler colonialism on indigenous-occupied lands and the ways in which land rights are rhetorically constructed and enacted across transnational geopolitical terrain. I utilize pan-historiography to develop Michael McGee’s theorization of the ideograph towards what I term an “ideomap” – a place-based approach to comparative ideology that recognizes the rhetorical agency of subaltern collectives. In exploring four indigenous communities, I analyze the ways in which land is not only reflective of ideology but also produces culturally distinct possibilities for decolonization: first, the Standing Rock Sioux’s Dakota Access Pipeline protest as a case for land as economy; second, Aboriginal Australia’s Stolen Generations campaign as a case for land as family; third, Palestine’s Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement as a case for land as law; and fourth, Brazil’s Terra Livre camp as a case for land as environment. The connective thread among these cases explores the spatial rhetorics of indigenous land and the practice of place-making as one that ideologically disrupts settler invasion and physically exercises anticolonial resistance on physical, digital, and hybrid spaces. In particular, I argue these four movements speak to the possibility of collapsing colonial structures and redefining civil societies that not only acknowledge but actively build upon indigenous perspectives.
Devika Chawla (Advisor)
321 p.
Communication; Native Studies; Rhetoric
Critical rhetoric; Postcolonial theory; Indigenous studies; Geopolitics; Land rights; Social movements; Resistance

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  • Presley, R. E. (2019). Decolonizing Dissent: Mapping Indigenous Resistance onto Settler Colonial Land [Doctoral dissertation, Ohio University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou156346106453335

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Presley, Rachel. Decolonizing Dissent: Mapping Indigenous Resistance onto Settler Colonial Land. 2019. Ohio University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou156346106453335.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Presley, Rachel. "Decolonizing Dissent: Mapping Indigenous Resistance onto Settler Colonial Land." Doctoral dissertation, Ohio University, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou156346106453335

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