• Monitored mothering : the experience of mothers who parent within New Zealand women’s prisons. 

  Johnson, Jacqui (University of Canterbury, 2019)

  While New Zealand previously allowed babies up to six months old to reside in prison with their mothers in self-care units, in 2008 the Corrections (Mothers with Babies) Amendment Act was introduced allowing children under ...

• Shaved heads and sonnenrads: comparing white supremacist skinheads and the alt-right in New Zealand 

  Gilbert, Jarrod; Elley, Benjamin (Informa UK Limited, 2020)

  This article looks at two periods in the history of white supremacy in New Zealand: the short-lived explosion of skinhead groups in the 1990s, and the contemporary rise of the internet-driven alt-right. It looks at ...

• Nelson and the Taranaki War, 1860-1861 : a case-study of opinion in the South Island on the origins and nature of the Anglo-Maori Wars in New Zealand. 

  Chan, H. D. M-h. (University of Canterbury, 1969)

  Though the origins of the Anglo-Maori wars, their influence on Imperial relations, and their effects on the Maoris have been studied by Professors Sinclair, Dalton and Sorrenson, and by Dr Alan Ward, there has been very ...

• The poetry of the numinous : a study of imagery in the poetry of Ursula Bethell. 

  Hillock, Margaret Wishart (University of Canterbury, 1981)

  In this study of the use of imagery in the work of Ursula Bethell, I have set out to examine the two aspects of her poetry: the visual and the visionary. Both of these aspects play a vital role in her exploration of ...

• The life of Thomas Edward Taylor, M.P., 1863-1911. 

  Billcliff, Charles F. (University of Canterbury, 1948)

  The thesis I advance for his place in the political life of this democracy is that he, essentially a self-taught man, entered the political life of the country from a strong sense of public duty and served as a spearhead ...

• Terrorists' use of social media : a case study of Al Qaeda and the Islamic State. 

  Bandopadhyaya, Suvojit (University of Canterbury, 2019)

  This thesis analyses Islamic State’s (IS) e-magazines, Dabiq and Rumiyah, and Al Qaeda’s (AQ) e-magazine, Inspire, to identify terrorist propaganda and radicalisation arising from social media platforms – Facebook and ...

• Artists' Books in UC Collections: A Scoping Study 

  Garrie, Barbara; Davis, Sophie (2014)

  Artists' Books in UC Collections: A Scoping Study, undertaken as part of the University of Canterbury Summer Scholarship Scheme, provides the foundation for a larger project by the Department of Art History and Theory. ...

• Self-Citation in Cicero's De Divinatione 

  Sciarrino, E. (2020)

• Thomas Habinek and Cynthia's bones 

  Sciarrino, E. (2020)

• The framework of freedom 

  Cohen, Harry Eyre (University of Canterbury, 1950)

  The object of this essay is to discuss some aspects of human freedom; to enquire, in so far as to do so lies within the power of the writer, whether freedom is a fact of experience commensurate with the widespread belief ...

• Ancient glass in the Canterbury Museum 

  Wiltshire, Roswyn (University of Canterbury, 2019)

  A great wealth of archaeological material is contained within unpublished museum collections that have never received scholarly attention. This thesis will shed light on one such hitherto unexamined collection of ancient ...

• Logic and music. 

  Peach, Clare I. (University of Canterbury, 1956)

• A framework for assessing empirical approaches to moral philosophy. 

  Thomson, Daniel (University of Canterbury, 2020)

  In this thesis I examine the question ‘What are the implications of our growing scientific understanding of moral phenomenon for ethics?’ I assess what moral philosophy can gain, if anything, from the rapidly growing body ...

• The problem of expertise : epistocracy as a potential solution for emerging technology governance. 

  Robertson, Daniel James (University of Canterbury, 2019)

  This thesis investigates the epistemic performance of deliberative democracy regarding the governance of emerging science and technology policy. Central to this epistemic performance is the role of the expert in relation ...

• Families and state housing : ideals, practices, change and problems, 1936-1973 

  Duff, Barbara H. (University of Canterbury, 1998)

  This study examines successive New Zealand government's involvement in state housing between 1936 and 1973 and the impact and implications this had on tenants in a social context. The state house building programme was ...

• Interspecies sustainable development : intersectional empathetic approaches to food and climate justice. 

  Espiner, Éilis Rose (University of Canterbury, 2019)

  As the global appetite for meat increases, animal agriculture intensifies and brings with it a whole array of problems for both human and nonhuman beings. Along with the question of animal ethics, intensive animal agriculture ...

• The Casketeers and prime-time tangihanga 

  Harrington, Erin (Freerange Press, 2018)

  From tangihanga, DIY funerals and new technologies to funeral poverty, this book explores what a good death might mean today and aims to foster honest conversations about death and dying in New Zealand.

• The Penguin and the Wahine: Shipwrecks, resilience and popular culture 

  McManus R; Blake D; Johnston D (Routledge, 2019)

• Finding variants for construction-based dialectometry: A corpus-based approach to regional CxGs 

  Dunn J (Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2018)

  This paper develops a construction-based dialectometry capable of identifying previously unknown constructions and measuring the degree to which a given construction is subject to regional variation. The central idea is ...

• Global Syntactic Variation in Seven Languages: Towards a Computational Dialectology 

  Dunn J (2019)

  The goal of this paper is to provide a complete representation of regional linguistic variation on a global scale. To this end, the paper focuses on removing three constraints that have previously limited work within ...

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