Arts: Theses and Dissertations
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Monitored mothering : the experience of mothers who parent within New Zealand women’s prisons.
(University of Canterbury, 2019)While New Zealand previously allowed babies up to six months old to reside in prison with their mothers in self-care units, in 2008 the Corrections (Mothers with Babies) Amendment Act was introduced allowing children under ... -
Nelson and the Taranaki War, 1860-1861 : a case-study of opinion in the South Island on the origins and nature of the Anglo-Maori Wars in New Zealand.
(University of Canterbury, 1969)Though the origins of the Anglo-Maori wars, their influence on Imperial relations, and their effects on the Maoris have been studied by Professors Sinclair, Dalton and Sorrenson, and by Dr Alan Ward, there has been very ... -
The poetry of the numinous : a study of imagery in the poetry of Ursula Bethell.
(University of Canterbury, 1981)In this study of the use of imagery in the work of Ursula Bethell, I have set out to examine the two aspects of her poetry: the visual and the visionary. Both of these aspects play a vital role in her exploration of ... -
The life of Thomas Edward Taylor, M.P., 1863-1911.
(University of Canterbury, 1948)The thesis I advance for his place in the political life of this democracy is that he, essentially a self-taught man, entered the political life of the country from a strong sense of public duty and served as a spearhead ... -
Terrorists' use of social media : a case study of Al Qaeda and the Islamic State.
(University of Canterbury, 2019)This thesis analyses Islamic State’s (IS) e-magazines, Dabiq and Rumiyah, and Al Qaeda’s (AQ) e-magazine, Inspire, to identify terrorist propaganda and radicalisation arising from social media platforms – Facebook and ... -
The framework of freedom
(University of Canterbury, 1950)The object of this essay is to discuss some aspects of human freedom; to enquire, in so far as to do so lies within the power of the writer, whether freedom is a fact of experience commensurate with the widespread belief ... -
Ancient glass in the Canterbury Museum
(University of Canterbury, 2019)A great wealth of archaeological material is contained within unpublished museum collections that have never received scholarly attention. This thesis will shed light on one such hitherto unexamined collection of ancient ... -
Logic and music.
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A framework for assessing empirical approaches to moral philosophy.
(University of Canterbury, 2020)In this thesis I examine the question ‘What are the implications of our growing scientific understanding of moral phenomenon for ethics?’ I assess what moral philosophy can gain, if anything, from the rapidly growing body ... -
The problem of expertise : epistocracy as a potential solution for emerging technology governance.
(University of Canterbury, 2019)This thesis investigates the epistemic performance of deliberative democracy regarding the governance of emerging science and technology policy. Central to this epistemic performance is the role of the expert in relation ... -
Families and state housing : ideals, practices, change and problems, 1936-1973
(University of Canterbury, 1998)This study examines successive New Zealand government's involvement in state housing between 1936 and 1973 and the impact and implications this had on tenants in a social context. The state house building programme was ... -
Interspecies sustainable development : intersectional empathetic approaches to food and climate justice.
(University of Canterbury, 2019)As the global appetite for meat increases, animal agriculture intensifies and brings with it a whole array of problems for both human and nonhuman beings. Along with the question of animal ethics, intensive animal agriculture ... -
Implications of private sector involvement in providing health care to the elderly : now and in the new millennium
(University of Canterbury, 1998)This thesis investigates the impediments to access engendered by the government's decision to reduce public funding to health care and incorporate market principles in the financing process. The critique begins with ... -
The ambivalent heroism of Ajax in the Odes of Pindar.
(University of Canterbury, 2019)Ajax appears throughout Greek literature as a hero whose downfall is at odds with his heroic credibility. Ajax is celebrated among the best of the Homeric heroes, but the narratives of his suicide in the lost parts of the ... -
Media practices, language attitudes and sociophonetic variation in Pakistani English.
(University of Canterbury, 2019)This dissertation examines media practices, language attitudes and sociophonetic variation among second language speakers of English in Pakistan. A key question is whether speakers’ attitudes and media practices, measured ... -
Towards positive ageing : older people's advocacy in New Zealand, 1970-2001.
(University of Canterbury, 2019)During the second half of the twentieth century demographic, economic, political and social changes in New Zealand began to transform older people’s lived experience. National organisations such as the National Old People’s ... -
State-led peace building in Aceh, Indonesia : from transition to normalisation (2005-2018).
(University of Canterbury, 2019)Studies of post-conflict peacebuilding have flourished in recent decades. Most, however, focus on cases of externally led peacebuilding in fragile states with weak state institutions and inadequate national funding. By ... -
Sociophonetics of popular music: insights from corpus analysis and speech perception experiments
(University of Canterbury, 2019)This thesis examines the flexibility and context-sensitivity of speech perception by looking at a domain not often explored in the study of language cognition — popular music. Three empirical studies are presented. The ... -
Imaging Sir Joseph James Kinsey (1852-1936) : a man of many parts.
(University of Canterbury, 2019)This thesis introduces Sir Joseph James Kinsey (1852-1936) as entrepreneur, collector, amateur mountaineer, photographer, successful businessman and booster/developer. Kinsey’s services as attorney and New Zealand ... -
Re-conceptualizing the relationships between sacred forests and ethnic minorities : selected case studies in Vietnam.
(University of Canterbury, 2019)Sacred forests are thought to have existed as far back as 5000 years BC, when human society was in the early stages of development. Now they are a “global phenomenon” with hundreds of thousands, existing on all continents, ...
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