Challenging the Standard Story of indigenous rights in Aotearoa/New Zealand

Kirkwood, Steve; Liu, James H.; Weatherall, Ann

doi:10.1002/casp.837

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“…Brash, 2004), qualitative responses and summaries of responses described in earlier work on 'race talk' in NZ (e.g. Kirkwood et al, 2005;Nairn & McCreanor, 1990;Sibley & Liu, 2004;Wetherell & Potter, 1992), and research on perceptions of history and the collective guilt (Doosje, Branscombe, Spears, & Manstead, 1998). Items were revised to give a balanced number of protrait and contrait statements, as the discourses from which items were adapted tended to be protrait in nature.…”

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“…Specifically, we expected that conservative voters' attitudes would be heavily anchored in culturally mainstream representations of biculturalism and history (operationalised here at the individual level as historical negation), and thus be more resistant to change than those of liberal voters . Discourses that emphasise maintenance of a status quo favouring the dominant group are far more prevalent in NZ mass media than alternatives that emphasise affirmative action and historical redress to redistribute value in favour of the minority (see Kirkwood et al, 2005;Wetherell & Potter, 1992). Hence, in the language of social dominance theory, we expected a form of 'behavioural asymmetry', where conservative voters would express high levels of opposition to resource-specific aspects of bicultural policy regardless of condition (being effectively immune to more liberal arguments rarely encountered in mainstream media and everyday talk), whereas we predicted that liberal voters would be more open to an argument that emphasised the relevance of history for determining a just and fair basis for resource allocations and resource-related social policy.…”

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Social representations of history and the legitimation of social inequality: the form and function of historical negation

Sibley¹,

Liu²,

Duckitt³

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Euro J Social Psych

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Three studies examined the form and function of ideologies that negate (versus recognise) the historical basis of claims for reparation for past injustices. Historical negation (a) predicted opposition towards the resource-specific aspects of social policy and (b) functioned as the mechanism though which majority group members high in a threat-driven security-cohesion motivation (indexed by right-wing authoritarianism (RWA)) legitimated policy opposition in both undergraduate student (Study 1) and general population (Study 2) samples of the majority group (New Zealand Europeans/Pakeha). Study 3 experimentally manipulated historical negation in a general population sample using extracts adapted from political speeches, and demonstrated that historical negation increased opposition among liberal voters towards the resource-specific aspects of bicultural policy. These results suggest that history serves an important symbolic function in mobilising support for public policies regarding intergroup relations because temporal continuity is central to claims of legitimacy, especially where resources are involved. Research in this area is important for any nation with a history of intergroup conflict, as it aids not only in understanding the form and function of historical narratives that legitimate social inequality, but also provides insight into the ways in which such discourses can be countered and re-formulated in order to promote social equality. Copyright # 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.There is considerable debate regarding issues of who gets what in contemporary New Zealand (NZ) society. Debates of this nature are not unique to NZ, however, and many nations are faced with similar challenges when determining just and fair procedures for achieving distributive and restorative justice. In NZ, such debate is anchored in a historical context of conflict between early European settlers and

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Social representations of history and the legitimation of social inequality: the form and function of historical negation

Sibley¹,

Liu²,

Duckitt³

et al. 2007

Euro J Social Psych

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“…This tradition includes the examination of white majority group members' talk in Great Britain, the United States and the Netherlands (van Dijk, 1993) and race talk among Australian university students (Augoustinos, Tuffin, & Every, 2005). Within New Zealand key studies have identified durable patterns in race relations talk (Nairn & McCreanor, 1991), highlighted the discursive delicacy and ambivalence involved in race talk (Wetherell & Potter, 1992), offered challenges to the view that colonisation is of historical relevance only (Kirkwood, Liu, & Weatherall, 2005), and examined the way political speeches construct identity, history and responsibility in contemporary debates over land issues (Kendall, Tuffin, & Frewin, 2005). The current analysis seeks to contribute to understandings of race relations in terms of positioning effects and constructions as they impact on indigenous interests.…”

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Constructing the law: discourses and social practices

Tuffin

Frewin

2007

Community & Applied Soc Psy

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This paper presents an analysis of everyday understandings of the law, within the context of a dispute between colonial and indigenous land interests in New Zealand. The analysis is informed by developments in the areas of critical legal studies, methodological critique of legal psychology, the social constructionist movement within social psychology, and the application of discursive psychology to understandings of racism. Data for this work was drawn from a corpus of letters to the editor of a newspaper, published in the city where the land dispute took place. Writers constructed the dispute as a legal issue and deployed two divergent constructions of the law. When the 'primacy' of the law was invoked, indigenous interests and the protesters were positioned as lawbreakers. When 'the law in context' was the resource used, protesters became positioned as seekers of justice. These variable constructions are discussed in terms of the social practices they engender and their wider contribution to debates regarding indigenous and colonial interests.

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“…One form of cultural knowledge that informs racism judgments are different representations of history (Kirkwood, Liu, & Weatherall, 2005). White Americans may have perceived less racism in the Katrina relief effort in part because they are less knowledgeable than African Americans about documented incidents of racism in response to past disasters (e.g., Mississippi flood of 1927; Barry, 1997;see Adams, O'Brien et al, 2006).…”

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