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An investigation of incoming short and long wave radiation over Christchurch
(University of Canterbury, 1976)Variations in short and long wave radiation were measured across the city of Christchurch over a five month period to mid-winter 1976. Two fixed climate stations were the basis of data collection, with mobile traverse s ... -
The Changing Place of Development in EU–Asia Relations
(Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2017)This article examines EU–Asia development relations from the perspective of evolving paradigmatic debates on development. In so doing, it performs two functions. First, it highlights the way in which this development ... -
Legacies of closure : a history of Aranui High School 1960-2016.
(University of Canterbury, 2019)This thesis examines the closing of Aranui High School in 2016, a low socio-economic secondary school in eastern Christchurch, New Zealand, and reflects on its history through the major themes of innovation and the impact ... -
Editing hip-hop within youth work activities: an actor-network theory analysis
(Informa UK Limited, 2017)© 2017 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Debates concerning hip-hop have tended to centre on controversy. For example, critics of hip-hop have focused on its association with bads such as violence, ... -
Mapping the Health and Safety of Female Sex Workers after the Prostitution Reform Act (2003): Human Services Perspectives and Responses
(2016)On 27 June 2003 the New Zealand Parliament passed a unique piece of legislation, the Prostitution Reform Act (PRA), effectively decriminalising prostitution. The momentum for the Act came from the desire to minimise harm ... -
The historical development of the South Malvern district, Canterbury, 1859-1900
(University of Canterbury, 1949)So wrote Frederick Broome when he left his sheep-run at "Broomielaw", now called "steventon”, to seek a new life in Australia. To those low hills, dominated by "Flagpole" and by the mountain ranges beyond, and to that ... -
Kia Piki Ake Te Mana Tāngata— Review of the WEAG Tikanga Framework
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Political Polarization in Taiwan and the United States: A Research Puzzle
(2019)During the first two decades of the 21st century, the major political parties in both Taiwan (the Democratic Progressive Party or DPP and the Kuomintang or KMT) and the United States (Democrats and Republicans) became ... -
A Converging Image? Capitalism and the visual identity of alternative and mainstream news sites
(2011)While largely overlooked in mass communication research, visual imagery is central to how organizations represent, make meaning, create identities, and communicate with the rest of the world (Messaris, 1994). This research ... -
Women's experiences of intimate partner violence in rural Taranaki, Aotearoa New Zealand
(2019)INTRODUCTION: Traditionally, research about intimate partner violence has focused on urban areas and has been urban-centric. However, there are some components of intimate partner violence in rural communities which are ... -
'It's not something one can deliberately set out to do': Christian Wolff in conversation
(Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2018)ABSTRACT: In 2002 Christian Wolff was a guest composer at the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival and during the course of the festival he was interviewed by Christopher Fox and by James Gardner. Fox's interview took ... -
The EU as peace builder : a comparative analysis of civilian CSDP missions in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo.
(University of Canterbury, 2019)Promoting peace and security (both internal and external) was identified as a key priority of the 2016 European Union Global Strategy. Indeed, the EU has carved a name for itself in the realm of peacebuilding, primarily ... -
Blood & memory : Victorian colonial death, memorial practices, and the dynamics of local society at Christchurch’s Addington Cemetery.
(University of Canterbury, 2019)Contemporary researchers have pointed out that while historians and archaeologists are both interested in the behaviour and lives of those in the past their various research approaches are often disconnected from one ... -
Wittgenstein’s rejection of Begleitungen : case studies in semantics and cognition.
(University of Canterbury, 2019)What is it to mean, or to think? According to Wittgenstein, the mainstream Western philosopher’s typical starting-point is to ‘think of meaning or thinking as a peculiar mental activity’ that accompanies speaking or ... -
The Philippines as a small state: assessing its external behaviour and foreign policy in bilateral interactions with small states
(University of Canterbury, 2019)This study puts the spotlight on small states that has long been overlooked in the field of International Relations. The limited academic discussion is quite paradoxical, considering that the world is for the most part ... -
Contested language use in ethnic media: A case study of New Zealand’s Pacific media
(Informa UK Limited, 2019)New Zealand’s Pacific communities face significant generational language loss and their media are increasingly produced in English, raising questions about the centrality of language for ethnic media and their audiences. ... -
An Evaluative Norm for Belief
(2017)It is often argued that belief is partly constituted by a norm of truth. Most recent discussions have assumed that the norm is deontic; concerning what may or ought to be believed. I criticize two proposals, one canvassed ... -
Modeling Global Syntactic Variation in English Using Dialect Classification
(Association for Computational Linguistics, 2019)This paper evaluates global-scale dialect identification for 14 national varieties of English as a means for studying syntactic variation. The paper makes three main contributions: (i) introducing data-driven language mapping ...
