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    Themes of connection and progress in rural television: New Zealand’s Country Calendar 1990–2015
    (SAGE Publications, 2020-02) Fountaine S
    Airing for over 50 years, New Zealand’s Country Calendar (CC) television show tells the stories of those who live and work on the land. This article presents a thematic analysis of 25 years of programme content, identifying a balance of ‘connection’ and ‘progress’ themes across this time frame, linked to the political economy of NZ broadcasting and agriculture. The concept of the rural idyll helps explain the connection theme’s focus on family, community, a passion or dream, and history and tradition. However, CC’s version of the rural idyll goes beyond nostalgia and the expression of shared social ideals to include the practical, day-to-day ‘work’ of contemporary farming. Ultimately, CC’s content is shaped by the broadcasting and agricultural policies and structures which impact its funding, subjects and socio-economic environment.
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    Following the pictures: Wordless comics for children
    (Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2014) Postema B; Gibson, M
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    The uses of fear: Spatial politics in the Australian white-vanishing trope
    (American association of Australian Literary Studies, 2009) Tilley EN
    This article discusses the fear of the unknown exhibited in the trope of Australian literature involving disappearing whites. The various forms of the trope are described, which include tales of lost children, missing explorers, or disappearing drovers. The exhibition of the white European fear of the unknown area beyond the European sphere of influence within such stories is noted.
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    Trump’s populism, la trahison des clercs and embracing dissent
    (SAGE Publications, 2018) Sligo F
    This article explores President Trump’s populist politics and its implications for scholars in communication studies, examining how Trump’s supporters need to be better understood within their own context. The thinking of Laclau, Mouffe and others, based particularly on observations of European populism, is employed to shed light on how populist social trends may undermine the legitimacy of rational public discourse and foster public acceptance of authoritarianism. Their perspective also gives insights into means by which scholars can better understand their own responsibility to avoid falling into the trap of invective-swapping seen during the US 2016 presidential campaign. In so doing, the article suggests ways whereby scholars can work towards the protection of a free society and help resolve the crisis of populism in ethical, informed and nuanced ways that help to arrest a drift to authoritarianism.