Arts and Social Sciences Papers
This collection houses research from the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Waikato.
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Art that moves and re imagines place: a case-study on Tron Rocks
(2018)This workshop and presentation pushes into public art spaces and mobilities by drawing attention to place, environmental exploration, movement and the politics of care and kindness. Ideas loop back to, and are inspired by ... -
Student disengagement: Why they say they don’t come
(2018)Nearing the end of the academic year for most students, attendance at lectures is dropping to 25% and below. Why are students at the University of Waikato skipping lectures? I combine student attendance rates with data ... -
Thesis Review Series: Identity narratives by New Zealand African youth: A participatory visual methodological approach to situating identity, migration and representation by Makanaka Tuwe
(Unitec Institute of Technology, 2018)This fascinating and original work explores the experiences of third-culture children of African descent in New Zealand. The term ‘third-culture kid’ refers to an individual who grows up in a culture different from the ... -
The Last Patriarch
(Cambridge University Press, 2000)There is a scene two-thirds of the way through The Piano in which the film's heroine, Ada, lies stretched out on a bed gazing at herself in a small hand-mirror. Just a few hours earlier she had ripped off her clothes and ... -
Testing a biologically-based system for extracting depth from brief monocular 2-D video sequences
(IEEE, 2018)Knowledge of the 3-D layout in front of a moving robot or vehicle is essential for obstacle avoidance and navigation. Currently the most common methods for acquiring that information rely on ‘active’ technologies which ... -
[Review of the book The moral foundations of parenthood, by Joseph Millum]
(2018)This article reviews the book "The moral foundations of parenthood" by Joseph Millum. -
Deconstructive replication: How to tell if a thought experiment-population pairing is fit for purpose
(2017)Thought experiments/scenarios are often rolled out to help answer research questions The idea is that they tell us what people really think, value, etc. about the research question But how do we know whether the judgments ... -
Kava (Piper methysticum): Demythifying the Pacific's cultural keystone species
(2017)Kava, in both its plant and drink form, is Pasifika’s ‘cultural keystone species’ and a potent icon of identity with some of its medicinal efficacy legitimised within Western pharmacology and research. However, for every ... -
The Māori precariat: A silhouette
(Massey University Press, 2017)Recent financial crises and a host of punitive labour and welfare reforms have intensified socio-economic divisions across advanced nations. In Aotearoa New Zealand, the indigenous Maori peoples are subject to systemic ... -
Challenging the masculinist framing of disaster research
(Routledge, 2018)As a touchstone for feminist research, the personal is political sits at the heart of my PhD thesis. The research project began in October 2011, as communities in and around Christchurch (Canterbury) were coping with the ... -
Guidelines for gender affirming healthcare for gender diverse and transgender children, young people and adults in Aotearoa New Zealand
(Transgender Health Research Lab, 2018)Internationally and within New Zealand there has been a substantial increase in the demand for gender affirming healthcare over the past decade. The Youth’12 secondary school survey, estimated that approximately 1.2% of ... -
The Routledge handbook of planning for health and well-being: shaping a sustainable and healthy future [Book Review]
(Routledge, 2018)This article reviews the book “The Routledge handbook of planning for health and well-being: shaping a sustainable and healthy future”, edited by Hugh Barton, Susan Thompson, Sarah Burgess and Marcus Grant, Abingdon, Oxon, ... -
Towards Comprehensive Policy Integration for the Sustainability of Small Islands: A Landscape-Scale Planning Approach for the Galapagos Islands
(MDPI, 2018)Accomplishing and implementing sustainable development goals in the context of insular socio-ecological systems requires effective policy integration—i.e., the integration of policy actors across multiple sectors and levels ... -
Making global audiences for a Hollywood ‘blockbuster’ feature film: Marketability, playability and The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012)
(Intellect Ltd., 2016)This article interprets two key concepts in movie marketing (marketability and play-ability) through an empirical examination of the effects of commercial interpellation of audiences for a Hollywood ‘blockbuster’ fantasy ... -
Crown and country: Negotiating the one space
(2018)The concept of ‘Country’ is central to Aboriginal culture and has sustained the Quandamooka Peoples (the Quandamooka) of South East Queensland (SEQ) for 40,000 years. On 4 July 2011, the Federal Court of Australia determined ... -
Talking the language to death: Observing Hawaiian language classes
(Indigenous Studies Research Network, 2017)In the late 19th century, when the United States began its illegal occupation of the Hawaiian Kingdom, the teaching of languages was dominated by an approach—grammar translation—that has been associated with élitism and ... -
Facilitating reflective and collaborative learning in EAP
(Macmillan Pub Ltd, 2018)The research in focus involved a pilot study of the use of ePortfolios in an undergraduate third year English for Academic Purposes (EAP) course at a University in New Zealand. The overarching aim of the research was to ... -
Shopping in a narrow field: Cross-media news repertories in New Zealand
(University of Wales, 2017)This article reports on the New Zealand case study within a larger project investigating cross-media news repertoires within (and across) national audiences. Six key news media repertoires emerged in this case study; heavy ... -
Benefits and issues: Visitor sessions with pre-intermediate learners of japanese
(Massey University Press, 2016)In recent years, the number of Japanese language students in tertiary institutions in New Zealand has gradually decreased (Ogino, 2015), and Japanese departments have experienced budget and staff cuts. As a consequence of ... -
Obesity and breast cancer outcomes in chemotherapy patients in New Zealand - a population-based cohort study
(BMC, 2018)Background: Obesity has been reported as an adverse prognostic factor in breast cancer, but inconsistently, and under-treatment with chemotherapy may occur. We provide the first assessment of obesity and breast cancer ...
