RestrictedArchive–Te Puna Rangahau: Recent submissions

  • Farming and Living in Chinese Urban Villages 
    Wang, Junyi (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2016)
    China has experienced rapid urbanization which has substantially increased pressure on rural land. The physical expansion of cities has transformed villages once located in rural areas into villages in urban areas. Groups ...
  • Exploring the role of education in a MIRAB economy: Brain drain or brain gain? The case of Wallis and Futuna 
    Jacobs, Alice (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2016)
    Pursuit of higher education overseas is becoming a common pathway for young Wallisians and Futunans. A constructivist grounded theory study demonstrates that education has provided (i) a new exit route for young people, ...
  • Wildcat or Lion? Inequality, Agency, and the New Chinese Working Class 
    Lin, Jake (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2016)
    The study of Chinese labour politics has returned to the centre of scholarly interest as China has increasingly become involved in global production and trade. As the incidence of labour dispute and workers’ strikes continued ...
  • Exploring Diffuse Radio Emission in the Southern Sky 
    Shakouri, Sara (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2016)
    This thesis investigates currently observed correlations between the thermal and non-thermal (radio halos) components of galaxy clusters, and seeks to verify the reliability of the proposed radio halo scaling relations ...
  • Nostalgia for intimacy 
    Leonard, Robert (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2012)
    This essay, the edited text of a lecture by Robert Leonard, offers a personal and pointed account of the character of the New Zealand art scene from the 1970s to the 1990s. Basing his analysis on first hand engagement as ...
  • Phenotypic implications of genetic interaction networks in Saccharomyces cerevisiae 
    Busby, Bede Phillip (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2015)
    Gene functions were studied as extensive networks comprising synergistic functional interactions between overlapping pairs of genes. Elucidation of such networks related to drug phenotypes (statins in this thesis) provides ...
  • The Malay people and the flood in Kelantan 
    Nasir, Nor Eliza Mohamad (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2015)
    This thesis explores suitable design of dwellings on a floodplain that assist people to coexist with the rising water level of seasonal floods. The inadequacy of current approaches to managing floodplain inhabitation ...
  • The dam archive: Revealing the hidden mnemonic qualities of the hydro dams along the Waikato River 
    Hew, Jia Ying (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2016)
    Perhaps more than any other technologies, massive hydro dams embody and impact upon many different aspects of local history: industrial, social, landscape and ecological. For this reason, hydro dams can be considered as ...
  • Designing accounting information systems for social and environmental accounting (AIS-SEA): An Exploration of AIS-SEA Designers' Perspectives and Practice 
    Blackburn, Nivea (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2016)
    Rather than a single, relatively well-defined user with one main objective, organisations are increasingly expected to address the needs of multiple users with different social, political and cultural perspectives. This ...
  • Shifting Downtown 
    Dewhirst, Winston (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2015)
    Tendency: Haphazard development consumes the landscape stripping it of character and disrupting natural processes. Development of this type is prevalent in small growing rural towns featuring foreign urban designs transposed ...
  • Ranking Sound Insulation Regulations: Giving New Zealand an International Context 
    Merwood, Yasmin (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2013)
    Sufficient sound insulation is required between tenancies to provide protection from noise intrusion which otherwise can be a major source of suffering for building occupants. Sound insulation of residential buildings has ...
  • A critique of the natural artefact : anthropology, art and museology 
    Thomas, Nicholas (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2015)
    This essay, the edited text of a lecture presented by Dr Nicholas Thomas, addresses a key vehicle for the practice of art history: the museum. Thomas argues that a museum is a far more complex entity than a mere collectivity ...
  • Does Māori art history matter? 
    Brown, Deidre; Ellis, Ngarino; Mane-Wheoki, Jonathan (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, [2014])
    This essay, the edited text of a lecture presented by Deidre Brown and Ngarino Ellis and written by these two authors in collaboration with Jonathan Mane-Wheoki, outlines a methodological approach to their larger project: ...
  • Rangiatea revisited 
    Treadwell, Sarah (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2008)
    This essay, the revised text of a lecture by Sarah Treadwell, offers a thoughtful re-reading of Rangiatea, the Maori church built at Otaki between 1848 and 1851 by local iwi, Ngati Toa, Ngati Raukawa, Te Ati Awa, and rebuilt ...
  • Aqueous aesthetics : an art history of change 
    Gibson, Ross (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, [2013])
    This essay, the edited text of a lecture by Ross Gibson, demonstrates what its author calls an "aqueous aesthetics", and in the process calls for an art history that "records, analyses and theorises how creativity proceeds ...
  • The art of taonga 
    Tapsell, Paul (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2011)
    This essay, the revised text of a lecture delivered by Paul Tapsell, provides a compelling insight into the integral role played by taonga in the Maori world. As a synonym for 'Maori treasure ', safely encased in a museum ...
  • In transit : questions of home & belonging in New Zealand art 
    Bell, Leonard (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2007)
    This essay, the revised text of a lecture by Leonard Bell, offers a thoughtful reading of works by two artists, photographer Marti Friedlander and painter Douglas MacDiarmid, each of whom have occupied positions as outsiders, ...
  • Colin McCahon in Australia 
    Butler, Rex (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2010)
    This essay, the revised text of a lecture by Rex Butler, provides an intriguing new reading of Colin McCahon and his legacy. Using examples drawn from Australian art and literature, Butler builds a case for the prophetic ...
  • Memory, landscape, Dad & me 
    Goldson, Annie (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2006)
    This essay, the revised text of a lecture by Annie Goldson, is an extended account of her experimental documentary Wake (1994). It was delivered on 24 November 2005 at the City Gallery in Wellington. It is the fourth in ...
  • A nation's portraits 
    Blackley, Roger (Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2005)
    This essay, the revised text of a lecture by Roger Blackley, offers a timely reconsideration of the place of portraiture in New Zealand cultural history. It was delivered on 18 November 2004 at the City Gallery in Wellington. ...

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