Arts: Conference Contributions: Recent submissions
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A United or Partly United Europe? Will the Western Balkans and Turkey Ever Join?
(2012)While political leaders and the people of Croatia are still celebrating the EU‘s decision to accept this post-Yugoslav state as its 28th member in 2013, the EU accession of other current officially recognised candidates ... -
Sharing Environments with Elephants: Conflict, Conservation, and Welfare
(2016)Elephants have played a key role shaping land and life in South Asia, bound up with human enterprises of power, wealth, worship, pleasure, and preservation. Not just representing weapons of war, emblems of prestige, ... -
The City of the Fugitives: Does Selective Preservation of Disaster Memories Mean Selective Recovery From Disaster?
(2016)We’ll never know why the thirteen people whose corpses were discovered in Pompeii’s Garden of the Fugitives hadn’t fled the city with the majority of the population when Vesuvius turned deadly in AD79. But surely, thanks ... -
Shifting frames: External & Internal Media Framing of BREXIT in NZ
(2017)Britain’s referendum decision to leave the European Union (EU) in June 2016, has resulted in political and economic uncertainty in Britain, Europe and around the world. Resultantly, there has been a great deal of speculation ... -
Using large datasets to study online publics
(2016)The English word ‘public’, and its parallel terms in other European traditions such as the German ‘Öffentlichkeit’ or the French ‘publique’, deal with a hugely important idea – how does society share its most important ... -
Encouraging community engagement as journalism students prepare for a changing profession
(2016)For the UC project, students network with a community group, identify one person who they will co-create a story with and then work with them over a couple of months to complete their story. Before embarking on the project, ... -
Discovering and Defending Ancient Indian Elephant Science
(2017)What counts as scientific knowledge and how best to evaluate culturally diverse forms of expert knowledge practice are issues that have generated contentious yet productive debate. Arguing for a plural and inclusive ... -
Quality of Answers and General Attitudes of Respondents - Christchurch City Council
(University of Canterbury, 2012) -
The Quakebox: A container for post-quake oral history
(2016)In this paper Paul Millar outlines the development of the University of Canterbury Quakebox project, a collaborative venture between the UC CEISMIC Canterbury Earthquakes Digital Archive and the New Zealand Institute of ... -
Do Sheep Make Good Humans?
(2017)My paper will begin with a (very) brief historical survey of the well-known tradition – that of primatology – by which Western science has used apes and monkeys to define and refine its understanding of Homo sapiens. I ... -
Overseas and New Zealand Trends in Burials and Cremations
(University of Canterbury. School of Language, Social and Political SciencesUniversity of Canterbury. SociologyUniversity of Canterbury. Sociology and Anthropology, 2016) -
Taking a sociological approach to oppression in the neoliberal human services workplace : the practice gains
(2013)Workplace bullying has become internationally recognised as a major and costly problem. Meta-analyses generally suggest that around 10-20% of the workforce experience moderate bullying in any one year. The problem appears ... -
Interspecies Intersections: Ethnoprimatology and Ethnoelephantology
(2014)Animals play an integral role in the story of human civilization, and there is a long history in Anthropology of thinking about intersections between humans and other animals, particularly as objects that are good to eat, ...