This paper published in The Geographical Journal [the academic journal of the Royal Geographical Society, since 1893] represents a “studying-up” of the controversy over federal regulatory processes regarding protection of Lakota and Dakota cultural heritage in permitting the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL). To analyze this controversy, Assistant Professor Leah Horowitz engaged with interest-convergence theory, a component of Critical Race Theory, alongside a critique of its arguably simplistic definition of “white interests.”
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