Date of Award
2018
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Bachelors
Department
Social Sciences
First Advisor
Zabriskie, Queen
Area of Concentration
Music, Culture and Creative Production
Abstract
Modern/colonial states and corporate interests perpetually engage in industrial practices that cause environmental violence ( NYSHN and WEA 2014 ), and th is is a continuation of the logics of modernity/coloniality that developed at the onset of settler colonialism in the Americas (Mignolo 2000; Quijano 1991). Decolonial art plays an integral role in the formation of responses to modernity/coloniality (Maldonado-Torres 2002) and environmental violence, which can be clearly seen within the #NODAPL movement (Martineau and Ritskes 2014). This thesis engages in a qualitative content analysis of creative writings of contemporary Indigenous women artists in a #NODAPL-inspired issue of the Apogee Journal published in 2016 in order to understand how these women are laying bare environmental violence and modernity/coloniality. I define laying bare as a form of decolonial creative praxis that 1) makes visible the forces and relations of domination shaping a lived experience with coloniality, and 2) offers possible pathways around or through them. I show that Indigenous women are laying bare environmental violence and the underlying logics of modernity/coloniality perpetuated by the construction of the North Dakota Access Pipeline by discussing systematic devaluation and gendered and racialized chronic social stressors.
Recommended Citation
Holmes, Sadé, "THE WAR ISN’T OVER: THE DECOLONIAL PRAXIS OF LAYING BARE ENVIRONMENTAL VIOLENCE IN THE #NODAPL MOVEMENT" (2018). Theses & ETDs. 5526.
https://digitalcommons.ncf.edu/theses_etds/5526