A dangerous tool in the wrong hands
Sovereign technologies in Alanis Obomsawin's Is the Crown at War with Us? and Barry Barclay's The Kaipara Affair
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2179564 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Shelley Angelie Saggar (0000-0002-1105-3090) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 58 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 439-452 |
| Publication date | 2022-07-04 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Postcolonial Writing (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1744-9855 • E-ISSN: 1744-9863 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/17449855.2022.2063998 |
| OpenAlex | W4280586551 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 15 |
Abenaki film-maker Alanis Obomsawin’s 2002 film Is the Crown at War with Us? and Ngāti Apa film-maker Barry Barclay’s 2005 documentary The Kaipara Affair depict tensions between Indigenous sovereignty and global capitalism through the lens of two distinct fishing rights struggles drawn from Canada and Aotearoa/New Zealand. This article examines themes of documentation, surveillance, and environmental resource extraction that echo across both films to argue that these technologies – as narrativized in Obomsawin’s and Barclay’s works – offer the potential for negotiation in a continuing anti-colonial resistance, both in the localized struggles of Esgenoopetitj/Burnt Church in Canada and Tinopai in Aotearoa/New Zealand, and further suggest potential strategies for emulation across the (post)colonial globe. Andrew Woolford’s metaphor of the settler-colonial “net” is used to analyse the depiction of fishing practices as a contested arena for global capitalism and Indigenous stewardship that is narratively and aesthetically challenged by both film-makers
Aotearoa · Capitalism · Colonialism · Frontier · Indigenous · Media studies · Neocolonialism · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Sovereignty · Stewardship (theology · Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights · History · Law
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| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,25 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2022 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |