• “isn’t all violence bad, though?” : an investigation into the role of violence in nonviolent resistance 

  Simonsen, Astrid Heidemann (University of Canterbury, 2020)

  This thesis examines the role that violence plays in the practice and theory of nonviolent resistance. The project investigates not only the occurrence of violence in movements and movement dynamics, but also the role of ...

• Public opinion formation on social media in a big data perspective : measuring political homophily and cross-cutting agreement 

  Kristensen, Jakob Bæk (University of Canterbury, 2020)

  The establishment and constant development of social media technologies over the last two decades have left media scholars with a burning desire to understand their contribution to the formation of public opinion and its ...

• Trustworthiness of tweets in post disaster events : a case study of Nepal Earthquake 2015 

  Adhikari, Bipulendra (University of Canterbury, 2020)

  This research focuses on the trustworthiness of information shared through Twitter in a post- disaster event, particularly focusing on the Nepal earthquake, 2015. It explores how Twitter users access and verify tweets by ...

• Racialist thinking in the life and work of Francis Galton (1822-1911). 

  Schumacher, Suzanne (University of Canterbury, 2019)

  This research paper focuses on the racialist thinking of Francis Galton and how this impacted on his work on eugenics and for a eugenic society. Whereas the focal point for most of the historiography is class and its impact, ...

• “Fascism alone will save this country” : presentations of decline, rebirth and the enemy in the newspapers of the British Union of Fascists. 

  Richardson, Daniel (University of Canterbury, 2019)

  This dissertation examines the ways in which the two main newspapers of the British Union of Fascists (‘BUF’), Action and the Blackshirt, presented ideas of social decline, the need for regeneration and the enemy. It builds ...

• The Yorkist scribe : his motivations and the objectives behind his edit of the Canterbury Roll. 

  McKay, Natasha Jane (University of Canterbury, 2019)

  The Canterbury Roll is a genealogical manuscript that traces the line of English succession from Edward IV to Noah. It originates from the fifteenth century and was edited by four subsequent scribes between 1429 and 1485. ...

• “Get outside your comfort zone : reflections of New Zealand historians”. 

  Duston, Neve (University of Canterbury, 2019)

  This study investigates what four leading New Zealand historians think about the changes that have happened in historical practice in these islands over recent decades. New Zealand historians continuously debate how our ...

• The archaeological evidence for Mithraism in Imperial Rome. 

  Griffith, Alison Bond (University of Michigan, 1993)

• Seventy-five years on : an ethnographic exploration of oral histories on the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. 

  Shimasaki, Olivia (University of Canterbury, 2021)

  This thesis explores the human experiences of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima since August 6th, 1945. Employing ethnographic approaches of participant observation, fieldwork, and narrative analysis, narrative accounts ...

• Politics and aphorisms: a contextual study of the politics of George Savile, first Marquis of Halifax through his literary short pieces. 

  Ng, Wai Nam Boswell (University of Canterbury, 2020)

  This study examines the politics of George Savile, first Marquis of Halifax between the Exclusion Crisis of 1679-1681 and the Glorious Revolution of 1688-1689. It examines Halifax’s politics in the context of a set of ...

• Te Paerangi : darkness and light in Māori oral tradition. 

  Maclean, Jessica Niurangi Mary (University of Canterbury, 2021)

  Darkness and Light have come to have particular associations in Western thought. Light is associated with Goodness, Knowledge, and Reason, the dichotomising impulse of the West rendering Darkness as Evil, Ignorance, and ...

• An exercise in the obscure : how history is constructed on the Canterbury Roll 

  Boon, Jayson (University of Canterbury, 2021)

  The central aim of this thesis is to understand how history was constructed on the fifteenth-century genealogical roll, Canterbury MS1, which is held at the University of Canterbury. The Roll traverses biblical history/mythology, ...

• Te mana o te Ao Turoa hei tupu i te koru 

  Walker, Wiki (University of Canterbury, 2020)

  Western economic ideology and practices are well-known to have had a detrimental influence on the relationship humans have with the natural world. Recent studies also argue that there is an urgent need to determine alternative ...

• The ‘in-betweeners’ : politics of power, resistance, and agency in second-generation desi Muslim migrant narratives in London. 

  Khan, Sahrish (University of Canterbury, 2020)

  This ethnography intimately explores the construction and development of responsive ‘in between’ subjectivities that transform and challenge static notions of identity and belonging, particularly in the context of ...

• Heidegger's language-game. 

  Evans, Richard Leonard (University of Canterbury, 1970)

  In this thesis I intend to make some intelligent remarks concerning the intelligibility of the philosophy of Martin Heidegger, with particular reference to Sein und Zeit (Being and Time), his major work. Many people have ...

• Social media: a new religion? 

  Clarke, Ashleigh Nicola (University of Canterbury, 2020)

  This thesis argues that in contemporary Western society, social media has become a New Religious Movement that expresses elements of the New Age Californian Counterculture. The methodological process I use throughout this ...

• Iridescent skin : encounters of the Great White Shark and caged humans. 

  Aich, Raj Sekhar (University of Canterbury, 2019)

  1,600 km from Antarctica an aluminium cage is dropped into the ocean. Suited divers climb inside and bear the frigid waters in wait of an animal which for many exists between myth and reality. This wait can be for a minute, ...

• Second-language acquisition of a sublexicon phonology: loanword phonology and phonotactics in Japanese 

  Mattingley, Wakayo (University of Canterbury, 2020)

  Language users and learners are sensitive to distributional information in their environment, which enables them to extract regularities that occur in the language input that they are exposed to. This process is referred ...

• The special settlements of Jackson's Bay and Karamea 

  Curtis, Jennifer Mary (University of Canterbury, 1973)

  In the 1870s two “special settlements” were founded on the West Coast of the South Island as part of Vogel’s public works and immigration scheme. The southern settlement, at Jackson’s Bay, failed; the northern settlement, ...

• "All that glitters" : the All Golds and the advent of Rugby League in Australasia 

  Smith, Jo (University of Canterbury, 1998)

  The origins of Rugby League date back to 1895 in England, when 22 northern rugby clubs broke away from the English Rugby Union to form the Northern Rugby Football Union. The split in the rugby codes came about over the ...

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