Network Sovereignty: Building the Internet across Indian Country

Network Sovereignty: Building the Internet across Indian Country

by Marisa Elena Duarte
Network Sovereignty: Building the Internet across Indian Country

Network Sovereignty: Building the Internet across Indian Country

by Marisa Elena Duarte

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Overview

In 2012, the United Nations General Assembly determined that affordable Internet access is a human right, critical to citizen participation in democratic governments. Given the significance of information and communication technologies (ICTs) to social and political life, many U.S. tribes and Native organizations have created their own projects, from streaming radio to building networks to telecommunications advocacy. In Network Sovereignty, Marisa Duarte examines these ICT projects to explore the significance of information flows and information systems to Native sovereignty, and toward self-governance, self-determination, and decolonization.

By reframing how tribes and Native organizations harness these technologies as a means to overcome colonial disconnections, Network Sovereignty shifts the discussion of information and communication technologies in Native communities from one of exploitation to one of Indigenous possibility.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780295741833
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Publication date: 07/11/2017
Series: Indigenous Confluences
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 208
File size: 2 MB
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

Marisa Elena Duarte is assistant professor of justice and sociotechnical change with the School of Social Transformation at Arizona State University.

Table of Contents

Introduction

1. Network Thinking

2. Reframing ICTs in Indian Country

3. The Overlap between Technology and Sovereignty

4. Sociotechnical Landscapes

5. Internet for Self-Determination

6. Network Sovereignty

7. Decolonizing the Technological

Conclusion

What People are Saying About This

Kim TallBear

"Network Sovereignty is an elegant, clear-headed, and complex account of information and communication technologies across Indian Country."

Andrew Needham

"Duarte shows that tribal ownership and use of information and communication technologies have the potential to deepen the meaning and experience of tribal sovereignty, serving as a means to undermine colonialism."

Mark Trahant

"The strength of Network Sovereignty is when the stories capture examples of sovereignty and technology in action."

Robert Warrior

"Network Sovereignty is a lively, smart, deeply researched account of how Indigenous peoples are realizing the potential of their inherent political status and the relevance of their cultural knowledge in the rapidly changing world of social networks and information technology."

Loriene Roy

"Duarte ably illustrates how the sovereignty of Native peoples extends beyond their self-identity and governance to their use and adaptation of contemporary information communication technologies in ways that support indigenous worldviews."

Ken Coates

"In Network Sovereignty, Duarte looks at the psychological and philosophical implications of the colonization of Indigenous peoples in a technological age. She provides accessible and relevant examples of American Indians searching for ways to use new technologies to address very real social, cultural, and political challenges."

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