Jean Michel Montsion
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 106863 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Jean Michel Montsion |
| PRENOMES | Jean Michel |
| SOBRENOME | Montsion |
| ASSINATURA | MONTSION J M |
| AFILIAÇÕES | York University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2382-5788 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 18 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 73 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 18 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2009 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
International Canadian Studies
More than 10 years after the Government of Canada ended its support for the “Understanding Canada” program, international Canadianists have continued to contribute to teaching and conducting research on Canada. During this time, Canadian society has faced significant challenges, including the calls to action from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, and academic debates have questioned the relevance of Canadian Studies as a field of…
Moving beyond survivalism? Youth perspectives on non‐Mandarin Chinese languages in the study of Chinese voluntary associations in Singapore and Vancouver
The contributions of Chinese voluntary associations (CVAs) have often been viewed through a survivalist lens. As a process by which the activities of such organisations are interpreted through a rigid sense of what a Chinese community association is and should be, survivalist tendencies in academic scholarship must be re‐thought to fully assess the functions of several types of CVAs, including amid the cultural rise of the People's Republic of Ch…
Toronto’s Francophone Voluntary Sector Under Pressure
The neoliberalization of Canada’s immigration and immigrant integration policies has impacted how Francophone communities in English dominated provinces outside of Québec can develop and thrive. This article examines the challenges faced by Francophone community organizations in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) in their efforts to successfully integrate Francophone immigrants. The GTA’s Francophone voluntary sector has been affected by a “community…
Metrolingual multitasking and differential inclusion
Arrival cities are defined through migration-led diversification that structures integration, notably through everyday language practices. In Singapore’s multilingual landscape, we find hints of historical waves of migrants from Southern China speaking Cantonese, Hakka, Hokkien and Teochew and the recent contributions of new migrants from Mainland China. In light of the work of Pennycook and Otsuji, this article explores how the norms of metrolin…
Identity and Social Networks
Ethnography and international relations
As a relatively recent academic discipline, international relations engage with ethnography in specific ways, especially since its ethnographic turn starting in the mid-1990s. Conceived as a methodology that may open up the field to new perspectives on studying world politics, ethnography is deployed by critical IR scholars in order to ground everyday life as a credible source of knowledge about the international realm. Despite disciplinary and l…
Racialized Hearts and Minds
International relations (IR) is traditionally taught from a detached standpoint, as the international realm is conceptualized as distinct from normative, emotional, and embodied realities. We challenge this abstraction and focus on emotions to examine the intersection of race and international relations in how we teach and how students learn. Focusing on emotional labor, we maintain that students are taught and learn about the presence and absenc…
The Little Nyonya and Singapore's national self
Singapore’s postcolonial state formation process has combined the appeal/distress of a multiracial society with the nationalistic pride of economic development. In recent years, the city-state has witnessed a revival of Peranakan culture and history, referring to the descendants of early Chinese immigrants who integrated into Indigenous societies before becoming prized mediators for British colonisers in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. We…
Smell this
In August 2011, many Singaporean citizens grabbed their cooking pots and used the city‐state's national obsession with food to express growing dissatisfaction with immigration and integration trends. The ‘cook and share a pot of curry’ event—a local response to Chinese newcomers complaining about the smell of their Indian Singaporean neighbours’ food—is significant for its use of smell to catalyse a collective citizen reaction and for its relianc…
Diplomacy as Self-representation
China’s recent interest and substantial investments in Canada’s natural resource sector have led some First Nations in British Columbia to undertake diplomatic activities to represent their interests to Chinese officials and investors. This article explores the interplay developing between the diplomatic activities of British Columbia’s First Nations and those of the Canadian state in the area of natural resource promotion. It does so by examinin…
Churchill, Manitoba and the Arctic Gateway
In 2010, the University of Winnipeg and the Government of Manitoba hosted the Arctic Gateway Summit to discuss the regular use of a commercial shipping line running from Winnipeg to Murmansk, Russia via the Port of Churchill and the waters of Nunavut. In this article, I put this initiative in the historical and spatial context of the town of Churchill to help us understand how the Arctic Gateway represents the town's past and current positioning …
Patrolling Chineseness
In combination with their strategy to recruit foreign talent, Singaporean state authorities have increasingly focused their attention on community integration schemes for Chinese professional newcomers. The government facilitated such integration with the creation of the Kowloon Club in 1990. The Kowloon Club is not only a government experiment that has been repeated three times since then, but also the only new migrant association that does not …
No Good Deed Goes Unrewarded
This article focuses on the value of volunteering in producing, sustaining and legitimising forms of subjectivity and social relations congruent with the ethos of neoliberal capital. Rather than treat it as a spontaneous act of virtue, we insist that volunteerism is a carefully designed technology of government the purpose of which is to align individual conduct with neoliberal capital's double injunction of market rationality and social responsi…
Disrupting Canadian sovereignty? The ‘First Nations & China’ strategy revisited
Chinese ethnicities in neoliberal Singapore? State designs and dialect(ical) struggles of community associations
Since the late 1990s, Singaporean state authorities have been increasingly marketing the city state as a knowledge-based hub between mainland China and western societies. Their focus on Mandarin-speaking mainlanders contrasts with Singapore's historical Chinese roots. By investigating the daily activities of Hokkien and Teochew community associations, I argue that these associations are finding ways to adapt to state initiatives that market a Chi…
When talent meets mobility
Singapore's marketing strategy as a ‘gateway’ between East and West, a project developed at the end of the 1990s, is based on the city–state's re-positioning in the knowledge-based economy between an emerging China and Western societies. This project targets elite populations whether they are locals or migrants to frame a citizenship design combining mobility and talent. I will critically assess the impacts of Singapore's gateway strategies on th…
A Critique of Everyday International Relations
In the context of Singapore and Vancouver strategically repositioning themselves as gateway cities between Asian and North American markets, I focus on Singapore's multiracialism and Vancouver's multiculturalism to frame how people encounter 'the international' along racialized and cultural lines in their daily lives. Building on an emerging appetite for everyday life theory in international relations, I look at Henri Lefebvre's work on alienatio…
Relocating Politics at the Gateway
Common understandings of international affairs are often expressed through spatial metaphors, such as regional blocs, fortresses, bridges and gateways. These spatial metaphors are widely utilized as they appeal to our common sense. It makes sense to understand and explain world affairs by using expressions and examples that are deeply anchored in our everyday life, in our everyday social imaginaries. Even if we cannot really make sense of what tr…
No Good Deed Goes Unrewarded
This article focuses on the value of volunteering in producing, sustaining and legitimising forms of subjectivity and social relations congruent with the ethos of neoliberal capital. Rather than treat it as a spontaneous act of virtue, we insist that volunteerism is a carefully designed technology of government the purpose of which is to align individual conduct with neoliberal capital's double injunction of market rationality and social responsi…
Chinese ethnicities in neoliberal Singapore? State designs and dialect(ical) struggles of community associations
Since the late 1990s, Singaporean state authorities have been increasingly marketing the city state as a knowledge-based hub between mainland China and western societies. Their focus on Mandarin-speaking mainlanders contrasts with Singapore's historical Chinese roots. By investigating the daily activities of Hokkien and Teochew community associations, I argue that these associations are finding ways to adapt to state initiatives that market a Chi…
When talent meets mobility
Singapore's marketing strategy as a ‘gateway’ between East and West, a project developed at the end of the 1990s, is based on the city–state's re-positioning in the knowledge-based economy between an emerging China and Western societies. This project targets elite populations whether they are locals or migrants to frame a citizenship design combining mobility and talent. I will critically assess the impacts of Singapore's gateway strategies on th…
Disrupting Canadian sovereignty? The ‘First Nations & China’ strategy revisited
A Critique of Everyday International Relations
In the context of Singapore and Vancouver strategically repositioning themselves as gateway cities between Asian and North American markets, I focus on Singapore's multiracialism and Vancouver's multiculturalism to frame how people encounter 'the international' along racialized and cultural lines in their daily lives. Building on an emerging appetite for everyday life theory in international relations, I look at Henri Lefebvre's work on alienatio…
Relocating Politics at the Gateway
Common understandings of international affairs are often expressed through spatial metaphors, such as regional blocs, fortresses, bridges and gateways. These spatial metaphors are widely utilized as they appeal to our common sense. It makes sense to understand and explain world affairs by using expressions and examples that are deeply anchored in our everyday life, in our everyday social imaginaries. Even if we cannot really make sense of what tr…
Ethnography and international relations
As a relatively recent academic discipline, international relations engage with ethnography in specific ways, especially since its ethnographic turn starting in the mid-1990s. Conceived as a methodology that may open up the field to new perspectives on studying world politics, ethnography is deployed by critical IR scholars in order to ground everyday life as a credible source of knowledge about the international realm. Despite disciplinary and l…
Churchill, Manitoba and the Arctic Gateway
In 2010, the University of Winnipeg and the Government of Manitoba hosted the Arctic Gateway Summit to discuss the regular use of a commercial shipping line running from Winnipeg to Murmansk, Russia via the Port of Churchill and the waters of Nunavut. In this article, I put this initiative in the historical and spatial context of the town of Churchill to help us understand how the Arctic Gateway represents the town's past and current positioning …
Moving beyond survivalism? Youth perspectives on non‐Mandarin Chinese languages in the study of Chinese voluntary associations in Singapore and Vancouver
The contributions of Chinese voluntary associations (CVAs) have often been viewed through a survivalist lens. As a process by which the activities of such organisations are interpreted through a rigid sense of what a Chinese community association is and should be, survivalist tendencies in academic scholarship must be re‐thought to fully assess the functions of several types of CVAs, including amid the cultural rise of the People's Republic of Ch…
The Little Nyonya and Singapore's national self
Singapore’s postcolonial state formation process has combined the appeal/distress of a multiracial society with the nationalistic pride of economic development. In recent years, the city-state has witnessed a revival of Peranakan culture and history, referring to the descendants of early Chinese immigrants who integrated into Indigenous societies before becoming prized mediators for British colonisers in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. We…
Patrolling Chineseness
In combination with their strategy to recruit foreign talent, Singaporean state authorities have increasingly focused their attention on community integration schemes for Chinese professional newcomers. The government facilitated such integration with the creation of the Kowloon Club in 1990. The Kowloon Club is not only a government experiment that has been repeated three times since then, but also the only new migrant association that does not …
Metrolingual multitasking and differential inclusion
Arrival cities are defined through migration-led diversification that structures integration, notably through everyday language practices. In Singapore’s multilingual landscape, we find hints of historical waves of migrants from Southern China speaking Cantonese, Hakka, Hokkien and Teochew and the recent contributions of new migrants from Mainland China. In light of the work of Pennycook and Otsuji, this article explores how the norms of metrolin…
Racialized Hearts and Minds
International relations (IR) is traditionally taught from a detached standpoint, as the international realm is conceptualized as distinct from normative, emotional, and embodied realities. We challenge this abstraction and focus on emotions to examine the intersection of race and international relations in how we teach and how students learn. Focusing on emotional labor, we maintain that students are taught and learn about the presence and absenc…
Relocating Politics at the Gateway
Common understandings of international affairs are often expressed through spatial metaphors, such as regional blocs, fortresses, bridges and gateways. These spatial metaphors are widely utilized as they appeal to our common sense. It makes sense to understand and explain world affairs by using expressions and examples that are deeply anchored in our everyday life, in our everyday social imaginaries. Even if we cannot really make sense of what tr…
When talent meets mobility
Singapore's marketing strategy as a ‘gateway’ between East and West, a project developed at the end of the 1990s, is based on the city–state's re-positioning in the knowledge-based economy between an emerging China and Western societies. This project targets elite populations whether they are locals or migrants to frame a citizenship design combining mobility and talent. I will critically assess the impacts of Singapore's gateway strategies on th…
A Critique of Everyday International Relations
In the context of Singapore and Vancouver strategically repositioning themselves as gateway cities between Asian and North American markets, I focus on Singapore's multiracialism and Vancouver's multiculturalism to frame how people encounter 'the international' along racialized and cultural lines in their daily lives. Building on an emerging appetite for everyday life theory in international relations, I look at Henri Lefebvre's work on alienatio…
No Good Deed Goes Unrewarded
This article focuses on the value of volunteering in producing, sustaining and legitimising forms of subjectivity and social relations congruent with the ethos of neoliberal capital. Rather than treat it as a spontaneous act of virtue, we insist that volunteerism is a carefully designed technology of government the purpose of which is to align individual conduct with neoliberal capital's double injunction of market rationality and social responsi…
Disrupting Canadian sovereignty? The ‘First Nations & China’ strategy revisited
Chinese ethnicities in neoliberal Singapore? State designs and dialect(ical) struggles of community associations
Since the late 1990s, Singaporean state authorities have been increasingly marketing the city state as a knowledge-based hub between mainland China and western societies. Their focus on Mandarin-speaking mainlanders contrasts with Singapore's historical Chinese roots. By investigating the daily activities of Hokkien and Teochew community associations, I argue that these associations are finding ways to adapt to state initiatives that market a Chi…
Churchill, Manitoba and the Arctic Gateway
In 2010, the University of Winnipeg and the Government of Manitoba hosted the Arctic Gateway Summit to discuss the regular use of a commercial shipping line running from Winnipeg to Murmansk, Russia via the Port of Churchill and the waters of Nunavut. In this article, I put this initiative in the historical and spatial context of the town of Churchill to help us understand how the Arctic Gateway represents the town's past and current positioning …
Patrolling Chineseness
In combination with their strategy to recruit foreign talent, Singaporean state authorities have increasingly focused their attention on community integration schemes for Chinese professional newcomers. The government facilitated such integration with the creation of the Kowloon Club in 1990. The Kowloon Club is not only a government experiment that has been repeated three times since then, but also the only new migrant association that does not …
Smell this
In August 2011, many Singaporean citizens grabbed their cooking pots and used the city‐state's national obsession with food to express growing dissatisfaction with immigration and integration trends. The ‘cook and share a pot of curry’ event—a local response to Chinese newcomers complaining about the smell of their Indian Singaporean neighbours’ food—is significant for its use of smell to catalyse a collective citizen reaction and for its relianc…
Diplomacy as Self-representation
China’s recent interest and substantial investments in Canada’s natural resource sector have led some First Nations in British Columbia to undertake diplomatic activities to represent their interests to Chinese officials and investors. This article explores the interplay developing between the diplomatic activities of British Columbia’s First Nations and those of the Canadian state in the area of natural resource promotion. It does so by examinin…
Ethnography and international relations
As a relatively recent academic discipline, international relations engage with ethnography in specific ways, especially since its ethnographic turn starting in the mid-1990s. Conceived as a methodology that may open up the field to new perspectives on studying world politics, ethnography is deployed by critical IR scholars in order to ground everyday life as a credible source of knowledge about the international realm. Despite disciplinary and l…
Racialized Hearts and Minds
International relations (IR) is traditionally taught from a detached standpoint, as the international realm is conceptualized as distinct from normative, emotional, and embodied realities. We challenge this abstraction and focus on emotions to examine the intersection of race and international relations in how we teach and how students learn. Focusing on emotional labor, we maintain that students are taught and learn about the presence and absenc…
The Little Nyonya and Singapore's national self
Singapore’s postcolonial state formation process has combined the appeal/distress of a multiracial society with the nationalistic pride of economic development. In recent years, the city-state has witnessed a revival of Peranakan culture and history, referring to the descendants of early Chinese immigrants who integrated into Indigenous societies before becoming prized mediators for British colonisers in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. We…
Identity and Social Networks
Toronto’s Francophone Voluntary Sector Under Pressure
The neoliberalization of Canada’s immigration and immigrant integration policies has impacted how Francophone communities in English dominated provinces outside of Québec can develop and thrive. This article examines the challenges faced by Francophone community organizations in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) in their efforts to successfully integrate Francophone immigrants. The GTA’s Francophone voluntary sector has been affected by a “community…
Metrolingual multitasking and differential inclusion
Arrival cities are defined through migration-led diversification that structures integration, notably through everyday language practices. In Singapore’s multilingual landscape, we find hints of historical waves of migrants from Southern China speaking Cantonese, Hakka, Hokkien and Teochew and the recent contributions of new migrants from Mainland China. In light of the work of Pennycook and Otsuji, this article explores how the norms of metrolin…
Moving beyond survivalism? Youth perspectives on non‐Mandarin Chinese languages in the study of Chinese voluntary associations in Singapore and Vancouver
The contributions of Chinese voluntary associations (CVAs) have often been viewed through a survivalist lens. As a process by which the activities of such organisations are interpreted through a rigid sense of what a Chinese community association is and should be, survivalist tendencies in academic scholarship must be re‐thought to fully assess the functions of several types of CVAs, including amid the cultural rise of the People's Republic of Ch…
International Canadian Studies
More than 10 years after the Government of Canada ended its support for the “Understanding Canada” program, international Canadianists have continued to contribute to teaching and conducting research on Canada. During this time, Canadian society has faced significant challenges, including the calls to action from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, and academic debates have questioned the relevance of Canadian Studies as a field of…
Political science (16 obras) · Sociology (15 obras) · Law (11 obras) · Socioeconomic Development in Asia (9 obras) · Gender Studies (8 obras) · Politics (8 obras) · Law (7 obras) · China (6 obras) · Psychology (6 obras) · Epistemology (5 obras)