Yasmin Jiwani
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| Education | University of British Columbia (B.A.) Simon Fraser University (M.A.), (PhD) |
| Occupation(s) | professor, author, activist |
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Yasmin Jiwani is a feminist academic and activist. In her research, she examines the intersectionality of race and gender in media narratives of violence against women and representations of racialized peoples.[1] Currently, Dr. Jiwani is a full professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec. She is the author of Discourses of Denial: Mediations of Race, Gender and Violence.
Education
In 1979, Jiwani graduated from University of British Columbia with a Bachelor of Arts in psychology.[2] In 1983, she attained her master's degree in sociology from Simon Fraser University.[2] Her thesis topic was entitled “The Forms of Jah: The Mystic Collectivity of the Rastafarians.”[3] In 1988, Jiwani received a certificate from the Summer Institute for Semiotic and Structural Studies from UBC.[3] Four years later, she also obtained a certificate from the New Initiatives in Film & Video Program, Studio D, from the National Film Board of Canada in Montreal, Canada.[3] In 1993, Jiwani completed a PhD in communication studies at Simon Fraser.[2] Her doctoral dissertation was entitled “By Omission and Commission: ‘Race’ and Representation in Canadian Television News.”[3]
Work Experience
Academic career
From 1978 to 1980, Jiwani was a teaching assistant (TA) in the Department of Psychology at UBC.[3] For the next few years, she worked as a TA and guest lecturer at both Simon Fraser and McMaster University.[3] From 1986 to 1988, Jiwani became a sessional instructor in the School of Communication at SFU.[3] From 1995 to 1998, Jiwani became a lecturer in Women’s Studies at UBC.[3] In addition, she was a research scholar for the Centre for Research in Women’s Studies and Gender Relations. From 1997 to 2001, Jiwani worked as an adjunct professor at Simon Fraser in the School of Criminology.[3]
Since 2003, she has been a research fellow at the Simone de Beauvoir Institute at Concordia University.[3] In addition, Jiwani is an academic research associate for the Centre for Research & Education on Violence Against Women & Children at University of Western Ontario.[4] From 2001 to 2005, Jiwani was an assistant professor in Communication Studies at Concordia.[3] From 2005 to 2012, she became an associate professor in the same department.[3] In 2012, Jiwani was made a full professor.[3]
Other work experience
From 1989 to 1990, Jiwani worked as the communications director for the In Visible Colours International Film and Video Society.[3] For the next year, she was the Ethnic Liaison Officer for Canada’s national statistical agency, Statistics Canada, in the Pacific Region.[3] From 1991 to 1994, Jiwani was the Coordinator of the Women’s Program at the National Film Board of Canada.[3]
Activism
From 1994 to 1995, Jiwani became a research coordinator for the BC/Yukon FREDA Centre for Research on Violence Against Women and Children.[3] The FREDA Centre represents a joint venture between grassroots community and women’s organizations and academics at SFU.[5] From 1995 to 2001, she became the executive coordinator and principal researcher at the FREDA Centre.[3]
Alongside Sherene Razack and Sunera Thobani, Jiwani has been involved in Researchers and Academics of Colour for Equality/Equity (R.A.C.E.). R.A.C.E. is an organization dedicated to anti-racist, anti-colonial, and feminist scholarship and praxis.[6] In 2009, as a member of the National Steering Committee, Jiwani co-organized the 9th R.A.C.E. conference “Compassion, Complicity and Conciliation: The Politics, Cultures, and Economics of Doing Good.”[6]
Selected publications
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Books
- Berman, Helene and Yasmin Jiwani, eds. Faces of Violence in the Lives of Girls. London: Althouse Press, 2014. ISBN 978-0-920354-77-3
- Jiwani, Yasmin. Discourses of Denial: Mediations of Race, Gender and Violence. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2006. ISBN 978-0774812375
- Jiwani, Yasmin, Candis Steenbergen, and Claudia Mitchell, eds. Girlhood: Redefining the Limits. Montreal: Black Rose Books, 2006. ISBN 978-1551642765
Scholarly journal articles
- Jiwani, Yasmin. “Rape and Race in the Canadian Press: Reproducing the Moral Order.” Arts and Social Science Journal, S:1 (2014):1-9.
- Jiwani, Yasmin. “Posthumous Rescue: The Shafia Young Women as Worthy Victims.” Girlhood Studies 7, no. 1 (2014): 27-45.
- Jiwani, Yasmin. “‘Bare Life’: Disposable Bodies, Race and Femicide in the Trial Coverage of Vancouver’s Murdered ‘Missing’ Women.” Synaesthesia 1, no. 4 (2013): 87-127. http://www.synaesthesiajournal.com/uploads/Jiwani_Yasmin_vi_n4.pdf
- Jiwani, Yasmin. “Trapped in the Carceral Net: Race, Gender and the ‘War on Terror.’” Journal of Global Media Studies (Canadian edition) 4, no. 2 (2011): 13-31.
- Jiwani, Yasmin. “Pedagogies of Hope: Counter Narratives and Anti-Disciplinary Tactics.” The Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies 33, no. 4 (2011): 333-353.
- Jiwani, Yasmin, Helene Berman, and Catherine Ann Cameron. “Violence Prevention and the Canadian Girl Child.” International Journal of Child, Youth and Family Studies 1, no. 2 (2010): 134-56.
- Jiwani, Yasmin. “Report Race and the Media: A Retrospective and Prospective Gaze.” Canadian Journal of Communication 34, no. 4 (2009): 735-740.
- Jiwani, Yasmin. “Helpless Maidens and Chivalrous Knights: Afghan Women in the Canadian Press.” University of Toronto Quarterly 78, no. 2 (2009): 728-744.
- Jiwani, Yasmin. “Sport as a Civilizing Mission: Zinedine Zidane and the Infamous Head-Butt.” Topia 19 (2008): 11-33.
- Jiwani, Yasmin. “Rules for Collaborative Research.” Wi/Journal of the Mobile Digital Commons Network 2, no. 1 (2007): 1-3.
- Jiwani, Yasmin and Mary Lynn Young. “Missing and Murdered Women: Reproducing Marginality in News Discourse.” Canadian Journal of Communications, Special issue on Sexuality 31, no. 4 (2006): 895-917.
- Jiwani, Yasmin. “The Great White North Encounters September 11: Race, Gender, and Nation in Canada’s National Daily, The Globe and Mail.” Social Justice 32, no. 4 (2005): 50-68.
- Jiwani, Yasmin. “The Eurasian Female Hero(ine): Sydney Fox as the Relic Hunter.” Journal of Popular Film & Television 32, no. 4 (2005): 182-191.
- Jiwani, Yasmin. “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, no. 7 (2005): 846-887.
- Jiwani, Yasmin. “‘War Talk’ Engendering Terror: Race, Gender & Representation in Canadian Print Media.” International Journal of Media & Cultural Politics 1, no. 1 (2005): 15-21.
- Jiwani, Yasmin. “Gendering Terror: Representations of the Orientalized Body in Quebec’s Post-September 11 English-Language Press.” Critique: Critical Middle Eastern Studies 13, no. 3 (2004): 265-29.
See also
References
- ^ "Yasmin Jiwani". Voices Against Violence. Voices Against Violence. Retrieved 16 November 2015.
- ^ a b c "Professor Yasmin Jiwani, PhD". Department of Communication Studies Concordia University. Concordia University. Retrieved 16 November 2015.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r "Curriculum Vitae Yasmin Jiwani" (PDF). Communication Studies Concordia University. Concordia University. Retrieved 16 November 2015.
- ^ "Yasmin Jiwani Ph.D". Learning to End Abuse. Centre for Research & Education on Violence Against Women & Children. Retrieved 16 November 2015.
- ^ "The FREDA Centre for Research on Violence Against Women and Children". The FREDA Centre. The FREDA Centre. Retrieved 16 November 2015.
- ^ a b "History About R.A.C.E." Researchers and Academics of Colour for Equality/Equity (R.A.C.E.). Researchers and Academics of Colour for Equality/Equity (R.A.C.E.). Retrieved 9 October 2015.