Browsing by Supervisor "McLeay, Colin"
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Coming home through football: A geographic exploration of long-distance fandom
(The University of Waikato, 2018)This thesis focuses on the relationship between long-distance football fandom and home. It examines how the act of supporting non-domestic football clubs is a symbolic and material connection to multiple scales of home for ... -
Commissioning genetic modification: The marginalisation of dissent in the royal commission on genetic modification
(The University of Waikato, 2004)The Royal Commission on Genetic Modification (RCGM) appeared to be a 'public debate'. It sought the participation of people from a cross-section of society according to its broad terms of reference, and invited input on ... -
Environmentalism for the environment's sake: Towards an understanding of the influence of the Māori worldview on Western environmental management perspectives in Aotearoa New Zealand through a lens of nature connectivity
(The University of Waikato, 2022)Individual perceptions of the natural world may be influenced by place, culture, and value systems. In exploring these perceptions through measures of environmental connectedness, this study considers the uniqueness of the ... -
The everyday Bogans: Identity and community amongst Heavy Metal fans
(University of Waikato, 2012)Since the mid-twentieth century some social psychologists have demarcated communities as static entities; conceptual and physical boundaries were placed around communities to facilitate scholarly analysis. This theoretical ... -
Funkin' Cultural Boundaries: Popular Music and Socio-Spatial Change
(The University of Waikato, 2007)In recent decades retheorised perspectives have transformed geographical studies of music. Human geographers have examined issues of music, place and identity in a range of empirical settings, theoretical frameworks and ... -
Land/seascapes of exclusion: social order on the coastal margins
(The University of Waikato, 2002)The hegemonic discourse of coastal planning and development has an impact on the social ordering of Aotearoa/New Zealand’s coastal communities in a number of ways. One way in which social order is controlled and maintained ... -
More English than the English? Cricket fan culture in New Zealand
(The University of Waikato, 2018)This thesis focuses on cricket fan culture in New Zealand. It examines academic theory in relation to sport, sport(s) fandom, cricket, and cricket fandom, and identifies their relevance to human geography. Theoretical ... -
Performative Methodologies: Geographies of Emotion and Affect in Digital Storytelling Workshops
(University of Waikato, 2015)This thesis advocates digital storytelling as a geographical methodology to understand how emotion and affect are produced. Digital storytelling is a flexible and workshopped methodology that captures experimental, creative ... -
Sports and Bodies: An exploration of bodily inscription through the practice of sport
(University of Waikato, 2014)Sport is an integral aspect of contemporary society; it is also a political, economic, educational, religious and scientific activity. The body and embodied experiences are central to the practice of sport. This research ... -
Te Mātāpuna o Te Waihou: When the river speaks: Te Waihou river rights and power-sharing in the currents of cultural inequality.
(The University of Waikato, 2020)National fresh water management in Aotearoa New Zealand is a subject of political contention for hapū that claim customary rights over natural water resources. Waterways continue to deteriorate at an alarming rate under ... -
The Environmental Justice Implications of the Planning Policy and Practice of Flood Risk Management in New Zealand
(The University of Waikato, 2018)Following an international trend, the flood defence approach historically applied in New Zealand has been superseded by a shift to flood risk management, an approach that aligns with the notion of ‘living with risk’ and ... -
Understandings of homelessness in Aotearoa New Zealand and how they impact a local response: A case study of The People's Project in Hamilton
(The University of Waikato, 2021)Administrative and census data documented the increase of homelessness in Aotearoa New Zealand between 2006 and 2018. At the same time, homelessness increased in significance as a social issue. In 2009, the first New Zealand ...
