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The abuse of patriarchal power in Rome: the rape narratives of Ovid’s Metamorphoses.
(University of Canterbury, 2018)By around 8AD the Metamorphoses, a single poem divided into fifteen books, had been completed by Publius Ovidius Naso. The text, written in the meter of epic, links together over two hundred myths through the theme of ... -
RadioQuake: Getting back 'on air' after the Christchurch earthquakes
(2015)Local independent radio stations in Christchurch, New Zealand, had their operations severely disrupted by major earthquakes in September 2010 and February 2011. This article examines the experiences of three radio stations ... -
A Transitional Imaginary: Space, Network and Memory in Christchurch
(Harvest (in collaboration with Aotearoa Digital Arts), 2015)A Transitional Imaginary: Space, Network and Memory in Christchurch is the outcome and the record of a particular event: the coming together of eight artists and writers in Ōtautahi Christchurch in November 2015, with ... -
Political participation during conflict: a case study of the conflict areas in Songkhla and Pattani provinces of Thailand
(University of Canterbury, 2017)This thesis examines the relationship between conflict and violence in the Deep South of Thailand and the political participation of people in the conflict areas by focusing on both electoral and non-electoral modes of ... -
A history of the University of Canterbury, 1873-1973
(University of Canterbury, 1973)The history of the University of Canterbury in its first hundred years is published to commemorate the University's centennial in 1973. It gives a critical account of the government, administration and financing of the ... -
Professionalisation and industrial relations : the New Zealand Nurses Association in the 1960s
(University of Canterbury, 1992)This thesis examines the attempt by the New Zealand Registered Nurses Association to enhance nursing's professional status and its involvement in industrial relations in the 1960s. It is asserted that because nursing ... -
Alternative Radio : exhibiting radio and music heritage after the Christchurch earthquakes
(2017)This article examines the representation of Christchurch, New Zealand, student radio station RDU in the exhibition Alternative Radio at the Canterbury Museum in 2016. With the intention of ‘making visible what is invisible’ ... -
Hearing ourselves : globalisation, the state, local content and New Zealand radio.
(University of Canterbury, 2002)Local music content on New Zealand radio has increased markedly in the years between 1997, when content monitoring began, and January 2002. Several factors have contributed to this increase, including a shift in approach ... -
Care across languages
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The contemporary agricultural pattern of the sand country of the west coast of the North Island between the Whangaehu River and Paekakariki
(University of Canterbury, 1960)The purpose of this thesis is to examine the contemporary agricultural pattern of the sand country of the west coast of the North Island, between the Whangaehu River in the north and Paekakariki in the south. To aid this ... -
Non-canonical uses of overt personal pronouns in New Zealand English and Chinese
(University of Canterbury, 2018)This thesis investigates the non-canonical uses of overt personal pronouns in spoken New Zealand English (NZE) and Chinese. Two oral corpora were chosen to be used in this study. One is the Canterbury Corpus (CC), and the ... -
The dark side of the coin: working families in urban Rome
(University of Canterbury, 2017)Roman Economics is a subject area that is fast gaining momentum in the classical world. Although there are numerous studies regarding workers, economics and families, the scholarship is thin when combining all of these ... -
The wilted lily : representations of the greater Capetian dynasty within the vernacular tradition of Saint-Denis, 1274-1461.
(University of Canterbury, 2017)Much has been written about representations of kingship and regnal authority in the French vernacular chronicles popularly known as Les grandes chroniques de France, first composed at the Benedictine abbey of Saint-Denis ... -
Responding to the rhyme of time : a comparative reading of H.D. and Chen Jingrong's poetry of 'New Beauty' in the context of modernism.
(University of Canterbury, 2017)This thesis reveals the relationship between women’s modernist experiments with poetic language and their political aspirations to freedom through the examination of the poetic images of beauty created by American poet ... -
Putative auditory-evoked neurophonic measurements using a novel signal processing technique: a pilot case study
(2017)With changes to cochlear implant candidacy and improvements in surgical technique, there is a need for accurate intraoperative assessment of low-frequency hearing thresholds during cochlear implantation. In electrocochleography, ... -
The construction of social meaning: A matched-guise investigation of the California Vowel Shift
(2016)Research on social meaning, which links language variation to the wider social world, often bases claims about the social meanings of linguistic forms on production (i.e., speakers’ situational use of meaningful forms). ... -
Social work field educator practice: expanding the vision
(University of Canterbury, 2017)Social workers identify experiential learning opportunities as critical components of their education, but in Aotearoa New Zealand there is significant concern due to increasing demand and variable quality in field education. ... -
Crossroads: commemorative names in East Berlin, 1990–2010
(University of Canterbury, 2012)The memorial landscape has been a focal point in recent studies concentrating on postsocialist Central and Eastern Europe. This thesis contributes to this field by examining the names, naming, and renaming of former ...
