• Crimea in a time of change: urban everyday life, 1954-1964 

  Averina-Lugova, Diana (University of Canterbury, 2020)

  Many of the attitudes that culminated in the Crimean referendum of 16 March 2014 are deeply rooted in the vagaries of an exceptional decade of Soviet history, namely 1954-1964. Thus, an investigation of the Crimean Soviet-era ...

• Dialectics of Sin: snokhachestvo Incest in Maxim Gorky's Fiction 

  Mondry H (2021)

  My present investigation focuses on the work of another celebrated classic of Russian literature, Maxim Gorky (1868-1936), whose contribution to thinking about sin/crime in relation to the workings of the Russian family ...

• Representations of Language Varieties Are Reliable Given Corpus Similarity Measures 

  Dunn, Jonathan (Association for Computational Linguistics, 2021)

  This paper measures similarity both within and between 84 language varieties across nine languages. These corpora are drawn from digital sources (the web and tweets), allowing us to evaluate whether such geo-referenced corpora ...

• A Cinderella effect in the childcare assistance provided by European grandparents. 

  Daly, Martin; Perry, Gretchen (2021)

  Survey data from 36,771 European grandparents were analyzed with respect to childcare assistance that interviewees provided to their birth children versus stepchildren. Interviewees with current partners provided far more ...

• Kaupapa Māori in the education curriculum : kaupapa waka as a case study. 

  Souness, Kate (University of Canterbury, 2021)

  Using kaupapa waka as a case study this thesis explores ways that kaupapa Māori can be included more effectively within New Zealand education curriculum and resources that support curriculum. This study suggests that the ...

• Indigenous self-determination within the liberal democratic state : Ngai Tahu rangatiratanga in the post-settlement era. 

  Andersen, Virginia (University of Canterbury, 2004)

  Ngāi Tahu are an indigenous people who have utilised the tools of the liberal democratic state in order to sustain and grow their culture. Interview material from members of Ngāi Tahu, indigenous self-determination literature ...

• “isn’t all violence bad, though?” : an investigation into the role of violence in nonviolent resistance 

  Simonsen, Astrid Heidemann (University of Canterbury, 2020)

  This thesis examines the role that violence plays in the practice and theory of nonviolent resistance. The project investigates not only the occurrence of violence in movements and movement dynamics, but also the role of ...

• Public opinion formation on social media in a big data perspective : measuring political homophily and cross-cutting agreement 

  Kristensen, Jakob Bæk (University of Canterbury, 2020)

  The establishment and constant development of social media technologies over the last two decades have left media scholars with a burning desire to understand their contribution to the formation of public opinion and its ...

• Trustworthiness of tweets in post disaster events : a case study of Nepal Earthquake 2015 

  Adhikari, Bipulendra (University of Canterbury, 2020)

  This research focuses on the trustworthiness of information shared through Twitter in a post- disaster event, particularly focusing on the Nepal earthquake, 2015. It explores how Twitter users access and verify tweets by ...

• Racialist thinking in the life and work of Francis Galton (1822-1911). 

  Schumacher, Suzanne (University of Canterbury, 2019)

  This research paper focuses on the racialist thinking of Francis Galton and how this impacted on his work on eugenics and for a eugenic society. Whereas the focal point for most of the historiography is class and its impact, ...

• “Fascism alone will save this country” : presentations of decline, rebirth and the enemy in the newspapers of the British Union of Fascists. 

  Richardson, Daniel (University of Canterbury, 2019)

  This dissertation examines the ways in which the two main newspapers of the British Union of Fascists (‘BUF’), Action and the Blackshirt, presented ideas of social decline, the need for regeneration and the enemy. It builds ...

• The Yorkist scribe : his motivations and the objectives behind his edit of the Canterbury Roll. 

  McKay, Natasha Jane (University of Canterbury, 2019)

  The Canterbury Roll is a genealogical manuscript that traces the line of English succession from Edward IV to Noah. It originates from the fifteenth century and was edited by four subsequent scribes between 1429 and 1485. ...

• “Get outside your comfort zone : reflections of New Zealand historians”. 

  Duston, Neve (University of Canterbury, 2019)

  This study investigates what four leading New Zealand historians think about the changes that have happened in historical practice in these islands over recent decades. New Zealand historians continuously debate how our ...

• The Press Bureau, ‘D’ Notices, and Official Control of the British Press's Record of the First World War 

  Monger, David (Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2021)

  Concerns about fake news and media manipulation are commonplace in contemporary society, and, throughout the twentieth century, historians regularly presented the First World War as an era of manipulated public messages. ...

• Grandparental partnership status and its effects on caring for grandchildren in Europe 

  Daly, M.; Perry, Gretchen (Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2021)

  Grandparents are important childcare providers, but grandparental relationship status matters. According to several studies, caregiving is reduced after grandparental divorce, but differential responses by grandmothers ...

• The archaeological evidence for Mithraism in Imperial Rome. 

  Griffith, Alison Bond (University of Michigan, 1993)

• Seventy-five years on : an ethnographic exploration of oral histories on the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. 

  Shimasaki, Olivia (University of Canterbury, 2021)

  This thesis explores the human experiences of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima since August 6th, 1945. Employing ethnographic approaches of participant observation, fieldwork, and narrative analysis, narrative accounts ...

• Politics and aphorisms: a contextual study of the politics of George Savile, first Marquis of Halifax through his literary short pieces. 

  Ng, Wai Nam Boswell (University of Canterbury, 2020)

  This study examines the politics of George Savile, first Marquis of Halifax between the Exclusion Crisis of 1679-1681 and the Glorious Revolution of 1688-1689. It examines Halifax’s politics in the context of a set of ...

• Te Paerangi : darkness and light in Māori oral tradition. 

  Maclean, Jessica Niurangi Mary (University of Canterbury, 2021)

  Darkness and Light have come to have particular associations in Western thought. Light is associated with Goodness, Knowledge, and Reason, the dichotomising impulse of the West rendering Darkness as Evil, Ignorance, and ...

• An exercise in the obscure : how history is constructed on the Canterbury Roll 

  Boon, Jayson (University of Canterbury, 2021)

  The central aim of this thesis is to understand how history was constructed on the fifteenth-century genealogical roll, Canterbury MS1, which is held at the University of Canterbury. The Roll traverses biblical history/mythology, ...

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