Valerie Alia
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Valerie Alia (* 1942 ) is a Canadian sociologist , journalist and anthropologist .
Alia received her PhD in Social and Political Thought from York University in 1989 . Her dissertation was entitled Towards a Politics of Naming . She is a professor at the University of Western Ontario Graduate School of Journalism , has won journalism awards and was an advisor to the Royal Commission on Electoral Reform and Party Financing .
Alia is one of the authors who criticized the biologist Jared Diamond for his article in the New Yorker in an essay on the web , in which she criticizes his condescending, sometimes even factually incorrect reporting on the indigenous population of Papua New Guinea, which later became one Tried against Diamond.
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- Literature by and about Valerie Alia in the WorldCat bibliographic database
- Literature by and about Valerie Alia in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about Valerie Alia in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
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| SURNAME | Alia, Valerie |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian sociologist, journalist and anthropologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1942 |