Arts: Theses and Dissertations
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The role of community newspapers in information dissemination : a study of two Christchurch community newspapers
(1996)This study achieves four objectives: identifies the role of community newspapers in the society ; provides an historical background to Christchurch’ s community news journalism; records the community newspapers in ... -
Uncertain dissent : Roman Catholics and their schools in the Diocese of Christchurch, 1958-1974
(1975)In the affairs of the Roman Catholic Schools of the Christchurch Diocese, during the years 1958-1974, a series of changes took place which were designed to protect the existence of those schools and overcome financial and ... -
“Kind to all kinds, respect all beings:” an exploration of the gendered experiences of women animal advocates in Aotearoa New Zealand.
(2023)Animal advocacy is a gendered social movement: it is acknowledged that the majority of animal advocates are women, while men are more likely to become visible, celebrated leaders of the movement. Drawing on a range of ... -
Non-verbal learning disorder : a global and Aotearoa New Zealand context.
(2023)Non-Verbal Learning Disorder (NLD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder which affects skills associated with the right hemisphere of the brain, such as visuospatial recall and processing. NLD can affect learning and social ... -
Reporting on the Redcoats : English press perception of British soldiers during the French Wars, 1793-1815.
(2023)This thesis examines how British soldiers were portrayed in primarily English newspapers during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars between 1793 and 1815. During this period, the British army was prominent throughout ... -
Labour in Christchurch : community and consciousness, 1914-1919
(1979)The development of the political labour movement in Christchurch is considered for the period 1914-19. The nature of social stratification in the city is explored. The influence and importance of trade unions, social ... -
George Frederick Tendall (1845-1901) : the career of a professional musician in late-Victorian Christchurch
(2004)George Frederick Tendall was born on 4 December 1845 to Sarah Collis Tendall (nee Chaplin) and Henry Tendall, schoolmaster, in Essex, England. At thirteen, he was appointed organist at the Church of Sts Peter and Paul, ... -
Influence of forest management and governance approaches on the livelihoods of forest fringes communities
(2023)This thesis examines how forests can be managed to achieve ecological and socio-economic sustainability in forest fringe communities with high levels of poverty. The thesis’s broad objective is to critically examine the ... -
The pua (frangipani), taniwha and dragon : New Zealand and China’s foreign aid in the Pacific and local stakeholder perceptions. The case of Samoa.
(2022)The dominant discourse on foreign aid in the Pacific tends to focus on power dynamics between donors who are vying for influence in the region. New Zealand and China, like other donors, use foreign aid as a tool of hegemony ... -
The 2050 Strategy for the Blue Pacific Continent: Political actor or political pawn? : analysing climate change and postcolonialism discourse in the post 2050 Strategy for the Blue Pacific Continent and the 2021 Post-Cotonou Agreement context. What is the EU’s role as a climate actor in the Pacific?
(2023)Climate change is an intersectional issue with implications for the European-Pacific relationship. The Strategy for the Blue Pacific Continent marked an autonomous step forward for the Pacific in determining its place on ... -
Present theories, past realities : feminist historiography meets "poststructuralisms"
(1995)This research discusses the feminist historiographical debate around possible utilisations of "poststructuralisms", and extends this debate by establishing some avenues for further meeting points between "poststructuralisms" ... -
Women's experience of "gentrification" in Mount Victoria, Wellington (New Zealand)
(1995)Throughout this thesis a feminist approach is used to explore, critique and redress absence or depictions of women in the city. Chapters one and two determine how women's presence or absence has been constructed and ... -
William Henry Clayton, colonial architect
(1985)This investigation into the life and work of William Henry Clayton, New Zealand's first and only official Colonial Architect, is intended to draw attention to a much neglected major architect. This is, in part, a history ... -
Aspects of bisexual politics
(1992)Bisexuality is a new politics which has emerged out of gay and lesbian struggles. Traditional approaches to bisexuality have focussed on clinical/psychological · issues as have studies of gay and lesbian experience. This ... -
Exploring the workings of Seacliff Lunatic Asylum’s History of both History and Techniques
(2022)This is not a traditional history of Seacliff, rather it is a social investigation, with the use of archival materials, to round out and bring together that which you could consider, from reading about Seacliff and talking ... -
“Exceptional and Exceedingly Pleasing”: Asylum care on New Zealand’s West Coast, 1872-1910.
(2023)Seaview Lunatic Asylum was erected in 1872 to receive the deluded, the demented, and the otherwise mentally impaired from across New Zealand’s West Coast. It was a small institution, housing fewer than two hundred patients ... -
“Mourn not my friends and parents dear” : a social and cultural history of Christchurch’s Barbadoes Street Cemetery.
(2023)This thesis explores colonial life and death at the historic Barbadoes Street Cemetery in Christchurch. The gardenlike municipal cemetery is an early example of local colonial design, and demonstrates a shift from unnamed ... -
The make-up of informal political conversations In Europe : how beauty vloggers talk about politics online.
(2022)Young people are often perceived to be uninvolved or uninterested in politics, and in some ways this perception is even more extreme when it comes to the EU; as a supranational organisation it can often be difficult to see ... -
Understanding the apparent climate value-action gap: gap or no gap?
(2022)To begin, I ask a question: do you value the environment? There are many answers to this question. For example, someone might say “I value the environment amongst many other things”, or “I value native forests, birds, and ...
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