In 1947, French designer Christian Dior released the New Look, a style of women’s clothing characterized by long, stiffened skirts and wasp waistlines. For Dior, the fashion offered a glamorous, feminine look following ...

The following piece describes the findings of a Masters project in social work, undertaken in New Zealand, which looked at women's experience of crime and their perceptions of various interventions from the criminal justice ...

Alternatives to custody in New Zealand have followed a format similar to criminal justice systems in the UK and other European countries but with a stronger emphasis on both punitive, work-based options like periodic ...

Constructions of conquest in sexualised terms of violence and humiliation have been the foundation for widespread human rights abuses by Latin American military regimes documented in recent reports. Notions of male honour ...

In his 1615 letter to the Grand Duchess Christina of Lorraine, Galileo argues for a “principle of limitation”: the authority of Scripture should not be invoked in scientific matters. In doing so, he claims to be following ...

Through a discussion of 'industry greening' this paper reviews different attempts by New Zealand’s apple industry to address the issue of food safety and protect its global market niche in the fresh fruit and vegetables ...

This paper examines the historic and contemporary role of one Canadian environmental non-governmental organisation (ENGO) in the operationalisation of sustainable tourism. In particular, the extent to which the ENGO has ...

The aim of this paper is to analyse credit union industries within a development framework. Explicit consideration is given to credit union industries in four countries – Great Britain, Ireland, New Zealand and the United ...

The implementation of sustainable production and conservation policies for indigenous forests in New Zealand has been vigorously and frequently challenged as "unfair" from various quarters. This article analyses two of the ...

This article evaluates the legal history of the dealings between various New Zealand governments and the owners of the SILNA forests (indigenous forests on land originally granted to Southern Maori under the South Island ...