ABSTRACT

This study examines how Nicaraguan print media discursively construct Indigeneity in the midst of land encroachment and new movements for self-determination in order to explore the nuanced modes through which neoliberal multiculturalist governance operates. Based on a critical discourse analysis of 133 news articles reporting on the five main Indigenous, Afro-Indigenous, and Indigenous-Kriol (Creole) joint communities of the Autonomous Regions of the North and South Caribbean Coast, as well as on the Council of Elders of the Moskitian Nation, this study found that news discourse constructed communities as entities to be understood through state, nongovernmental and supranational logic; pitted “good” against “bad” ways of enacting ethnicity; constructed communities as incapable of self-government and in need of state wardship; and emphasized culture and nature as the valuable aspects of their identity, discarding the materiality of their demands. These findings stimulate discussion around the ways in which the media subtly reproduce neoliberal multiculturalist ideology in the context of plurinational governance in Latin America.

摘要

本研究考察了尼加拉瓜印刷媒体如何在土地侵占和新的自决运动中以话语方式构建土著性，以探索新自由主义多元文化主义治理运作的微妙模式。基于对 133 篇新闻文章的批判性话语分析，这些文章报道了北加勒比海沿岸和南加勒比海岸自治区的五个主要土著、非洲-土著和土著-克里奥尔（克里奥尔）联合社区以及长老理事会对于 Moskitian Nation，这项研究发现，新闻话语将社区构建为实体，可以通过国家、非政府和超国家逻辑来理解；将“好”与“坏”的制定种族的方式进行比较；建立了无法自治且需要国家监护的社区；并强调文化和自然是他们身份的宝贵方面，摒弃了他们需求的物质性。这些发现激发了关于媒体在拉丁美洲多民族治理背景下巧妙复制新自由主义多元文化主义意识形态的方式的讨论。