Manufacturing Settler-Colonial Consensus: ‘Conservative’ Media Commentaries and the Treaty Principles Bill
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Devadas, Vijay
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Informa UK Limited
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This article investigates how selected media commentators in Aotearoa New Zealand framed the Treaty Principles Bill (TPB). Drawing on a discourse analysis of opinion pieces in The New Zealand Herald, Stuff and Newstalk ZB, this paper examines the rhetorical and ideological work in selected media commentaries by prominent media professionals in Aotearoa. The analysis identifies three dominant media frames – hegemony of logocentrism, spectacle of the indigenous other and weaponization of multiculturalism – that collectively manufactures a settler-colonial consensus around the TPB.Description
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4702 Cultural studies, 4701 Communication and media studies, 1902 Film, Television and Digital Media, 2001 Communication and Media Studies, 2002 Cultural Studies, Communication & Media Studies, 3605 Screen and digital media, Treaty Principles Bill, discourse analysis, hegemony of logocentrism, spectacle of the indigenous other, weaponization of multiculturalism, settler-colonial consensus
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Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies, ISSN: 1030-4312 (Print); 1469-3666 (Online), Informa UK Limited, 1-18. doi: 10.1080/10304312.2025.2597904
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This is the Author's Accepted Manuscript version of an article published in Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies by Taylor & Francis. The Version of Record is available at DOI: 10.1080/10304312.2025.2597904