Turning niches into handles: Kanak youth, associations and the construction of an indigenous counter-public sphere

LeFevre, Tate A.

doi:10.1080/2201473x.2013.781933

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“…Today, certain phenomena described as typically traditional in customary discourse (like the alleged power of the clans in marital and family matters, or the necessarily rural/tribal framework of Kanak social life) are openly and extensively challenged by the representations and practices of many Kanak, notably those holding secondary or marginal positions within Kanak society: young people, women, younger brothers, city people, homosexuals, and so on (Hamelin et al ; LeFevre ). Among the tremendous social transformations related to the recent postcolonial trajectory of New Caledonia, the progression of the idea of equality within the Kanak world (Salomon and Hamelin ), as well as the emergence of new forms of individualism, are questioning the supposed traditional bases of Kanak kinship.…”

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Urban Kanak Parents on Customary Trial: An Ethnography of the Customary Family Court of Nouméa, New Caledonia

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2016

City & Society

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Section: Resultsmentioning

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Urban Kanak Parents on Customary Trial: An Ethnography of the Customary Family Court of Nouméa, New Caledonia

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2016

City & Society

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“…The younger generation can become relatively pure voices and become differentiating voices. It can also be gatekeepers and actors of social change in the discussion process in the public sphere and the functioning of the democratic order in a country (Ayish, 2018); (Lefevre, 2013); (Laouni, 2020).…”

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Twitter as a Public Sphere for COVID-19 Vaccine Discussion

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Fitriyani

2022

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This study aims to discover how Gen Z discusses the COVID-19 vaccine through social media discussion, participation, and ideas in a virtual public space. Recently, online media coverage has been massive, especially regarding the COVID-19 vaccine produced in Indonesia or purchased by the Indonesian government from foreign countries. Another thing that was also discussed was the priority of the vaccine recipients, which ministers in Indonesia presented with different approaches. Coordinating Minister for Human Development and Culture, Muhadjir Effendy, emphasized that lecturers and teachers are prioritized to receive vaccines. Previously, the coordinating minister for the Economy, Airlangga Hartarto, said medical personnel was prioritized. The Chief Executive of COVID-19 Handling and National Economic Recovery Committee (KPCPEN), Erick Thohir, also stated that health workers were a priority. Meanwhile, the Minister of Health, Terawan, noted that the priority for vaccine recipients is medic, paramedic, public services, TNI/Polri, and all educators. This variety of information and news is understood differently by the Indonesian people, including among Gen Z. Using the virtual public sphere, where freedom of expression in a democratic manner is the key to the emancipatory communication process. This research method uses extensive data analysis to collect conversations about the COVID-19 vaccine on social media, especially on Twitter, from 1-31 March 2021. The results show that although Generation Z is actively involved in the COVID-19 Vaccine discussion, they are not The Prominent Key Opinion Leader (KOL), who is the key player in communicating this issue via Twitter.

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“…Many of the articles in this issue examine situations in which people and communities of PNG create or secure a meaningful life for themselves from the margins of the contemporary global order. They find ways to turn margins and stigmatised positions into niches, and subsequently ‘turn niches into handles’ (LeFevre ; see also Li ; Cooper ; Asher ). Highlands peoples of this time are no exception (Maclean ).…”

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The tribe next door: The New Guinea Highlands in a postwar Papuan mission newspaper

Schram

2018

Australian J of Anthropology

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Western ideologies of imperialism conceptualise time as heterogeneous in that they assume that colonised lands are outside of historical time. In this respect, the discursive construction of an empty frontier has been crucial to colonial dispossession. Yet colonial discourses become dominant through their circulation, and so the savage spaces they imagine take on a life of their own when they are revoiced. Papuan Times, a newspaper published by graduates of an industrial mission school at Kwato Island in the colonial Territory of Papua and New Guinea after the Second World War, produces subaltern agency in its reports on the pacification of the Highlands. While its news articles reproduce the heterogeneous chronotope of colonial discourse, articles describing the missionary work of former Kwato students in the Highlands reimagine the Highlands frontier as a horizon of social transformation. The Papuan Times strategy reflects the fact that a community's pursuit of the good exists in relation to others which constrain it, and, more generally, that an anthropology of the good is also an anthropology which recognises the fraught coexistence of a plurality of values.

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Turning niches into handles: Kanak youth, associations and the construction of an indigenous counter-public sphere

Cited by 9 publications

References 7 publications

Urban Kanak Parents on Customary Trial: An Ethnography of the Customary Family Court of Nouméa, New Caledonia

Urban Kanak Parents on Customary Trial: An Ethnography of the Customary Family Court of Nouméa, New Caledonia

Twitter as a Public Sphere for COVID-19 Vaccine Discussion

The tribe next door: The New Guinea Highlands in a postwar Papuan mission newspaper

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