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Production vs Perception: The Role of Individuality in Usage-Based Grammar Induction
(Association for Computational Linguistics, 2021)This paper asks whether a distinction between production-based and perception-based grammar induction influences either (i) the growth curve of grammars and lexicons or (ii) the similarity between representations learned ... -
Subversion of enlightenment discourse in Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels.
(University of Canterbury, 2021)The Enlightenment era saw the rise in popularity of an epistemology that valued fact and reason due, largely, to the evolution of scientific knowledge. This resulted in an epistemological shift that emphasised reason and ... -
Peering through the trees, or, everything I've ever learned about American summer camp came from Friday the 13th Parts 1-4 and The Baby-Sitter's Club Super Special #2
(Horror Homeroom, 2020)In the early 1980s, first Mrs Voorhees and then her damaged, homicidal son hacked and slashed their way along the shores of Crystal Lake. Fifteen years later, in New Zealand, my friends and I - all members of the VHS ... -
Ukraine through a Baltic lens: Regional networks of meanings
(2020)What “storylines” appear in the Baltic news media about Ukraine in terms of Ukraine’s perceived capability, opportunity, and affinity? Is there a regional – Baltic – “storyline” emerging, or are these “storylines” ... -
The Independent Media of New Zealand
(Oxford University, 2021)New Zealand has high global measures for press freedom, democracy, and wealth. Historically, if a country has had strong index rankings for press freedom, democracy, and wealth, they also have a robust independent media ... -
Why were the Sikhs loyal to the British, if indeed they were, during the Indian Mutiny of 1857?
(University of Canterbury, 1993)This thesis will endeavour to ascertain the nature and extent of Sikh support for the British during the Indian "Mutiny" of 1857. It will analyse the importance of this support. The thesis will maintain that without the ... -
An analysis of the role of the EU as a parliamentary democracy promoter in improving federal parliamentary performance in Pakistan : a case study of the IP3 project
(University of Canterbury, 2020)This thesis attempts to contribute to the knowledge of parliamentary democracy promotion in the 21st century. Parliamentary democracy promotion is a small but growing component of international democracy assistance. The ... -
Beyond ‘the limits and the terms’: narrative technique and ethical reading in the fiction of Ian McEwan.
(University of Canterbury, 2021)In this thesis, I explore the link between narrative technique and ethical reading in the fiction of Ian McEwan. Specifically, I use narratological concepts to examine the way in which McEwan encourages an ethical approach ... -
Non-Parental Investment in Children and Child Outcomes after Parental Death or Divorce in a Patrilocal Society
(MDPI AG, 2021)Children rely on support from parental helpers (alloparents), perhaps especially in high-needs contexts. Considerable evidence indicates that closer relatives and maternal relatives are the most likely to provide this care, ... -
Taming Investment Risk in the Philippines: Multilateral Mining Regimes,National Coping Strategies and Local Tension
(2011)Despite'the'stern'admonishments'of'the'prominent'Extractive' Industry'Review' in'2003,'the'World'Bank'Group'(WBG)'has'continued'to'promote'the'expansion'of'mining' activities' in' resource' rich' clientEcountries.' While' ... -
Neoliberal Modes of Participation in Frontier Settings: Mining, Multilateral Meddling, and Politics in Laos
(Informa UK Limited, 2015)Abstract: After decades promoting highly liberalised mining codes, the World Bank Group has now positioned poverty reduction and environmental sustainability as the fundamental objectives of its involvement in the sector. ... -
Local Communities and Multilateral Safeguards: The Mining Regime of LaoPDR
(2012)Six years ago, the World Bank Group (WBG) embraced a new philosophy for its involvement in mining activities. After decades of promotion of highly liberalised mining codes, the Group repositioned poverty reduction and ... -
Synthesizing Religions: Vasily Rozanov’s “Phallic Christianity”
(MDPI AG, 2021)Vasily Rozanov was one of the first Russian writers of the fin de siècle to create a nexus between the study of the history of world religions and the history of sexuality. He viewed Christianity’s asceticism as a source ... -
'Freaks', 'wackos' and 'terrorists'? : the militia movement, legitimacy, and right wing extremism in the United States : a case study analysis of the Militia of Montana and the Michigan Militia Corps
(University of Canterbury, 1999)This thesis seeks to understand the militia movement in the United States as a political protest movement that challenges the legitimacy of the modern State. This protest reveals the fragmentation of the political culture, ... -
The Political Economy of enhancing children's rights through mineral rents : the case of Mongolia.
(UNRISD, 2016)Summary Populated by predominantly young people, Mongolia’s economy has relied heavily in recent years on mining. After several years of boom, the recent decrease in mining rents has only emphasized the pressing need ... -
Nomogenesis : a Peircean approach. A thesis on the philosophy of cosmology.
(University of Canterbury, 2020)This thesis deals with the age-old problem of the origin of the laws of the universe. I investigate Charles Sanders Peirce’s theory of origins, and place his ‘principle of habit’ into a modern scientific context. Peirce’s ... -
Herstories, gender, culture and trauma : a metaphorical reading of Yan Geling’s fiction.
(University of Canterbury, 2021)This thesis offers a reading of four key fictional works by Chinese American writer Yan Geling from the perspective of metaphor. Rather than understanding metaphor as a rhetorical device in the conventional sense, I ... -
‘Forgotten world highway, forgotten people’ : a qualitative research project exploring the experience of poverty in a rural community.
(University of Canterbury, 2021)Poverty has been an intractable issue in Aotearoa New Zealand throughout this century, particularly for families/whānau with children. The tentacles of poverty spread into all aspects of daily life making it a significant ... -
The good governance agenda for civil society : lessons from the Fa'aSamoa : an analysis of the good governance agenda for civil society and its liberal counterpart as they pertain to civil society institutions based on 'affective ties'
(University of Canterbury, 1999)This thesis sets out to use the case of Samoa to challenge arguments contained in, the good governance agenda, and a liberal prescription, for civil society. The good governance agenda argues that institutions based on ... -
By design or default? The colonisation of a Ngāi Tahu village : Māori Reserve 873.
(University of Canterbury, 2021)The acquisition of Māori land by the Crown and the subsequent on-selling to European settlers rapidly transferred economic wealth from Māori tribes to Pākehā (non-Māori). The largest tribe in the South Island, Ngāi Tahu, ...