Arts: Theses and Dissertations: Recent submissions
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The politics of development : neo-Marxist approaches to New Zealand history
(University of Canterbury, 1990)This thesis will critically evaluate the nee-Marxist interpretations of New Zealand history propounded by David Bedggood, Rob Steven and Warwick Armstrong. This critique finds that the theoretical models adopted by these ... -
“One step beyond the line” : the sensory experience of the battlefield in Leo Tolstoy’s “War and Peace”.
(University of Canterbury, 2020)War and Peace is Tolstoy’s harrowing indictment of the Napoleonic Wars, laying bare the shattered expectations, illusions, and lives of a generation of young Russians. In this thesis I show how the methods employed by ... -
Language maintenance, shift and variation evidence from Jordanian and Palestinian immigrants in Christchurch New Zealand.
(University of Canterbury, 2020)There has been a substantial amount of research on language maintenance and shift (LMLS) and language variation and change (LVC) in New Zealand in the last four decades and most of this research has concentrated on exploring ... -
A man’s world : female correctional officers in New Zealand men’s prisons.
(University of Canterbury, 2020)As an influx of women entered the workforce in the 1960s, many began to emerge in what were considered traditionally male occupations: as policewomen, military personnel, and as correctional officers. In New Zealand, female ... -
Food and identity : the Iranian diaspora of New Zealand.
(University of Canterbury, 2019)In this thesis, I investigate and critically analyze the relationship between foodways and identity for diasporic Iranians in New Zealand. My main objective is in-depth exploration of the role of food and foodways in ... -
Growing resistance : taro as the symbol of postcolonial Hawaiian identity.
(University of Canterbury, 2020)Taro is a root vegetable that has held important dietary, spiritual, and social roles with Native Hawaiian culture for centuries. The cultivation and management of the taro plant was a significant foundation of ancient ... -
Conceptualising EU development in the African Union : will Brexit matter?
(University of Canterbury, 2019)Scholars have asked whether the European Union (EU) should be referred to as a civilian power (Duchêne, 1973) rather than a military power (Bull, 1982). Others have argued that the EU is neither a civilian nor a military ... -
Imaging Antarctica : responses from contemporary artists.
(University of Canterbury, 2019)Antarctica has been represented by countless different agents for a multitude of reasons, even before its official discovery in the eighteenth century. Whether in attempts to understand and locate an imagined southern ... -
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 ...