Embodying the nation-state: Canada’s response to human smuggling

Mystery Ships and Risky Boat People: Tamil Refugee Migration in the Newsprint Media

“…(501) The racialized discourse produced within a security frame served as a process of Othering, legitimizing interventionist actions by the state. This process has been observed by all studies we examined, albeit from different perspectives, including critical race theory and whiteness (van der Zon, 2000), new racism (Ibrahim, 2004), standpoint feminism (Mountz, 2004), and critical media theory (Hier & Greenberg, 2002;Mahtani & Mountz, 2001).…”

“…She found that "gender was completely lost … and the plight of individual women completely disappeared" (van der Zon, 2000, p. 15) from media discussion, enabling a security frame to dominate the debate. With yet a different approach, Mountz (2004) added ethnographic research from government personnel and government documents to her reflection of content analysis. Despite this theoretical and methodological variety, the consensus among these studies is that the Canadian media was heavily biased in its reporting, racializing and criminalizing the migrants.…”

Spectral geographies: haunting and everyday state practices in colonial and present-day Alaska

“…Analysis of the everyday represents not only a methodology but also an epistemological claim: that the prosaic is itself a way of knowing-and contesting-the state (Gupta 2006;Mountz 2004;Painter 2006). The everyday must continually reinforce the material connections between the daily practices we perform and the visions of the state we eventually construct.…”

The SAGE Handbook of Social Geographies

“…It also offers opportunities for change. The transformations that have occurred in political geographers' embrace of the social in the last several years, particularly the focus on the materiality of state practice (Kuus, 2007a, b;Koefoed and Simonsen, 2007;Marston, 2004;Mountz, 2004), have been enabled by explicit attention to the production of political subjects through a social process that is always spatial.…”