• Politics as creative pragmatism: rethinking the political action of contemporary university students in Aotearoa New Zealand 

  Nissen, Sylvia Esther (University of Canterbury, 2017)

  This thesis reconsiders the political action and agency of contemporary university students in Aotearoa New Zealand. Although the twenty-first century has witnessed a global growth in student protest (Brooks 2017), there ...

• The European Union's rights-based approach: helping Pacific communities to overcome gender-based violence? 

  Brown, Eva (University of Canterbury, 2017)

  Gender equality is a fundamental human right and consequently the foundation to achieving sustainable development. As human beings, women and girls, men and boys, are all entitled to living a life of dignity, free of want ...

• Locating Ourselves: An analysis and theoretical account of strategic practices of identity and connection in Aotearoa/New Zealand’s Pacific news media 

  Ross, Tara (University of Canterbury, 2017)

  This thesis sets out to explore the under-researched field of New Zealand’s Pacific media to yield insights into Pacific media and audiences, and what makes media ‘ethnic’. It draws on theories about identity, practice and ...

• Communities and interactions in nineteenth-century Scottish and English toxicology. 

  Easton, Holly (University of Canterbury, 2017)

  The nineteenth century was a crucial period of development for toxicology in Britain, during which several great toxicologists rose to prominence. These toxicologists facilitated the creation of communities and intellectual ...

• The politics of privatizing water services : in theory and practice. 

  Treliving, Victoria (University of Canterbury, 2000)

  Since the early 1980s, the phenomenon of privatization has quickly spread worldwide, changing the balance between the state and the market in favour of the latter. Its adoption questions and replaces the traditional roie ...

• The Brooding Elitist Relationship-Wrecker: Tropes of Art and Artists on Narrative Television 

  Joyce ZC (2017)

• “Be there with us”: An appreciative inquiry into supporting culturally diverse dementia-care workers as learners 

  Gilmour KL; Gee S; Scott-Multani M; Medina G; Croucher M; Evans N (2014)

• Gli inizi della filogia a Roma: traduzione e trasformazione 

  Sciarrino E (2017)

• Daniel D. Hutto and Erik Myin, Radicalizing Enactivism: Basic Minds Without Content. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2013; 206pp 

  Campbell DI (2014)

• Asian New Zealanders: Identity, Belonging and Political Participation 

  Shurmer, Vivian Kristina Tiu (University of Canterbury, 2017)

  National identity is often defined in terms of ‘ethnic’ (i.e., heritage-based criteria) or ‘civic’ (i.e., the adoption of a nation’s values and principles) features. This study examined the effects of national identity as ...

• On the Authenticity of De-extinct Organisms, and the Genesis Argument 

  Campbell DI (2017)

  Are the methods of synthetic biology capable of recreating authentic living members of an extinct species? An analogy with the restoration of destroyed natural landscapes suggests not. The restored version of a natural ...

• Zombies, Schmonceivability and the Mirroring Objection: All Escape-Routes Barred 

  Campbell DI (2017)

• Fundamental Frequency Distributions of Bilingual Speakers in Forensic Speaker Comparison 

  Dorreen, Kieran (University of Canterbury, 2017)

  The fundamental frequency (f0) is the main acoustic correlate of the voicing pitch produced by a speaker. Since the beginning of forensic speaker comparison research f0 has been a popular measure, however its highly ...

• 'The most complete experiment in army hygiene' British military reform In sanitation from the Crimea to India : a comparative account of sanitary reform in the 19th century. 

  Richardson, John Patrick (University of Canterbury, 2017)

  The history of sanitation is not generally considered a glamourous topic. It is far more common to see larger works relating to war, within which sanitation may be present as a footnote to explain those deaths not caused ...

• Enhancing choral intonation in unaccompanied tonal music: a curriculum and pedagogical approach to teach choirs to sing in just intonation 

  Withington, Andrew (University of Canterbury, 2017)

  Poor, unreliable, inconsistent intonation is a problem for choirs and their directors. As a chorister, I observed many conductors attempting to correct issues with a range of ‘quick-fix’ solutions; what seemed to be missing ...

• A history of the political labour movement in New Zealand, 1850-1913 

  Robinson, K.W. (University of Canterbury, 1937)

  A typically modern trend in democratic countries has been the entry of labour representatives into the political arena. New Zealand has proved no exception to the rule, but the history of her own labour movement, particularly ...

• The shareable, the conversation, and the news : an analysis of content posted on Twitter by New Zealand news journalists and news organisations. 

  Haggland, Victoria (University of Canterbury, 2017)

  This research endeavours to assess the relationship between Twitter, journalists, news organisations, and content. This research aimed to drill into the content on Twitter and to what extent this content can tell us about ...

• "A colour line affair" : race, imperialism and rugby football contacts between New Zealand and South Africa to 1950. 

  Buckley, Mike (University of Canterbury, 1996)

  This thesis is an attempt to construct an alternative tradition of New Zealand and South African rugby football contacts to 1950. It examines the wider social conditions of such contacts, unlike the existing plethora of ...

• Selecting Candidates for De-extinction and Resurrection: Mammoths, Lenin’s Tomb and Neo-Eurasianism 

  Mondry H (2017)

  My paper explores links between the human and animal candidates for resurrection and deextinction and focuses on the aspect of nationalist agenda in application to both species. I explore the intersection between the ...

• The improvement of light land under irrigation on the Canterbury Plains 

  Moore, John Leslie Neville (University of Canterbury, 1957)

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