A critical discourse analysis of New Zealand government policy: Women as mothers and workers

Kahu, Ella R; Morgan, Mandy

doi:10.1016/j.wsif.2007.01.003

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“…The Austrian Society for Critical Psychology has taken on the role of a professional organization that represents psychologists' interests, pro vides continuing education, and promotes the discussion of critical-psychological and health-psychological topics to its members.1 Although Europe has seen a slow shift from Germany to the United Kingdom in the last two decades in terms of leadership in CP, one can easily locate the accom plishments of critical approaches in smaller countries such as Denmark, which has developed its own versions of CP (Axel, 2009;Dreier, 2007;Nissen, 2008). CP has also a significant presence in Oceania (Hodgetts & Chamberlain, 2006;Kahu & Morgan, 2007), South Africa (Painter & Blanche, 2004), and Latin America (Montero & Christlieb, 2003); in fact, self-identifying critical psychologists come from all continents.2 National, international, and North American conferences on CP have been organized by fac ulty or students, and there exist, admittedly, shifting pro grams in which students can receive advanced degrees in CP (e.g., a critical social/personality psychology doctoral program at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York).…”

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Critical psychology: A geography of intellectual engagement and resistance.

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American Psychologist

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Critical psychology has become a generative and international movement in the last 5 decades, with self-identifying critical psychologists emerging from around the globe with publications and contributions, both theoretical and practical, in many areas of psychology. This article provides an overview of current trends in critical psychology and elucidates historical sources and theoretical tenets. Presented are the relationship between individual subjectivity and society, the role of power in the discipline, the problem of subjectification, the importance of reflexivity and intersubjectivity in the context of research practices, methodologies of change for different contexts, and the ethical-political positions from which critical psychologists operate. Challenges to critical psychology, which include engagements with indigenous psychologies, new forms of internationalization, and advancing transdisciplinary work, are discussed.

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“…Herein women's roles and participation become substandard and devalued. A research by Kahu and Morgan (2007) validates this circumstance through their findings in New Zealand. When viewed through the feminist rhetorical perspective, they found that policy documents were designed primarily to achieve economic objectives rather than the needs of women.…”

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Women and Politics: Social Construction and a Policy of Deconstruction

Khalid¹

2014

Journal of Social Sciences

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Female representation in politics is not unusual but the significance can be questionable. Women's involvement in politics has been minimal in Malaysia. The improvement in the number of female representatives over the years has been surprisingly slow. Thus the political landscape is still a man's world. Although the number of female registered voters is higher than male, women's representation in the parliament fails to reflect this societal majority. The feminist perspective argues that deterrent factors to women's active involvement are due to social construction and such a claim is supported when reviewing this phenomenon. Women are still viewed as the supportive group and unfit to lead the society. Despite the National Policy for Women that was adopted to deconstruct such double standards for women, the struggles for women in politics are tremendous. This research applies the qualitative method to examine women and politics. Secondary data is gathered to challenge the claim that the National Policy for women has empowered women in politics. This article examines the meaning of social construction and deconstruction mechanisms that are unable to boost women's participation in politics. Overall, women are certainly capable of carrying out political responsibilities but the miles to significant political participation are still far.

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“…The relationship between discourse and wider society is often marked by opacity, 'suggesting that such linkages between discourse, ideology and power may well be unclear to those involved, and more generally that our social practice is bound up with causes and effects which may not be at all apparent' (Fairclough 1995: 133). Discourse analysis aims to reveal the power of discursive strategies to constitute, maintain, reproduce, or transform identities and power relations socially (Hastings 1999;Kahu 2007), and is arguably most effective when integrated with other social research methods (Marston 2002). Accordingly, data collection involved both qualitative semi-structured interviews with government trade and immigration officials, corporate employees and entrepreneurs involved in trade promotion between India and Canada, as well as assessment of published data and documents.…”

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Immigration, trade and ‘ethnic surplus value’: a critique of Indo–Canadian transnational networks

Walton‐Roberts

2011

Global Networks

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It is often argued that countries hosting large populations of skilled immigrants might benefit from their cultural and economic competencies in the development of international trade networks. Yet, in so doing, the state can be criticized for fetishizing the ethnic immigrant in market terms in order to extract ‘ethnic surplus value’. In this article, I examine these debates empirically in the case of India–Canada immigration and trade using interviews with traders, officials and immigrant entrepreneurs in British Columbia, Canada. Findings suggest that the supposedly positive relationship between trade and immigration is not obvious in the India–Canada case and there is no convincing evidence of the state managing successfully to extract ‘ethnic surplus value’. Rather, what appears most compelling is evidence of what can be termed a discourse of regional disadvantage circulated by immigrant and non‐immigrant business actors alike regarding the nature of India–Canada relations. Interview respondents link this discourse of disadvantage to the regional history of Indian immigration to Canada, which has traditionally comprised Sikhs from rural Punjab, and it functions to essentialize Indian immigrant ethnicity spatially within both the Indian and Canadian contexts. I focus on the theme of the extraction of ‘ethnic surplus value’ and regional disadvantage to reveal the limitations of both arguments about the economic nature of immigrant‐led network development. In both cases, I challenge these ideas with a critical emphasis on the role of immigrant agency and offer a more nuanced and complicated reading of the role of the state. As a result, I offer a detailed reading of how socio‐spatial immigrant networks are formed and operate at the regional scale, and how this complicates more abstract theoretical formulations regarding the trade and immigration nexus.

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A critical discourse analysis of New Zealand government policy: Women as mothers and workers

Cited by 26 publications

References 15 publications

Critical psychology: A geography of intellectual engagement and resistance.

Critical psychology: A geography of intellectual engagement and resistance.

Women and Politics: Social Construction and a Policy of Deconstruction

Immigration, trade and ‘ethnic surplus value’: a critique of Indo–Canadian transnational networks

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