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Item Open Access Family first: The role of family in Māori and Pasifika professional athlete success(2024) Borell, Phil; Enari, DionThroughout the Pacific, the whānau/’āiga (family) is an integral element of community and identity. Within Polynesian communities, it is common for the whānau (family – Māori) or ‘aiga (family – Samoan) to be the most important aspect of one’s existence. For many Polynesian (Māori and Pacific) athletes, the family unit is central to their ability to succeed in professional sport. The cultural identity that is developed within the family unit as well as the support and nurturing provided are ingredients for Polynesian athletes to thrive in spaces where they may not otherwise: gaining collective support in ways that are not always readily afforded to Western society. This paper draws from the stories of male professional Māori and Pasifika rugby league athletes to provide deeper insight into the critical role of Polynesian families in professional sport. As Polynesian sport academics, who were given deep insight from these athletes, we use our insider lens to tell this story.Item Open Access Destroying Vision, Destroying Hearing: Sergei Kuriokhin and Arkady Dragomoshchenko(MDPI AG, online-publication-date) Pavlov, EvgenyThe article explores the unique friendship and creative synergy between two towering figures of late Soviet underground culture, the avant-garde jazz musician Sergei Kuriokhin and the poet Arkady Dragomoshchenko. Both outsiders in Leningrad, they shaped its literary and musical landscapes without aligning with any movements. Dragomoshchenko, a seminal poet, defied categorization, while Kuriokhin, a polymath, challenged conventions across music, performance, and politics. Their collaboration epitomized innovation, blending Dragomoshchenko’s cerebral poetry with Kuriokhin’s avant-garde music. Despite linguistic barriers, their connection transcended verbal communication, rooted in shared modes of nonlinear thinking and creative experimentation. Kuriokhin’s revolutionary Pop Mekhanika, a chaotic fusion of genres and sensory experiences, mirrored Dragomoshchenko’s relentless poetic evolution. Their friendship catalyzed pivotal encounters, such as with the American poet Lyn Hejinian, expanding their artistic horizons. Dragomoshchenko’s poetic vision, centred on perception’s fleeting nature and the boundaries of possibility, echoed Kuriokhin’s multisensory assaults on audience expectations. Through their unconventional artistry, Kuriokhin and Dragomoshchenko navigated the shifting cultural landscape of late Soviet society, embodying a spirit of defiance and exploration. Their enduring influence transcends their untimely deaths, leaving an indelible mark on Russian avant-garde culture.Item Open Access Speaking to or for the world? Britain, presumed authority and world opinion at the start of the First World War(Oxford University Press (OUP), 2023) Monger, DavidBritain in 1914 was the world’s leading power; the only nation with global responsibilities and authority. However, authority was presumed. The First World War rapidly highlighted limits. Even before depending on U.S. finance, British appeals to ‘world opinion’ suggests recognition that British authority no longer ordered world affairs. While speaking for the world by asserting world opinion, Britons also spoke to it, officiously demanding action and appealing to world, especially U.S., opinion. This article closely explores one collection featuring such appeals, arguing 1914 already reflected transition from presumed pre-eminence to a time when Britain needed, and sought, the world’s help.Item Open Access How flood risk management projects can improve urban resilience: a combined assessment approach of functional resilience and adaptive capacity(2024) Doonrkamp , Tim J. L.; Vinke-de Kruijf , Joanne; Pahlow , Markus; Matheson, DonaldFlooding poses a major challenge to urbanised areas around the world. Increasing resilience is therefore key, especially in low-lying coastal areas. To assess to what extent and why flood risk management projects improve urban resilience, we developed an approach that combines an assessment of impacts on an area’s functional resilience and the adaptive capacity of citizens. Application of the approach to the Dudley Creek flood remediation project in Christchurch, New Zealand, shows that the project had a positive impact on the area’s resilience. Yet, if the project had paid more attention to combining hard infrastructure interventions with citizen engagement, its positive impact would have been higher. This study confirms the relevance of combining engineering and social perspectives on urban resilience, both in assessing resilience and in designing flood risk management projects. Practitioners are invited to use the framework to design projects that improve an urban area’s resilience in a holistic manner.Item Open Access Abe Lincoln in the Age of Obama and Spielberg(Informa UK Limited, 2017) Field, PeterWriting of Abe Lincoln after the Civil War, Frederick Douglass foreshadowed a natural divergence when evaluating the 16th president. ‘Viewed from the genuine abolitionist ground’, observed Douglass, ‘Mr. Lincoln seemed tardy, cold, dull and indifferent; but measuring him by the sentiment of his country … he was swift, zealous, radical, and determined’. Douglass himself concluded that ‘Great Emancipator’ had largely failed to imagine anything approaching a biracial America, remaining ‘pre-eminently the white man’s President’. Taking their cue from Douglass, scholars in our own time have largely concurred. A central tenet of Civil War history since the 1950s has revolved around the notion of a great chasm dividing the ‘dull and indifferent’ Lincoln from the zealous and idealistic abolitionists. Only recently, almost coterminous with the ascension of Barack Obama to American presidency, this divide seems to have shrunk and the evaluation of the radicals and the reformer president shown signs of what I call ‘convergence’. Prominent historians now view the radicals and the Republican leader more synoptically. Hollywood has reinforced the new Lincoln in the public eye. Stephen Spielberg has joined the scholars in giving us a Lincoln for the Age of Obama. How long this convergence view will last is open for debate, with the Trump era already reminding Americans that the stark divisions of the present suggest fundamental rifts in the past.Item Open Access Efficacy of a compulsory homework programme for increasing physical activity and improving nutrition in children: a cluster randomised controlled trial(Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2019) Duncan, S; Stewart, T; McPhee, J; Borotkanics, R; Prendergast, Kate; Zinn, C; Meredith-Jones, K; Taylor, R; McLachlan, C; Schofield, GBackground: Most physical activity interventions in children focus on the school setting; however, children typically engage in more sedentary activities and spend more time eating when at home. The primary aim of this cluster randomised controlled trial was to investigate the effects of a compulsory, health-related homework programme on physical activity, dietary patterns, and body size in primary school-aged children. Methods: A total of 675 children aged 7-10 years from 16 New Zealand primary schools participated in the Healthy Homework study. Schools were randomised into intervention and control groups (1:1 allocation). Intervention schools implemented an 8-week applied homework and in-class teaching module designed to increase physical activity and improve dietary patterns. Physical activity was the primary outcome measure, and was assessed using two sealed pedometers that monitored school- and home-based activity separately. Secondary outcome measures included screen-based sedentary time and selected dietary patterns assessed via parental proxy questionnaire. In addition, height, weight, and waist circumference were measured to obtain body mass index (BMI) and waist-to-height ratio (WHtR). All measurements were taken at baseline (T0), immediately post-intervention (T1), and 6-months post-intervention (T2). Changes in outcome measures over time were estimated using generalised linear mixed models (GLMMs) that adjusted for fixed (group, age, sex, group x time) and random (subjects nested within schools) effects. Intervention effects were also quantified using GLMMs adjusted for baseline values. Results: Significant intervention effects were observed for weekday physical activity at home (T1 [P < 0.001] and T2 [P = 0.019]), weekend physical activity (T1 [P < 0.001] and T2 [P < 0.001]), BMI (T2 only [P = 0.020]) and fruit consumption (T1 only [P = 0.036]). Additional analyses revealed that the greatest improvements in physical activity occurred in children from the most socioeconomically deprived schools. No consistent effects on sedentary time, WHtR, or other dietary patterns were observed. Conclusions: A compulsory health-related homework programme resulted in substantial and consistent increases in children's physical activity - particularly outside of school and on weekends - with limited effects on body size and fruit consumption. Overall, our findings support the integration of compulsory home-focused strategies for improving health behaviours into primary education curricula. Trial registration: Australian New Zealand Clinical Trials Registry, ACTRN12618000590268. Registered 17 April 2018.Item Open Access Towards an Architectural Theology: An Appropriation of Thought Between Tillich and Mies(2022) Grimshaw, MPaul Tillich and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe were exact contemporaries. Born in Germany in 1886, both opposed the rise of National Socialism and went into American exile in the 1930s. From exile, both engaged with the spiritual crisis of the modern age, proposing lasting ways to create, express, and understand meaning in modernity. And even though they initially developed their respective responses in Europe, it was only in America that these responses took on physical form in Mies’ architecture and intellectual form in Tillich’s theology. This study uses Tillich’s thought to provide a new reading of Mies’ architecture.Item Open Access Beyond trade: The European Union - New Zealand Free Trade Agreement(2023) Kelly, Serena; Doidge, MathewThe 2022 announcement of the European Union- New Zealand Free Trade Agreement was seminal for both sides. For New Zealand, the deal is projected to be worth up to an extra NZ$1.8 billion per annum by 2035. What is less evident is the motivation for securing the deal for Europe – New Zealand is only the EU’s 50th most important trading partner and accounts for 0.2% of its total trade. This article outlines three major benefits for the EU. Firstly, it symbolises that the EU’s neoliberal trading agenda is continuing in the face of perceived increased protectionism. Second, the deal includes a seminal clause of holding each partner to account in climate change responsibilities – a detail that should garner support from EU citizens. Finally, closer EU cooperation with New Zealand may add to the EU’s legitimacy in the Indo-Pacific.Item Open Access The diverse stories of Māori political agency: a Q method study(Informa UK Limited, 2017) Sheed T; MacDonald, Lindsey Te Ata o Tū; Vowles JWhile there is much research and writing on Māori self-determination, little of it focuses on how Māori individuals and organisations conceive the necessary antecedent to self-determination; Māori political agency. To remedy this research gap, we explored the political aspirations of Māori individuals with a research method built to study such subjective topics: Q method. Combining Q method with some practical innovations from Kaupapa Māori Research method, we developed a unique way of researching the stories our participants tell themselves about politics. Our results suggest some Māori individuals do think of politics as a collective endeavour as the self-determination literature suggests, but just as often Māori collective forums and other non-Māori political institutions are seen as barriers to Māori individual and collective political agency and thus to Māori self-determination. We also found that Māori view the political autonomy and participation necessary for self-determination as possible in numerous diverse spaces, suggesting the focus on low voter turnout amongst Māori in the literature is missing the point: the stories told by this research suggest Māori individuals perceive their political agency to be hindered, not by majoritarian politics of non-Māori, but by Māori and non-Māori elites.Item Open Access In Croatia's Slipstream or on an Alternative Road? Assessing the objective case for the remaining Western Balkan states acceding into the EU(ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD, 2013) Petrovic, Milenko; Smith, Nicholas RossSince the 'mega-enlargement' of the European Union into the erstwhile communist territories of Eastern Central Europe and the Baltics in 2004/2007, the prospect for further EU enlargement(s) has seriously dissipated. Terms such as 'enlargement fatigue' and 'absorption capacity' have become en vogue in the post-2007 enlargement setting where older EU member states have developed negative attitudes towards future enlargements. However, the accession of Croatia into the EU in 2013 has inevitably raised questions of which states or regions could be next. This paper contends that due to a multitude of issues surrounding Turkey, particularly the political impasse within the EU towards Turkish accession coupled with its sheer size, only the smaller states of the Western Balkans represent viable candidates (Iceland's accession prospects have stalled significantly due to internal pressures). This paper argues that the limits of EU eastern enlargement are set by both prevailing (subjectively defined) political attitudes founded on various grounds in the leading EU member states and by the rationally defined objective capacity of the EU's institutions to absorb potential new member states. It is through the latter, and in comparison to the three most recent accession states - Bulgaria, Romania and Croatia - which this paper attempts to assess the objective potential of the remaining Western Balkan states to accede into the EU in the near future. © 2013 © 2013 Taylor & Francis.Item Open Access Between Friendship and Justice: On Lincoln's Political Thought(Informa UK Limited, 2017) Field, PeterReading Aristotle and applying his notion of philia, or political friendship, across 26 centuries sheds significant light into Abraham Lincoln’s career. It is precisely in Lincoln’s embodiment of the Aristotelian notion of friendship that we come to understand his unique greatness. Perhaps he alone of all Americans proved capable of such extraordinary feats as leading the Republican party to victory in 1860, holding the Union together through the secession crisis and four long years of bloody civil war, ending slavery without white backlash, and offering reconciliation with the incredible magnanimity expressed in the ringing phrases of the Second Inaugural address. The basis of Lincoln’s preternatural political genius proved to be his ability to comprehend all sides, a comprehension that can only come from a profound belief in the importance of friendship. Americans, Lincoln argued throughout a terrible war as he had his entire life, were not enemies but friends who shared a commitment to nature and nature’s law as expressed in the Declaration.Item Open Access When the Photojournalist Returns: Exploring Reflexive Moments in Photojournalism(Informa UK Limited, 2015) Matheson, DonaldThis paper concerns the contemporary status of the documentary or news photograph of suffering. Using the paradigmatic case of the return of photojournalists to the scenes of compelling images they have made, it suggests a contemporary need to reconnect them with the lives and voices of those photographed. The paper draws upon theories of photojournalism that emphasize the need to take their connection to the real seriously and describe the civic space they open up between photographers, the photographed and the public. When photojournalists return, the paper suggests, they are confronted with these contemporary expectations of the photograph, expressed as both political and ethical demands. It proposes also that the reflexivity of the return can allow photojournalists to negotiate some of the ethical problems that arise when making photographs of others’ misfortune. In particular, it can transform the return into an act of caring. These points are used to explore ways in which the discourse and further images that surround a powerful image can reconnect audiences with those photographed.Item Open Access Between tides: examining China discourses in Pacific Island news media(2024) Doidge, Mathew; Kelly SThe Indo-Pacific context has gained increasing geopolitical focus over the last decade, and particularly over the last five years as powers such as the United States, Australia, the European Union (and three of its Member States – France, Germany and the Netherlands) have elaborated dedicated Indo-Pacific strategies. Underlying these has been a concern with the actions of China, defined through contested geopolitical discourses on its role as an actor in the region. While this contestation has been given some attention in academic literature, notably absent has been a consideration of the impact on regional states caught between these discursive tides, and particularly of the Pacific Island states (unsurprising, given the focus on the northern maritime arc that predominates in Indo-Pacific research). This article fills this gap through analysis of eight news media outlets (seven local and one regional) covering October–November 2019 and 2022, identifying the main discourses on China in Pacific media and their source, and examining the impact of these on local Pacific reporting. It finds that, notwithstanding the preponderance of ‘Western’ discourses on China’s role in Pacific media through republication of external media reporting, this does not translate into influence over Pacific reporting. Instead, it is Chinese discourses on its role that have the greatest resonance.Item Open Access The Philippines in 2023: Politics, Economy, and Foreign Affairs under Marcos Jr.(University of California Press, 2024) Tan, AlexIn 2023, the Philippines, led by Marcos Jr., confronted a pivotal period marked by intricate diplomatic maneuvers, economic recalibrations, governance reforms, and persistent human rights concerns. The return of the Marcos political dynasty is a significant change in the political landscape, while economic challenges persist despite mixed reports on growth. With a commitment to an independent foreign policy, the Philippines faces a delicate balancing act between the United States and China in a world characterized by shifting power dynamics and strategic complexities.Item Open Access Forum: The Foundations and Future of NPVO Communication Scholarship(SAGE Publications, 2021) Atouba Y; Dempsey SE; Koschmann MA; Kramer MW; McAllum, Kirstie; McNamee LG; Peterson BLItem Open Access Managing imposter syndrome among the “Trophy Kids”: creating teaching practices that develop independence in millennial students(Informa UK Limited, 2016) McAllum KItem Open Access Reflections on a communication journey into professionalism and organizing(Oxford University Press (OUP), 2024) McAllum, Kirstie; Barbour , Joshua B.; Fox , Stephanie; Matte , FrédérikMuch research in the field of communication studies has evidenced a 'performative turn' in how it views professionalism, professionals, and the professions. This special issue, Opening up the meanings of 'the professional', professional organizations, and professionalism in communication studies, documents this process and lays out a research agenda in and from communication studies that can inform scholarship on professionalism and organizing. In addition to mapping out and contextualizing the multiple, contested meanings of professionalism, particularly in novel or 'non-standard' contexts, it shows how workers enact, negotiate, reify, and resist the meanings of professionalism in both aspirational and exclusionary ways. When we shift the focus from professional experts (and the institutional apparatus that protects their status, autonomy, and authority) to expertise, as Ashcraft suggests in her contribution to this special issue, scholarly analysis needs to account for an entire network of actors, ideas, instruments, and forms of organizing that allow for successful-or failed-performances of expertise and understand that those performances rest on economies of difference. Economies of difference are distinctions among the sorts of work, workers, and working that wield political power in that they implicate social structures and dictate how specialized expertise is and can be deployed and recognized. Economies of difference create and benefit from inequities. The articles in this special issue offer empirical and conceptual windows into the contested and messy performance of professionalism, how it serves as a resource for some and a constraint for others, and how its contemporary meaning is potentially disrupted.Item Open Access Refugee resettlement volunteers as (inter)cultural mediators?(Informa UK Limited, 2020) McAllum, KirstieItem Open Access Subverting the Marxist paradigm: Vaccination discourse in New Zealand's mainstream and alternative online media(Informa UK Limited, 2012) Kenix, Linda JeanNew Zealand ranks 33rd out of 35 developed countries for rate of immunizations. The low rate of immunizations in New Zealand could be attributed to many factors, however, the information in available and accessible media must also be considered as a potential barrier to vaccination. This study examines the mediated discourse in a sample of New Zealand’s alternative and mainstream online media within the framework of Marxist ideology. The praxis and theory of Marxism within the production of alternative media, much like vaccination campaigns, depends upon egalitarian, community-minded ideals. One might expect to find a Marxist ideology throughout pro-vaccination discourse and within alternative media, which have been found to depend upon these same egalitarian ideologies. While Marxist thought depends heavily on communal belief systems, it also serves as a framework to denounce corporate power. This research will examine whether the organizational norms and practices of an institution might be circumvented when the possibility of denouncing a core oppositional ideology, such as anti-corporatism, arises. In doing so, this research will explore the occasional conflicting nexus between the ideology of an issue and the ideology of a medium.Item Open Access A converging image? Commercialism and the visual identity of alternative and mainstream news websites(ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD, 2013) Kenix, Linda JeanVisual imagery, while largely overlooked in mass communication research, is central to how organizations represent themselves, make meaning, create identities, and communicate with the rest of the world. This research explores visual differences between alternative and mainstream news websites along the conceptual categorization of deviance. More deviant groups have historically represented themselves through alternative media with themes of confrontation and challenge, often through violent or sexualized imagery. However, online communication is now largely commercialized and commodified in order to professionalize a consumerist aesthetic that can attract mass audiences and return a profit. This research explores the visual communication of both alternative and mainstream media in an online environment where the whole world is watching. © 2013 Taylor & Francis.