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Methdology (Prediscursive racism (investigation beyond discursive…
Methdology
Why the press?
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Elite control over public means of 'symbolic representation' (Van Dijk, see, p. 139)
choice of methodology grounded in my commitment to interrogating how hegemonic discourses reinforce positions of power, privilege and dominance
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The Acceptable Muslim in Canadian public, political, media discourses
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Work of A.M.
Books, television sitcom, documentary, newspaper columns, etc.
The figure of 'the Muslim' in Canadian media, public and political discourses
Prediscursive racism
investigation beyond discursive structures; proves embodied, visceral symbolism
Orientalist imaginaries embedded in discourses, but also operate in realm of latent, psychic impulses
Notion of abjection; abject figure threatens identity, structure, systems -- the way 'we' do things
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Muslim Other -- threatening, barbaric Muslim man or veiled mysterious Muslim woman -- touches raw impulses in Canadian discourses
In urgent need to separate us and them, discourse illuminate primal urge to reinforce boundaries of acceptability and civility
abjection -- demarcates national imaginary into those that are included, the bodies with rights, and those that must be expelled, those whose righs can be abrogated
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A.M. plays significant role: she stands at border of abjection and qualified inclusion, stands at porous fence, enabling continued domination by Canadian exalted subject