College of Arts: Recent submissions
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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 ... -
Why Should we Care about the Middle Ages? Putting the Case for the Relevance of Studying Medieval Europe
(De Gruyter, 2020)This introductory chapter puts forward a case for the continuing importance of studying the European Middle Ages. The early twenty-first century is witness to a boom in popular interest in the medieval, one which is playing ... -
Pacific Perspectives: Why study Europe’s Middle Ages in Aotearoa New Zealand?
(De Gruyter, 2020)It could be argued that the teaching of medieval history, while of intrinsic interest, is a colonial legacy that has very little relevance in the university curricula of a Pacific nation such as Aotearoa New Zealand. This ... -
Implementing He Ara Waiora in alignment with the Living Standards Framework and Whānau Ora: recommendatory report (Draft)
(2019)EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The Prime Minister has committed government to increasing the consideration of wellbeing across all policy, with an expectation that policy processes and priorities will evolve to better achieve wellbeing ... -
The Don Banks Music Box to The Putney: The genesis and development of the VCS3 synthesiser.
(Cambridge University Press, 2017)This article traces the development of the EMS VCS3 synthesiser from the inception of its precursor, the Don Banks Music Box, through its prototype to its commercial release. The nature of the design team and their technical ...
