Articles by Joanne Barker
American Historical Review, 2023
University of California Press, 2021
The basic argument of this book is that Indigenous peoples are identified and made identifiable a... more The basic argument of this book is that Indigenous peoples are identified and made identifiable as terrorists in the service of state imperialism. I draw from Indigenous critical race, feminist, and anti-imperialist scholars and activists to consider how and to what ends Indigenous people are represented as terrorists by the state, often with the full support of the public. I organize these representations by two figures, the Murderable Indian and the Kinless Indian. Representations of Indigenous people as murderable or as fraudulent threats to the state’s security and social stability demands and rationalizes counterterrorist meas¬ures that advance racist ideologies of Indigeneity that directly serve imperialist goals. I conclude with a reflection on the aboli¬tion of Indigenous sovereignty and self-determination as an otherwise, as an exercised and lived land-based governance and culture that is a viable alternative to state imperialism and neoliberalism.
Social Text, 2021
How does the discourse of care operate within an imperial social
formation? Is an otherwise possi... more How does the discourse of care operate within an imperial social
formation? Is an otherwise possible? What are our obligations in kinship
and reciprocity? And how do we attend to these obligations in times of
imposed distance?
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, 2020
This article intends an orientation of readers to critical Indigenous feminist politics through a... more This article intends an orientation of readers to critical Indigenous feminist politics through a theorizing of and engagement with water as an analytic. To do so, it focuses on two solidifications of Indigenous feminist politics in the United States and Canada. The first concerns theory and method: What informs and distinguishes the articulation of a critical Indigenous feminist politics, with/from other feminisms? What difference does water make within that articulation? The second involves the junctures of the Flint water crisis and the #NODAPL action at Standing Rock: How did water bring people together, not just there but around the world? How does the coming together matter? The article presumes that gender is a core, constitutive aspect of Indigenous sovereignty, self-determination, and solidarity. It argues that water rests with women and women-identified individuals, and their social and cultural responsibilities to, and in, multiple kinds of relationships, which include other-than-human beings and involve other-than-seen realities.
Social Text, 2018
“Territory as Analytic: The Dispossession of Lenapehoking and the Subprime Crisis,” Social Text (... more “Territory as Analytic: The Dispossession of Lenapehoking and the Subprime Crisis,” Social Text (June 2018): 19-39.
"Critically Sovereign.". In Critically Sovereign: Indigenous Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Stud... more "Critically Sovereign.". In Critically Sovereign: Indigenous Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies (Joanne Barker, ed. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2017: 1-44).
“Indigenous Feminisms.” Handbook on Indigenous People’s Politics. José Antonio Lucero, Dale Turne... more “Indigenous Feminisms.” Handbook on Indigenous People’s Politics. José Antonio Lucero, Dale Turner, and Donna Lee Van Cott, eds. (New York: Oxford University Press, forthcoming: available on-line January 2015).
"The Corporation and the Tribe," American Indian Quarterly 39, no. 3 (Summer 2015), 243-270.
"Self-Determination," Critical Ethnic Studies Journal 1, no. 1 (Spring 2015), 11-26. A short anal... more "Self-Determination," Critical Ethnic Studies Journal 1, no. 1 (Spring 2015), 11-26. A short analysis of the SCOTUS decision in Adoptive Couple v. Baby Girl (2013) as a keyword on Indigenous self-determination.
“Gender.” The Indigenous World of North America. Robert Warrior, ed. (New York: Routledge Press, ... more “Gender.” The Indigenous World of North America. Robert Warrior, ed. (New York: Routledge Press, 2014).
“The Specters of Recognition.” Formations of United States Colonialism. Alyosha Goldstein, ed. (D... more “The Specters of Recognition.” Formations of United States Colonialism. Alyosha Goldstein, ed. (Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2014).
“The Recognition of NAGPRA: A Human Rights Promise Deferred.” Recognition, Sovereignty Struggles,... more “The Recognition of NAGPRA: A Human Rights Promise Deferred.” Recognition, Sovereignty Struggles, and Indigenous Rights in the United States: A Sourcebook. Amy E. Den Ouden and Jean M. O’Brien, editors. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2013, 95-114).
"Gender, Sovereignty, and the Discourse of Rights in Native Women's Activism," Meridians: feminis... more "Gender, Sovereignty, and the Discourse of Rights in Native Women's Activism," Meridians: feminism, race, transnationalism 7, no. 1 (2006), 127-62.
Reprinted:
"Women’s Work: Gender, Sovereignty, and the Discourse of Rights in Native Women's Activism." Indigeneity. John Brown Childs and Guillermo Delgado-P., editors. (Santa Cruz, CA: The Literary Guillotine Press, 2012).
"Gender, Sovereignty, and the Discourse of Rights in Native Women's Activism." Rethinking Canada: The Promise of Women’s History. Sixth Edition. Mona Gleason, Adele Perry, and Tamara Myers, editors. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2010).
"Gender, Sovereignty, Rights: A Note On Native Women's Activism Against Social Inequality and Violence in Canada," American Quarterly 60, no. 2 (2008).
Introductory chapter to Sovereignty Matters: Locations of Contestation and Possibility in Indigen... more Introductory chapter to Sovereignty Matters: Locations of Contestation and Possibility in Indigenous Struggles for Self-Determination (Joanne Barker, ed. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2005).
"Recognition," Journal of Indigenous Nations Studies and American Studies (special joint issue) 4... more "Recognition," Journal of Indigenous Nations Studies and American Studies (special joint issue) 46, nos. 3/4 (2005), 117-145.
"The Human Genome Diversity Project: 'Peoples', 'Populations', and the Cultural Politics of Ident... more "The Human Genome Diversity Project: 'Peoples', 'Populations', and the Cultural Politics of Identification," Cultural Studies 18, no. 4 (July 2004), 578-613.
"Indian[tm] U.S.A.," Wicazō Śa Review: A Native American Studies Journal 18, no. 1 (Spring 2003),... more "Indian[tm] U.S.A.," Wicazō Śa Review: A Native American Studies Journal 18, no. 1 (Spring 2003), 25-79.
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Articles by Joanne Barker
formation? Is an otherwise possible? What are our obligations in kinship
and reciprocity? And how do we attend to these obligations in times of
imposed distance?
Joanne Barker
Rethinking Marxism, 30:2, 208-231,
To link to this article: https://doi.org/10.1080/08935696.2018.1502308
Reprinted:
"Women’s Work: Gender, Sovereignty, and the Discourse of Rights in Native Women's Activism." Indigeneity. John Brown Childs and Guillermo Delgado-P., editors. (Santa Cruz, CA: The Literary Guillotine Press, 2012).
"Gender, Sovereignty, and the Discourse of Rights in Native Women's Activism." Rethinking Canada: The Promise of Women’s History. Sixth Edition. Mona Gleason, Adele Perry, and Tamara Myers, editors. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2010).
"Gender, Sovereignty, Rights: A Note On Native Women's Activism Against Social Inequality and Violence in Canada," American Quarterly 60, no. 2 (2008).
formation? Is an otherwise possible? What are our obligations in kinship
and reciprocity? And how do we attend to these obligations in times of
imposed distance?
Joanne Barker
Rethinking Marxism, 30:2, 208-231,
To link to this article: https://doi.org/10.1080/08935696.2018.1502308
Reprinted:
"Women’s Work: Gender, Sovereignty, and the Discourse of Rights in Native Women's Activism." Indigeneity. John Brown Childs and Guillermo Delgado-P., editors. (Santa Cruz, CA: The Literary Guillotine Press, 2012).
"Gender, Sovereignty, and the Discourse of Rights in Native Women's Activism." Rethinking Canada: The Promise of Women’s History. Sixth Edition. Mona Gleason, Adele Perry, and Tamara Myers, editors. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2010).
"Gender, Sovereignty, Rights: A Note On Native Women's Activism Against Social Inequality and Violence in Canada," American Quarterly 60, no. 2 (2008).
by the Trump administration’s shock-and-awe tactics compounded
the brutally uneven distribution of exposure, social atomization, precarity,
abandonment, and premature death under the COVID-19 pandemic.
The pandemic has had especially lethal consequences for those who are
impoverished, racially abjected, and deemed violable or disposable within
economies of dispossession. For Indigenous peoples under US occupation,
the mainstream news coverage of the pandemic’s death toll on the
Navajo Nation, on Standing Rock, and on other Indigenous nations came
and went with little sustained inquiry into the conditions of colonization,
critical for understanding the current moment. The obstinate negligence
of the CARES Act toward peoples and communities most impacted by
the pandemic is only one example of this intensified necropolitics. We
focus here on conceptions and mobilizations of care and uncaring, and
the catastrophe of the settler-capitalist state at this time. With all the
talk about the need for self-care and community care in this period of
concentrated epic crises, we ask: How does the discourse of care operate
within an imperial social formation? Is an otherwise possible? What are
our obligations in kinship and reciprocity? And how do we attend to these
obligations in times of imposed distance?