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Abstract
This article explores ways that Exxon Valdez oil spill restoration as well as Alutiiq identity and heritage work become articulated through a reliance on the advice of university-trained experts. The kinds of knowledge and calculation through which identity, heritage and restoration become administrable suggests that the very technologies of Alaska Native identity and heritage making are shifting. They are now increasingly linked to the larger American political landscape, capitalism, scientific authority and state intervention, as well as to local sentimentality and preservation of authority. Indigenous identity and heritage work are negotiated, contingent, open and provocative, but there are specific conditionalities.
Résumé
Cet article explore les diverses manières par lesquelles le nettoyage de la pollution due au pétrolier Exxon Valdez et le travail patrimonial et identitaire des Alutiit se sont articulés autour de conseils d’experts universitaires. Les types de connaissances et d’évaluations à travers lesquels l’identité, le patrimoine et le nettoyage des côtes polluées ont pu être administrés suggèrent que ce sont les technologies elles-mêmes de la réalisation patrimoniale et identitaire des Autochtones de l’Alaska qui se transforment. Elles sont à présent de plus en plus liées au paysage politique américain au sens large, au capitalisme, à l’autorité scientifique et à l’intervention de l’État, autant qu’à une sensibilité propre et un attachement à l’autorité locale. L’identité et le travail patrimonial autochtones sont négociés, contingents, ouverts et provocateurs, mais sous certaines conditions.
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