Political Landscapes: Physical, Social and Historical

Woodhams, Jay M.

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-18630-2_2

Jay M. Woodhams²

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Abstract

We must look at the physical, social and historical conditions from which discourses emerge to get a deeper understanding of the ways voters generate their political identities. In New Zealand, its geographical isolation, growing inequality and history of race relations provides the backdrop for the political discourses and identities that are drawn upon and generated in voters’ talk. This chapter demonstrates how such landscapes provide fertile ground for the genesis of discourses and identities and thus the need to reach out to that which resides beyond discourse.

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Notes

1.
Transcription conventions are located at the front of this book and are adapted from those developed by Vine et al. (2002). All participant names used in this book are pseudonyms.
2.
Rogernomics is named for the then Minister of Finance, Roger Douglas. It involved opening New Zealand’s markets and privatising state-owned assets (see Walker 1989).
3.
Poverty can be viewed in absolute or relative terms (Foster 1998; Notten and de Neubourg 2011). In either case, the critical realist view is that it is underpinned by structures that exist outside discourse (Houston 2001) despite its momentary discursive realisations.

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Woodhams, J.M. (2019). Political Landscapes: Physical, Social and Historical. In: Political Identity in Discourse. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-18630-2_2

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