RSS 1.0Arts: Theses and Dissertations
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Heart of Dark(y)ness: Negotiating race and racism in New Zealand rugby: Club rugby players talk rugby
(University of Canterbury, 2017)Racism in New Zealand rugby has been a topic of ongoing debate. In 2011 and 2010, for example, there was a mediated discussion about supposed racial quotas (‘darkies’ quota) for The Crusaders and criticism of Pat Lam, the ... -
I, Utopia : the burgeoning individual in transgressive heterotopian fiction
(University of Canterbury, 2017)Through the close examination of five novels that are popularly thought of as examples of ‘dystopian’ science-fiction, this thesis sets out to reconfigure Foucault’s notion of the heterotopia, and in doing so revitalise ... -
Rhythmic analysis of rap : what can we learn from ‘flow’?
(University of Canterbury, 2017)This thesis provides a novel investigation into the rhythm of rap, using data from six local Christchurch rappers. The background focus was to provide a linguistically-informed description of the hip-hop term flow, in which ... -
Certainty, crisis, compromise : the abolitionists of the liberator circle, 1860-1863.
(University of Canterbury, 2017)This thesis examines the abolitionist community that corresponded through the weekly abolitionist periodical The Liberator, organised into four different circles of the Liberator Circle, over the years 1860-1863. Chief ... -
The syntactic and pragmatic properties of a-not-a question in Chinese.
(University of Canterbury, 2017)This thesis looks at the syntactic structure and pragmatic functions of A-not-A questions in spoken Cantonese and Mandarin Chinese, and in written Chinese. The data analysed in this study comes from three films produced ... -
Politics as creative pragmatism: rethinking the political action of contemporary university students in Aotearoa New Zealand
(University of Canterbury, 2017)This thesis reconsiders the political action and agency of contemporary university students in Aotearoa New Zealand. Although the twenty-first century has witnessed a global growth in student protest (Brooks 2017), there ... -
The European Union's rights-based approach: helping Pacific communities to overcome gender-based violence?
(University of Canterbury, 2017)Gender equality is a fundamental human right and consequently the foundation to achieving sustainable development. As human beings, women and girls, men and boys, are all entitled to living a life of dignity, free of want ... -
Locating Ourselves: An analysis and theoretical account of strategic practices of identity and connection in Aotearoa/New Zealand’s Pacific news media
(University of Canterbury, 2017)This thesis sets out to explore the under-researched field of New Zealand’s Pacific media to yield insights into Pacific media and audiences, and what makes media ‘ethnic’. It draws on theories about identity, practice and ... -
Communities and interactions in nineteenth-century Scottish and English toxicology.
(University of Canterbury, 2017)The nineteenth century was a crucial period of development for toxicology in Britain, during which several great toxicologists rose to prominence. These toxicologists facilitated the creation of communities and intellectual ... -
The politics of privatizing water services : in theory and practice.
(University of Canterbury, 2000)Since the early 1980s, the phenomenon of privatization has quickly spread worldwide, changing the balance between the state and the market in favour of the latter. Its adoption questions and replaces the traditional roie ... -
Asian New Zealanders: Identity, Belonging and Political Participation
(University of Canterbury, 2017)National identity is often defined in terms of ‘ethnic’ (i.e., heritage-based criteria) or ‘civic’ (i.e., the adoption of a nation’s values and principles) features. This study examined the effects of national identity as ... -
Fundamental Frequency Distributions of Bilingual Speakers in Forensic Speaker Comparison
(University of Canterbury, 2017)The fundamental frequency (f0) is the main acoustic correlate of the voicing pitch produced by a speaker. Since the beginning of forensic speaker comparison research f0 has been a popular measure, however its highly ... -
'The most complete experiment in army hygiene' British military reform In sanitation from the Crimea to India : a comparative account of sanitary reform in the 19th century.
(University of Canterbury, 2017)The history of sanitation is not generally considered a glamourous topic. It is far more common to see larger works relating to war, within which sanitation may be present as a footnote to explain those deaths not caused ... -
Enhancing choral intonation in unaccompanied tonal music: a curriculum and pedagogical approach to teach choirs to sing in just intonation
(University of Canterbury, 2017)Poor, unreliable, inconsistent intonation is a problem for choirs and their directors. As a chorister, I observed many conductors attempting to correct issues with a range of ‘quick-fix’ solutions; what seemed to be missing ... -
A history of the political labour movement in New Zealand, 1850-1913
(University of Canterbury, 1937)A typically modern trend in democratic countries has been the entry of labour representatives into the political arena. New Zealand has proved no exception to the rule, but the history of her own labour movement, particularly ... -
The shareable, the conversation, and the news : an analysis of content posted on Twitter by New Zealand news journalists and news organisations.
(University of Canterbury, 2017)This research endeavours to assess the relationship between Twitter, journalists, news organisations, and content. This research aimed to drill into the content on Twitter and to what extent this content can tell us about ... -
"A colour line affair" : race, imperialism and rugby football contacts between New Zealand and South Africa to 1950.
(University of Canterbury, 1996)This thesis is an attempt to construct an alternative tradition of New Zealand and South African rugby football contacts to 1950. It examines the wider social conditions of such contacts, unlike the existing plethora of ... -
The improvement of light land under irrigation on the Canterbury Plains
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Perceptions of Chinese People in New Zealand Towards Nature and Possums
(University of Canterbury, 2016)This study explores perceptions of Chinese people in New Zealand toward nature and the environment, particularly towards possums, an introduced pest species that people have been trying to eradicate from New Zealand for ... -
Urban Maori art : the third generation of contemporary Maori artists : identity and identification
(University of Canterbury, 2001)Kia u ki tou kawai tupuna, kia matauria ai, i ahu mai !we i hea anga ana koe ko hea Trace out your ancestral stem, so that it may be known where you come from and in which direction you are going. The intention ...
