Date of Submission
Spring 2019
Academic Programs and Concentrations
Anthropology
Project Advisor 1
Gregory Duff Morton
Abstract/Artist's Statement
This paper examines specific indigenous social movements in the United States. Two examples are considered: the occupation of the decommissioned Fort-Lawton, Seattle military base in 1970 and the contemporary movement for missing and murdered indigenous women (MMIW). Both are examples of resistance to assimilation and ‘elimination’ in the form of collective action by indigenous persons. The paper explores the relation between coming together as a group and responding to the experience of violence, injury, or suffering. This dynamic between collective formation and shared affective experience constructs the foundation upon which these movements imagine and work to enact a social and political ‘alternative.'
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Recommended Citation
Dye-Furstenberg, Oskar Coltrane, "Affects of Elimination: Foundations of Collectivity" (2019). Senior Projects Spring 2019. 132.
https://digitalcommons.bard.edu/senproj_s2019/132
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