IndigePop

Svetlana Seibel is a postdoctoral research associate in North American Literary and Cultural Studies at Saarland University, Germany. She completed her PhD on Indigenous popular culture as a member of the International Research Training Group «Diversity». Her research has been published in journals such as Transmotion, Studies in Canadian Literature and European Journal of American Studies.Kati Dlaske is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Languages at the University of Helsinki, Finland. Previously she worked as a postdoctoral researcher in Applied Linguistics at the University of Jyväskylä. Her research has been published in journals such as Language in Society, Gender and Language, Multilingua and Social Semiotics.

• Contents: Svetlana Seibel: Approaching IndigePop: Some Thoughts to Start – Conceptualizing IndigePop – Sonny Assu: Reflections on «Personal Totems»– Sonny Assu: Personal Totems – Lee Francis 4: Critical Nerd Theory: A Brief Introduction – Autobiographical Practice as Critical Lens in IndigePop – Richard Van Camp: Pop Life: How Pop Culture Saved My Indigenous Bacon All These Blessed Years – Red Haircrow: Succeeding Skywalker – Visual and Graphic Art Forms in IndigePop – Anthony J. Thibodeau: The Force Is With Our People: Contemporary Indigenous Artists Reimagine the Star Wars Universe – James J. Donahue: Graphic Representations of Residential Schools: Using Popular Narrative to Teach Unpopular History – Juliane Egerer: Reframing, Rewriting, Redrawing the Past: The Creation of Decolonizing Narratives in Sámi History Cartooning – Weshoyot Alvitre: «We Are Mauna Kea» – Popular Genres and Media in IndigePop – Colby Y. Miyose: ‘A’ole TMT: The Use of Songs in the We Are Mauna Kea Movement – Cécile Heim: «It’s Not Me»: Displacing Alienness in Stephen Graham Jones’s All the Beautiful Sinners and Not for Nothing – Kati Dlaske: Mediating Indigenous Voices: Sámi Lifestyle Blogs and the Politics of Popular Culture – Creatorship, Fandom and Critical Practice in IndigePop – Monica Flegel and Judith Leggatt: From Speculative Fiction to Indigenous Futurism: The Decolonizing Fan Criticism of Métis in Space – Voices of the Indigenous Comic Con 2: Indigenous Popular Artists in Conversation with Kati Dlaske and Svetlana Seibel.