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Child Sexual Abuse: Knowing and Not Knowing in Social Work Practice and Education

Beale, Sally Elizabeth (Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2017)

Child sexual abuse (CSA) is a pervasive yet elusive social problem, arguably crossing all domains of social work practice. Within the practice sphere of mental health and addiction CSA is particularly prevalent, however, ...
Locating “I think, therefore I am” in the Meditations

Pensler, Samuel (Thesis, Master of Arts, 2017)

“I think, therefore I am” (Cogito, ergo sum) suggests a “naïve” interpretation whereby anyone who argues as follows is certain of their existence. I think. Therefore, I am. Curiously, the famous line doesn’t appear in ...
Investigating and Enhancing Willingness to Communicate and Motivational Self-System of Yemeni Rural EFL Learners

Al-Murtadha, Mutahar Ahmed (Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2017)

A major problem in second language (L2) learning and teaching is learners’ low willingness to communicate (WTC). WTC refers to the extent to which an individual is ready to initiate communication with others. Some L2 ...
The algorithmic subject: the neo-liberal apparatus and the social media technology of power.

Hacon, Christopher Laurence (Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2017)

This thesis is a Foucauldian inspired apparatus investigation that contributes to our understanding of neo-liberalism. The thesis will show that neo-liberalism has varied and, at times, contradictory relationships with ...
Runholding in the Wakatipu Basin 1900-1950

Scrivener, Ross (Thesis, Master of Arts (M.A.), 2007)

The pastoral high country, encompassing the tussock-clad hill and mountain lands running down the backbone of the South Island of New Zealand, has since the mid- 1800s been the domain of vast Crown pastoral runs producing ...
Blessings and Woes in Luke: Intertextual Echoes of Antithetical Covenant Blessings and Curses in Luke's Gospel with Particular Reference to 6:20b-26

van den Brink, Julia Remoth (Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2017)

Luke contrasts his Beatitudes with a corresponding series of Woes creating an antithesis between the eschatological fate of the blessed and those in woe. This antithesis displays similarities to the covenant blessings and ...
Changing food habits of New Zealanders of European descent 1870-1970 : an anthropological examination of the mechanisms of cultural change

Mitchell, Janet (Thesis, Master of Arts (M.A.), 1995)

Between 1870 and 1970 both the culture and food habits of New Zealand European society underwent change. In the past food habits have been examined using either an historical approach or consumption and nutritional data. ...
Power of my Maori name: Stories of indigenous struggles in white New Zealand

Stevens , Alexander Windsor (Thesis, Master of Indigenous Studies, 2012)

Every day in Aotearoa (New Zealand), people of Maori ethnicity (the aboriginal peoples of Aotearoa) will experience their indigenous names being mispronounced when accessing health and social services. The New Zealand ...
Rational economic families: social reproduction and social policy in 1980s and 1990s New Zealand

McMartin, Anna Mary (Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2017)

This thesis examines social policy during New Zealand’s era of neoliberal transformation, the fourth Labour government of 1984-1990, followed by the fourth National government of 1990-1999. It traces the shift from a ...
The Trials of Rivalry: Sino-Japanese Relations since the 1910s

Withitwinyuchon, Nutthathirataa (Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2017)

This dissertation asks a challenging question: how can we explain the origination and, more importantly, the intensification of Sino-Japanese rivalry? It elucidates what led to rivalry between China and Japan in the first ...
A Christian Life: Living Across the Lines. A Grounded Theory Study of Understandings of the Atonement Among Evangelical Christians

Sievers, Jeremy H. (Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2017)

Aim: To explore evangelical Christians’ understanding of the atonement and establish whether there is a relationship between different ideas of the atonement and wellbeing in the lives of participants. Methods: Christians ...
"BABY MAMA" The experiences of being a teenage parent

Harvey, Monique (Thesis, Master of Social Welfare, 2017)

This study explores the challenges that young mothers face and the support systems they access along the way. The format that it adopted was to have semi structured interviews with ten young mothers who reside in Southland, ...
Spiritual Journeying with ‘A New Zealand Prayer Book: He Karakia Mihinare o Aotearoa’: Perspectives from Three Tikanga.

Gerritsen, Max Anthony (Thesis, Master of Theology, 2017)

This thesis begins by exploring the varied spiritual backgrounds and current practices of people of the three Tikanga Anglican Church within the Province of Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia. It focuses on the New Zealand ...
Between motion and stasis : Leni Riefenstahl's Olympia and Schönheit im Olympischen Kampf

Morris, Stella Anne (Dissertation, B.A. (Hons.), 2012)

This dissertation examines the impact of viewing images in motion compared to when static. This is achieved through an analysis of the film Olympia compared to the photographic book Schönheit im Olympischen Kampf In doing ...
Making the Choice for Music

Brown, Sara Margaret (Thesis, Master of Arts, 2017)

This research examines the impact of formal and informal music education experiences on the decision-making process of students who choose to pursue tertiary music studies. By examining the literature on this subject, and ...
The Colonial Family Album : Photography and Identity in Otago, 1848-1890

Haley, Jill Marie (Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2017)

This thesis looks at photography and album culture in Otago, New Zealand, between 1848 when the first Otago settlement colonists arrived and 1890 when snapshot cameras became widely available. It builds on work by Elizabeth ...
The Age of the Superhero: The Cycle of Appropriation & Revitalisation in the Hollywood Blockbuster

Smith, Edmund (Thesis, Master of Arts, 2017)

Over the course of the 2000s, the Hollywood blockbuster welcomed the superhero genre into its ranks, after these films saw an explosion in popularity. Now, the ability to produce superhero films through an extended transmedia ...
The Dunedin Energy Study 2015-2016

Dippie, Olive; Stephenson, Janet; Jack, Michael (Commissioned Report for External Body, 2017)

The Dunedin Energy Baseline Study is a joint research project between the Dunedin City Council (DCC) and the Centre for Sustainability at the University of Otago. The study takes stock of and analyses energy inputs to the ...
Fanohge Famalåo’an & Fan’tachu Fama’lauan: Women Rising Indigenous Resistance to Militarization in the Marianas Archipelago

Frain, Sylvia (Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2017)

This project examines how Indigenous women nonviolently resist the invisible and visible sexist and environmental politics of everyday and expanding militarization by the United States in the Marianas Archipelago. As ...
The potential of queer theorising in early childhood education: Disrupting heteronormativity and practising for inclusion

Gunn, Alexandra C. (Chapter in Book, Sexual Cultures in Aotearoa/New Zealand Education, 2015)

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