Performing identity entrepreneurship during the colonisation of New Zealand: A rhetorical construction of ‘loyal subjects of the Empire’

IF 1.8 Q3 PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL

Journal of Social and Political Psychology Pub Date : 2022-12-22 DOI:10.5964/jspp.6477

Sarah Y Choi, James H. Liu, M. Belgrave

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A thematic analysis of New Zealand’s historical Speeches from the Throne (10 speeches, from 1860-1899) investigated rhetorical strategies used by Governors during colonisation, to mobilise both settler and indigenous people’s participation in the British Empire. Identity leadership (Reicher & Hopkins, 2001, https://doi.org/10.1111/0162-895X.00246), augmented by critical theories of emotion (Williams, 1977, Marxism and literature. Oxford University Press) under the cultural framework of hierarchical relationalism (Liu, 2015, https://doi.org/10.1111/jtsb.12058) was applied to show how unequal but reciprocal relationships were invoked by Governors, as representatives of the Crown and advocates for the general public in New Zealand. Governors attempted to mediate a positive shared identity within the British Empire; but at the same time to isolate those who excluded from subjecthood by their hostility to the Crown. Governors alternated between efforts to mobilise people against indigenous Māori who challenged them, and offers to include Māori who conformed to the conventions required of a hierarchical relationship between Crown and subject. We reflect on how these dynamics of rhetorical performance may still be relevant today, especially in contexts of hierarchy and in the domain of leader-follower relations more broadly.

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新西兰殖民时期的身份创业:“帝国忠诚臣民”的修辞建构

对新西兰历史上的王座演讲(10次演讲，从1860年到1899年)进行了专题分析，调查了殖民时期总督使用的修辞策略，以动员定居者和土著人民参与大英帝国。身份领导(Reicher & Hopkins, 2001, https://doi.org/10.1111/0162-895X.00246)，由情感批判理论(Williams, 1977，马克思主义和文学)增强。牛津大学出版社)在等级关系主义的文化框架下(Liu, 2015, https://doi.org/10.1111/jtsb.12058)被应用于展示总督是如何援引不平等但互惠的关系的，作为皇冠的代表和新西兰公众的倡导者。总督们试图在大英帝国内部调解一个积极的共同身份;同时孤立那些因敌视国王而被排除在主体性之外的人。总督们时而努力动员人民反对挑战他们的土著Māori，时而提议接纳遵守君主与臣民之间等级关系所要求的惯例的Māori。我们反思了这些修辞表现的动态如何在今天仍然相关，特别是在等级制度的背景下和更广泛的领导-追随者关系领域。

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Journal of Social and Political Psychology Social Sciences-Sociology and Political Science

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2.70

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40 weeks

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