• Self-citation, intellectual pursuits and political ambitions Cicero’s On Divination 

  Sciarrino E (2020)

• The contribution of field education towards professional capability 

  Maidment J; Hay K; Beddoe L; Ballantyne N; Walker S (Routledge, 2021)

  Using qualitative data from recent research conducted in Aotearoa New Zealand (ANZ) this chapter reports on the centrality of field education for developing social work professional capability and readiness to practice ...

• Mental Health, and Rural Practice: A Perspective from New Zealand. 

  Maidment J (Springer, 2020)

  This chapter provides an analysis of rural social work in mental health with a particular focus on anti-oppressive practice. The chapter is written within the Aotearoa New Zealand (ANZ) context and as such addresses cultural ...

• Bilateral relations in the Western Balkans as a challenge for EU accession 

  Petrovic M; Wilson G (2021)

  Although the European Union pledges to ‘maintain [and reaffirm] the credible enlargement perspective for the Western Balkans,’ (European Commission, 2018), some of the new requirements which it demands the Western Balkan ...

• Anime’s atomic legacy : Takashi Murakami, Miyazaki, Anno, and the negotiation of Japanese war memory. 

  Manji, Rufus C. (University of Canterbury, 2020)

  This thesis explores the cultural commentary by Japanese Neo-Pop artist Takashi Murakami in relation to Japan’s war memory and its legacy in popular culture, addressing in particular the essays accompanying his 2005 ...

• A pacifist ethos for the Responsibility to Protect: detaching prevention from intervention 

  Moses JM (2017)

  The Responsibility to Protect (R2P), as a project intended to avert or end mass atrocities, incorporates both preventative and interventionist dimensions. This article begins with an overview of the place of prevention ...

• Negotiating discourses of womanhood in India : an ethnographic study of young women in a Chennai hostel 

  Varghese, Josephine (University of Canterbury, 2019)

  There is a burgeoning body of literature tracing the changes that ensued India’s process of economic liberalization in the last decade of the 20th century. Scholars have identified an ongoing re-conceptualization of womanhood ...

• Representing ‘the sunny Britain of the south’ : visual cultures of weather in nineteenth-century Aotearoa New Zealand. 

  Rimbovska, Bojana (University of Canterbury, 2020)

  As a ubiquitous feature of landscape, the weather has often been regarded as a backdrop to a scene and has largely eluded critical discussion in New Zealand’s art histories. However, its symbolic richness and its centrality ...

• The EU's trade and development policy as an aspect of inter-regional relations with ASEAN : a case of well-being. 

  Prasopchokechai, Pongthep (University of Canterbury, 2019)

  What is the purpose of life? What can fulfill our lives? Is it happiness coupled with living in a so-called utopian society? Questions like these may sound familiar and thus may provide opportunity for discussion to any ...

• In Bloom 

  Carr S (2020)

  In Bloom was developed by Steve Carr while on residency at McCahon House in French Bay, West Auckland. The bronze-cast tyres and living floral arrangements present a contrast in materials, offering a moment of reflection ...

• Matter, memory, myth : recasting magic(al) realism. 

  Byrnes, Sionainn E. (University of Canterbury, 2020)

  This thesis considers literary and other forms of magic(al) realism in the context of postcolonial studies. Its premise, simply put, is that magic(al) realism is best understood in terms of its historical- and new-materialist ...

• Prospects of an India-Taiwan Strategic Partnership: Economics, Security, and Expected Utility Theory 

  Tan A; Vanvari N (2020)

  The China-India border dispute has witnessed escalations recently with China making fresh claims along the disputed border and deaths of Indian military personnel. This study examines the likelihood of a strategic partnership ...

• Party Polarisation in New Zealand and Taiwan: An Exploratory Study 

  Tan A (2020)

• Partisan Polarization and Fragmentation in the Taiwanese Electorate: Evidence from the 2020 Elections 

  Clark C; Tan A; Ho K (2020)

  Taiwan is generally viewed as having a polarized polity with national identity being the defining issue. Yet, there are several trends that are at least somewhat inconsistent with this image. First, partisan loyalties ...

• Hollywood and the Chinese film market : crosscultural communication or commercial transaction? 

  Lyu, Yafei (University of Canterbury, 2020)

  Globalisation as a cultural as well as an economic phenomenon has led to more frequent communication and exchange across cultures. Hollywood has long been familiar with exporting American cultural values internationally ...

• Woman alone: solitude in selected short stories by Katherine Mansfield, Janet Frame, and Jacqueline Sturm 

  Hoskins, Polly Isabella Cumnor (University of Canterbury, 2020)

  The great accomplishment of Michele Leggott in her seminal essay on women’s writing in New Zealand poetry, “Opening the Archive: Robin Hyde, Eileen Duggan and the persistence of record”, is to point to “a lost matrix of ...

• A survey of training in industry, with special reference to female employees in the clothing trade in Christchurch, New Zealand 

  Wilson, Nancye Ellen (University of Canterbury, 1945)

  The aim of this survey of training in industry, with special reference to female employees in the clothing trade, is to outline recognised methods of training, to evaluate methods used in Christchurch, New Zealand, on the ...

• An inordinate disdain for beetles: imagining the insect in colonial Aotearoa 

  Duval, Lillian (University of Canterbury, 2020)

  This thesis examines cultural representations of insects over the last two centuries of European settlement in Aotearoa, with a view to better understanding the contemporary human-insect relationship. The study spans both ...

• Addressing New Zealand’s oil security in 2040 : policymaking in an uncertain world 

  Dalley, Tobias H. (University of Canterbury, 2020)

  Oil remains one of the most important resources for the operation of New Zealand’s economy and society. Having an accurate perception of the country’s oil supply security and the effectiveness of security-improving policies ...

• The sustinable Dead: Seeds of cultural syncretism in bodu disposal 

  McManus R (2020)

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