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‘The Kāpiti Distressway’: A Sociological Case Study of Public Involvement in a Socio-Technical Controversy

Hamlin, Morgan Jasper (Victoria University of Wellington, 2016)

This thesis examines public involvement in socio-technical controversies from a sociological perspective. Public engagement in science and technology is becoming increasingly important in societies where citizens are asked, ...
A kaupapa Māori analysis of the use of Māori cultural identity in the prison system

Mihaere, Riki (Victoria University of Wellington, 2015)

Māori are 15% of the New Zealand population, and yet are 45.3% of annual police apprehensions and 51% of the prison population. This status of Māori ‘over-representation’ in the criminal justice system has remained steady ...
Lady-Husbands and Kamp Ladies: Pre-1970 Lesbian Life in Aotearoa/New Zealand

Laurie, Alison J (Victoria University of Wellington, 2003)

This study explores pre-1970 lesbian life and lives in Aotearoa/New Zealand before the impact of women's and gay liberation and lesbian-feminism, using written sources and oral histories. The thesis argues that before 1970 ...
Law and Order in Contemporary Papua New Guinea: an Examination of Causes and Policy Options

Sali, Garry Wakani (Victoria University of Wellington, 1996)

After twenty-one years of independence, problems of law and order remain the single most important issue on the agenda of public debate in Papua New Guinea. The impression is one of rising crime and social disorder, on the ...
Life After Death: Suicide, Care, and Responsibility

Loffhagen, Tom (Victoria University of Wellington, 2021)

This thesis focuses on suicide bereavement, particularly of those parents who have lost children to suicide while in care of the state. I argue that, for these parents, action taken following the suicide of their children ...
Life in this Fat Body: Exploring the multiple realities of fat embodiment

Hancock, Tayla (Victoria University of Wellington, 2015)

This thesis is an anthropological enquiry of the fat body. It explores the narratives of eleven individuals in New Zealand and Australia who are fat, or who have experienced life as a fat person. In the midst of an ‘obesity ...
A life lived on the corner

McGovern, Bronwyn Jewell (Victoria University of Wellington, 2013)

This thesis explores the everyday life of Brother, a well-known street dweller and local identity, who lives everyday life on a busy street corner in Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand. Brother’s way of doing ‘being ordinary’ ...
Local Beer: The construction of masculinity through the production and consumption of local beer

Saris, Neave (Victoria University of Wellington, 2019)

Ideas of masculinity in Wellington, NZ are co-constructed in the creation of ‘craft’ or ‘local’ beer. This thesis explores the production and consumption of a commodity and its cultivation of ‘self’ to understand why only ...
Look at her: Analysing the depiction of women on the covers of women's magazines from 1975-2015

Beaumont, Sophie (Victoria University of Wellington, 2017)

Women’s magazines have a role in constructing and defining what it means to be a woman. Deciphering messages in mediums specifically designed for women is therefore key to understanding what women may be learning about ...
#LoveRugbyRespectWomen: An exploratory study of women's interactions with New Zealand rugby culture in the night-time economy

Courtney, Genevieve (Victoria University of Wellington, 2019)

Following recent high-profile allegations of gender-based violence perpetrated by professional rugby players in contexts involving alcohol in New Zealand, concerns regarding the safety of women in the context of New Zealand ...
Making climate action meaningful: Communication practices in the New Zealand climate movement

Oosterman, Jonathan (Victoria University of Wellington, 2016)

The climate crisis requires urgent action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions; however, ‘business as usual’ continues to fuel further increases. Instead of the social change needed to safeguard the wellbeing of people and ...
Making sense of the everyday women rugby player

Tovia, Katerina (Victoria University of Wellington, 2014)

This thesis examines the cultural and social significance of women’s rugby. It attempts to make sense of the experience of the everyday women rugby player at a grass roots level and is an area that has received limited ...
Masculinity & Objectification: A phenomenological study of contemporary shifts within masculinity

Benge, Dave (Victoria University of Wellington, 2018)

Notions of masculinity are changing. Many men conduct themselves in ways that blunt traditional hegemonic masculine norms of sexism and homophobia. Do these changes represent movement toward gender equality, or are they ...
Maturation and Personhood in Wellington, New Zealand and Shizuoka, Japan

Theng, Judith Helen (Victoria University of Wellington, 2008)

This thesis is a comparative study of maturation and personhood in two modern societies: Wellington, New Zealand and Shizuoka, Japan. It examines the interrelations between cultural and ideological constraints and pragmatic ...
Mediation, Regulation, Critique: Mapping the Relationship between Cultural Meanings and Political Responses to Poverty, 1970-2010

Gilbert, Greg (Victoria University of Wellington, 2012)

Since 1970 there has been growing concern over poverty in New Zealand in academia, government, and popular culture. From 1970 until 1984, this concern focused on New Zealand’s prolonged recession and falling standards of ...
Messy Multiculturalism - A critical conversation about state multiculturalism and the lived everyday experiences of cultural diversity in Aotearoa New Zealand.

Lystlund Hansen, Sara (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)

This thesis provides an ethnographic study of multiculturalism in Aotearoa New Zealand, which investigates the tensions between government-led stories about social harmony and tolerance and the stories told by members of ...
Michel Foucault, Social Policy and 'Limit-Experience'

Culpitt, Ian (Victoria University of Wellington, 2001)

This thesis considers whether the discipline of social policy can validly use the patterns and intentions implicit in Foucault's critique of modernity to develop a new qualitative approach to social theory. He examined the ...
Moral Foundations Theory and Attitudes Towards the Punishment and Criminalisation of Drug Offenders

Fargher, Campbell (Victoria University of Wellington, 2019)

Research on punitive attitudes has generally found some level of consensus on the relative seriousness of different offence types. However, how to approach the issue of drug offending is often a heavily debated issue, with ...
Nahrungsforschung [How to do research on food] (revised version of the late Ulrich Tolksdorf)

Boenisch- Brednich, Brigitte (Victoria University of WellingtonVictoria University of WellingtonVictoria University of Wellington, 2001)

Zwischen Beduerfnis (Hunger) und Befriedigung (Essen und Trinken) setzt der Mensch das ganze kulturelle System der Kueche (Tolksdorf 1976, 67). Im Gegensatz zu anderen Lebewesen ist der Mensch von Kindheit an bei Auswahl, ...
Narratives of Incorporation: An Anthropological Analysis of Same-Sex Civil Unions in New Zealand

Steven, Dionne (Victoria University of Wellington, 2013)

In this thesis I examine civil unions from the perspective of New Zealand-based same-sex couples who have chosen to formalise their relationship. My approach is qualitative and in-depth and focuses on interpreting participants' ...