Valerie Alia

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  • Deadlines and Diversity

    Journalism Ethics in a Changing World

    Edited by Valerie Alia, Brian Brennan and Barry Hoffmaster     January 1996

    The authors in this collection have first-hand knowledge of what it means to be journalists in today’s world. They address issues-coverage of the arts, sports, First Nations, and the evolution of journalism in Quebec-which have received scant attention in other texts.

  • Names, Numbers and Northern Policy

    Inuit, Project Surname, and the Politics of Identity

    By Valerie Alia     January 1994

    Names are the cornerstones of cultures. They identify individuals, represent life, express and embody power. When power is unequal and people are colonized at one level or another, naming is manipulated form the outside. In the Canadian North, the most blatant example of this manipulation is the long history of interference by visitors with the ways to Inuit named themselves and their land. This book is a concise history of government-sponsored interference with Inuit identity.