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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Urban narrative: Value based urban design
(2019)Urban Narrative focuses on the social dimension within urban design which is often overlooked in practice which examines human values and needs as a means to inform design practice. The project has been working in partnership ... -
Aphorisms and archipelagos: Relationality in modernist studies
(Brill, 2019)Modernist studies, these days, is on the move. Global, planetary, transnational, postcolonial, and geomodernist rubrics map new routes of aesthetic interconnection and change as the geographical and temporal reaches of ... -
Why this time is different: The North Korea Crisis and New Zealand’s interests.
North Korea remains the ultimate international outlier: an isolated totalitarian state seeking to acquire a credible nuclear weapons program. As such, a simmering crisis between the North and the US has been playing out ... -
El estado de la poesía con Dana Gelinas
(Department of Hispanic Studies, Texas, US., 2020)En PM / XXI / 360°. Crematística y estética de la poesía mexicana contemporánea en la era de la tradición de la ruptura (2012), el investigador y crítico literario Alejandro Higashi, analiza la producción poética mexicana ... -
Surrogacy and the law: three perspectives
(LexisNexis NZ Ltd, 2020)In this article we argue that, from the perspective of the surrogacy triad, the legal process in New Zealand does not work well. We conducted semi-structured interviews with surrogates and intended parents about their ... -
Teaching English through English: an analysis of a sample of Japanese and South Korean textbooks
(Jalt, 2017)In many parts of Asia, the national curriculum for English in schools recommends that teachers should use English as a medium of instruction. We analyzed samples of Ministry of Education-approved textbooks and teachers’ ... -
Physical death, digital life, and post-self: That dragon, cancer as a digital memorial
(ETC Press, 2020)That Dragon, Cancer represents one of the first notable biographical documentary games to address terminal illness and personal loss. This article highlights how the actionable properties of games are repeatedly reversed ... -
Virtual teleportation of a theatre audience onto the stage: VR as an assistive technology
(Springer, 2020)For more than a decade, virtual reality (VR) has been employed to enrich and heighten media experiences. Despite the recognized potential and promise of VR, and ample investment, it has yet to fully transform or replace ... -
Hybrid Hashtags: #YouKnowYoureAKiwiWhen Your Tweet Contains Māori and English
Twitter constitutes a rich resource for investigating language contact phenomena. In this paper, we report findings from the analysis of a large-scale diachronic corpus of over one million tweets, containing loanwords from ... -
Technopoetry, transgression and testimony
(2019)La incorporación de múltiples sistemas semióticos en un mismo poema es ya un lugar común en la poesía actual. La tendencia a la hibridez y semantización de géneros y medios tecnológicos, apoyada en un uso versátil y creativo ... -
Editorial introduction to ‘truth: concept meets property’
(Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2020)The papers in this special issue investigate a range of topics that pertain to the distinction between the concept and the property of truth. The distinction between property concepts and the properties that they pick out ... -
Perception and flagging of loanwords – A diachronic case-study of Māori loanwords in New Zealand English
(2019)This paper combines a quantitative and qualitative analysis of a diachronic corpus of New Zealand newspapers built to analyse the use of Māori loanwords in New Zealand English. We report findings in relation to flagging ... -
Bringing violence into the open
(2019)This paper shows the situation of family violence in New Zealand, reasons for failure to report of violence, and how to prevent it. -
The Trap of Incrementalism in the Political Inclusion of Children.
(2019)Thirty years on from the Convention on the Rights of the Child, the international norm for the age of political majority remains set at 18 years of age. With few exceptions, those under 18 are denied access to the single ... -
Welfare words: Critical social work and social policy by Paul Michael Garrett [Book Review]
(2019)This article reviews the book, "Welfare words: Critical social work and social policy", by Paul Michael Garrett -
Groundwater management in coastal areas through landscape scale planning: A systematic literature review
(Springer, 2020)Groundwater is one of the main resources for social-ecological systems. As part of the total water cycle and deeply connected with land use, groundwater management faces many challenges, especially in coastal areas. Landscape ... -
Alternative food networks and opportunities for transformation towards a sustainable and resilient urban food system
(2020)Food systems are suffering from pressures related to population growth, increased urbanisation, climate change, and resource scarcity. These pressures are exacerbated by globalisation, with consumers concentrated in urban ... -
When salient science is not enough to advance climate change adaptation: Lessons from Brazil and Australia
(Elsevier BV, 2020)Increased social and environmental vulnerability to extreme climatic events and inherent aggravation of environmental and social problems has placed climate change adaptation as an urgent challenge for decision-makers. ... -
Mental health inequities among transgender people in Aotearoa New Zealand: Findings from the counting ourselves survey
(2020)There has been little international research looking at differences in mental health across different age groups. This study examines mental health inequities between transgender people and the Aotearoa/New Zealand general ... -
La prise de Cayenne en 1664 : une nouvelle perspective
(2019)Résumé La conquête de Cayenne en 1664 marque les prémisses de la politique coloniale de Louis XIV. L’événement est pourtant mal connu, faute de sources primaires fiables, cependant le témoignage inédit du notaire de ...
