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  • Kukutai, Tahu (Population Association of New Zealand, 2011)
    Writing in the Journal of the Polynesian Society fifty years ago, budding demographer Ian Pool asked: “When is a Maori a ‘Maori’”? His assertion that cultural self-identification was the only credible way to define Māori ...
  • Barnard, Roger; Robinson, Matt; da Costa, Norberto; da Silva Sarmento, João (2011)
    Codeswitching between languages in English language classrooms has been disparaged by textbook writers, methodologists and educational policymakers in many countries. This paper reports an action research project which ...
  • Gregory, Robert; Zirker, Dan (2013)
    New Zealand has long been regarded as a country with little or no governmental corruption. In recent times it has been ranked consistently as one of the five least corrupt countries in the world, on Transparency International’s ...
  • Wilson, Nick J.; Tamatea, Armon J. (Routledge, 2013)
    Psychopathy has long been framed as a special challenge in criminal justice contexts, in part due to the supposedly untreatable nature of psychopathic offenders. Indeed, previous failed attempts to ‘treat’ this particular ...
  • Shahan, Timothy A.; Bizo, Lewis A. (Elsevier, 2013)
    This special issue of Behavioral Processes reports the proceedings of the 35th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Quantitative Analyses of Behavior (SQAB) held in Seattle, Washington May 24–26, 2012. The special issue ...
  • Morrison, Carey-Ann; Johnston, Lynda; Longhurst, Robyn (Sage, 2013)
    Addressing the question ‘does using the term “Other” in relation to geographies of love flatten out difference?’ we argue that, while it may have this potential, it can also recognize collectivity (which is not necessarily ...
  • Brabyn, Lars; Sutton, S. (Elsevier, 2013)
    Active participation in the outdoors not only provides enjoyment and adventure, but it is also important for health and promoting conservation values. The latter is particularly important for young people as they are at ...
  • Pagel, Mark; Atkinson, Quentin D.; Calude, Andreea S.; Meade, Andrew (2013)
    The search for ever deeper relationships among the World’s languages is bedeviled by the fact that most words evolve too rapidly to preserve evidence of their ancestry beyond 5,000 to 9,000 y. On the other hand, quantitative ...
  • Pool, Ian; Baxendine, Sandra; Cheung, Jit; Coombs, Ngaire; Jackson, Gary; Dharmalingam, Arunachalam; Katzenellenbogen, Judith M.; Sceats, Janet E.; Cooper, Jenine (Population Studies Centre, University of Waikato, 2009)
    An analysis of the "nation's health" is the central concern of this study. Its genesis was a detailed, technical, time-series research on regional and ethnic differentials in health in New Zealand. But as this work progressed ...
  • Foroutan, Yaghoob; Jackson, Natalie; Hutt, Rachael; Weal, Jennifer (National Institute of Demographic and Economic Analysis (NIDEA), 2011)
    The Secondary School Study Intentions Survey is now in its seventh year. The main objectives of this research are to identify secondary school students’ choice of programme, the level of qualification that students aspire ...
  • van Zyl, Liezl (University of Chicago Press, 2012)
    This article reviews the book: “Motive and rightness “ , by Steven Sverdlik. This book is essential reading for anyone interested in the question of whether the motive of an action ever affects its deontic status, and it ...
  • Charlton, Samuel G.; Starkey, Nicola J. (Elsevier, 2013)
    This paper describes our research into the processes that govern driver attention and behavior in familiar, well-practiced situations. The experiment examined the effects of extended practice on inattention blindness and ...
  • Cupit, Geoffrey (Cambridge, 2013)
    Is there a connection between the values of fraternity and outcome equality? Is inequality at odds with fraternity? There are reasons to doubt that it is. First, fraternity requires us to want our ‘brothers’ and ‘sisters’ ...
  • van Zyl, Liezl (Taylor & Francis, 2012)
    This article reviews the book: “New Waves in Ethics “ edited by Thom Brooks.
  • Nannicelli, Theodore (Intellect, 2012)
    The Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas – Austin is a fantastic resource for scholars of screenwriting and the humanities in general. The Center groups its collections roughly into the following categories: ...
  • Aiello, Giorgia; Bakshi, Sandeep; Bilge, Sirma; Hall, Lisa Kahaleole; Johnston, Lynda; Pérez, Kimberlee; Chávez, Karma (Routledge, 2013)
    To start this dialogue, guest editor Karma R. Chávez posed a series of general and unbinding questions to participants about the meanings of queer theory and its relationship with questions of culture. The dialogue unfolded ...
  • Goldsmith, Michael; McNeill, Kellie (Pacific Institute of Resource Management (PIRM), 2012)
    Universal Basic Income is a well established concept that can help solve this basic human rights issue. While hunger is often recognised in poorer countries, it is trivialised and hidden in countries like New Zealand, which ...
  • Barnard, Roger; Burns, Anne (Multilingual Matters, 2012)
    In our introduction to this volume, we pointed out that many academic journals do not have enough space to enable the authors of empirical studies to discuss important methodological details of their projects.
  • Barnard, Roger; Burns, Anne (Multilingual Matters, 2012)
    The book aims to fill the gap between conventional research methodology books and published reports of research such as are found in academic journals. While volumes on methodology may explain how and why a particular ...
  • Moffat, Kirstine; Lavën, Helen (Sage, 2011)
    The New Zealand section of The Journal of Commonwealth Literature’s 2011 bibliographical issue.

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