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Warring memories: Japan’s battle between remembering and forgetting.
(University of Canterbury, 2019)In 1945, Japan was bombed into submission by the dropping of two atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. This ended a period in Japan’s history notorious for aggression, atrocities, and the victimisation of East Asian ... -
Suburban homeownership & class identification : are two-bob tories a myth in New Zealand?
(University of Canterbury, 1977)The growing structural complexity of developed post-capitalist societies has led many political theorists to add numerous qualifications to the assumed salience of relationships to 'property' in the shaping of social, and ... -
Ethical espresso? : exploring the extent to which the European Union supports the Fair Trade coffee industry and the potential for an EU Fair Trade coffee policy.
(University of Canterbury, 2019)Coffee is consumed daily by many citizens of the European Union (EU) and plays an important cultural role in bringing people together for social interactions. However, as consumption of this beverage continues to grow, a ... -
An historical study of the Proto-Indo-European nominal derivational morpheme *-ti-.
(University of Canterbury, 2019)In this thesis I shall be discussing the nominal derivation suffix in *-ti- which has a fairly major role in many of the so-called “late” Proto-Indo-European (Proto-Indo-European hereafter may be abbreviated as PIE) ... -
Everything but democracy and human rights : EU conditionality in Cambodia : effectiveness of EU conditionality as a mechanism to promote democracy and human rights in Cambodia in the context of the everything but arms agreement withdrawal.
(University of Canterbury, 2019)Development assistance is a vital feature of the international system in the pursuit of a better world for all. The European Union (EU) and its Member States form one of the world’s largest development aid donor body’s, ... -
Acoustic convergence : exploring the influence of ambient noise on speech production.
(University of Canterbury, 2019)Increasing work across disciplines has recognized various ways in which people can be influenced by aspects of their surroundings. In fact, people have even been found at times to take on certain properties of the environment ... -
Climate change adaptation programs in the Solomon Islands : a study of perceptions and relationships.
(University of Canterbury, 2019)This thesis looks at perceptions and relationship of those involved in climate change adaption programmes in the Solomon Islands. Climate change adaptation (CCA) programs have become a major part of donor response to climate ... -
Experiences and expectations in the perception of speech
(University of Canterbury, 2019)A phoneme-monitoring experiment was conducted in which participants were required to listen for instances of /ɹ/ distributed variably in four different voices. Listeners had different expectations of the occurrence of ... -
Aspects of expansionism in United States foreign policy during the Grant administration.
(University of Canterbury, 1970)U.S. Grant is usually ranked among the three or four worst Presidents of the United States. For most people this fact seems to be sufficient proof that nothing worthwhile emerged from the eight years of his administration. ... -
Guns don't kill, people do : the NRA's case against gun control.
(University of Canterbury, 1994)For many people, the gun is a potent symbol of all that is wrong with the American culture. It is considered to represent aggression, violence, male dominance, sexual frustration and a host of other behaviour that is ... -
Knowledge without legislation? : the changing role of the intellectual in an era of pluralism.
(University of Canterbury, 1995)Writers across a wide range of disciplines within the humanities and the social sciences claim that we now live in a postmodern age characterised by the demise of the basic tenets of modernism. These writers contend that ... -
“The inverse praise of good things”: dignified optimism in the satire of George Saunders
(University of Canterbury, 2019)Through a critical examination of the stories of George Saunders, this thesis examines how Saunders uses satire in literary fiction after postmodernism. In doing so, I show Saunders is a second-generation postmodernist ... -
The military and modernization in Peru and Brazil : a comparative study.
(University of Canterbury, 1978)This thesis looks at the military establishments of Peru and Brazil with two aims in view, first to judge the extent of their 'revolutions' and second, to determine how and why they came to occur. A comparative study of ... -
Chile's democratic road to socialism : the rise and fall of Salvador Allende, 1970-1973.
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New Caledonia : written images and metaphors of France and Europe in the context of the 2018 New Caledonian independence referendum.
(University of Canterbury, 2019)On the 4th November 2018, New Caledonia voters went to the polling booths to determine whether New Caledonia would seek independence from the French Republic. This study builds on Entman’s cascading activation framing ... -
"Importing America" : a cross-cultural analysis of the impact of American television programmes in New Zealand.
(University of Canterbury, 1996)New Zealand has a significant level of exposure to American popular culture. One of the primary sites of contact is with television shows, produced in the United States, and played on New Zealand television networks. ... -
Bricolage and blackboxing : exploring the responses of consumers and health providers to controversy about the third generation oral contraceptive pill.
(University of Canterbury, 2001)In the late 1990s, when otherwise healthy women in Aotearoa/New Zealand started to die as a result of thrombosis allegedly attributed to third generation oral contraceptive pills, the workings of this particular version ... -
A comparative study of the digital switchover process in Nigeria and New Zealand.
(University of Canterbury, 2018)The Digital Switchover (DSO) process was conceived at the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) Regional Radiocommunication Conference (RRC-06) on June 16, 2006 in Geneva, Switzerland. Digital transmission was viewed ... -
Strategic narratives : exploring the framing of EU policy in crisis : a study of strategic narratives about the European Union and migration policy projected in Hungarian media.
(University of Canterbury, 2019)In response to recent events such as Brexit, and the outcome of the 2016 US election, the European Union (EU) has worked hard to position itself as a global actor in the international system (Novotná 2017, p. 177). In some ... -
Cultural identity, hybridity and minority media : community access radio and migrants in New Zealand.
(University of Canterbury, 2019)This thesis analyses three Christchurch-based migrant communities – Filipino, Nepalese and Iranian – and their radio programmes on Access Radio station Plains FM. It argues that these radio programmes are participatory ...
