Labor' of Belonging
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12948133 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jackie Grey (Columbia University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 3 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 2-14 |
| Publication date | 2010-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of Critical Indigenous Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1837-0144 • E-ISSN: 1837-0144 |
| Publisher | Queensland University of Technology (PUBLISHER • AU) |
| DOI | 10.5204/ijcis.v3i1.54 |
| OpenAlex | W2802749303 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 15 |
This article examines notions of "labor" and "belonging" in contemporary indigenous-settler relations on the Wampanoag island of Noëpe, a place known all too well in the U.S. as "Martha's Vineyard". I focus on an ethnographic incident in which a Wampanoag fisherman stands before a town council on Noëpe and appeals for the right to fish in ancestral waters without penalty. Conceptualizing labor as agency, I am interested in the kind of work indigenous belonging demands in contested places. I am especially concerned about the vulnerability of small, financially stressed tribes and indigenous selves who must out-maneuver the labored manipulations of settler law and regulation at the level of locality. What are the political alternatives for Indians who are not rich, who are not members of rich tribes? What kind of "labor" must small tribes exert in order to preserve and protect indigenous selves and articulations of self-rule? It is within an economy of labored belonging that this project situates indigenous agency and contemplates the intensity and complexity of its work
Agency (philosophy · Ethnography · Indigenous · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Vulnerability (computing · Work (physics · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Canadian Identity and History · Gender Studies · Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights · Law · Ecology
Scenes of subjection
Dispossession by Degrees
John Locke and America
The Social Life of Things
Introduction
Toward Sustainable Self-Determination
The Letters of the Republic
Where the Nation Takes Place
Tribal Secrets, Recovering American Indian Intellectual Traditions
The Cunning of Recognition
Beyond Conquest
Indigenous Movements and Their Critics
| Citations per year | 0.5 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2020 - 2022 (3) |
| Highly cited | No |