Christopher Wetzel
Biographic Data
| ID | 185128 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christopher Wetzel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christopher |
| FAMILY NAME | Wetzel |
| SIGNATURE | WETZEL C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Stonehill College |
| ORCID | 0009-0006-6265-3885 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 31 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
I Wouldn’t Classify Myself as an Activist”
Looking beyond the increasingly common trope of “slacktivism” that frames students as weakly “liking” causes or “tweeting” support through social media, our research analyzes how current students in the United States perceive and participate in action on college campuses. This action note reflects on three insights our research yields about contemporary student engagement: their ambivalence about embracing an “activist” label, their disinclinatio…
From Community Cancer to Common Entertainment
To theorize the process by which behaviors once regarded as deviant become normalized, this article analyzes the legalization of a state-run lottery in the American state of Massachusetts. Lotteries are an important case to study the dynamism of socially constructed problems as well as the creation of gaming markets because they raise moral, social, and economic concerns associated with all types of gaming with the added dimension of having the s…
Envisioning Land Seizure
Although land seizure is designed to be an evocative and provocative tactic for social movement organizations, how are groups' members, goals, and claims portrayed in subsequent media coverage? Focusing on the Indians of All Tribes' occupation of Alcatraz Island, this article qualitatively analyzes photographic representations of protest in three national newspapers. Images published during the occupation (1969 to 1971) represent Indian activists…
Theorizing Native American Land Seizure
This paper advances the existing literature on tactics by analyzing the persistence of land seizure as a particular strategy in Native American political activism over five decades. It examines the different types of spaces seized and the claims made during three distinct historical periods: public spaces on reservations during the recuperative phase (1950–69), surplus federal lands away from reservations during the expropriative phase (1969–75),…
Tradition and the invention of racial selves
This paper raises two important questions for understanding the influence of authenticity in the construction of racial identities: what motivates racial authenticity work? and how do racial groups do authenticity work? Relying on in-depth interviews we argue that Mexican Americans and Potawatomi Indians challenge contemporary institutional racism through elaborating symbolic boundaries and articulating moral discourses. By emphasizing authentic …
Intratribal Contention Concerning Indian Gaming
As Indian gaming operations proliferate and public deliberations concerning the propriety of casinos intensify, the academic literature devotes little attention to debates within tribes about Indian gaming. This article interrogates this divergence by examining a specific mode of intratribal contention. Gaming-related occupations staged by factions at the Keweenaw Bay Indian Community and the Kickapoo Traditional Tribe of Texas are described. Aft…
Neshnabemwen Renaissance
Shortly after noon on Saturday at the 2004 Gathering of the Potawatomi Nation, hosted by the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, I left the language seminar coordinated by Justin Neely, a Citizen Potawatomi member and the Hannahville Indian School's new Potawatomi language teacher, and Don Perrot, a Prairie Band Potawatomi member. During the well-attended session friends visited with one another as they learned to introduce themselves, ask basic questions…
Tradition and the invention of racial selves
This paper raises two important questions for understanding the influence of authenticity in the construction of racial identities: what motivates racial authenticity work? and how do racial groups do authenticity work? Relying on in-depth interviews we argue that Mexican Americans and Potawatomi Indians challenge contemporary institutional racism through elaborating symbolic boundaries and articulating moral discourses. By emphasizing authentic …
Theorizing Native American Land Seizure
This paper advances the existing literature on tactics by analyzing the persistence of land seizure as a particular strategy in Native American political activism over five decades. It examines the different types of spaces seized and the claims made during three distinct historical periods: public spaces on reservations during the recuperative phase (1950–69), surplus federal lands away from reservations during the expropriative phase (1969–75),…
Neshnabemwen Renaissance
Shortly after noon on Saturday at the 2004 Gathering of the Potawatomi Nation, hosted by the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, I left the language seminar coordinated by Justin Neely, a Citizen Potawatomi member and the Hannahville Indian School's new Potawatomi language teacher, and Don Perrot, a Prairie Band Potawatomi member. During the well-attended session friends visited with one another as they learned to introduce themselves, ask basic questions…
Intratribal Contention Concerning Indian Gaming
As Indian gaming operations proliferate and public deliberations concerning the propriety of casinos intensify, the academic literature devotes little attention to debates within tribes about Indian gaming. This article interrogates this divergence by examining a specific mode of intratribal contention. Gaming-related occupations staged by factions at the Keweenaw Bay Indian Community and the Kickapoo Traditional Tribe of Texas are described. Aft…
Intratribal Contention Concerning Indian Gaming
As Indian gaming operations proliferate and public deliberations concerning the propriety of casinos intensify, the academic literature devotes little attention to debates within tribes about Indian gaming. This article interrogates this divergence by examining a specific mode of intratribal contention. Gaming-related occupations staged by factions at the Keweenaw Bay Indian Community and the Kickapoo Traditional Tribe of Texas are described. Aft…
Neshnabemwen Renaissance
Shortly after noon on Saturday at the 2004 Gathering of the Potawatomi Nation, hosted by the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, I left the language seminar coordinated by Justin Neely, a Citizen Potawatomi member and the Hannahville Indian School's new Potawatomi language teacher, and Don Perrot, a Prairie Band Potawatomi member. During the well-attended session friends visited with one another as they learned to introduce themselves, ask basic questions…
Theorizing Native American Land Seizure
This paper advances the existing literature on tactics by analyzing the persistence of land seizure as a particular strategy in Native American political activism over five decades. It examines the different types of spaces seized and the claims made during three distinct historical periods: public spaces on reservations during the recuperative phase (1950–69), surplus federal lands away from reservations during the expropriative phase (1969–75),…
Tradition and the invention of racial selves
This paper raises two important questions for understanding the influence of authenticity in the construction of racial identities: what motivates racial authenticity work? and how do racial groups do authenticity work? Relying on in-depth interviews we argue that Mexican Americans and Potawatomi Indians challenge contemporary institutional racism through elaborating symbolic boundaries and articulating moral discourses. By emphasizing authentic …
Envisioning Land Seizure
Although land seizure is designed to be an evocative and provocative tactic for social movement organizations, how are groups' members, goals, and claims portrayed in subsequent media coverage? Focusing on the Indians of All Tribes' occupation of Alcatraz Island, this article qualitatively analyzes photographic representations of protest in three national newspapers. Images published during the occupation (1969 to 1971) represent Indian activists…
I Wouldn’t Classify Myself as an Activist”
Looking beyond the increasingly common trope of “slacktivism” that frames students as weakly “liking” causes or “tweeting” support through social media, our research analyzes how current students in the United States perceive and participate in action on college campuses. This action note reflects on three insights our research yields about contemporary student engagement: their ambivalence about embracing an “activist” label, their disinclinatio…
From Community Cancer to Common Entertainment
To theorize the process by which behaviors once regarded as deviant become normalized, this article analyzes the legalization of a state-run lottery in the American state of Massachusetts. Lotteries are an important case to study the dynamism of socially constructed problems as well as the creation of gaming markets because they raise moral, social, and economic concerns associated with all types of gaming with the added dimension of having the s…
Sociology (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Psychology (4 works) · History (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Media studies (3 works) · Public relations (3 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Art (2 works)