a case study of the central coast salish james m hundley binghamton university
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Border Securitization and Transnational Ethnicity
A case study of the Central Coast Salish
James M HundleyBinghamton University
“…the utterance itself is the act” (Waever 1995: 55)
Contrast with Balzacq (2010)
Security Studies
an articulated assemblage of practices whereby heuristic artefacts (metaphors, policy tools, image repertoires, analogies, stereotypes, emotions, etc.) are contextually mobilized by a securitizing actor, who works to prompt an audience to build a coherent network of implications (feelings, sensations, thoughts, and intuitions), about the critical vulnerability of a referent object, that concurs with the securitizing actor’s reasons for choices and actions, by investing the referent subject with such an aura of unprecedented threatening complexion that a customized policy must be undertaken to immediately block its development (2010: 3)
1) Securitization at border allows us to trace development of sociocultural phenomena
2) Using an indigenous research methodology allows better insight into those developments
(Central)
Coast Salish
Formal political organization Politics organized by
kinship
Labor, trade, ritual, sport…
Hop picking
Slahal game
Oregon Treaty 1846
The “Salish Sea”
Coast Salish Gathering Nawtsamaat Alliance
Collective, publically expressed identity
Tied to historic self-understanding
Responds to social context
Ethnicity
Language◦ From Lhéchelesem to Halkomelem
Human Ecology◦ Relationship to land/changing metaphors
Post-9/11 Changes
Experiencing the landscape
Tribal Journeys
From “studying” to “studying with” “Indigenous research methodology is not
simply about who is doing the research – Indigenous or not – but the way in which Indigenous protocols, values, and behaviors are honored and made an integral part of the research, its reflexivity, and results” (Dangeli 2006:9)
Decolonizing Anthropology