Background: People cannot be an idea without also occupying a body and being the embodiment of competing expectations. For a person of colour (POC), contortions of self-erasure accompany these expectations, more so in semi- and non-urban academic and social spaces.
Analysis: Using a social construct of invisibility, marginality as a minority communication scholar is discussed as magnified by geography, class, reproduce-ability (training graduate students who potentially join the field versus primarily undergraduate or career-minded students), among other precarities.
Conclusion and Implications: Living at the geographic margins as a minority Canadian communication studies scholar requires constantly navigating present absences.

Becoming Invisible to/and Still Not Belong: Rethinking the Dwelling of BIPOC Scholars at the Physical and Disciplinary Margins of Communication Studies in Canada

Author(s)

Ravindra N. Mohabeer

Year Published

2022

Publication Type

Journal Articles

Research Area

Equity, Diversity & Community
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