Positionality Statement

Dr. Chantal Faucher, Langara College

I am a White, middle-class, cisgender female educator teaching criminology and criminal justice at snəw̓eyəɬ leləm̓ Langara College, Vancouver, BC, which is situated on the unceded traditional territory of the Musqueam First Nation. I grew up in the traditional and unceded territory of the Abenaki people and the Wabenaki confederacy in an almost exclusively white family and community, several generations removed from my French ancestors who settled in that area. I had the privilege of being fluently bilingual (French/English), which opened up a broader range of books and television options to me than most people in Québec could access at that time. My main early exposure to people different than myself, particularly in terms of race, ethnicity, and culture, was in fact through the television screen. It was mesmerising! My uncritical acceptance of the images on the screen was an uncomfortable realisation when I moved away and continued my formal and informal education. My principal research interests have been in critical examinations of media representations of young offenders, women and the law as well as cyberbullying.