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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ftunivalbertaojs:oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/25531 2023-05-15T16:15:39+02:00 Redd Alert! (De)Coding the Media's Production of Aboriginal Gang Violence on a Western Canadian First Nation Koch, Jordan Scherer, Jay 2016-10-28 application/pdf http://ejournals.library.ualberta.ca/index.php/aps/article/view/25531 https://doi.org/10.5663/aps.v6i1.25531 eng eng Faculty of Native Studies, University of Alberta http://ejournals.library.ualberta.ca/index.php/aps/article/view/25531/pdf Copyright (c) 2016 aboriginal policy studies aboriginal policy studies; Vol 6, No 1 (2016): ABORIGINAL POLICY STUDIES 1923-3299 Cultural Studies Media Aboriginal Gangs Interviews info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion 2016 ftunivalbertaojs https://doi.org/10.5663/aps.v6i1.25531 2016-11-20T16:35:26Z 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 University of Alberta: Journal Hosting 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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Redd Alert! (De)Coding the Media's Production of Aboriginal Gang Violence on a Western Canadian First Nation |
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