Division of Humanities Departments
Apart from being able to specialise in traditional core disciplines (such as History, Philosophy and Music), Humanities students may also choose among a variety of new interdisciplinary programmes such as Asian Studies, Film and Media Studies, and Performing Arts), as well as programmes that lead to professional qualifications in Law and Teaching. Students taking Humanities at Otago are encouraged to combine their liberal studies with papers and programmes that have a professional or vocational orientation, especially by doing a double degree for example, BA/BCom, BA/LLB, or BA/BTchg(Prim).
Sub-communities within Division of Humanities Departments
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English and Linguistics [127]
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Religion [25]
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School of Geography [331]
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Theology [174]
Collections in Division of Humanities Departments
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Classics [39]
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College of Education [139]
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History [253]
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Law Collection [510]
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Philosophy [52]
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Politics [82]
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Visual Culture [2]
Recent Deposits
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Ngā Kete Mātauranga. Māori scholars at the research interface
In this beautiful and transformative book, 24 Māori academics share their personal journeys, revealing what being Māori has meant for them in their work. Their perspectives provide insight for all New Zealanders into how ... -
Blue-sky Thinking: Flood Risk Management and Blue-Green Infrastructure in Brisbane and Singapore
Floods are caused by a wide range of meteorological and environmental factors and issues around infrastructure and land use, resulting in various environmental, social and economic ramifications for societies. Brisbane, ... -
Toitū te Mātauranga Māori: The Protection of Mātauranga Māori in the Publishing Industry
Tahau-Hodges, P. (2020). Toitū te Mātauranga Māori: The Protection of Mātauranga Māori in the Publishing Industry. (A thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Indigenous Studies ... -
New Zealand and the labour traffic, 1868-1870
Since the days of the discoverers, island people had been kidnapped. Occasionally, they served as interpreters, but principally, they provided cheap labour, and during the early years of the nineteenth century, bêche-demer ... -
New Zealand's trade with the Pacific islands, 1870-1900
The hopes and dreams of those who wished to see New Zealand as the political and commercial headquarters of an island empire in the South Pacific saw the first practical attempt made in this direction in the year 1847. ... -
New Zealand interest and participation in the Labour traffic prior to Bishop Patteson's death, 21 September 1871
As interest in the virgin Pacific Islands grew in the 1860s, it was inevitable that those New Zealanders closely involved in the peculiar difficulties of cotton plantations should see the recruitment of labour with the ... -
Indigenous peoples, consents and rights: Troubling subjects
Analysing how Indigenous Peoples come to be identifiable as bearers of human rights, this book considers how individuals and communities claim the right of free, prior and informed consent (FPIC) as Indigenous peoples. The ... -
Tangible Artefacts Unearth Contemporary Legalities: Aboriginal Artefacts and the Randwick Light Rail Project
There is insufficient legal protection for tangible but non-charismatic Aboriginal artefacts in New South Wales, Australia. The State laws are insufficient because they provide State actors with the power to protect those ... -
The Self Divided: The Problems of contradictory claims to Indigenous peoples’ self-determination in Australia
When the United Nations General Assembly endorsed the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (‘UNDRIP’) in 2007, many extolled it for recognising Indigenous peoples’ right of self-determination. ... -
Consent, custom and international law in South Africa: What Australian lawmakers could learn
This article summarises a recent South African case, Baleni v Minister of Mineral Resources. It also analyses the Court’s reasoning to explore how a non-Australian common law state protects a traditional community’s customary ... -
The Deification of Process in Canada’s Duty to Consult: Tsleil-Waututh Nation v Canada (Attorney General)
This article considers the limitations in Canada’s duty to consult with Aboriginal peoples as recently articulated in Tsleil-Waututh Nation v Canada (Attorney General). There, six Indigenous applicants challenged Canada’s ... -
Searching for the Author: A performative reading of legal subjection in David Foster Wallace’s The Pale King
David Foster Wallace died before the publication of his novel The Pale King, which complicates and is, indeed, important to this novel. This article argues that law – as a broadly construed concept – is a character and ... -
Re-historicising dissolved identities: Deskaheh, the League of Nations and the international legal discourse on Indigenous peoples
In 1923, Levi General Deskaheh sought recognition from the League of Nations of the Six Nations’ sovereignty and right to self-determination. Although scholars have good reasons for retroactively identifing Deskaheh as a ... -
The Material Costs of Claiming International Human Rights: Australia, Adani and the Wangan and Jagalingou
This article presents a materialist account of Indigenous peoples’ international legal human rights claims. It argues that appeals to the global legal system as well as pluralistic approaches to Indigenous peoples’ rights ... -
How to Compute Compensation for the Extinguishment of Native Title in Australia: Northern Territory v Mr A. Griffiths (deceased) and Lorraine Jones on behalf of the Ngaliwurru and Nungali Peoples
This note explains Northern Territory v Griffiths (‘Timber Creek’), which is a native title case concerning land valuation in the northwestern corner of Australia’s Northern Territory. It is an important case because it ... -
The Sioux Tribes’ continuing opposition to the DAPL
Standing Rock Sioux Tribe v US Army Corps of Engineers (Standing Rock V) is the most recent in a series of cases where Sioux Tribes have challenged the legal authorisation for the Dakota Access Pipeline (“DAPL”) to protect ... -
Modern Treaty Making and the Limits of the Law
In recent years, several Australian states have formally committed to treaty negotiations with the First Peoples whose traditional lands they claim. The emerging treaty processes in Australia build on both the comprehensive ... -
Agony, Exclusion and Colonial Reproduction: A critical examination of the Doctrine of Difference in Aotearoa New Zealand
This article examines how contemporary legal discourse perpetuates and reproduces colonial structures and some less risky alternatives. It does so through an inquiry into how First Peoples enter into legal relationships ... -
Clothing Upcycling in Otago (Ōtākou) and the Problem of Fast Fashion
This dissertation employs qualitative inductive research methods to address the ‘problem of global fast fashion’. Currently the global production of garments is 62 million tonnes per annum with the majority of production ...