Attawapiskat: The Politics of Emergency

• Main Author: Spady, Samantha
• Other Authors: Razack, Sherene
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: Settler Colonialism; Race; Canadian Media; Politics of Representation; Whitness; White Settler Society; 0626; Attawapiskat
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1807/42649

This thesis investigates the politics of representation of Indigenous peoples in Canadian media. Using a case study of the 2011 housing crisis at Attawapiskat First Nation, I argue that emergency on reserve is constructed as Indigenous failure in mainstream print media and that these discourses work...