Browsing by Supervisor "Neilson, David"
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The political field and public relations : Competing discourses in New Zealand’s first MMP election
(The University of Waikato, 2000)This thesis uses Norman Fairclough’s model of critical discourse analysis to analyse the campaign discourse of each of the five main political parties that contested the New Zealand general election in 1996. The parties ... -
Insecure, unpredictable, hoping to survive: Four cases of Māori people living precariously in Hamilton, Aotearoa New Zealand
(The University of Waikato, 2021)A conceptualisation of precarity is introduced and adopted. A critique of contemporary conceptualisations of precarity is presented, drawing especially on Stuart Hall’s interpretation of articulation and Marx’s concept of ... -
Bringing regulation to the fore of food regime theory: The neoliberal model of development in agriculture and beyond in theory and practice
(The University of Waikato, 2021)This thesis works to bring in a critically revised version of regulation theory in order to address impasses in food regime theory. This theoretical innovation enables me to identify McMichael’s (2005; 2009a; 2009b; 2013) ... -
Someone else’s gender: locating the transsexual narrative in the gendered landscape
(The University of Waikato, 2001)This thesis draws on 64 published life-stories of transsexuals to explore the structure and performance of gender in Western society. The concepts of “normal”, “natural”, or “ordinary”, gender are based on a set of largely ... -
On interpellation: an introduction to specular sociology
(The University of Waikato, 2020)Louis Althusser's theory of interpellation represents certain social phenomena (including, but not limited to: class, state power, philosophy, and art) as being constituted by mirror structures of mis/recognition (cf. ... -
Tragedy and farce, attending 'violently' to the discipline of the conjuncture
(The University of Waikato, 2019)Beginning with justifying the focus on history as a core part of any analysis of society - this section details how the ‘science’ of social sciences should be viewed/constructed. Further, discussion will shift toward a ... -
From Ideology to global practice : capitalist models of development between WW11 and the mid-1990s
(The University of Waikato, 2019)Focusing on the period between WW11 and the mid-1990s, this thesis follows two main themes: (a) the national and international progression from ideological models to practical models of development through debate, compromise, ... -
Contemporary form and dynamic of the international division of labour
(The University of Waikato, 2006)With increasing global capitalist structures there is a need to advance understanding of the structure and dynamic of the contemporary international division of labour. This can be approached through a critical enquiry: ... -
What makes constitutions legitimate? A legal analysis of constitutions and legitimacy: The example of Fiji.
(The University of Waikato, 2019)The title of this thesis What makes Constitutions Legitimate? A Legal Analysis of Constitutions and Legitimacy: the Example of Fiji gives an indication of its subject matter and its significance to understanding the ... -
A Transnational Analysis of Elderly European Wealth Distributions: Developing and Testing New Methodologies within the new Household Financial and Consumption Survey
(University of Waikato, 2017)Transnational wealth inequality is an expanding field of study. However, the field has many limitations especially relating to problems of data availability, methodologies used, and the very limited pool of existing ... -
Ideologies of Nature and Sustainability: A critical discourse analysis
(University of Waikato, 2017)In exploring ideologies of nature, sustainability and EE, I have had several goals in mind. Firstly, I want to trace the continuities and disruptions in Western ideologies of nature, and in particular, to locate them within ... -
The Food Sovereignty Challenge to the Corporate Food Regime: Food for Thought
(University of Waikato, 2017)This thesis forms part of an ongoing project working with Neilson (2012; Neilson & Stubbs, 2016) towards a revised version of regulation theory that is still a workin-progress. I have struggled towards a conceptual framework ... -
The Role of coercion and individual liberty within the spontaneous order
(University of Waikato, 1994)This thesis examines the implications of Friedrich Hayek's assertion of liberty as the supreme value. The definition of individual liberty and coercion represents a crucial determinant of his social theory. Society exists ... -
Comparing Social Solidarity Across Historical Societies
(University of Waikato, 2014)The purpose of this thesis is to develop the concept of social solidarity such that it can be compared across different societies. This is demonstrated by comparing social solidarity across four different historical ... -
State, Civil Society and Political Change: The Dialectics of Democratisation in Nigeria
(University of Waikato, 2013)This thesis is a dialectical analysis of democratisation in Nigeria focusing especially on the dynamics of social forces operating within the terrains of state and civil society. It revisits the structural link between ... -
The atomisation of the American Left: The unravelling of collectivism in protesting United States’ Foreign Policy
(University of Waikato, 2012)This thesis addresses the question: has the rise of postmodernism and the New Social Movements essentially undermined and “individuated” the traditionally collectivist American Left? The thesis seeks to address the shift ... -
Back to the future: The re-emergence of authentic lifestyles in response to the alienating effects of contemporary capitalism
(University of Waikato, 2011)This project was written to identify the social forces that were behind the emergence of eco-locally based grass-roots initiatives that have emerged in recent times. It was found that they were formed in response to the ...
