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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' ...
Narratives of Starting, Using, and Stopping Methamphetamine Use

Dance, John (Victoria University of Wellington, 2018)

Methamphetamine use has come to be seen as a significant policy issue in New Zealand and elsewhere. Panic about methamphetamine’s effects, the increasing prevalence of its use and its alleged potential to cause more harm ...
The Nature of the Alt-Right

Williams, Byron (Victoria University of Wellington, 2018)

The presidential campaign and eventual election of president Donald Trump emboldened and highlighted the existence of a fringe group known as the alt-right, short for alternative right. While the term was coined in 2008 ...
Navigating the Coalface: Religion, State, Pacific Communities and Family Violence in New Zealand

Searell, Jake (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)

This thesis examines how the New Zealand state (e.g. government ministries and departments, government-funded social welfare NGOs, and the justice system) engages with religion as it addresses issues of family violence ...
NAVIGATING THE ILLEGIBLE STATE: EVERYDAY EXPERIENCES OF STATELESSNESS AMONG SHAN YOUTH IN NORTHERN THAILAND

Cheva-Isarakul, Janepicha (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)

Home to more than half-a-million stateless persons, Thailand provides a unique case study for understanding modern-day statelessness. Since 2005, the country has significantly expanded the rights of non-citizen children ...
Negotiating Gender and Police Culture: Exploring the Barriers to Retention and Progression of Female Police Officers in New Zealand

Chan, Shannon M. (Victoria University of Wellington, 2013)

Women officers represent a minority within the New Zealand Police (Police) particularly within the senior ranks. In recent years, Police have made concerted efforts to increase women’s representation as well as improve the ...
A new old age?: Exploring the values, attitudes and expectations of baby boomers and their implications for policy and practice in an ageing society

Glasgow, Kathy (Victoria University of Wellington, 2014)

As a large age cohort, baby boomers needs, attitudes and behaviour can have a substantial impact on society. Despite international predictions that older boomers will behave in very different ways to current generations ...
Ngā Whare Rau o Te Tahinga: Rakaipaakatanga and Post-Settlement Futures

Russell, Hollie Francesca (Victoria University of Wellington, 2015)

This thesis explores what it means to be Ngāti Rakaipaaka today and how this ‘being’ may influence post-settlement futures for the iwi and its members. This thesis is a celebration of contemporary, dynamic, diverse and ...
"No better than the Feminazis;" Emancipatory Potential in the Contradictions and Complexities of Young People's Understandings of Politics, Gender and Work

Thompson, Victoria (Victoria University of Wellington, 2018)

The intersecting politics of gender and work influence the changing nature of work itself, and how it is experienced. Unemployment, underemployment, precarity, and overwork, along with issues concerning unpaid care work ...
"Nourishing ourselves and helping the planet": WWOOF, Environmentalism and Ecotopia: Alternative Social Practices between Ideal and Reality

Kosnik, Elisabeth (Victoria University of Wellington, 2013)

A growing number of people around the world are becoming familiar with the phenomenon of ‘World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms’ (WWOOF). This movement originated forty years ago in England, but has since spread around ...
Nur Heilige: Mennoniten in Russland, 1789-1889 [translation of None but Saints: The Transformation of Mennonite Life in Russia 1789-1889 (1989)]

Urry, James; Wiens, Elisabeth L. (translator) (Victoria University of Wellington, 2005)

Irgend etwas ist mit den Mennoniten seit den ersten Jahren ihrer Ansiedlung in Russland im Jahr 1789 geschehen. Die mennonitische Gesellschaft und Kultur hat Verwandlungen erfahren. Nach sehr bescheidenen Anfangen bauten ...