Selective List of Academic Articles and Chapters in Books

Review of Valerie Alia's Un/Covering the North: News, Media, and Aboriginal People. In The Canadian Journal of Sociology, Vol. 26 (2), Spring 2001, pp. 233-235. 

“Critical Representations,” Semiotic Review of Books, September 1999, 10 (3), pp. 3-5.

“The Rhetoric of Othering.” In S. H. Riggins (Ed.), The Language and Politics of Exclusion: Others in Discourse. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 1997, pp. 1-30.

“Fieldwork in the Living Room: An Autoethnographic Essay.” In S. H. Riggins (Ed.), The Socialness of Things: Essays on the Socio-Semiotics of Objects. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1994, pp. 101-147.

“Life as a Metaphor: Current Issues in Dramaturgical Analysis,” Semiotica, 95 (1 & 2), 1993, pp. 153-165.

“Inadvertent Assimilationism in the Canadian Native Press.” In S. H. Riggins (Ed.), Ethnic Minority Media: An International Perspective. Newbury Park, CA: Sage, 1992, pp. 102-126.

“If Work Made People Rich: An Oral History of General Farming, 1905-1925.” Midwestern Folklore, 17 (2), 1991, pp. 73-109.

“The Power of Things: The Role of Domestic Objects in the Presentation of Self.” In S. H. Riggins (Ed.), Beyond Goffman: Studies on Communication, Institution, and Social Interaction. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 1990, pp. 341-367.

“News as Texts and Actions,” Semiotica, 78 (3 & 4), 1990, pp. 359-374.

“The Spirit of Commerce in the Journalism of Carlos McCarty,” Indiana Magazine of History, LXXXIV (3), 1988, pp. 262-281.

“Democratizing the Arts: France in an Era of Austerity,” Queen’s Quarterly, 92 (1), 1986, pp. 149-161. (With Khoa Pham).

“The Semiotics of Things: Towards a Sociology of Human-Object Interaction,” Recherches Sémiotiques / Semiotic Inquiry (RS/SI), V, 1985, pp. 69-77.

“Institutional Change in Nineteenth-Century French Music,” Current Perspectives in Social Theory, 1985, pp. 243-260.

“Michel Foucault: An Interview,” Ethos, 1 (2), 1983, pp. 4-9.
Reprinted as “The Minimalist Self.” In Lawrence Kritzman (Ed.), Politics, Philosophy, Culture: Interviews and Other Writings of Michel Foucault, 1977-1984. New York: Methuen, 1988, pp. 3-16.
French translation: In Michel Foucault, Dits et écrits, 1954-1988. Vol. IV. Paris: Gallimard, 1994, pp. 525-538.

Native North Americans and the Media: Studies in Minority Journalism. Special issue of the journal Anthropologica edited by S. H. Riggins, XXV (1), 1983. Includes the article “The Organizational Structure of the Toronto Native Times (1968-1981),” pp. 37-52.