Faiza Hirji
Biographic Data
| ID | 6276932 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Faiza Hirji |
| GIVEN NAMES | Faiza |
| FAMILY NAME | Hirji |
| SIGNATURE | HIRJI F |
| AFFILIATIONS | McMaster University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1277-7688 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 16 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Windows of Empathy
In this article, I address the inadequacies in how we currently conceptualize spaces for dialogue and debate around issues involving race and religion. Even in a climate where many organizations now acknowledge equity, diversity, and inclusion requirements, there are still numerous challenges, particularly for racialized individuals, including those who may experience overlapping forms of oppression. Drawing on concepts such as intersectionality,…
Discoverability and Algorithmic Recommendations in Video Streaming Platforms
Background: In 2023, the Canadian government passed legislation empowering the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) to require streaming platforms to ensure the “discoverability” of Canadian content. These debates about discoverability provisions primarily focused on the promotion of Canadian content, with little emphasis on gender and racial equity. Analysis: Through interviews with stakeholders in the Canadian scre…
At the Limits of Free Speech
Background: This article revisits a 2008 complaint brought against the Canadian magazine Maclean’s for its publication of excerpts from Mark Steyn’s 2006 book America Alone, a complaint whose dismissal was seen as affirmation of the principle of freedom of speech. The authors refute this claim, invoking the moral principles that underpin free speech, interrogating the notion of an ideal speech situation and an equitable public sphere in a case th…
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
On the Margins of the Margins
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…
Jamming in the Third Space
This article looks at the production of Afro-Asian music in Canada and its possibilities for political and cultural alliances, drawing upon previous studies of Afro-Asian musical production throughout diaspora. Using some of the themes gathered from this research, including the challenges of internal and external racism, the current study analyzes findings from interviews conducted with 13 individuals involved in or connected to the South Asian m…
One Nation, Many Voices
The story of the Muslim press in the United States is a story of struggle: the struggle for justice, identity, and the ability to be heard. It is also a story of the evolution of the extraordinarily diverse Muslim population in the United States and American Muslims' desire to forge identities that balance the various influences in their lives. Islam has its very origins in reading: on the night that Muhammad became a prophet, he received his fir…
Blowing Up the Brand
Race, Ethnicity, and Intercultural Communication
Somebody Going to Get Hurt Real Bad”
The popularity of comedian Russell Peters, with his ethnic-based humour, bears examining for what it may tell us about the acceptable limits of racialized discourse. Peters, a Canadian of South Asian descent, has an extensive, ethnically diverse fan base around the world. In his work, Peters skewers all of these fans, often drawing upon heavy accents, caricatures, and in-jokes informed by common stereotypes of each group. Such techniques can vali…
Change of pace? Islam and tradition in popular Indian cinema
Bollywood has been extensively studied for its nationalist themes, its widespread popularity, and its emphasis on tradition and ritual. For the most part, these traditions and rituals tend to be derived from Hindu mythology and symbolism, presenting an interesting paradox given that its audience is not composed exclusively of Hindu viewers. This contradiction is deepened by the fact that Bollywood's production and content are touched by the influ…
Studies in Political Economy
Common Concerns and Constructed Communities
Media fulfill a number of different functions for members of diasporas, helping to maintain networks built around nationality, culture, or religion. In times of international conflict, immigrants or minorities living in Canada may be particularly reliant on diasporic media if mainstream news networks do not supply the relevant information or desired perspective. This article focuses on the specific role that Internet news services might play in f…
Freedom or Folly? Canadians and the Consumption of Online Health Information
The concept of e-health has come to assume a key place within a larger Canadian governmental discourse that lauds the benefits of supplying Internet-based services to as wide an audience as possible. In order to fulfil its vision of a connected public accessing services cheaply and easily through electronic media, the federal government has assumed that the potential exists for all Canadians to use the Internet and has done its best to achieve th…
Ephemeral Territories
Competing notions of nationalism, pluralism, and identity represent key questions confronting those who would like to posit a simple definition of what it means to be Canadian.As Erin Manning points out in Ephemeral Territories, these questions have often been framed in terms of a French/English divide, an understandable tendency given the political, linguistic, and cultural tensions underwriting
Change of pace? Islam and tradition in popular Indian cinema
Bollywood has been extensively studied for its nationalist themes, its widespread popularity, and its emphasis on tradition and ritual. For the most part, these traditions and rituals tend to be derived from Hindu mythology and symbolism, presenting an interesting paradox given that its audience is not composed exclusively of Hindu viewers. This contradiction is deepened by the fact that Bollywood's production and content are touched by the influ…
On the Margins of the Margins
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…
Common Concerns and Constructed Communities
Media fulfill a number of different functions for members of diasporas, helping to maintain networks built around nationality, culture, or religion. In times of international conflict, immigrants or minorities living in Canada may be particularly reliant on diasporic media if mainstream news networks do not supply the relevant information or desired perspective. This article focuses on the specific role that Internet news services might play in f…
Freedom or Folly? Canadians and the Consumption of Online Health Information
The concept of e-health has come to assume a key place within a larger Canadian governmental discourse that lauds the benefits of supplying Internet-based services to as wide an audience as possible. In order to fulfil its vision of a connected public accessing services cheaply and easily through electronic media, the federal government has assumed that the potential exists for all Canadians to use the Internet and has done its best to achieve th…
Ephemeral Territories
Competing notions of nationalism, pluralism, and identity represent key questions confronting those who would like to posit a simple definition of what it means to be Canadian.As Erin Manning points out in Ephemeral Territories, these questions have often been framed in terms of a French/English divide, an understandable tendency given the political, linguistic, and cultural tensions underwriting
Studies in Political Economy
Common Concerns and Constructed Communities
Media fulfill a number of different functions for members of diasporas, helping to maintain networks built around nationality, culture, or religion. In times of international conflict, immigrants or minorities living in Canada may be particularly reliant on diasporic media if mainstream news networks do not supply the relevant information or desired perspective. This article focuses on the specific role that Internet news services might play in f…
Change of pace? Islam and tradition in popular Indian cinema
Bollywood has been extensively studied for its nationalist themes, its widespread popularity, and its emphasis on tradition and ritual. For the most part, these traditions and rituals tend to be derived from Hindu mythology and symbolism, presenting an interesting paradox given that its audience is not composed exclusively of Hindu viewers. This contradiction is deepened by the fact that Bollywood's production and content are touched by the influ…
Race, Ethnicity, and Intercultural Communication
Somebody Going to Get Hurt Real Bad”
The popularity of comedian Russell Peters, with his ethnic-based humour, bears examining for what it may tell us about the acceptable limits of racialized discourse. Peters, a Canadian of South Asian descent, has an extensive, ethnically diverse fan base around the world. In his work, Peters skewers all of these fans, often drawing upon heavy accents, caricatures, and in-jokes informed by common stereotypes of each group. Such techniques can vali…
One Nation, Many Voices
The story of the Muslim press in the United States is a story of struggle: the struggle for justice, identity, and the ability to be heard. It is also a story of the evolution of the extraordinarily diverse Muslim population in the United States and American Muslims' desire to forge identities that balance the various influences in their lives. Islam has its very origins in reading: on the night that Muhammad became a prophet, he received his fir…
Blowing Up the Brand
Jamming in the Third Space
This article looks at the production of Afro-Asian music in Canada and its possibilities for political and cultural alliances, drawing upon previous studies of Afro-Asian musical production throughout diaspora. Using some of the themes gathered from this research, including the challenges of internal and external racism, the current study analyzes findings from interviews conducted with 13 individuals involved in or connected to the South Asian m…
On the Margins of the Margins
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
At the Limits of Free Speech
Background: This article revisits a 2008 complaint brought against the Canadian magazine Maclean’s for its publication of excerpts from Mark Steyn’s 2006 book America Alone, a complaint whose dismissal was seen as affirmation of the principle of freedom of speech. The authors refute this claim, invoking the moral principles that underpin free speech, interrogating the notion of an ideal speech situation and an equitable public sphere in a case th…
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
Discoverability and Algorithmic Recommendations in Video Streaming Platforms
Background: In 2023, the Canadian government passed legislation empowering the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) to require streaming platforms to ensure the “discoverability” of Canadian content. These debates about discoverability provisions primarily focused on the promotion of Canadian content, with little emphasis on gender and racial equity. Analysis: Through interviews with stakeholders in the Canadian scre…
Windows of Empathy
In this article, I address the inadequacies in how we currently conceptualize spaces for dialogue and debate around issues involving race and religion. Even in a climate where many organizations now acknowledge equity, diversity, and inclusion requirements, there are still numerous challenges, particularly for racialized individuals, including those who may experience overlapping forms of oppression. Drawing on concepts such as intersectionality,…
Sociology (15 works) · Political science (11 works) · Gender Studies (10 works) · Gender Studies (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Aesthetics (6 works) · Art (6 works) · Race (biology (6 works) · Media studies (5 works)