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Homemaking projects: Kandice L. Grossman, ‘Home Is at the Heart of Place: Coalition Possibilities at Standing Rock’, in Michelle I. Gawerc, Rachel L. Einwohner (eds), Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change: Coalition-Building and Solidarity Across Difference, Emerald, 2026

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Abstract: This research examines the participation of a diverse group of activists in the 2016–2017 Standing Rock movement, led by Oceti Sakowin tribal members, on the borders of the Standing Rock Reservation in North Dakota to stop the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL). The movement resisted the pipeline in the name of water protection, Indigenous sovereignty, protection of sacred burial grounds, treaty rights, climate justice, and more. Approximately 10 months into the effort, it was halted by the state, and the pipeline was installed. This paper emerges from a larger qualitative study that examines the politics, possibilities, and risks of coalition surrounding the Standing Rock movement. Data collection involved in-depth interviews with 27 activists, content analysis of 13 activist stories, and participatory research and observation. Findings show that for activists in the camps, placework, or place-based protest, enacted a “call and response” form of politics, based on shared callings to protect and critical responses to settler colonial-capital culture, specifically dispossession of land and property. Relationship to a sense of “home” shaped political motivations, a sense of belonging or lack thereof, and strengthened activists’ willingness to participate. This study suggests the analytical categories of place and home are productive for future sociological research on mobilization and coalition building across difference.


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