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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 ... -
Comparing syntactic persistence in written and spoken monologue
(University of Canterbury, 2017)Syntactic persistence, the tendency for speakers to repeat recently-used syntactic structures, has been well demonstrated in dialogue and in single-sentence monologue primed by reading aloud pre-prepared material. Models ... -
Erwin Strittmatter in reference to the agarian novel of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
(University of Canterbury, 1978)This study deals with two aspects of German literature: the agrarian novel from the early nineteenth century to National Socialism, and a comparison of capitalist and socialist ideology, using the works of the DDR author ... -
"We have a lot to tell" An ethnography of children’s understandings of health and illness
(University of Canterbury, 2016)Little is known about children's ideas, understandings and coping mechanisms regarding health and illness in Namibia, where children are greatly valued and engaged in social life, but their perspectives are rarely sought ... -
Trustworthy and participatory community-based disaster communication : a case study of Jalin Merapi in the 2010 Merapi eruption in Indonesia.
(University of Canterbury, 2016)Less attention has been paid to the information receivers in disaster communication, particularly the way disaster information is considered to be trustworthy by the affected community and how it can increase collective ... -
Controversies, instabilities and (re)configurations : an actor-network account of abortion in Christchurch, New Zealand.
(University of Canterbury, 2016)Abortion is an object of enduring controversy. Perhaps not surprisingly, abortion has been the focus of a significant body of research and academic debate. This body of research has addressed abortion prevalence, methods ... -
Gender, class and modernity : reproductive agency in urban India.
(University of Canterbury, 2017)The decreasing female child sex ratio in contemporary India is often linked to the small family norm. However, the decline of sex ratio has raised interesting questions regarding women’s involvement in decision making in ... -
Cross-language phonetic priming in bilinguals.
(University of Canterbury, 2011)This thesis looks at cross-language phonetic priming effects on late L1-dominant bilinguals, with different degrees of proficiency within the group. The participants in the study are 14 Chinese-English late bilinguals, ... -
Narrating connections and boundaries : constructing relatedness in lesbian known donor familial configurations.
(University of Canterbury, 2017)In a time of unprecedented possibilities for intimate life, lesbian known donor reproduction is an emerging form of kinship practice. While experienced as unique to the biographies of particular lesbian couples, known ... -
Girl in Progress: Navigating the Mortal Coils of Growing Up in the Fiction of Jacqueline Wilson
(University of Canterbury, 2016)The following presents a discussion of the work of children’s and young adult novelist, Jacqueline Wilson. My focus is on Wilson’s treatment of issues that are quite pertinent to growing up and growing up as a girl in ... -
Where is Craft located? : conversations about work, home and history : an ethnography with artisans in Telangana, India.
(University of Canterbury, 2016)This thesis is based on ethnographic fieldwork with a family of artisans in the Telangana state of southern India, who are skilled at crafting the region’s style of murals, masks and figurines and etiological scrolls. ... -
Imagining India as a spiritual place: life-journeys of western spiritual practitioners in Pondicherry.
(University of Canterbury, 2016)This thesis is a critical engagement with the ways in which India continues to be constructed as a spiritual place in global imaginaries and transnational discourses of spirituality. Ground in ethnographic fieldwork among ... -
"Still we live on" : the transfiguration of colonial indentured labour photographs in Mauritius.
(University of Canterbury, 2016)Over the last four years I have spent many hours and days researching and viewing the photographic portraits of the Indentured Labour Immigrants of Mauritius (1864 - 1914). My initial engagement with these images felt more ... -
Mediated memories of the USSR : reconstruction and critical re-evaluation of the Soviet past through internet images.
(University of Canterbury, 2016)Browsing Russian websites, one encounters dozens of images that attribute to the former USSR. Manifold representations of Soviet leaders, depictions of hammer and sickle, collections of Soviet cars, watches, postcards, ... -
The affective element in primary school music education : school music programmes and their influence on children’s attitudes to music.
(University of Canterbury, 2016)tance of monitoring and assessing the development of children’s musical achievement is acknowledged, a prevailing truism for the inclusion of music in the curriculum is to enable children to experience the joy of music. ...
