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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“Just wrong,” “disgusting,” “grotesque,” “offensive”: How to deal with public rejection of new potentially life-saving technologies
(2018)New technologies can offer solutions to security concerns, such as preventing terrorist attacks. Many new technologies are criticised on moral grounds, leading some potentially life-saving technologies to be left on the ... -
Kava, the devil, and the snake: Pentecostal iconoclasm in contemporary Fiji
(2019)In his book, The Polynesian Iconoclasm, Jeff Sissons (2014) explains that within a short period of time during the early 1800’s a number of island societies in eastern Polynesia desecrated or destroyed many of their temples ... -
The social work professionalisation project before the 1990s in Aotearoa New Zealand: The dream
(Aotearoa New Zealand Association of Social Workers, 2016)INTRODUCTION: The meaning and purpose of social work has always been debated within the social work profession. The profession dreams of contributing towards a better, fairer, civil society locally and internationally. ... -
Response to Martin Barker's 'Rise of the Qualiguants'
(2018)In what follows, we respond to Martin Barker’s (2018a) review essay entitled ‘Rise of the Qualiquants,’ published in the previous issue of this journal (15:1). In his review, Barker offers an admittedly not disinterested ... -
New currents in the mainstream: The 1990s
(Te Papa Press, 2011)In the 1990s, with the emergence of a new generation of film makers, the New Zealand film industry displayed a new maturity and gained increasing recognition internationally as a fresh, lively source of English language films. -
Film, Spirituality and Hierophany
(Religious Experience Research Centre, University of Wales, 2002)The satirical drama American Beauty (1999), winner of the Academy Award for Best Picture in the year 2000 is not, at first sight, a film everyone would include in a grouping of significant movies. It is a tale of two ... -
Honouring our ancestors: Reclaiming the power of Māori maternities
(Demeter Press, 2017)Māori¹ maternal knowledges are intimately tied to ancestors, to ancestral knowledges, and to whenua (land).² Iwi (tribes), hapū (smaller tribal groupings), and whānau (families)³ have their own maternal knowledges, which ... -
New Zealand environmental policy in the Key era: Escalating crises in a time of neo-liberal economic dominance
(Victoria University Press, 2018)Since 2008, over three terms of а National Party-led government, the environment went from being an issue that barely registered with the electorate to becoming perhaps the dominant issue of the 2017 election. The past ... -
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, ...
