Negotiating multicultural difference in a bicultural nation: a focused case study
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Paper/Presentation Title | Negotiating multicultural difference in a bicultural nation: a focused case study |
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Presentation Type | Paper |
Authors | |
Author | Huijser, Hendrik |
Editors | Khoo, Tseen |
Journal or Proceedings Title | Proceedings of the University of Queensland Australian Studies Centre Conference |
Number of Pages | 19 |
Year | 2005 |
Place of Publication | Brisbane and Melbourne |
ISBN | 0646447300 |
Web Address (URL) of Paper | http://asc.uq.edu.au/bodypolitic/huijser.pdf |
Conference/Event | The Body Politic: Racialised Political Cultures in Australia (2005) |
Event Details | The Body Politic: Racialised Political Cultures in Australia (2005) Event Date 24 to end of 26 Nov 2004 Event Location Brisbane, Australia |
Abstract | This paper explores the ways in which multicultural difference is negotiated in Aotearoa/ New Zealand. While New Zealand is officially a bicultural nation, a major shift in immigration policy in the late 1980s has caused a rapid move towards an increasingly multicultural, and globally networked, nation. However, this is rarely reflected in its national cinema, which largely continues to operate within a bicultural framework. This paper is based on cross-cultural focus group research with three different communities: Maori, Croatian and Chinese. The study took the 1996 film Broken English (directed by Gregor Nicholas) as a starting point to analyse the fluid boundaries between national, diasporic and indigenous identities, as they move between public and private spaces. In the process, it draws conclusions about the limitations of official discourses in the management of cultural difference, and debunks many widely-held assumptions about cultural maintenance and integration. The paper applies a framework of Critical Discourse Analysis (Fairclough, 1995, 1998, Laclau, 2000, Van Dijk, 1998, 2000) to the data and, while focused on a New Zealand context, it allows for productive comparison to the Australian one. |
Keywords | cinema studies; multiculturalism; biculturalism; Chinese; Croation; Maori |
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 470212. Multicultural, intercultural and cross-cultural studies |
360501. Cinema studies | |
470214. Screen and media culture | |
Byline Affiliations | Learning and Teaching Support Unit |
https://research.usq.edu.au/item/9x9v8/negotiating-multicultural-difference-in-a-bicultural-nation-a-focused-case-study
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