Minelle Mahtani
Biographic Data
| ID | 789259 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Minelle Mahtani |
| GIVEN NAMES | Minelle |
| FAMILY NAME | Mahtani |
| SIGNATURE | MAHTANI M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Toronto |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 347 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Quotidian geographies: Media, pop culture and space – the impact of Burgess and Gold today
In this short piece, I explore the ways that Burgess and Gold fundamentally informed a nascent ‘media geographies’ in our field. Focusing on my own experience as a radio host and television news producer, I trace the impact of their work with respect to what I call ‘quotidian geographies’
Dialogue, discourse, disjunctures: Building critically affirmative politics in radio
In this short commentary, we dissect shrouded dialogues of complex negotiation that are produced and consumed in public media spheres. We explore the possibilities and limits of dialogue by investigating how the medium of radio creates a geographic space for us—a professor of geography, and CEO of a radio station—to engage in more productive dialogical practices toward anti-colonial representations
Shaping immigration news: A French-American comparison
While always a source of contention and debate, some insightful new contributions offering analyses of contemporary representations of immigration, conducted by scholars on both sides of the Atlant
Global Mixed Race
"Patterns of migration and the forces of globalization have brought the issues of mixed race to the public in far more visible, far more dramatic ways than ever before. Global Mixed Race examines the contemporary experiences of people of mixed descent in nations around the world, moving beyond US borders to explore the dynamics of racial mixing and multiple descent in Zambia, Trinidad and Tobago, Mexico, Brazil, Kazakhstan, Germany, the United Ki…
Toxic geographies: Absences in Critical Race Thought and Practice in Social and Cultural Geography
Special thanks are due to Stephen Matthews, Glenda Laws' best friend and partner, who graciously read over the piece before publication
The Genealogies of Racial Difference at Canadian Universities
The Genealogies of Racial Difference at Canadian Universities Minelle Mahtani (bio) I want to thank the contributors of this special issue for the opportunity to comment on these wide-ranging and insightful papers. It has been a privilege and a challenge to write the Afterword. I struggled while reading the papers, if only because it was disturbing to discover that the findings continued to resonate with some of the conclusions of my own earlier …
Neoliberalizing Race, Racing Neoliberalism: Placing “Race” in Neoliberal Discourses
Critiquing the Critiques about Media and Minority Research in Canada
The racialized geographies of news consumption and production: Contaminated Memories and Racialized Silences
Racializing the Audience: Immigrant Perceptions of Mainstream Canadian English-Language TV News
This paper offers an analysis of a pilot project that examines the perceptions of English-language TV news among two racialized groups: self-identified Iranian-Canadians and Chinese-Canadians. This research indicates that, according to participants, mainstream Canadian English-language TV news does not necessarily offer racialized immigrant audiences a space through which to see themselves reflected accurately as part of Canada’s rich social life…
Challenging the Ivory Tower: Proposing anti-racist geographies within the academy
The experiences of academic women of colour in geography have not been discussed in detail in our discipline. While we have witnessed an gradual increase in the literature about women of colour within feminist geography, transnationalism, and diaspora studies, among other subfields, we have yet to thoroughly explore how geography's historical engagement with colonialism and imperialism work to ensure the continued domination of whiteness among fa…
Mapping race and gender in the academy: The experiences of women of colour faculty and graduate students in Britain, the US and Canada
This paper examines the experiences of women of colour in geography. An analysis of qualitative, open‐ended questionnaires with women of colour geography faculty and graduate students in North America and Britain suggests that policies and practices within geography departments continue to reflect a pervasive persistence of racialized and gendered inequities in the workplace. There has been relatively little application of theoretical work on rac…
What's in a name: Exploring the employment of `mixed race' as an identification
In the last 20 years, we have witnessed an explosion in scholarship and popular media accounts about the experience of `mixed race' identity. Despite the increasing numbers of people who now identify as `mixed race', relatively little research has been conducted on how `mixed race' individuals consider this particular label of identity. Through qualitative, open-ended interviews with self-identified women of `mixed race' living in Toronto, this a…
Tricking the Border Guards: Performing Race
In this paper I examine aspects of the notion of performativity as related to race. I propose that the experience of 'mixed race' identity can offer opportunities for the performance of racialized identities. Drawing from qualitative interviews, I suggest that some 'mixed race' women put into play racialized performances, demonstrating a desire to create new meanings out of imposed hierarchical and dualistic racial orders. They effectively take a…
Interrogating the Hyphen-Nation: Canadian Multicultural Policy and 'Mixed Race' Identities
This paper examines the ways 'mixed race' women in Canada contemplate their relationship to national identity. Through qualitative, open-ended interviews, the research demonstrates how some women of 'mixed race' contest ideas of the nation as constituted through the policy of multiculturalism in Canada. To challenge the tropes of the national narrative, some women of 'mixed race' develop nuanced models of cultural citizenship, illustrating that n…
Racial ReMappings: The potential of paradoxical space
(2001). Racial ReMappings: The potential of paradoxical space. Gender, Place & Culture: Vol. 8, No. 3, pp. 299-305
Toxic geographies: Absences in Critical Race Thought and Practice in Social and Cultural Geography
Special thanks are due to Stephen Matthews, Glenda Laws' best friend and partner, who graciously read over the piece before publication
Neoliberalizing Race, Racing Neoliberalism: Placing “Race” in Neoliberal Discourses
Tricking the Border Guards: Performing Race
In this paper I examine aspects of the notion of performativity as related to race. I propose that the experience of 'mixed race' identity can offer opportunities for the performance of racialized identities. Drawing from qualitative interviews, I suggest that some 'mixed race' women put into play racialized performances, demonstrating a desire to create new meanings out of imposed hierarchical and dualistic racial orders. They effectively take a…
Mapping race and gender in the academy: The experiences of women of colour faculty and graduate students in Britain, the US and Canada
This paper examines the experiences of women of colour in geography. An analysis of qualitative, open‐ended questionnaires with women of colour geography faculty and graduate students in North America and Britain suggests that policies and practices within geography departments continue to reflect a pervasive persistence of racialized and gendered inequities in the workplace. There has been relatively little application of theoretical work on rac…
Challenging the Ivory Tower: Proposing anti-racist geographies within the academy
The experiences of academic women of colour in geography have not been discussed in detail in our discipline. While we have witnessed an gradual increase in the literature about women of colour within feminist geography, transnationalism, and diaspora studies, among other subfields, we have yet to thoroughly explore how geography's historical engagement with colonialism and imperialism work to ensure the continued domination of whiteness among fa…
What's in a name: Exploring the employment of `mixed race' as an identification
In the last 20 years, we have witnessed an explosion in scholarship and popular media accounts about the experience of `mixed race' identity. Despite the increasing numbers of people who now identify as `mixed race', relatively little research has been conducted on how `mixed race' individuals consider this particular label of identity. Through qualitative, open-ended interviews with self-identified women of `mixed race' living in Toronto, this a…
Interrogating the Hyphen-Nation: Canadian Multicultural Policy and 'Mixed Race' Identities
This paper examines the ways 'mixed race' women in Canada contemplate their relationship to national identity. Through qualitative, open-ended interviews, the research demonstrates how some women of 'mixed race' contest ideas of the nation as constituted through the policy of multiculturalism in Canada. To challenge the tropes of the national narrative, some women of 'mixed race' develop nuanced models of cultural citizenship, illustrating that n…
Racial ReMappings: The potential of paradoxical space
(2001). Racial ReMappings: The potential of paradoxical space. Gender, Place & Culture: Vol. 8, No. 3, pp. 299-305
Racializing the Audience: Immigrant Perceptions of Mainstream Canadian English-Language TV News
This paper offers an analysis of a pilot project that examines the perceptions of English-language TV news among two racialized groups: self-identified Iranian-Canadians and Chinese-Canadians. This research indicates that, according to participants, mainstream Canadian English-language TV news does not necessarily offer racialized immigrant audiences a space through which to see themselves reflected accurately as part of Canada’s rich social life…
The racialized geographies of news consumption and production: Contaminated Memories and Racialized Silences
The Genealogies of Racial Difference at Canadian Universities
The Genealogies of Racial Difference at Canadian Universities Minelle Mahtani (bio) I want to thank the contributors of this special issue for the opportunity to comment on these wide-ranging and insightful papers. It has been a privilege and a challenge to write the Afterword. I struggled while reading the papers, if only because it was disturbing to discover that the findings continued to resonate with some of the conclusions of my own earlier …
Dialogue, discourse, disjunctures: Building critically affirmative politics in radio
In this short commentary, we dissect shrouded dialogues of complex negotiation that are produced and consumed in public media spheres. We explore the possibilities and limits of dialogue by investigating how the medium of radio creates a geographic space for us—a professor of geography, and CEO of a radio station—to engage in more productive dialogical practices toward anti-colonial representations
Racial ReMappings: The potential of paradoxical space
(2001). Racial ReMappings: The potential of paradoxical space. Gender, Place & Culture: Vol. 8, No. 3, pp. 299-305
What's in a name: Exploring the employment of `mixed race' as an identification
In the last 20 years, we have witnessed an explosion in scholarship and popular media accounts about the experience of `mixed race' identity. Despite the increasing numbers of people who now identify as `mixed race', relatively little research has been conducted on how `mixed race' individuals consider this particular label of identity. Through qualitative, open-ended interviews with self-identified women of `mixed race' living in Toronto, this a…
Tricking the Border Guards: Performing Race
In this paper I examine aspects of the notion of performativity as related to race. I propose that the experience of 'mixed race' identity can offer opportunities for the performance of racialized identities. Drawing from qualitative interviews, I suggest that some 'mixed race' women put into play racialized performances, demonstrating a desire to create new meanings out of imposed hierarchical and dualistic racial orders. They effectively take a…
Interrogating the Hyphen-Nation: Canadian Multicultural Policy and 'Mixed Race' Identities
This paper examines the ways 'mixed race' women in Canada contemplate their relationship to national identity. Through qualitative, open-ended interviews, the research demonstrates how some women of 'mixed race' contest ideas of the nation as constituted through the policy of multiculturalism in Canada. To challenge the tropes of the national narrative, some women of 'mixed race' develop nuanced models of cultural citizenship, illustrating that n…
Mapping race and gender in the academy: The experiences of women of colour faculty and graduate students in Britain, the US and Canada
This paper examines the experiences of women of colour in geography. An analysis of qualitative, open‐ended questionnaires with women of colour geography faculty and graduate students in North America and Britain suggests that policies and practices within geography departments continue to reflect a pervasive persistence of racialized and gendered inequities in the workplace. There has been relatively little application of theoretical work on rac…
Challenging the Ivory Tower: Proposing anti-racist geographies within the academy
The experiences of academic women of colour in geography have not been discussed in detail in our discipline. While we have witnessed an gradual increase in the literature about women of colour within feminist geography, transnationalism, and diaspora studies, among other subfields, we have yet to thoroughly explore how geography's historical engagement with colonialism and imperialism work to ensure the continued domination of whiteness among fa…
The racialized geographies of news consumption and production: Contaminated Memories and Racialized Silences
Racializing the Audience: Immigrant Perceptions of Mainstream Canadian English-Language TV News
This paper offers an analysis of a pilot project that examines the perceptions of English-language TV news among two racialized groups: self-identified Iranian-Canadians and Chinese-Canadians. This research indicates that, according to participants, mainstream Canadian English-language TV news does not necessarily offer racialized immigrant audiences a space through which to see themselves reflected accurately as part of Canada’s rich social life…
Critiquing the Critiques about Media and Minority Research in Canada
Neoliberalizing Race, Racing Neoliberalism: Placing “Race” in Neoliberal Discourses
The Genealogies of Racial Difference at Canadian Universities
The Genealogies of Racial Difference at Canadian Universities Minelle Mahtani (bio) I want to thank the contributors of this special issue for the opportunity to comment on these wide-ranging and insightful papers. It has been a privilege and a challenge to write the Afterword. I struggled while reading the papers, if only because it was disturbing to discover that the findings continued to resonate with some of the conclusions of my own earlier …
Global Mixed Race
"Patterns of migration and the forces of globalization have brought the issues of mixed race to the public in far more visible, far more dramatic ways than ever before. Global Mixed Race examines the contemporary experiences of people of mixed descent in nations around the world, moving beyond US borders to explore the dynamics of racial mixing and multiple descent in Zambia, Trinidad and Tobago, Mexico, Brazil, Kazakhstan, Germany, the United Ki…
Toxic geographies: Absences in Critical Race Thought and Practice in Social and Cultural Geography
Special thanks are due to Stephen Matthews, Glenda Laws' best friend and partner, who graciously read over the piece before publication
Shaping immigration news: A French-American comparison
While always a source of contention and debate, some insightful new contributions offering analyses of contemporary representations of immigration, conducted by scholars on both sides of the Atlant
Dialogue, discourse, disjunctures: Building critically affirmative politics in radio
In this short commentary, we dissect shrouded dialogues of complex negotiation that are produced and consumed in public media spheres. We explore the possibilities and limits of dialogue by investigating how the medium of radio creates a geographic space for us—a professor of geography, and CEO of a radio station—to engage in more productive dialogical practices toward anti-colonial representations
Quotidian geographies: Media, pop culture and space – the impact of Burgess and Gold today
In this short piece, I explore the ways that Burgess and Gold fundamentally informed a nascent ‘media geographies’ in our field. Focusing on my own experience as a radio host and television news producer, I trace the impact of their work with respect to what I call ‘quotidian geographies’
Sociology (15 works) · Gender Studies (12 works) · Political science (11 works) · Gender Studies (10 works) · Social science (7 works) · Media studies (6 works) · Race (biology (6 works) · Aesthetics (5 works) · Historical Geography and Geographical Thought (5 works) · Law (5 works)