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Kantian constitutivism : problems and prospects.
(University of Canterbury, 2020)Kantian constitutivists argue that normativity can be derived from particular elements of what is constitutive of our nature. In “Agency Shmagency: Why Normativity Won’t Come From What Is Constitutive of Action”, David ... -
'A kingdom of iron and rust:' identity, legitimacy, and the performance of contentious politics in Rome (180-238CE).
(University of Canterbury, 2019)Of all the crises that Rome experienced during its long and illustrious history, arguably none was greater than the accumulation of external and internal conflicts during the third century CE. Most scholars date this crisis ... -
Western historiographical accounts of Stalin, 1925–2018 = Западная историография Сталина
(University of Canterbury, 2020)In the West, the historiography of Stalin and Stalinism from 1925 to 2018 is an extraordinarily variegated corpus of scholarship in which the nature of Stalin, his regime, and his role orchestrating this regime for more ... -
Disaster and women : the wave of change in the position and status of women in the coastal Bangladesh.
(University of Canterbury, 2019)This study explores disaster, women, vulnerability and changes in women’s lives including the role of government and non-government organisations (GO and NGOs) and changes in traditional practices in the coastal people of ... -
Ngā whakaahua Ngāi Tahu : the Ngāi Tahu portraits in Lore and History of the South Island Maori.
(University of Canterbury, 2020)When Lore and History of the South Island Maori was published in 1952 it filled a vacuum in terms of accessible Ngāi Tahu history in the public domain. Despite its scholarly shortcomings, it remained one of the only readily ... -
Forensic illusions : medico-legal representations, scandals and reform in mid-twentieth century Britain, Canada and New Zealand.
(University of Canterbury, 2020)The media representations of charismatic medico-legists from the British Commonwealth and of the wondrous powers of forensic medicine greatly influenced the perception of the discipline’s reliability and accuracy during ... -
It makes sense, but I just don’t get it. Translators’ and end-users’ perspectives on the English to Chinese community translation of health texts.
(University of Canterbury, 2020)This study aims to develop a set of assessment criteria aligned with the perspectives of end-users with a focus on the achievement of pragmatic equivalence in community translation (Taibi & Ozolins, 2016). Health translation ... -
'That's me trying to step out of that sentence'
(University of Canterbury, 1987)This thesis addresses itself to changes which came over New Zealand poetry in the early 1910s. It discusses in detail the work of three poets whose public careers began in this period: Ian Wedde, ... -
The Mission Work of the Aranui Sisters of Mercy in Eastern Christchurch.
(University of Canterbury, 2020)This thesis examines the mission work of the Aranui Sisters of Mercy in the Eastern Suburbs of Christchurch, New Zealand, placing the story of the Aranui Sisters within the broader historiographical context of women’s ... -
The politics of artisanal and small-scale mining in Mongolia
(Informa UK Limited, 2016)Large-scale mining has become the cornerstone of Mongolia’s development and poverty reduction narrative. Building on political economy insights, this paper explores the politics of artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) in ... -
Neoliberal reform, contestation and relations of power in mining: Observations from Guinea and Mongolia
(Elsevier BV, 2019)© 2019 Elsevier Ltd Drawing on contributions from heterodox international political economy, this paper uses the notions of structural power and modes of governance to analyze the conditions that help explain emerging ... -
‘The Politics of Exclusion: Japan’s Pilot Refugee Resettlement Programme’
(2020)This paper discusses the socio-political significance of Japan’s Pilot Refugee Resettlement Program (RRP). It asks three questions: why Japan adopted this program, why the program has failed to meet its targets, and ... -
The Political Economy of Southeast Asia’s Extractive Industries: Governance, Power Struggles and Development Outcomes
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2020)This is not only the best collection of essays on the political economy of Southeast Asia, but also, as a singular achievement of the “Murdoch School”, one of the rarest of books that demonstrates how knowledge production ... -
Social media, interpersonal relations and the objective attitude
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The politics of development : neo-Marxist approaches to New Zealand history
(University of Canterbury, 1990)This thesis will critically evaluate the nee-Marxist interpretations of New Zealand history propounded by David Bedggood, Rob Steven and Warwick Armstrong. This critique finds that the theoretical models adopted by these ... -
Measuring Currency Power from 2005 to 2018: Greenback Still Unrivaled or Increasingly Constrained by Its Rivals?
(2020)The main research goal of this paper is to empirically assess the state of US currency power relative to its main rivals in the period between 2005 and 2018. The most novel aspect of our inquiry is the design of three ...