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NCRE Post-Graduate Seminars “Europe in the French Pacific Regions: A Discourse Analysis of the Local Press' Construction of the European Union” Yoon Ah Choi (PhD Research Project)
NCRE Post-Graduate Seminars
“Europe in the French Pacific Regions: A Discourse Analysis of the Local
Press' Construction of the European Union”
Yoon Ah Choi (PhD Research Project)
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Map of the French OCTs
New Caledonia - Wallis/Futuna - French Polynesia
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RESEARCH QUESTIONS
How is the EU’s role in the Pacific represented in the local newspapers of French Polynesia, New Caledonia, Wallis and Futuna?
Is France ready to let go? Is there a visible construction of power relations in the discourse?
How does the EU’s initiatives and actions of the development plan coincide with local objectives?
What is the local conception of the EU as a donor, ‘development’, ‘democracy’, ‘regionalism’, ‘globalisation’…?
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Key Issues
Development Programme (ACP aid- 9th EDF)
Good governance (Cotonou Agreement)
Political situation- Independence, regionalism and EU integration
Economic stability and resources
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Theoretical Framework
Post-Structuralism/Postmodernism
MeaningReality
KnowledgeIdentityIdeologyPower
Foucault, Derrida
Barthes, Bourdieu
Habermas, Adorno
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Methodological Framework
Syntactic/semantic analysis
Grammatical structure, transformations, functions,
transitivity, agency
Content Analysis
Information structure
Lexical Analysis
Metaphors, Category labels
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Sources
Corpus- Major local newspapers French Polynesia: Tahitipresse,
Les Nouvelles de Tahiti
La Depeche de Tahiti
New Caledonia: Le Kanak
Les Nouvelles Caledoniennes
Libre Expression
Official documentsCotonou Agreement9th EDF Plan
Interviews & Surveys
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Delimitations & Variables
Local press media
Newspaper articles dating after the Cotonou Agreement
23rd June 2000
Domestic focus
Independent variable:Development strategies, amount of aid
Dependent variable:Discursive structure of EU in the press
Moderator variable:Political situation
Controlling variable:Corpus of press articles
Intervening variable:Regional participation, Euro currency
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Novelty & Importance
GOOD TIMING
NON-EUROCENTRIC VIEW
INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACH
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Hypothesis/Assumptions
Positive-negative evaluations of major issues
Favourable position of the OCTs in regards to regionalism and EU integration
Discursively constructed identities and relations, power hierarchy
WILL UNCOVER…
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Merci beaucoup!
Yoonah Choi
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