Abstract
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.
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