Browsing by Supervisor "Neilson, David"
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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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ...
