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Interspecies Care in a Hybrid Institution
(Rachel Carson Center, 2017)Piers Locke challenges the presuppositions of an anthropological education delimited in narrowly humanist-cultural terms. Recognizing elephants as moral actors in the institutional space of the elephant stable, he reconceives ... -
Informal Caregivers: An invisible unpaid workforce
(Canterbury University PressUniversity of Canterbury. Human Services and Social WorkUniversity of Canterbury. School of Language, Social and Political Sciences, 2016)The crucial role informal caregivers play in supporting people to remain in their own home for as long as possible is evident from both international and national research. The state, through its policies, has shifted the ... -
Social policy, social work and social change
(Canterbury University PressUniversity of Canterbury. Human Services and Social WorkUniversity of Canterbury. School of Language, Social and Political Sciences, 2016)The study of social policy is interdisciplinary in nature and largely concerned with the way resources are distributed and wellbeing is attended to in any given society. Philosophical beliefs about what principles underpin ... -
Propaganda at Home (Great Britain and Ireland)
(Freie Universität BerlinUniversity of Canterbury. School of Humanities and Creative ArtsUniversity of Canterbury. History, 2016)British and Irish domestic propaganda evolved patchily throughout the war. It underwent several stages of development, was delivered by many official and unofficial bodies, including critics, and featured multiple methods ... -
Comment on sustainability and innovation in staple crop production in the US Midwest
(University of Canterbury. School of Forestry, 2014)In a recent article Heinemann et al. (2013) focused “on the US staple crop agrobiodiversity, particularly maize” using the contrast between the yield of Western Europe and United States as a proxy for the comparison between ... -
Union of Democratic Control
(Freie Universität BerlinUniversity of Canterbury. School of Humanities and Creative ArtsUniversity of Canterbury. History, 2015)The Union of Democratic Control was a prominent opposition group in Britain that particularly criticised the operation of British foreign policy and the role of "secret diplomacy". It advocated public oversight of diplomacy ... -
City loops
(Audio Foundation and CMRUniversity of Canterbury. School of Language, Social and Political SciencesUniversity of Canterbury. Media and Communications, 2012) -
Gangs
(Ministry for Culture and HeritageUniversity of Canterbury. School of Social and Political SciencesUniversity of Canterbury. Sociology, 2011) -
Violent crime
(Ministry for Culture and HeritageUniversity of Canterbury. School of Social and Political SciencesUniversity of Canterbury. Sociology, 2011) -
"Can’t talk now, mate": New Zealand news media and the invisible Afghan war
(AbramisUniversity of Canterbury. School of Social and Political SciencesUniversity of Canterbury. Media and Communication and Journalism, 2010) -
Queer, Queerer, Queerest? Feminisms, Heterosexualities and Queer Theory
(Dunmore PressUniversity of Canterbury. School of Sociology and Anthropology., 2004) -
"The Heart That Cannot Bear...the Other": Reading Mengzi on the Goodness of Human Nature
(Harrassowitz VerlagUniversity of Canterbury. Asian Studies., 2006)This paper will discuss the ancient Chinese thinker Mengzi’s 孟子 (ca. 390-ca. 305 B.C.) thought of human nature. But let us first quote from an increasingly influential modern French thinker: Emmanuel Levinas. The purpose ... -
Truth in a War Zone: The Role of Warblogs in Iraq
(ArimaUniversity of Canterbury. Mass Communication and Journalism., 2007)This chapter proposes to examine the emergent forms and practices of blogging as an augmentation of – and at times challenge to – war reporting. As will soon become apparent, however, we have not attempted the difficult ...
