1. Discursive Phobias: Unpacking the Fear of the 'Third World' in New Zealand (2nd Top Paper).
- Author
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Munshi, Debashish and Kurian, Priya
- Subjects
IDENTITY (Psychology) ,EMIGRATION & immigration ,DISCOURSE analysis ,DISCURSIVE psychology - Abstract
This paper examines how the fear of an abstract notion of the 'Third World' plays a role in the way the identity of New Zealand is communicated. Through a careful analysis of the discourses around the two distinctly separate but highly contentious social-scientific issues of immigration and genetic modification in the country, the paper reveals how race, culture, and identity intersect in the systematic stigmatizing of the 'Third World' as an imagined discursive space of people, places, and practices that are deemed to be 'underdeveloped', 'primitive', or 'inferior'. This obsession with the 'Third World' in a country that sees itself as part of the 'First World', the paper argues, is shaped in part by the forces of neocolonialism that dictate dominant conceptions of development. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Published
- 2008