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Beyond bifurcation: examining the conventions of organic agriculture in New Zealand.
The last 10 years have witnessed numerous attempts to evaluate the merits of new theoretical approaches – ranging from Actor Network Theory to ‘post-structural’ Political Economy and inhabiting a ‘post-Political Economy’ ...
The conventions of agri-environmental practice in New Zealand: farmers, retail driven audit schemes and a new spirit of farming
Audit schemes dictating the parameters of environmentally and socially acceptable management practice have emerged as a pervasive feature of global agri-food production. While the impacts of such schemes on the global ...
Rugby culture, ethnicity and concussion
This paper provides the socio-historical background to a research project which includes the investigation of the relationship between school rugby culture, ethnicity and attitudes towards the reporting of a concussion. ...
Can Your Trust Be Trusted?
This paper is the transcript of the author’s Inaugural Professorial Lecture, delivered at the University of Otago on 23 October 2008. The author discusses and dispels myths and misconceptions about trusts and identifies ...
De Facto Relationships (or Maybe Not) in New Zealand
The New Zealand Property (Relationships) Amendment Act 2001 signified a radical shift in New Zealand relationship property law, by extending matrimonial property principles to de facto relationships. In this article, the ...
The State of Freedom of Expression in New Zealand: An Admittedly Eclectic Overview
This article is a survey of freedom of expression issues in New Zealand. The author begins by briefly recapping the developments in the common law of defamation and privacy following the New Zealand Bill of Rights Act 1990 ...
An Indigenous Lens into Comparative Law: The Doctrine of Discovery in the United States and New Zealand
North America and New Zealand were colonized by England under an international legal principle that is known today as the Doctrine of Discovery. When Europeans set out to explore and exploit new lands in the fifteenth ...
The Māori All Blacks and the Decentering of the White Subject: Hyperrace, Sport and the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism
In this article we examine a range of media discourses surrounding the continued existence of the Mäori All Blacks, a “racially” selected rugby side, and a specific public controversy that erupted in New Zealand over the ...
Students First and Nurturing Networks: Visualising Positive Futures for New Zealand Secondary Students
Why should we place students first? This article engages with this question through an examination of New Zealand's first secondary school nurture group at Linwood College in Christchurch. We combine practitioner, theorist ...
"I A Isabel, You Know?": Antipodean Framing of Jane Campion's 'Portrait of a Lady'
If, as Jacqueline Rose argues, the unconscious dreams of nations have purpose and effect in the world, how can we approach an understanding of ourselves as national subjects–as creatures of these dreams? We trail behind ...