Redd Alert! (De)Coding the Media's Production of Aboriginal Gang Violence on a Western Canadian First Nation
This article examines the articulation of a racialized moral panic surrounding Aboriginal gang violence and the community of Maskwacis, a collection of four First Nations in central Alberta, Canada formerly known as Hobbema. Our analysis is situated within the distinctive settler-colonial context th...
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fttriple:oai:gotriple.eu:oai:doaj.org/article:cbc2e7e13b004f2ca91e5be549a8c376 2023-05-15T16:15:38+02:00 Redd Alert! (De)Coding the Media's Production of Aboriginal Gang Violence on a Western Canadian First Nation Jordan Koch Jay Scherer 2016-10-01 https://doi.org/10.5663/aps.v6i1.25531 https://doaj.org/article/cbc2e7e13b004f2ca91e5be549a8c376 en fr eng fre University of Alberta 1923-3299 doi:10.5663/aps.v6i1.25531 https://doaj.org/article/cbc2e7e13b004f2ca91e5be549a8c376 undefined Aboriginal Policy Studies, Vol 6, Iss 1 (2016) media aboriginal gangs interviews lang scipo Journal Article https://vocabularies.coar-repositories.org/resource_types/c_6501/ 2016 fttriple https://doi.org/10.5663/aps.v6i1.25531 2023-01-22T19:35:36Z This article examines the articulation of a racialized moral panic surrounding Aboriginal gang violence and the community of Maskwacis, a collection of four First Nations in central Alberta, Canada formerly known as Hobbema. Our analysis is situated within the distinctive settler-colonial context through which Aboriginal gangs were mediated (Ginsburg 1991) by the mainstream commercial media as an issue of public concern in this particular Cree community and, indeed, throughout Western Canada. Drawing upon interviews with journalists, First Nation residents, and other community members in the region, our analysis focuses on two interrelated issues: 1) the “behind-the-scenes” production processes through which non-Aboriginal journalists condensed themes of race, crime, and youth to reproduce and amplify a powerful and punitive discourse that articulated Aboriginal gang violence with the broader community itself; and 2) the ways in which First Nations residents and community members—themselves the subjects of the media gaze—interpreted, internalized, and, at times actively manipulated this racialized discourse of crisis. Article in Journal/Newspaper First Nations Unknown Canada aboriginal policy studies 6 1 |
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This article examines the articulation of a racialized moral panic surrounding Aboriginal gang violence and the community of Maskwacis, a collection of four First Nations in central Alberta, Canada formerly known as Hobbema. Our analysis is situated within the distinctive settler-colonial context through which Aboriginal gangs were mediated (Ginsburg 1991) by the mainstream commercial media as an issue of public concern in this particular Cree community and, indeed, throughout Western Canada. Drawing upon interviews with journalists, First Nation residents, and other community members in the region, our analysis focuses on two interrelated issues: 1) the “behind-the-scenes” production processes through which non-Aboriginal journalists condensed themes of race, crime, and youth to reproduce and amplify a powerful and punitive discourse that articulated Aboriginal gang violence with the broader community itself; and 2) the ways in which First Nations residents and community members—themselves the subjects of the media gaze—interpreted, internalized, and, at times actively manipulated this racialized discourse of crisis. |
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