Browsing by Supervisor "McCormack, Fiona"
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A Sea of Voices: Deep sea mining and the Solwara 1 Project in Papua New Guinea
(The University of Waikato, 2019)Deep sea mining is a new and increasingly important part of the capitalist exploitation of the world’s oceans. Situated off the coast of New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea, Solwara 1 is expected to become the world’s ... -
Colonial versus ancestral legacy: The assertion of culture and identity through public arts in Kirikiriroa/Hamilton
(The University of Waikato, 2021)This thesis is an ethnography of Hamilton. It focuses on the role of public arts as a cultural regeneration tool and their function in shaping the community(s) in Kirikiriroa/Hamilton through building a sense of place and ... -
Culture and collaborative conservation? Inter-cultural difference and the Maungatautari Project
(The University of Waikato, 2018)This thesis situates and examines the role of sociocultural difference and biculturalism in the Maungatautari Sanctuary Mountain project, a multi-stakeholder community-based biodiversity conservation project in the Waikato ... -
Development Agendas and Their Relationship with Secondary Education in Tanzania: (A Historical Analysis from the Late 1800s until the 2000s)
(University of Waikato, 2016)Secondary education has, in recent years, been recognised globally as a development issue that needs urgent attention. The United Nations released a set of Sustainable Development Goals in 2015 that contained targets aimed ... -
Health, Culture, and Lifestyle in Contemporary Tonga: With Particular Reference to Diabetes and Diet
(University of Waikato, 2015)Over recent decades there has emerged a significant literature regarding the effects of development and globalisation on the culture of Pacific Islanders. It often has emphasised the alarming rate at which non-communicable ... -
Investigating the socio-economic impacts of the introduced Asian paddle crab, Charybdis japonica, on New Zealand’s native paddle crab fishery
(The University of Waikato, 2017)Despite the body of scientific research that exists on Charybdis japonica since it’s discovery in New Zealand in 2000, an investigation into the socio-economic impacts this introduced species may have was lacking. This ... -
Laowai: Contested Identity and Imagined Community among Shanghai's Expatriates
(University of Waikato, 2017)Considering their significance to the globalised economy, expatriate communities have attracted relatively little scholarly scrutiny. Much has been written about non-Western migration to the West, but there has been little ... -
Smallholder sugarcane growers, indigenous technical knowledge, and the sugar industry crisis in Fiji
(The University of Waikato, 2019)This is a cross-disciplinary study that draws upon the agronomic, ecological, and social sciences to analyse the current crisis facing the sugar industry in Fiji. Its particular focus is the livelihood crisis facing the ... -
Te Mauri o te Kaitiaki - Exploring Te Ao Māori in environmental relations and kaitiakitanga in Aotearoa New Zealand
(The University of Waikato, 2020)Indigenous environmental empowerment is on the rise as humans look at ways to slow the adverse effects of anthropogenic environmental degradation. In the context of Aotearoa New Zealand, the concept and practice of ‘kaitiaki’ ... -
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 ...
