Disciplining Subjectivity and Space

Representation, Film and its Material Effects

Datos Bibliográficos

ID8102455
AutoresJennifer England (autor de correspondencia)
Año2004
Volumen36
Número2
Páginas295-321
Fecha de publicación2004-03-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaAntipode (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0066-4812 • E-ISSN: 1467-8330
EditorialWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1467-8330.2004.00407.x
OpenAlexW2118836882
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas18
Referencias citadas21

Although the distinction between representation and reality is increasingly blurred, I argue that representational discourses have material effects in everyday life. By moving “outside the text” I trace the messy terrain between visual discourse and everyday life in Downtown Eastside, Vancouver by examining two questions: (1) how do discursive productions of visual culture articulate, inscribe, and discipline space and subjectivity and (2) how do aboriginal women negotiate the material consequences of those representations? Using discourse and feminist analysis, I analyse how a documentary film, produced by the Vancouver Police Department, constructs spaces and subjectivities of deviance through techniques of realism and the moral gaze of the police officers. I argue that aboriginal women negotiate these deviant representations through their experiences of racism and sexism by police officers. Consequently, aboriginal women are rendered either hyper‐visible or invisible by police officers, marked by their gender, race, and class. Combining an analysis of the documentary film and in‐depth interviews with aboriginal women, I argue that critical geographers must consider the analytical spaces “outside of the text” to explore the material effects of visual representations

Aesthetics · Art · Epistemology · Everyday life · Negotiation · Political science · Politics · Representation (politics · Social science · Sociology · Subjectivity · Visual culture · Anthropology · Crime, Deviance, and Social Control · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Public Spaces through Art · Gender Studies · Law