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Campaign: A Content Analysis of the New Zealand-based Chinese Language Ethnic Media’s Coverage of the 2008, 2011 and 2014 New Zealand General Elections

Hoyle, Caleb (Victoria University of Wellington, 2021)

New Zealand’s ethnic Chinese population has grown significantly since the selection criteria of immigrants shifted from being defined by ethnic or national origin to personal merit in 1987. The ease with which non-citizens ...
The Case Against Cognitive Enhancement: Responding to the Reversal Test

Monro, Alice (Victoria University of Wellington, 2008)

In this thesis I argue against the use of genetic technologies to enhance human cognitive capacities. More specifically, I respond to Nick Bostrom and Toby Ord's "Reversal Test", which they use to argue in favour of genetic ...
Cheers! Selling Health and Happiness: Advertising Alcohol in New Zealand, c.1900-1945.

Duncan, Marie (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)

Abstract At the turn of the 20th century New Zealand’s newspapers were filled with advertising material offering information on a wide variety of products. Among these advertisements were those for alcohol, a commodity ...
Child Poverty and Policy - A Comparison of New Zealand and Scandinavia

Stenerud, Tor-Espen (Victoria University of Wellington, 2009)

This thesis provides a comparative analysis of poverty among children in New Zealand, Norway and Sweden using the most recent available income data from year 2000. By comparing different countries with different levels of ...
China and New Regionalism in Africa - Conflict or Coherence?

Griffiths, Adam (Victoria University of Wellington, 2010)

What is Africa's best hope for advancing its development initiatives? Should each state seek to compete independently on the world stage? Should they seek to forge relationships with external partners and the power players ...
China’s Bilateral Aid to the South Pacific Region: A Constructivist Analysis

Wang, Zhen (Victoria University of Wellington, 2014)

This paper examines the role of China’s national identities and the impact on its foreign aid policies and practices. The multiple identities shape China’s role as a development partner in pursuit of economic cooperation ...
Chinese Institutions and Policy Experimentation: The case of Zhongguancun

Watson, Clinton (Victoria University of Wellington, 2013)

The nature of institutional change lies at the heart of understanding China’s extraordinary transformation of the past 30 years. This thesis adopts an historical institutionalist approach, emphasising dynamic and path ...
Chinese Narratives of "National Humiliation" and Japan's Role in the Construction of China's National Identity, 1915 to the early 2000s

Li, Boyang (Victoria University of Wellington, 2014)

The sense of national humiliation in China derives from a huge psychological gap between a glorious Empire and a peripheral nation-state which invaded by foreign imperialists in the 19th century and the early 20th century. ...
CLIMATE JUSTICE: BALANCING THE RIGHT TO DEVELOP AND THE NORM OF SUSTAINABILITY

Jayasuriya, Ushana (Victoria University of Wellington, 2018)

Climate change presents a global problem that requires collective action. Distributing obligations in relation to this has proven problematic, especially in light of the divide between wealthy and developed states compared ...
Coca, Bolivia, and the War on Drugs: the Tension between Freedom from Fear and Freedom from Want

Yap, Renee (Victoria University of Wellington, 2010)

This thesis aims to demonstrate the tension between human security's core categories of freedom from fear and freedom from want. The two core categories of human security are often held to be complementary to each other. ...
Cold War Supreme Court: Analysing the Change in Constitutional Interpretation between Dennis v. U.S. (1951) and Yates v. U.S. (1957)

Thorne, Hayden (Victoria University of Wellington, 2018)

During the early Cold War, America was gripped by an intense domestic Red Scare. This thesis explores how the United States Supreme Court dealt with the Alien Registration Act (Smith Act) and the issue of freedom of speech ...
Collaboration in the process of legislative lobbying: A study of a disabled peoples organisation lobbying for change in New Zealand 1989-1993

Ruane, Nicholas (Victoria University of Wellington, 2012)

This thesis examines lobbying from the disabled people’s organisation Disabled Persons Assembly (DPA) NZ from 1989 until 1993. It explores how the organisation conducted lobbying activities with respect to two pieces of ...
The Colonial Reinvention of the Hei Tiki: Pounamu, Knowledge and Empire, 1860s-1940s

Street, Kathryn (Victoria University of Wellington, 2017)

This thesis examines the reinvention of pounamu hei tiki between the 1860s and 1940s. It asks how colonial culture was shaped by engagement with pounamu and its analogous forms greenstone, nephrite, bowenite and jade. ...
Coloured Views: Images of the New Zealand City and Town, 1880-1930

Alessio, Dominic (Victoria University of Wellington, 1992)

"Coloured Views" is a comparative and multidisciplinary examination of the motives and methods of New Zealand's urban boosters between 1880 and 1930. It looks at the positive image of the country's cities and towns rendered ...
Commitment Without Consequences. A Carnapian Approach to Fictional Objects and Negative Existence Statements

Gilchrist, Michael Alexander (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)

The overall aim of this thesis is to present a fresh perspective on three closely related areas of enquiry: Descriptivist theories of reference, Direct Reference theories and the Carnapian approach to questions of existence ...
Communicating a Culture of Peace in Aotearoa New Zealand: The vision of Peace through Unity

Paterson, Meredith (Victoria University of Wellington, 2016)

Narrative politics reframes how we cultivate knowledge in the academy, foregrounding the voices of research subjects and their relationships with researchers to re-embed scholars in the social world. Narrative affects the ...
The Communists in Post-Colonial Bengal, 1948-52: The Untold Story of 'Second' Tebhaga

Bandyopadhyay, Sekhar (Victoria University of Wellington, 2006)

West Bengal is a province of India where a communist party - the Communist Party of India (Marxist) - in coalition with some other leftist parties, has been continuously in power for nearly three decades now. It has been ...
A Comparison of Martin Luther King and Malcolm X in the Black and Mainstream Press, 1955-2011

Cruden, Daniel (Victoria University of Wellington, 2014)

Most historians of the black protest movement claim that the mainstream media misrepresented Martin Luther King and Malcolm X as opposing figures, without detailing how the media achieved this, how these representations ...
Compatibilist Theories of Moral Responsibility and History: A Defence of Non-historical Compatibilism

O'Leary, Matthew (Victoria University of Wellington, 2015)

In the recent philosophical literature, a debate has emerged between compatibilists over the nature of moral responsibility. Though they agree that agents need to exercise control over their actions to be morally responsible ...
Complexities and Context: Women's Peace-Building in Conflict and Post-Conflict Bougainville

Page, Dylan (Victoria University of Wellington, 2012)

The potential role of women in conflict and post-conflict environments has been the subject of much debate in the field of peace and conflict studies. In 2000 the United Nations Security Council passed Resolution 1325, ...