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- Title
'Pissed Off and Confused'/'Grateful and (Re)Moved': Affect, Privilege and National Commemoration in Aotearoa New Zealand.
- Authors
McConville, Alex; Wetherell, Margaret; McCreanor, Tim; Borell, Belinda; Moewaka Barnes, Helen
- Abstract
This article explores affect, colonial privilege, and the cultural politics of national commemoration in Aotearoa New Zealand. Based on focus‐group interviews around two major national days, we examine means through which feelings and emotions are deployed in ways that enable the reproduction of social advantage. Situating affect within patterns of relationship, four interrelated affective‐discursive practices are explored. In relation to Waitangi Day, agents tend to work under the rubric of anger and confusion. For Anzac Day, being grateful and moved shapes the interaction, although participants often indicate preferences towards "having a day off." Given the colonial context in which these practices circulate, analysis observes the associated freedom and ease by which affective‐discursive privilege is (re)produced. Often incongruent and rarely challenged, privilege allows associated actors to do what they want, when they want, however they want. This affective climate authorizes the ongoing reproduction of, and justification for, membership to a higher‐status ethnic group of which unearned opportunities and entitlements remain its everyday, expected currency.
- Subjects
ANNIVERSARIES; ANZAC Day; POLITICS &; culture; ETHNIC groups; SOCIAL reproduction
- Publication
Political Psychology, 2020, Vol 41, Issue 1, p129
- ISSN
0162-895X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/pops.12610