Land Rights in Mediatized Indigenous Legal Discourse
In the years 2016-2018 a number of protests conducted by the Indigenous peoples of Canada against the controversial expansion of the Kinder Morgan pipeline was framed in the Canadian news discourse as a conflict involving the First Nations, the federal government and the provincial government of Alb...
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ftunivnapoliojs:oai:serena.unina.it:article/8588 2023-10-29T02:36:20+01:00 Land Rights in Mediatized Indigenous Legal Discourse Mongibello, Anna 2021-11-20 application/pdf http://www.serena.unina.it/index.php/anglistica-aion/article/view/8588 https://doi.org/10.6093/2035-8504/8588 eng eng Università degli studi di Napoli "L’Orientale" http://www.serena.unina.it/index.php/anglistica-aion/article/view/8588/9281 http://www.serena.unina.it/index.php/anglistica-aion/article/view/8588 doi:10.6093/2035-8504/8588 Copyright (c) 2021 Anglistica AION: An Interdisciplinary Journal Anglistica AION: An Intersciplinary Journal; Vol 22 No 1 (2018): Environmental Conflicts and Legal Disputes Across Media Discourse; 45-67 Anglistica AION: An Interdisciplinary Journal; V. 22 N. 1 (2018): Environmental Conflicts and Legal Disputes Across Media Discourse; 45-67 2035-8504 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Articolo Peer-reviewed 2021 ftunivnapoliojs https://doi.org/10.6093/2035-8504/8588 2023-10-05T08:39:48Z In the years 2016-2018 a number of protests conducted by the Indigenous peoples of Canada against the controversial expansion of the Kinder Morgan pipeline was framed in the Canadian news discourse as a conflict involving the First Nations, the federal government and the provincial government of Alberta. The dispute over pipeline regulations, environmental risks and Indigenous land rights saw First Nations peoples arguing against the government of Canada and the government of Alberta as the new expansion would further aggravate water and air pollution on Indigenous sacred lands; while the Liberal Party’s leader and PM, Justin Trudeau, had promised to make environmental assessment credible again, the government approved plans to build pipelines on lands whose ownership is still hotly contested. Based on the assumption that the media acts as a proxy for personal contact with the legal system and that legal language plays an important role in the construction, interpretation, negotiation and implementation of legal justice, the present paper intends to investigate the mediatization of Indigenous Law, i.e. the construction and dissemination of legal knowledge on Indigenous land rights in online news discourse for global consumption. In the years 2016-2018 a number of protests conducted by the Indigenous peoples of Canada against the controversial expansion of the Kinder Morgan pipeline was framed in the Canadian news discourse as a conflict involving the First Nations, the federal government and the provincial government of Alberta. The dispute over pipeline regulations, environmental risks and Indigenous land rights saw First Nations peoples arguing against the government of Canada and the government of Alberta as the new expansion would further aggravate water and air pollution on Indigenous sacred lands; while the Liberal Party’s leader and PM, Justin Trudeau, had promised to make environmental assessment credible again, the government approved plans to build pipelines on lands whose ownership is still hotly ... Article in Journal/Newspaper First Nations SeReNa (System for electronic peer-Reviewed journals @ university of Naples) |
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In the years 2016-2018 a number of protests conducted by the Indigenous peoples of Canada against the controversial expansion of the Kinder Morgan pipeline was framed in the Canadian news discourse as a conflict involving the First Nations, the federal government and the provincial government of Alberta. The dispute over pipeline regulations, environmental risks and Indigenous land rights saw First Nations peoples arguing against the government of Canada and the government of Alberta as the new expansion would further aggravate water and air pollution on Indigenous sacred lands; while the Liberal Party’s leader and PM, Justin Trudeau, had promised to make environmental assessment credible again, the government approved plans to build pipelines on lands whose ownership is still hotly contested. Based on the assumption that the media acts as a proxy for personal contact with the legal system and that legal language plays an important role in the construction, interpretation, negotiation and implementation of legal justice, the present paper intends to investigate the mediatization of Indigenous Law, i.e. the construction and dissemination of legal knowledge on Indigenous land rights in online news discourse for global consumption. In the years 2016-2018 a number of protests conducted by the Indigenous peoples of Canada against the controversial expansion of the Kinder Morgan pipeline was framed in the Canadian news discourse as a conflict involving the First Nations, the federal government and the provincial government of Alberta. The dispute over pipeline regulations, environmental risks and Indigenous land rights saw First Nations peoples arguing against the government of Canada and the government of Alberta as the new expansion would further aggravate water and air pollution on Indigenous sacred lands; while the Liberal Party’s leader and PM, Justin Trudeau, had promised to make environmental assessment credible again, the government approved plans to build pipelines on lands whose ownership is still hotly ... |
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Anglistica AION: An Intersciplinary Journal; Vol 22 No 1 (2018): Environmental Conflicts and Legal Disputes Across Media Discourse; 45-67 Anglistica AION: An Interdisciplinary Journal; V. 22 N. 1 (2018): Environmental Conflicts and Legal Disputes Across Media Discourse; 45-67 2035-8504 |
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