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Learning for Survival, Resilience, Well-being and Continuance: An Epistemology and Pedagogy for Environmental Education/Education for Sustainability informed by Māori Culture
The literature suggests that philosophies, worldviews and approaches of indigenous cultures may be key to an urgent shift in paradigm towards holistic ethics, attitudes, values and behaviours essential for an ecologically ...
Re-examining Rural Representations in Contemporary Aotearoa New Zealand Documentary
Documentary film enacts a particular viewing position, which enlists spectators in what Elizabeth Cowie describes as the desire to see and know the world through its recorded sights and sounds of reality. This thesis ...
Programming Parents: Care of Supernanny
In 2004 the problem of bad parenting came to the British public’s attention in a string of reality TV programmes about unruly children, exemplified most prominently by Supernanny. Unlike first and second wave makeover ...
Multiplicities and the Subject: Rethinking a Mix-of-Attributes Approach in the Digital World
It has been 30 years since Clark made his call to focus on fundamental structures of media rather than media formats (such as radio or television) and more than 10 years since Eveland proposed a mix-of-attributes approach ...
Communicative mobility and networked mediation in transnational lifeworlds: a case study of European expatriates in Australia
Transnational lifeworlds of expatriates raise exciting questions on the use and meaning of media. Network communication, and its increased communicative connectivity, allows for a borderless communicative mobility which ...
Rethinking Indian Cinema: Toward a Cinema of Multiplicity
This thesis explores the ways in which cinema’s in India have articulated the idea of the Indian Nation, and presents the argument that a national cinema must be necessarily multi-faceted in nature. Nationalism and Nations ...
Media Power, Framing and the New Zealand Press: VSM and Kim Dotcom
This thesis examines the New Zealand press, focusing on newspaper representations of two events: the instating of Voluntary Student Membership (VSM) for New Zealand tertiary institutions in 2011 and the arrest of Finnish-German ...
Documenting lives over time: How longitudinal documentaries provide a visual life course perspective
The term longitudinal documentary has become commonplace in film studies where it is used to describe any series of documentaries made over a long period of time; this thesis explores the origins of the word ‘longitudinal’ ...