Environmental Racism in Canadian News Discourse : Environmental Racism in Canadian News Discourse
Grassy Narrows (Ontario, Canada) came to public attention in 1970 when it was revealed that an alarming number of the community members were displaying symptoms of the Minamata disease, a form of mercury poisoning. The source of pollution, Reed Paper chemical plant, had dumped between 4 and 9 kg of...
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ftdatacite:10.6093/2035-8504/8587 2023-05-15T16:16:33+02:00 Environmental Racism in Canadian News Discourse : Environmental Racism in Canadian News Discourse Nisco, Maria Cristina 2021 https://dx.doi.org/10.6093/2035-8504/8587 http://www.rth.unina.it/index.php/anglistica-aion/article/view/8587 en eng Anglistica AION: An Intersciplinary Journal Article article-journal Text ScholarlyArticle 2021 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.6093/2035-8504/8587 2022-02-08T13:50:26Z Grassy Narrows (Ontario, Canada) came to public attention in 1970 when it was revealed that an alarming number of the community members were displaying symptoms of the Minamata disease, a form of mercury poisoning. The source of pollution, Reed Paper chemical plant, had dumped between 4 and 9 kg of mercury per day into the Wabigoon river from 1962 to 1970. In January 2017, the Canadian press covered the news again after Grassy Narrows chief urged PM Trudeau to engage the federal government in the clean-up of the river. This paper takes into account the recent developments of this dispute – that bears important consequences for the community and the government – analysing the news reports published from early 2017 to early 2018. The paper compares and contrasts national and local newspapers’ construal of the event and the political and social actors involved, to examine how the news was framed in relation to issues of (in)visibility as forms of violence. Special emphasis is further given to the concept of environmental racism which plays a pivotal role in how First Nations communities are treated in Canada. : Anglistica AION: An Intersciplinary Journal, V. 22 N. 1 (2018): Environmental Conflicts and Legal Disputes Across Media Discourse Text First Nations DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology) Canada |
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Grassy Narrows (Ontario, Canada) came to public attention in 1970 when it was revealed that an alarming number of the community members were displaying symptoms of the Minamata disease, a form of mercury poisoning. The source of pollution, Reed Paper chemical plant, had dumped between 4 and 9 kg of mercury per day into the Wabigoon river from 1962 to 1970. In January 2017, the Canadian press covered the news again after Grassy Narrows chief urged PM Trudeau to engage the federal government in the clean-up of the river. This paper takes into account the recent developments of this dispute – that bears important consequences for the community and the government – analysing the news reports published from early 2017 to early 2018. The paper compares and contrasts national and local newspapers’ construal of the event and the political and social actors involved, to examine how the news was framed in relation to issues of (in)visibility as forms of violence. Special emphasis is further given to the concept of environmental racism which plays a pivotal role in how First Nations communities are treated in Canada. : Anglistica AION: An Intersciplinary Journal, V. 22 N. 1 (2018): Environmental Conflicts and Legal Disputes Across Media Discourse |
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Environmental Racism in Canadian News Discourse : Environmental Racism in Canadian News Discourse |
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