Yasmin Jiwani
Associate Professor
BA, Psychology, University of British Columbia
MA, Sociology, Simon Fraser University
PhD, Communications, Simon Fraser
My research interests focus on the intersecting influences of race and gender within the context of media representations and violence against women.
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BOOKS
Discourses of Denial: Mediations of Race, Gender and Violence. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2006
Girlhood: Redefining the Limits, edited by Yasmin Jiwani, Candis Steenbergen and Claudia Mitchell. Montreal: Black Rose Books, 2006
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
The Challenge of Identity: The Experience of Mixed Race women in Higher Education.” Book review in Academic Matters, September 23, 2009. Accessible at http://www.academicmatters.ca/current_issue.article.gk?catalog_item_id=3341&category=featured_articles
“Symbolic and Discursive Violence in Media Representations of Aboriginal Missing and Murdered Women.” In Violence in Hostile Contexts E-Book, edited by David Weir and Marika Guggisberg. Oxford: Inter-Disciplinary Press. Accessible at: http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/publishing/id-press/ebooks/understanding-violence-contexts-and-portrayals/, 2009
“Helpless Maidens and Chivalrous Knights: Afghan Women in the Canadian Press,” University of Toronto Quarterly, 78, 2, 2009: 728-744.
“Covering Canada’s Role in the ‘War on Terror’” in Mediating Canadian Politics edited by Shannon Sampert and Linda Trimble. Toronto: Pearson Canada, 2010, pp. 294-316.
“Sport as a Civilizing Mission: Zinedine Zidane and the Infamous Head-Butt,” Topia, 19, 2008:11-33.
Berman, Helene and Yasmin Jiwani. “Newcomer Girls in Canada: Implications for Mental Health Professionals.” In Working with Immigrant and Refugee Women: Guidelines for Mental Health Professionals, edited by Sepali Guruge and Enid Collins. Toronto: CAMH, 2008.
“Rules for Collaborative Research.” Wi/Journal of the Mobile Digital Commons Network, 2(1), 2007:1-3.
“Gendered Narratives of War post 9/11,” in International Dimensions of Mass Media Research, edited by Yorgo Pasadeos. 367-378. Athens, Greece: Atiner, 2007.
“Mediations of Domination: Gendered Violence Within and Across Borders” in Feminist Interventions in International Communication, Minding the Gap, edited by Katharine Sarikakis and Leslie Regan Shade. 129-145. Boulder, CO: Rowman and Littlefield, 2008.
“’Culture’ depends on who’s defining it.” The Vancouver Sun, Op/Ed, August 8, 2007.
“How We See ‘Missing Women” (June 21) The Tyee, 2006 Available from http://thetyee.ca/Views/2006/06/21/MissingWomen/
Jiwani, Yasmin and Mary Lynn Young. “Missing and Murdered Women: Reproducing Marginality in News Discourse.” Canadian Journal of Communications, Special issue on Sexuality, 31, 4, 895-917, 2006.
“Race(ing) The Nation: Media & Minorities,” in Mediascapes, New Patterns in Canadian Communications, edited by Paul Attallah and Leslie Regan Shade. 305-312. Ontario: Nelson Canada. (2nd edition), 2006.
“The Great White North Encounters September 11: Race, Gender, and Nation in Canada’s National Daily, The Globe and Mail,” Social Justice, 32, 4, 50-68, 2005.
“Orientalizing ‘War Talk:’ Representations of the Gendered Muslim Body Post 9-11 in the Montreal Gazette,” in Situating Race in Time, Space and Theory: Critical Essays for Activists and Scholars, edited by Jo-Anne Lee & John Lutz. 178-203. McGill-Queens University Press, 2005.
“Tween Worlds: Race, Gender, Age, Identity & Violence,” in Seven Going on Seventeen: Tween Studies in the Culture of Girlhood, edited by Claudia Mitchell & Jacqueline Reid Walsh. 173-190. New York: Peter Lang, 2005.
“Walking the Hyphen: Discourses of Immigration and Gendered Racism,” in Gendered Intersections: An Introduction to Women’s & Gender Studies, edited by C. Lesley Biggs and Pamela J. Downe. 112-118. Halifax: Fernwood Publishing, 2005.
“The Eurasian Female Hero(ine): Sydney Fox as the Relic Hunter.” Journal of Popular Film & Television. 32(4), 2005: 182-191.
“Walking a Tightrope: The Many Faces of Violence in the Lives of Racialized Immigrant Girls and Young Women,” Violence Against Women, An International and Interdisciplinary Journal, 11 (7), 2005: 846-887.
“War Talk – Engendering Terror: Race, Gender & Representation in Canadian Print Media.” International Journal of Media & Cultural Politics. 1 (1), 2005: 15-21.
“Gendering Terror: Representations of the Orientalized Body in Quebec’s Post-September 11 English-Language Press,” Critique: Critical Middle Eastern Studies, 13 (3), 2004: 265-29.
“The 1999 General Social Survey on Spousal Violence: An Analysis.” Reprinted in: Recent Debates in Canadian Criminology edited by Ronald Hinch. 128-137. Toronto: Prentice Hall, 2003.
“Erasing Race: The Story of Reena Virk.” Violence Against Women, New Canadian Perspectives, edited by Katherine M. J. McKenna and June Larkin. 441-452. Toronto, ON: Inanna Publications, 2002.
Faith, Karlene & Yasmin Jiwani. “The Social Construction of Dangerous Girls & Women.” In Marginality and Condemnation, An Introduction to Critical Criminology, edited by Bernard Schissel and Carolyn Brooks. Halifax, NS: Fernwood, 2002, pp. 83-107.
Jiwani, Yasmin. “The Criminalization of Race/The Racialization of Crime.” In Crimes of Colour: Racialization and the Criminal Justice System in Canada, edited by Wendy Chan and Kiran Mirchandana. Scarborough, ON: Broadview Press, 2002, pp. 67-86.
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