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The Trouble With Triumph: Discourses of Governmentality in Mainstream Media Representations of Urban Youth

Abstract

The Assets Coming Together for Youth project conducted a critical discourse analysis of mainstream media depictions of Jane-Finch to better understand the discursive strategies used to constitute urban youth. Although a substantive body of literature investigates the negative discourses, little analysis interrogates the nominally positive discourses deployed by mainstream media. The findings suggest that the sociopolitical significance of these nominally positive discourses may go uncontested and pose a challenge to communities advocating for policies to support urban youth development. These discourses are examined using governmentality theory to reveal how racialized narratives of individual triumph re/produce troubled communities.

Authors

Janes JE; Ibhawoh B; Razack N; Gilbert N

Journal

Journal of Progressive Human Services, Vol. 25, No. 1, pp. 50–69

Publisher

Taylor & Francis

Publication Date

January 2, 2014

DOI

10.1080/10428232.2014.855988

ISSN

1042-8232

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