Yasmin Jiwani
Biographic Data
| ID | 298337 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Yasmin Jiwani |
| GIVEN NAMES | Yasmin |
| FAMILY NAME | Jiwani |
| SIGNATURE | JIWANI Y |
| AFFILIATIONS | Concordia University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8658-4542 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 91 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Resisting Islamophobia through Digital Artifacts of Mourning
Out of the Margins? Race, Racism, and Colonialism in Canadian Communication Studies
Founded in 1974, the Canadian Journal of Communication (CJC) aims to publish Canadian research and scholarship in the field of communication studies. The purview of the journal is the entire field of communication studies as practiced in Canada or with relevance to Canada
Putting Race at the Forefront of Communication Studies
The Intersecting Violence(s) of a Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has often been referred to in the media as a “war” against the socio-political global body. This discursive use of war as a metaphor implies not only a need for a united defence against an encroaching and insidiously pervasive enemy but also suggests that such a defence protects one and all. Clearly, this is not the case. This short essay tackles these questions using Stuart Hall’s notion of structured dominance to interroga…
On the Margins of the Margins: CommunicationSoWhite—Canadian Style
Canada is defined by its commitment to multicultural diversity, tolerance and liberalism that belie the dominant whiteness of our institutions, including academia. Canadian Communication Studies, despite its history of attending to the power dynamics of the center and the margins, is no exception to this rule. Studies of racism and colonialism are confined to the corners of the discipline, reflecting the lack of representation in communication de…
Transnational Migration and Digital Memorialization
As digital outlets of expression become increasingly accessible, means of conveying grief and commemorating the deceased have migrated online. Online memorial websites such as UK-based Muchloved.com boasts thousands of Tributes created by the bereaved to remember the deceased. Many of these Tributes sketch out a rough picture of the person commemorated through text detailing their personal lives, professions, hobbies, and accomplishments, as well…
Intersecting violence: Representations of Somali youth in the Canadian press
This article examines the press coverage accorded to Canadian youth of Somali origin in the Canadian press using two methodological procedures. Charting the representational clusters that cohere around Canadian Black male youth of Somali heritage reveals the circulation of stereotypical tropes that are mostly circumscribed within the framework of crime, terrorism, and violence, reflecting the intersection of stereotypes commonly ascribed to Musli…
Asian Canadian Studies Reader
Roland Sintos Coloma and Gordon Pon’s Asian Canadian Studies Reader brings together essential writings by leading and emerging scholars in the field to explore the vibrancy of the diverse Asian diaspora in Canada
Obituaries as Markers of Memory: Grievability and Visibility in Representations of Aboriginal Women in the National Canadian Imaginary
Many Aboriginal peoples belong to stateless nations within the White Canadian nation-state. Their claims to sovereignty are predicated on a timeless, immemorial existence that predates White settlement. Yet, the very reproduction of the nation is a gendered and raced project, centering some bodies while marginalizing others. In tracing the ways in which Aboriginal women have been projected on the canvass of the nation's memorials-in obituaries-th…
Discourse Studies
Discourse analysis is now widely used in a variety of theoretical and disciplinary traditions. This entry provides a cursory overview of the field of discourse studies, paying particular attention to how language, as expressed in talk and text, is linked to national identity. The binary relationship of “us” and “them” is central to the formation of the nation. Racialized groups within the nation are often targets of racist discourses, which posit…
Posthumous Rescue: The Shafia Young Women as Worthy Victims
This article focuses on the coverage of the murders of the young Shafia women. Based on an analysis of the coverage published in The Globe and Mail (July 2009 to March 2012), I argue that the young women were constructed as exceptional and worthy victims of a particularly heinous crime—honor killing—allegedly imported from Afghanistan by the Shafia patriarch. I interrogate the different threads that were interwoven to construct these young women'…
Honour on Trial: The Shafia Murders and the Culture of Honour Killings by Paul Schliesmann (review)
Pedagogies of Hope: Counter Narratives and Anti-Disciplinary Tactics
An intervention in the media's construction of race is an intervention in the ideological terrain of struggle. —Stuart Hall (1990, 8) In his influential chapter on “Making Do” in The Consumer Socie
Race and the Media: A Retrospective and Prospective Gaze
Killing Women: The Visual Culture of Gender and Violence
Discourses of Denial: Mediations of Race, Gender, and Violence
Missing and Murdered Women: Reproducing Marginality in News Discourse
While current mainstream media stories oscillate between Canadian troops in Afghanistan attempting to restore safety and democracy and the imminent threat of a war on terror on domestic soil, a sorely neglected story concerns the continued war on women in Canada. In this paper, we look at one site of this war—the case of missing and murdered women in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. Employing a frame analysis, we analyze 128 articles from The Vanco…
With a view to volume two
War talk’ engendering terror: Race, gender and representation in Canadian print media
Discourses of war centre on the objectification of the enemy and utilize Manichean oppositions to promote an explanation of events which make ‘common sense’ (Cooke and Woollacott 1993). In the aftermath of the events of September 11, 2001, with the collapse of the World Trade Center towers in New York City, those discourses assumed a heightened Orientalist mantle, coloured by the geographic, religious and cultural nature of the perceived enemy. I…
Walking a Tightrope: The Many Faces of Violence in the Lives of Racialized Immigrant Girls and Young Women
This article explores a hidden yet pervasive form of violence that marks the lives of young women from racialized immigrant communities in western Canada. It argues for an intersectional analysis that takes into consideration their heightened vulnerability to systemic and institutional forms of violence. Situated at the intersections of race, class, gender, and age, these young women walk a tightrope between the violence of racism they experience…
The Eurasian Female Hero[ine]: Sydney Fox as Relic Hunter
In contrast to historical representations of women of color as victims and villains, the author argues that the portrayal of contemporary women of color as heroines can be linked to globalization, the economic power of Asian minorities, and prevailing discourses of multiculturalism. Drawing on the television series Relic Hunter, the author outlines the use of the racialized female hero as a strategic sign to appease social anxieties, resolve cont…
The Eurasi: Sydney Fox as Relic Hunter
In contrast to historical representations of women of color as victims and villains, the author argues that the portrayal of contemporary women of color as heroines can be linked to globalization, the economic power of Asian minorities, and prevailing discourses of multiculturalism. Drawing on the television series Relic Hunter, the author outlines the use of the racialized female hero as a strategic sign to appease social anxieties, resolve cont…
Gendering terror: Representations of the orientalized body in Quebec's post‐September 11 English‐language press
The Mass Media and the Dynamics of American Racial Attitudes
Book Review| July 01 2004 The Mass Media and the Dynamics of American Racial Attitudes The Mass Media and the Dynamics of American Racial Attitudes, Paul M. Kellstedt. Yasmin Jiwani Yasmin Jiwani Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2004) 23 (4): 182–184. https://doi.org/10.2307/27501513 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Yasmi…
Progress in Communication Sciences, Volume VI
State of the art anthologies, often in the form of annual reviews, are found in most established disciplines. This volume is part of a biennial series that tries to carry this venerable tradition to the relatively new field of communication studies. Despite our reservations about the editor's assumption that communication is a science - straddling the natural sciences, social sciences and humanities, it has the same epistemological flexibility th…
Discourses of Denial: Mediations of Race, Gender, and Violence
Walking a Tightrope: The Many Faces of Violence in the Lives of Racialized Immigrant Girls and Young Women
This article explores a hidden yet pervasive form of violence that marks the lives of young women from racialized immigrant communities in western Canada. It argues for an intersectional analysis that takes into consideration their heightened vulnerability to systemic and institutional forms of violence. Situated at the intersections of race, class, gender, and age, these young women walk a tightrope between the violence of racism they experience…
Intersecting violence: Representations of Somali youth in the Canadian press
This article examines the press coverage accorded to Canadian youth of Somali origin in the Canadian press using two methodological procedures. Charting the representational clusters that cohere around Canadian Black male youth of Somali heritage reveals the circulation of stereotypical tropes that are mostly circumscribed within the framework of crime, terrorism, and violence, reflecting the intersection of stereotypes commonly ascribed to Musli…
Pedagogies of Hope: Counter Narratives and Anti-Disciplinary Tactics
An intervention in the media's construction of race is an intervention in the ideological terrain of struggle. —Stuart Hall (1990, 8) In his influential chapter on “Making Do” in The Consumer Socie
War talk’ engendering terror: Race, gender and representation in Canadian print media
Discourses of war centre on the objectification of the enemy and utilize Manichean oppositions to promote an explanation of events which make ‘common sense’ (Cooke and Woollacott 1993). In the aftermath of the events of September 11, 2001, with the collapse of the World Trade Center towers in New York City, those discourses assumed a heightened Orientalist mantle, coloured by the geographic, religious and cultural nature of the perceived enemy. I…
The Eurasian Female Hero[ine]: Sydney Fox as Relic Hunter
In contrast to historical representations of women of color as victims and villains, the author argues that the portrayal of contemporary women of color as heroines can be linked to globalization, the economic power of Asian minorities, and prevailing discourses of multiculturalism. Drawing on the television series Relic Hunter, the author outlines the use of the racialized female hero as a strategic sign to appease social anxieties, resolve cont…
On the Margins of the Margins: CommunicationSoWhite—Canadian Style
Canada is defined by its commitment to multicultural diversity, tolerance and liberalism that belie the dominant whiteness of our institutions, including academia. Canadian Communication Studies, despite its history of attending to the power dynamics of the center and the margins, is no exception to this rule. Studies of racism and colonialism are confined to the corners of the discipline, reflecting the lack of representation in communication de…
Posthumous Rescue: The Shafia Young Women as Worthy Victims
This article focuses on the coverage of the murders of the young Shafia women. Based on an analysis of the coverage published in The Globe and Mail (July 2009 to March 2012), I argue that the young women were constructed as exceptional and worthy victims of a particularly heinous crime—honor killing—allegedly imported from Afghanistan by the Shafia patriarch. I interrogate the different threads that were interwoven to construct these young women'…
Obituaries as Markers of Memory: Grievability and Visibility in Representations of Aboriginal Women in the National Canadian Imaginary
Many Aboriginal peoples belong to stateless nations within the White Canadian nation-state. Their claims to sovereignty are predicated on a timeless, immemorial existence that predates White settlement. Yet, the very reproduction of the nation is a gendered and raced project, centering some bodies while marginalizing others. In tracing the ways in which Aboriginal women have been projected on the canvass of the nation's memorials-in obituaries-th…
Honour on Trial: The Shafia Murders and the Culture of Honour Killings by Paul Schliesmann (review)
Stylized Protest: Rastafarian Symbols of Identification
This paper examines some of the symbols of identification used by the Rastafarians. The paper provides some historical background dealing with the emergence of the Rastafarian movement and in particular, the emergence of various symbols of identification. The meaning and representation of these symbols is discussed in light of the movement's political and religious beliefs. Within the framework of current anthropological thought regarding symboli…
Progress in Communication Sciences, Volume VI
State of the art anthologies, often in the form of annual reviews, are found in most established disciplines. This volume is part of a biennial series that tries to carry this venerable tradition to the relatively new field of communication studies. Despite our reservations about the editor's assumption that communication is a science - straddling the natural sciences, social sciences and humanities, it has the same epistemological flexibility th…
Gendering terror: Representations of the orientalized body in Quebec's post‐September 11 English‐language press
The Mass Media and the Dynamics of American Racial Attitudes
Book Review| July 01 2004 The Mass Media and the Dynamics of American Racial Attitudes The Mass Media and the Dynamics of American Racial Attitudes, Paul M. Kellstedt. Yasmin Jiwani Yasmin Jiwani Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2004) 23 (4): 182–184. https://doi.org/10.2307/27501513 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Yasmi…
War talk’ engendering terror: Race, gender and representation in Canadian print media
Discourses of war centre on the objectification of the enemy and utilize Manichean oppositions to promote an explanation of events which make ‘common sense’ (Cooke and Woollacott 1993). In the aftermath of the events of September 11, 2001, with the collapse of the World Trade Center towers in New York City, those discourses assumed a heightened Orientalist mantle, coloured by the geographic, religious and cultural nature of the perceived enemy. I…
Walking a Tightrope: The Many Faces of Violence in the Lives of Racialized Immigrant Girls and Young Women
This article explores a hidden yet pervasive form of violence that marks the lives of young women from racialized immigrant communities in western Canada. It argues for an intersectional analysis that takes into consideration their heightened vulnerability to systemic and institutional forms of violence. Situated at the intersections of race, class, gender, and age, these young women walk a tightrope between the violence of racism they experience…
The Eurasian Female Hero[ine]: Sydney Fox as Relic Hunter
In contrast to historical representations of women of color as victims and villains, the author argues that the portrayal of contemporary women of color as heroines can be linked to globalization, the economic power of Asian minorities, and prevailing discourses of multiculturalism. Drawing on the television series Relic Hunter, the author outlines the use of the racialized female hero as a strategic sign to appease social anxieties, resolve cont…
The Eurasi: Sydney Fox as Relic Hunter
In contrast to historical representations of women of color as victims and villains, the author argues that the portrayal of contemporary women of color as heroines can be linked to globalization, the economic power of Asian minorities, and prevailing discourses of multiculturalism. Drawing on the television series Relic Hunter, the author outlines the use of the racialized female hero as a strategic sign to appease social anxieties, resolve cont…
Discourses of Denial: Mediations of Race, Gender, and Violence
Missing and Murdered Women: Reproducing Marginality in News Discourse
While current mainstream media stories oscillate between Canadian troops in Afghanistan attempting to restore safety and democracy and the imminent threat of a war on terror on domestic soil, a sorely neglected story concerns the continued war on women in Canada. In this paper, we look at one site of this war—the case of missing and murdered women in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. Employing a frame analysis, we analyze 128 articles from The Vanco…
With a view to volume two
Killing Women: The Visual Culture of Gender and Violence
Race and the Media: A Retrospective and Prospective Gaze
Pedagogies of Hope: Counter Narratives and Anti-Disciplinary Tactics
An intervention in the media's construction of race is an intervention in the ideological terrain of struggle. —Stuart Hall (1990, 8) In his influential chapter on “Making Do” in The Consumer Socie
Posthumous Rescue: The Shafia Young Women as Worthy Victims
This article focuses on the coverage of the murders of the young Shafia women. Based on an analysis of the coverage published in The Globe and Mail (July 2009 to March 2012), I argue that the young women were constructed as exceptional and worthy victims of a particularly heinous crime—honor killing—allegedly imported from Afghanistan by the Shafia patriarch. I interrogate the different threads that were interwoven to construct these young women'…
Honour on Trial: The Shafia Murders and the Culture of Honour Killings by Paul Schliesmann (review)
Discourse Studies
Discourse analysis is now widely used in a variety of theoretical and disciplinary traditions. This entry provides a cursory overview of the field of discourse studies, paying particular attention to how language, as expressed in talk and text, is linked to national identity. The binary relationship of “us” and “them” is central to the formation of the nation. Racialized groups within the nation are often targets of racist discourses, which posit…
Obituaries as Markers of Memory: Grievability and Visibility in Representations of Aboriginal Women in the National Canadian Imaginary
Many Aboriginal peoples belong to stateless nations within the White Canadian nation-state. Their claims to sovereignty are predicated on a timeless, immemorial existence that predates White settlement. Yet, the very reproduction of the nation is a gendered and raced project, centering some bodies while marginalizing others. In tracing the ways in which Aboriginal women have been projected on the canvass of the nation's memorials-in obituaries-th…
Asian Canadian Studies Reader
Roland Sintos Coloma and Gordon Pon’s Asian Canadian Studies Reader brings together essential writings by leading and emerging scholars in the field to explore the vibrancy of the diverse Asian diaspora in Canada
Transnational Migration and Digital Memorialization
As digital outlets of expression become increasingly accessible, means of conveying grief and commemorating the deceased have migrated online. Online memorial websites such as UK-based Muchloved.com boasts thousands of Tributes created by the bereaved to remember the deceased. Many of these Tributes sketch out a rough picture of the person commemorated through text detailing their personal lives, professions, hobbies, and accomplishments, as well…
Intersecting violence: Representations of Somali youth in the Canadian press
This article examines the press coverage accorded to Canadian youth of Somali origin in the Canadian press using two methodological procedures. Charting the representational clusters that cohere around Canadian Black male youth of Somali heritage reveals the circulation of stereotypical tropes that are mostly circumscribed within the framework of crime, terrorism, and violence, reflecting the intersection of stereotypes commonly ascribed to Musli…
The Intersecting Violence(s) of a Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has often been referred to in the media as a “war” against the socio-political global body. This discursive use of war as a metaphor implies not only a need for a united defence against an encroaching and insidiously pervasive enemy but also suggests that such a defence protects one and all. Clearly, this is not the case. This short essay tackles these questions using Stuart Hall’s notion of structured dominance to interroga…
On the Margins of the Margins: CommunicationSoWhite—Canadian Style
Canada is defined by its commitment to multicultural diversity, tolerance and liberalism that belie the dominant whiteness of our institutions, including academia. Canadian Communication Studies, despite its history of attending to the power dynamics of the center and the margins, is no exception to this rule. Studies of racism and colonialism are confined to the corners of the discipline, reflecting the lack of representation in communication de…
Putting Race at the Forefront of Communication Studies
Resisting Islamophobia through Digital Artifacts of Mourning
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