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International Research Evidence on Relocation: Past, Present, and Future
The modern world is characterized by an increasingly mobile population as family members transfer or relocate nationally and internationally to pursue new career or lifestyle opportunities. It is, of course, not uncommon ...
The ethics of predictive risk modelling in the Aotearoa/New Zealand child welfare context: Child abuse prevention or neo-liberal tool?
The White Paper on Vulnerable Children before the Aotearoa/New Zealand parliament proposes changes that will significantly reconstruct the child welfare systems in this country, including the use of a predictive risk model ...
‘It's About People and Their Environment’: Student Social Workers' Definitions of Social Work Research
This article considers constructions of social work research from the perspectives of student social workers in New Zealand. There have been many academic discussions of the unique epistemology that can be called social ...
Pathways to parenting in New Zealand: issues in law, policy and practice
In New Zealand there are many ways to become a parent, including two-parent families of heterosexual and homosexual couples, single parents, adoptive parents, kin carers, whāngai arrangements, long-term fostering, guardianship ...
Sexuality and the Dimensions of Power
Power, many scholars agree, is intrinsic to the relationships between sexuality, individual experience and social dynamics. Beyond this basic agreement, though, writers and researchers have adopted different foci. This ...
Home Detention with Electronic Monitoring: The New Zealand Experience
Home detention with electronic monitoring was introduced in New Zealand in October 1999. It is an early release option for people sentenced to varying lengths of imprisonment. Detainees, as they are called, are released ...
Homoerotic Subjectivities and the Historical Imagination
The subjectivities of homoerotically-inclined men sometimes seem elusive, especially in an historical context. This article explores a range of life documents - court files, diaries, photographs and letters - and looks at ...
Sailing for Survival
Sailing for Survival is a comparative study of the trading systems and canoes of two groups of people in Papua New Guinea: the Bel people of Bilbil/Yabob on the North Coast, near Madang and the Motu people on the South ...
Keeping Up Appearances: Accessing New Zealand's Civil Courts as a Litigant in Person
It is commonly believed that more and more people are going to court without a lawyer, both in New Zealand and in other common law jurisdictions. The right to appear in court in person is essential to the legitimacy of the ...
Building Adaptive Capacity For Natural Resource Management In Akaroa Coastal Environment, New Zealand.
This thesis examines how people in the coastal environment of the Akaroa area of Banks Peninsula, New Zealand are doing at building adaptive capacity for local approaches to natural resource management. Adaptive capacity ...