Outline: Minelle Mahtani
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Associate Professor
PhD University College, London (2000) Fellow, Royal Canadian Geographical Society President, Association of Canadian Studies Chair, CERIS (Centre for Excellence in Immigration and Settlement, Ontario Metropolis Centre) Director, Centre for Innovation in Diversity and Journalism Phone: (416) 287-7302 Location: (UTSC) Downtown Office: Room SSH5022 (100 St. George Street) Email: mahtani@utsc.utoronto.ca |
| Research Interests |
| "Mixed race" identity Media and minority representation Critical journalism Women of colour in geography |
| Recent Grants |
| Connaught Grant (2008): Best Practices in Diversity in Journalism: From the Classroom to the Newsroom. This project critically examines the implementation of diversity initiatives at TV news networks in three different cities. It also evaluates the diversity curriculum at the journalism school in each city. Discourse analysis will be employed to examine training modules and resource guides on diversity, and interviews will be conducted with journalists and journalism professors. |
| Selected Publications |
| Mahtani, Minelle. Forthcoming. "Critiquing the Critiques on Media and
Minority Research" Canadian Journal of Communication.
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| David Roberts and Minelle Mahtani. Forthcoming. “Neoliberalizing Race, Racing Neoliberalism: Representations of Immigration in the Globe and Mail” Antipode |
| Mahtani, Minelle. 2009. “The Racialized Geographies of News Consumption and Production: Contaminated Memories and Racialized Silences” GeoJournal: An International Journal on Geography 74 pp. 257-264. |
| Mahtani, Minelle. 2008. “Racializing the Audience: Immigrant Perceptions
of Mainstream Canadian English Language TV News” Canadian Journal of
Communication. December
2008 33 (4)
pp. 639-660.
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| Mahtani, M. 2008. Contemporary Research on the Representation of Immigrants in the Canadian English-Language Media. In Immigration, Integration and Citizenship in 21st Century Canada, eds. Jim Frideres, John Biles and Meyer Burstein. Kingston/Montreal: McGill-Queens University Press Policy Series. |
| Mahtani, M., F. Henry and C. Tator. 2008. Is the Canadian Media Racist? Ideology, Race and a Case Study of a Newspaper Column. In Communication in Question, eds. Joshua Greenberg and Charlene Elliott. Toronto: Thomson-Nelson. |
| Mahtani, M. 2008. Teaching For Diversity: Teaching for Inclusion. In Aspiring Academics: A Resource Book for Graduate Students and Early Career Faculty, eds. Ken Foote, Michael Solem and Jan Monk. New York: Prentice-Hall. |
| Mahtani, M. 2007. Spatializing Storytelling. Aether: A Journal of Media Geography, Inaugural Issue, 1(1): 30-35. |
| Mahtani, M. 2007. Interrogating the Hyphen-Nation: Canadian “Mixed Race” Women and Multicultural Policy. In Identity and Belonging: Rethinking Race and Ethnicity in Canadian Society, eds. Sean Hier and B. Singh Bolaria, 124-156. Toronto: Canadian Scholar’s Press. |
| Mahtani, M. 2006. Academic Pressures Mount on Generation Next. Journal of Higher Education Spring: 10-14. |
| Mahtani, M. 2006. Challenging the Ivory Tower: Proposing Anti-Racist Geographies in the Academy. Gender, Place and Culture 13(1): 21-25. |
| Mahtani, M. 2005. Mixed Metaphors: Situating Mixed Race Identity. In Situating “Race” and Racisms in Space, Time and Theory, eds. Jo-Ann Lee and John Lutz, 77-93. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press. |
| Mahtani, Minelle. 2005. Gendered News Practices: The Experiences of Women Journalists in Different National Contexts. In Journalism: Critical Issues, ed. Stuart Allan, 299-310. London: Open University Press/McGraw-Hill. |
| Mahtani, M. and A. Moreno. 2005. Same Difference: Towards a More Unified Discourse in Mixed Race Theory. In ‘Mixed Race’ Studies: A Reader, ed. Jayne Ifekwunigwe, 303-313. London: Routledge (reprint from chapter in Rethinking Mixed Race). |
| Mahtani, M. and S. Salmon. 2005. Site Reading? Globalization, Identity and the Consumption of Place in Popular Music. In Cultural Subjects: A Popular Culture Reader, eds. A. Gedaloff, J. Boulter, J. Faflak and C. McFarlane, 148-162. Toronto: Thomson/Nelson (reprint from chapter in Popular Culture: Production and Consumption). |
| Teaching (2008-2009) |
| St. George Campus |
JPG 1505 - Planning the Multicultural City (co-teaching with Uzma Shakir) |
| Scarborough Campus |
JOU B01- Critical Journalism |
| GGR B13 - Social Geographies |
