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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Fashioning hybrid Muslim women’s veiled embodied geographies in Hamilton, Aotearoa New Zealand: #hijabi spaces
(Informa UK Limited, 2021)In this article, we foreground the intersection of hijab and fashion as multiple expressions of Muslim women’s gendered identities and geographies in Hamilton, Aotearoa New Zealand. Muslim women use their bodies to express ... -
Managed retreat governance: Insights from Matatā, New Zealand.
(University of Waikato, New Zealand, 2018)This report provides an initial summary of case study findings from PhD research investigating the role of environmental planning in enabling managed retreat in New Zealand. It begins with an overview of the case study and ... -
Drawing the line between essential and nonessential interventions on intersex characteristics with European health care professionals
(Sage Publications Inc, 2020)Human rights statements on intersex characteristics distinguish legitimate “medically necessary” interventions from illegitimate normalizing ones. Ironically, this binary classification seems partially grounded in knowledge ... -
Psychodrama and emotional labour in the police: A mutually beneficial methodology for researchers and participants
(Elsevier BV, 2021)This study utilises the qualitative methodology of psychodrama to create mutually beneficial research. Psychodrama is a group psychotherapy that uses action to explore participants' experiences and solutions to challenges. ... -
Riskscapes and difficult decisions
(2021)We need to shift focus from increasing our Technical understanding of Risk to the Political Risk of acting on it. -
Ten-year panel data confirm generation gap but climate beliefs increase at similar rates across ages.
(Springer Nature, 2021)Accumulating evidence indicates that climate change awareness and concern has increased globally, but commentators suggest a climate change generation gap whereby younger people care more about climate change than older ... -
Iranian EAP practitioners’ competences, practices, and professional development
(Faculty of Philology, University of Belgrade, 2021)Given the importance of teaching methodology in English for Academic Purposes (EAP) and professional development (PD) for EAP teachers, this survey examined and explored the differences of the self-adjudged perceptions of ... -
Parent and teacher-reported child outcomes seven years after mild traumatic brain Injury: A nested case control study
(Frontiers Media SA, 2021)Background: Increasing evidence suggests potential lifetime effects following mild traumatic brain injury (TBI) in childhood. Few studies have examined medium-term outcomes among hospitalized and non-hospitalized samples. ... -
Is there an association between controlling behaviour and intimate partner violence revictimization
(2021)It is becoming increasingly recognized that controlling behaviours are a widespread form of harm experienced by victims of intimate partner violence; and in some countries ‘coercive control’ – the repetitive and systematic ... -
Past, present and future urban water: The challenges in creating more beneficial trajectories
(Springer, 2017)Alternative visions of cities that treat water more sustainably are becoming more compelling as understanding increases of current impacts and future pressures. Here, an alternative relationship between water, space and ... -
Mitigating flood risks: analysis of different types and quantity of green infrastructure
(2021)Climate change is likely to intensify the effects of extreme weather events and increase their impacts on urban areas. A major emerging challenge for urban areas is how to address these uncertainties without neglecting the ... -
Public understanding of climate change-related sea-level rise.
(2021)Sea-level rise resulting from climate change is impacting coasts around the planet. There is strong scientific consensus about the amount of sea-level rise to 2050 (0.24-0.32 m) and a range of projections to 2100, which ... -
Good friendships improve our lives. But can virtual friendships be good?
(2021)Good friendships improve our lives. But philosophers, psychologists, and other social scientists disagree about the nature of friendship and the value of virtual friendships. Recent technological advances and global crises ... -
Inconsistent Cinema: Paul Thomas Anderson, There will be blood and the postmodern filmmaker
(Kwantlen Polytechnic University, Canada, 2021)Paul Thomas Anderson’s early work up to and including There Will Be Blood (2007) are examples of incoherent, postmodern cinema. Anderson’s formative years produced four critically acclaimed features, Hard Eight (1996), ... -
Coastal flood risk within a peri-urban area: SUSSEX Inlet district, SE Australia
(Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2021)The peri-urban interface (PUI) exhibits characteristic qualities of both urban and rural regions, and this complexity has meant that risk assessments and long-term planning for PUI are lagging, despite these areas representing ... -
The "desire to have it al": multiple priorities for urban gardens reduces space for native nature
(Resilience Alliance, Inc., 2021)The majority of the world’s population now lives in cities, where reduced levels of native biodiversity, coupled with fewer opportunities for people to experience nature, are expected to result in an urban public increasingly ... -
Top 10 priorities for future infertility research: an international consensus development study.
(2021)STUDY QUESTION: Can the priorities for future research in infertility be identified? SUMMARY ANSWER: The top 10 research priorities for the four areas of male infertility, female and unexplained infertility, medically ... -
"Being trans intersects with my cultural identity": Social determinants of mental health among Asian transgender people
(Mary Ann Liebert, Inc, 2021)Purpose: While studies on the relationship between social determinants and mental health among transgender people in Asia are increasing, there is a paucity of research on Asian transgender people living in Western countries. ... -
Feminist geographies in Aotearoa New Zealand: cultural, social and political moments
(Routledge Journals, 2019)Aotearoa New Zealand is a nation of promise, potential and enigma: it was the first country in the world where women gained the vote in 1893 and now boasts the youngest woman world leader in 2017. It is also a postcolonial ... -
Developing a core outcome set for future infertility research: an international consensus development study.
(2021)STUDY QUESTION: Can a core outcome set to standardize outcome selection, collection, and reporting across future infertility research be developed? SUMMARY ANSWER: A minimum data set, known as a core outcome set, has ...
