E-raamat: Indigenous Peoples Rise Up: The Global Ascendency of Social Media Activism

"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"--

Contributed by indigenous and other scholars of indigenous studies and related areas from North America, Australia, New Zealand, and Africa, the 14 essays in this volume explore the use of social media in activism by indigenous peoples. They discuss the Idle No More movement, an indigenous and environmental protection movement; how the movement to protect the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe's primary source of clean water, sacred cultural heritage sites, and burial sites from the Dakota Access Pipeline was supported by social media hashtags; emotions in indigenous activism; Twitter messages by Maori after the Christchurch terrorist attack in New Zealand; how Moroccan Amazigh associations have used Facebook to connect with other Amazigh people in Morocco and the diaspora; indigenous feminist approaches in social media studies; indigenous social activism using Twitter in relation to murdered and missing indigenous women and girls in Canada; how indigenous women's activism has led the way in reclaiming land, life, history, and futures from early memoirs and autobiographies to contemporary activism on social media; and the development of Black Rainbow, a grassroots collective of LGBTIQ Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. The book ends with a section on the activist potential and reach of social media to support indigenous art, literature, music, expressive arts, and comedy, including interviews with social media practitioners. Annotation ©2021 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)

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. 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. 
 

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.