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Authoritarian Politics and the Outcome of Nonviolent Uprisings
This thesis examines how the internal dynamics of authoritarian regimes influence the outcome of mass nonviolent uprisings. Although research on civil resistance has identified several factors explaining why campaigns ... -
The Landscapes of Today and Tomorrow - A phenomenological exploration of experience and anticipation in the context of climate change
The physical ramifications of climate change on coastal settlements will challenge people’s relationships with the places that are important to them. Climate impacts are commonly described in terms of tangible changes ... -
Picking What Persists: Sociocultural Natural Capital and Intergenerational Justice
Attempts to determine the value and intergenerational importance of environmental goods have a difficult time accounting for the non-basic services that ecosystems provide. Discussions of ‘Critical Natural Capital’ deem ... -
Indigenous Representation in New Patterns of Urban Development: A Ngāi Tahu Case Study
Urban environments in New Zealand have commonly reflected grievances and injustices faced by Māori, especially due to a loss of kaitiakitanga (stewardship) of their land. Consequently, Māori throughout New Zealand have ... -
Better management through measurement: Assessing the conditions of coastal archaeological sites using spatial technologies—applied to Blueskin Bay, New Zealand
The world’s coastlines are becoming increasingly volatile for archaeological sites. This instability can be primarily attributed to climate change and its associated influence on oceanic processes, which are aggravating ... -
The Post-Politics of the 2014 New Zealand General Election: A Symptomatic Discourse Analysis
In this thesis, I submit the 2014 election campaign in Aotearoa to a logics-based discourse analysis in a post-positivist manner tracing the post-political elements of contemporary politics in Aotearoa New Zealand. For ... -
Faa Samoa: Peacebuilder or Peacebreaker? Understanding Samoa's Domestic Violence Problem: A Peace and Conflict Perspective.
Over the past 30 years, Samoa has been a model example of peace and stability throughout the Pacific region. The fusion of traditional (fono o matai and faamatai) and western institutions (Westminster style of democracy) ... -
Environmental Staging: A Practice-Based Exploration of Recording Locations in Contemporary Rock Production
This project (comprised of this exegesis, and the accompanying recordings) explores the role of recording environments in the production of pop and rock records in an independent music scene, located in Dunedin, New Zealand. ... -
Freshwater Management: State of water quality and options for management in the Waipahi Catchment
The main pressures on water quality are as a consequence of land-based activities. Agriculture is the world’s greatest contributor of non-point source pollution, which needs to be managed. The current international approach ... -
Flood Management in New Zealand: Exploring Management and Practice in Otago and the Manawatu
This research assesses how effective present flood management is in New Zealand, and what it may come to look like in the future. The importance of effective flood management is amplified by both human development in ... -
Archaeology and Temperance: Measuring a Century of Household Alcohol Consumption in New Zealand
The temperance movement was a social reform movement which sought to limit alcohol consumption, and ultimately prohibit its sale. The high levels of alcohol consumption which existed in early nineteenth century New Zealand ... -
Human Perceptions of Megafaunal Extinction Events Revealed by Linguistic Analysis of Indigenous Oral Traditions
Human settlement into new regions is typically accompanied by waves of animal extinctions, yet we have limited understanding of how human communities perceived and responded to such ecological crises. The first megafaunal ... -
Postcolonial theory and the faciality machine
This thesis examines theories of colonial stereotypes and spectatorship as they circulate in postcolonial film and media theory. Conventional approaches to the repetitive and easily reproduced characteristics of the colonial ... -
Vertical Changes in Soil Moisture in a Tussock Grassland Soil
Long term, continuous field based studies on soil moisture in New Zealand are scarce, with those addressing the fine scale and providing continuous measurement even more so. The tussock grasslands of Otago have been the ... -
Working towards a Public Bus Policy to Increase Public Transport to School and Physical Activity Rates among Adolescents in Dunedin
In developed countries, adolescents’ obesity rates are increasing while physical activity is decreasing. Transport to school can be a significant contributor to daily physical activity among adolescents. However, many ... -
Painted Poetry and Cross-Medium Collaboration in 20th Century Aotearoa New Zealand
This thesis shows that painted poetry collaborations, or cross-medium collaborations, were a defining part of New Zealand’s literary and artistic histories during the 1950s–1970s. As a product of the deep-rooted sense of ... -
Māori Land Court 1960-1980 : an autoethnographic and social commentary
The Maori Land Court in the 1960s and 1970s was a Court responsible for settling issues over the ownership, use and disposal of various land held by Maori. In 1980, a Royal Commission that examined the Maori Land Court ... -
Soil fertility management in nineteenth century New Zealand agriculture
This research examined the practice of soil fertility management, and the rationale behind it, in 19th century New Zealand agriculture, with particular attention being paid to agriculture in Canterbury and Otago. This ... -
The response of moth communities to ecosystem restoration
Ecosystems and biodiversity worldwide have been heavily degraded as a result of anthropogenic activity and the need for the restoration of these degraded ecosystems is increasingly realised. Understanding how species respond ...