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Anger in Legacies of Empire

Indigenous Peoples and Settler States

UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND

Cultural norms and values, as well as historical, social, and legal contexts shape the public uses and expressions of particular emotions, including anger. In the settler states of Aotearoa New Zealand, Australia, and Canada, indigenous peoples and those who came later negotiate the unfinished business of empire. Their exchanges are framed in terms of ethnic identity and difference. It is argued here that anger plays a significant part in the legal and political processes of claim, denial, and response through which these differences are articulated and transacted. This article examines situations where people whose very naming is a product of European thought engage in the struggles of decolonization. The very different occasions and forms of anger over justice claims described illustrate the extent to which meanings are not shared in these societies.

Key Words: anger • decolonization • ethnic politics • Eurocentrism • indigenous rights

European Journal of Social Theory, Vol. 7, No. 2, 189-208 (2004)
DOI: 10.1177/1368431004041751


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