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Network Sovereignty

Building the Internet across Indian Country
Language: English
Published/Copyright: 2017

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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.

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Contributor: Marisa Elena Duarte Marisa Elena Duarte is assistant professor of Justice and Sociotechnical Change with the School of Social Transformation at Arizona State University. She received her Ph.D. in information science from the University of Washington. She has published articles in a number of edited collections and journals, including Restoring Indigenous Self-Determination (E-International Relations, 2014), Cataloging & Classification Quarterly, and American Indian Culture & Research Journal.

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"Across desert mountains and seasonal rainstorms, through colonial disconnection and deprivation, moving like water, Duarte weaves her words into a technoscape not unlike tribes weaving their ICTs, with defined purpose, connecting past and future through the lineage, relationship, and community dreaming."

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    Frontmatter

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    Dedication

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    Contents

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    Preface

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    Acknowledgments

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    Introduction

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    1. Network Thinking

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    2. Reframing ICTs in Indian Country

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    3. The Overlap between Technology and Sovereignty

    35
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    4. Sociotechnical Landscapes

    52
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    5. Internet for Self-Determination

    89
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    6. Network Sovereignty

    104
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    7. Decolonizing the Technological

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    Conclusion

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    Notes

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    Glossary

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    Bibliography

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    Index

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    Indigenous Confluences Series

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9780295741833
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https://doi.org/10.1515/9780295741833
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Keywords for this book
Film and Media Studies; Native American and Indigenous Studies; Science and Technology Studies
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For an expert adult audience, including professional development and academic research
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