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Terrorism, security, and power in Russia : domestic, regional, and international dimensions
(University of Canterbury, 2018)This thesis examines the securitisation of the terrorism threat in Russia and its relation to regime consolidation and broadening of political influence. It traces and analyses terrorism-related securitisation moves made ... -
The American Indian in the American film.
(University of Canterbury, 1981)This thesis is a chronological examination of the ways in which American Indians have been portrayed in American f.ilms and the factors influencing these portrayals. B1eginning with the literary precedents, the effects ... -
Corridors of power, liberal peacebuilding and hybrid regimes : understanding development NGOs in a game of power in the Mindanao conflict.
(University of Canterbury, 2019)Using critical ethnography and participatory research methodologies, this thesis elucidates the conundrum in the peacebuilding literature, namely, why hybrid peace formation is characterised by tensions, dilemmas and ... -
Governing the Future
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Second chances: a report on employing offenders in Canterbury
(2019)Those who have offending histories face significant barriers to employment. • Prison was found to have an extremely limiting effect on employability, with 16.8% (n=35) of respondents saying that they would not hire a ... -
RESEARCH BRIEFING ON EQC IN THE PRESS
(2019)This research briefing reports on the key findings of a computer-assisted text analysis of records from The Press newspaper related to the Earthquake Commission (EQC) from 2010 to 2019. The briefing has been prepared as ... -
Exploring the discourse of mental illness and employment.
(University of Canterbury, 2019)Within this research I examined the discourse of mental illness and the discourse of work impacting the experience of individuals with mental illness in New Zealand, particularly in the workplace. Discourse was analysed ... -
Beginnings to a political philosophy of international development : epistemology and the limits of reason.
(University of Canterbury, 2018)This thesis brings a philosophical perspective to the study of international development. It suggests that the debates which characterize international development discourse can be usefully understood at the level of ... -
Media commercialisation in established and emerging democracies : a comparative analysis of newspapers in New Zealand and Nigeria.
(University of Canterbury, 2019)The thesis examines the portrayal of political news in selected commercialised newspapers, on the September 2014 national election in New Zealand and the March 2015 presidential election in Nigeria. The study uses three ... -
Urban transitions for climate justice : a comparison of the ecological justice of two approaches to urban planning that addresses climate change : the Transition Movement and Smart Cities.
(University of Canterbury, 2019)Cities and urban communities are facing some of the most significant impacts of climate change. In the coming years, these impacts on transport, housing, food security and the natural environment will have profound adverse ... -
Warring identities : the impact of the EU’s strategic narratives relating to the CSDP on European identity amongst security practitioners.
(University of Canterbury, 2019)European security and defence cooperation has experienced some potentially significant advances since the release of the European Union Global Strategy in 2016. Furthermore, due to recent developments such as more aggressive ... -
Women's place-making through craft in in post earthquake Canterbury
(2019)INTRODUCTION: There is little research on the role of creative arts and craft in disaster recovery. This article reports findings about the emergent role of crafting from research conducted after the 2010–2011 series of ... -
Frequency vs. Association for Constraint Selection in Usage-Based Construction Grammar
(Association for Computational Linguistics, 2019)A usage-based Construction Grammar (CxG) posits that slot-constraints generalize from common exemplar constructions. But what is the best model of constraint generalization? This paper evaluates competing frequencybased ... -
Ennius and the Annales in Cicero's Philosophical works: Reflections on Cicero's citational strategies
(2019)Citation and quotation are two distinct and yet related strategies used to reproduce or invoke words previously spoken or written by someone else in order to strengthen an argument or a specific point. Citation, properly ... -
Food, recipes and empire in Mid-Republican Rome
(2019)Posts on Facebook and Instagram hit us with images of extravagant dishes and recipes of all sorts, all the time. Some include familiar foods, others feature exotic ingredients. As in the past so too today, food is not ... -
Micro meteorological investigations over a mid-latitude temperate glacier - the Ivory Glacier
(University of Canterbury, 1972)During the summer of 1971-72 an investigation was undertaken into the components of the energy balance over a mid-latitude temperate glacier, (The Ivory Glacier), and the mass loss associated with the input of energy. The ... -
The new woman revisited: Asja Lacis between Germany and Russia.
(University of Canterbury, 2019)Although there has been much research on the construct of the ‘New Woman’ in Weimar Germany (1918-1933), there is much less study of the ‘New Woman’ in Soviet Russia of the same time period. To compare and contrast these ... -
Peter Jackson : a New Zealand film auteur.
(University of Canterbury, 1998)The auteur theory in film seeks to explain the nature of the director's artistic 'signature' and to critically identify in the filmic works his or her stylistic, technical and thematic characteristics. Auteur theory ...
