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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From rhetoric to reality: which resilience, why resilience, and whose resilience in spatial planning?
(Sage Publications Ltd, 2014)This paper analyses contrasting academic understandings of ‘equilibrium resilience’ and ‘evolutionary resilience’ and investigates how these nuances are reflected within both policy and practice. We reveal that there is a ... -
Testing innovative technologies to manage flood risk
(ICE Publishing, 2015)The move towards multi-faceted approaches to flood risk management is cemented in the European Union (EU) floods directive (directive 2007/60/EC). Across Europe, resources are diverted towards softer interventions such as ... -
Beyond 'just' flood risk management: the potential for-and limits to-alleviating flood disadvantage
(Springer, 2018)The threat of flooding poses a considerable challenge for justice. Not only are more citizens becoming exposed to risk, but they are expected to play increasingly active roles in flood risk management. However, until ... -
Flood resilience technology in Europe: identifying barriers and co-producing best practice
(2018)Flood resistance (FRe) and resilience technologies hold considerable potential to limit the damage caused by flooding. Resistance technologies generally aim to keep water out of buildings, while resilient measures may allow ... -
Rigour and rigour mortis? Planning, calculative rationality, and forces of stability and change
(Sage Publications Ltd, 2019)A defining feature of planning is that it is informed by sound evidence. An ever more diverse range of decision support tools is available to help achieve this, a trend that is set to accelerate along with the rise of Big ... -
Risky times: Hazard management and the tyranny of the present
(Elsevier, 2017)This paper examines how the processes and practices of hazard management skew decision-making towards current concerns, shaping the treatment of the future in the present. We reveal how norms of science and policy combine ... -
The housing crisis as an ideological artefact: Analysing how political discourse defines, diagnoses, and responds
(Routledge, 2019)It is a truism that politicians from countries around the world claim to be in the midst of a ‘housing crisis’. But how do they define it, who is affected, and what is the cause? This paper provides a critical evaluation ... -
Risky spaces: Creating, contesting and communicating lines on environmental hazard maps
(Wiley, 2018)This paper examines the tensions involved in the production, presentation and revision of hazard maps, focusing on the controversies that have become increasingly common when they are used to change government policy. Our ... -
Daring to build fair and sustainable urban food systems: A case study of alternative food networks in Australia
(Informa UK Limited, 2020)Food systems are under pressure from population growth, climate change, resource scarcity and increasing urbanization. Alternative food networks are initiatives related to food provision that operate at a local level and ... -
Visualising and communicating population diversity through web maps
(Population Association of New Zealand, 2019)An online New Zealand Atlas of Population Change (NZAPC) is being developed (http://socialatlas.waikato.ac.nz/) to communicate the interaction and associated diversity resulting from three important components of population ... -
A new look at population change and regional development in Aotearoa New Zealand
(Wiley, 2019)In New Zealand, population change is interlinked with regional development. Places growing in population attract regional investment, while regional investment—or lack thereof—can change migration patterns. However, to ... -
Generating justice for children via political inclusion
(2019)I argue that the global position of children can be improved by first ensuring them political representation, through inclusion in democratic process from a young age. Once children are embedded as equal participants in ... -
Playing right: Some virtual wrongs are real wrongs
(2019)Many computer games ask us to act in ways which would be morally unconscionable, were we to so act in the physical world. Within the game world, these actions are seen as unproblematic. As such, simple translations of ... -
Drivers use of in-vehicle information systems and perceptions of their effects on driving
(Frontiers Media SA, 2020)In recent years the number of cars on the road with manufacturer installed in-vehicle information systems (IVIS) has increased dramatically, and with smartphones connecting directly to these systems drivers can access a ... -
“The best flood I ever had”: Contingent resilience and the (relative) success of adaptive technologies
(Elsevier, 2020)The practical operationalisation of resilience within cities is strongly linked to technology, such as better construction materials or redesigning urban form. Institutional and private sector actors often focus on issues ... -
Social work education: Reflections during Covid-19 lockdown
(University of Otago Library, 2020)Teaching social work students in Aotearoa New Zealand during the Covid-19 crisis produced an acute awareness of the impact of lockdown levels 3 and 4 on student wellbeing. Students were required to rapidly adapt to study ... -
Wondering about ... the intimate geographies of Married at First Sight New Zealand #MAFSNZ
(The Board of Geography Teachers New Zealand, 2019)Why should I, or any geographers, be wondering about Married at First Sight New Zealand (MAFSNZ, TV3 2019), the franchised reality television show where strangers meet each other at the alter? Pitched, as a ‘ground-breaking ... -
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 ...
