Global resistance movements for today’s Indigenous communities are well attuned to the geopolitical terrain of sovereignty as one “submerged beneath the settler colonial world.”1 Yet, an emergence of digital resistance to colonial violence provides a creative pathway to acknowledge how Indigenous lifeways are being (re)invented across online networks, resulting in strategies for decolonial, cross-cultural development. Ahasiw Maskegon-Iskwew writes in “Drumbeats to Drumbytes” that the digital realm provides Indigenous communities with an autonomous platform to assert an online presence in the face of colonial catastrophe: To govern ourselves means to govern our stories and our ways of telling stories. It means that…
Author: Rachel Presley
Rachel Presley
Rachel Presley is an Assistant Professor of Rhetorical Theory in the Department of Writing Studies and the Department of Communication Studies at the University of Minnesota. As a critical rhetorician with training in cultural studies and political philosophy, her primary research interests engage issues of social movement and resistance rhetorics, (trans)national citizenship and belonging, and postcolonial/decolonial/anticolonial theory.