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Life After Death: Suicide, Care, and Responsibility

Loffhagen, Tom (Victoria University of Wellington, 2021)

This thesis focuses on suicide bereavement, particularly of those parents who have lost children to suicide while in care of the state. I argue that, for these parents, action taken following the suicide of their children ...
Patching up the differences: An exploration into Whanganui gang identity

Sayles, Feona (Victoria University of Wellington, 2021)

The District Council (Prohibition of Gang Insignia) Act 2009 (‘Gang Insignia Act 2009’) came into force in 2009 and prohibited the ‘display’ of ‘gang insignia’ within ‘specified areas’ of the Whanganui District. The purported ...
‘I wouldn’t want to be a cow’: An ethnographic exploration of more-than-human relational praxis on a New Zealand dairy farm

Goulding, Audrey (Victoria University of Wellington, 2021)

This thesis aims to understand how industrial farmers perceive and relate to the nonhuman world. A small-scale ethnographic focus of a 250-cow dairy farm in New Zealand’s Rangitikei district is presented as a proxy for ...
“It’s Beyond You, But You’re A Part of It”: Mountaineering in the Southern Alps of Aotearoa New Zealand

Scully, Morgan (Victoria University of Wellington, 2021)

This thesis provides a phenomenological exploration of the lived experience of mountaineering in New Zealand. Based on fieldwork completed in the Southern Alps and Mount Ruapehu, it offers an analysis into how mountaineers ...
A Punitive But Non-Punitive Society: An Explanation Of The Specificity Of Penal Populism In South Korea

Lee, Hun Young (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)

It is argued in existing Korean criminological literature that penal populism has strongly influenced the criminal justice system over the last two decades in South Korea (‘SK’, hereafter). Their contention is based on the ...
Gender and Verse: Religion in New Zealand Women's Poetry, 1970-2019

Long, Vida (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)

This thesis explores the remarkable, surprising and enduring presence of religion within the writings of New Zealand women poets since the 1970s. Analysing a comprehensive range of poems, I argue that religion is a dynamic ...
"I See God Out the Back of My Farm" Exploring Christianity and Sustainability on NZ Farms

Koon, Kelly (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)

This thesis explores the relationship between Christianity and sustainability within the context of rural New Zealand meat and dairy farmers. Looking at the various definitions of sustainability that were given through my ...
Premature Personhoods In A Neonatal Intensive Care Unit In Aotearoa New Zealand

Poppelwell, Zoe (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)

The Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) provides medical care for some of the most unwell newborns, including those born premature. Infants born prior to 28 completed weeks gestation, classified as extremely premature, ...
Students’ Perceptions of higher education in Sāmoa: Finagalo fa’aalia o alo ma fanau a’oa’oina ile Iunivesetē Aoao o Sāmoa

Filoi, Rosa (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)

This thesis evaluates and analyses Sāmoan student perceptions of higher education in Sāmoa. This work offers an insider’s account of Sāmoan education in particular, focussing on current students belonging to the National ...
Children’s Engagement with Urban Legends: Temporality and Collective Story-sharing Through Horror Narratives

Biswell, Piper (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)

This thesis explores how children engage with horror narratives in the digital era and how this engagement has changed over the last decade. The term ‘Horror narratives’ encompasses a wide range of genre-based storytelling ...
Governing addiction: The Alcohol and Other Drug Treatment Court in New Zealand

Carr, Toni (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)

The New Zealand Alcohol and other Drug Treatment Court (AODTC) is an innovative approach to addressing offending by people with an alcohol or other drug addiction. Based on the United States Drug Treatment Court model, the ...
Transplant Tourism: New Zealand Residents Deciding on Commercial Transplantation Overseas

Anderson, Olivia (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)

The demand for organs exceeds supply in almost every country, including New Zealand. As such, scholars have argued that this has contributed to a rise in illegal kidney purchase and commercial transplantation. Taking into ...
Radical Everyday Practice. Gillian Rose, Ernst Bloch, and seven activist- philosophers of Te Whanganui-a-Tara, Aotearoa

Francis, Sasha (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)

How are we to live? How do we sustain our emotional commitment to utopia? Answering these questions necessarily calls for a reconceptualisation of subjectivity and sociality, in order to overcome the depoliticisation, ...
NAVIGATING THE ILLEGIBLE STATE: EVERYDAY EXPERIENCES OF STATELESSNESS AMONG SHAN YOUTH IN NORTHERN THAILAND

Cheva-Isarakul, Janepicha (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)

Home to more than half-a-million stateless persons, Thailand provides a unique case study for understanding modern-day statelessness. Since 2005, the country has significantly expanded the rights of non-citizen children ...
Contested identities: Tuan Guru and Ahmadiyah in the redrawing of post-1998 Sasak-Muslim boundary lines in Lombok

Nurhayati, Sitti Sani (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)

This study examines what drives the increasing hostility towards Ahmadiyah in post-Suharto Lombok. Fieldwork was undertaken in three villages – Pemongkong, Pancor and Ketapang – where Ahmadiyah communities lived and ...
Employment and the Post-Release Puzzle: The Lived Experience of Securing Legitimate Work among Women Released from Prison in New Zealand

Kale, Jasmin (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)

As incarceration rates continue to rise in New Zealand (The Department of Corrections, 2019b), the number of people being released from prison will also rise. Life sentences are rare and therefore, the majority of people ...
Swallowing the Black Pill: A Qualitative Exploration of Incel Antifeminism within Digital Society

Lindsay, Angus (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)

This thesis explores the online ‘manosphere’ subculture of Involuntary Celibates (Incels). Incels have been widely discussed in contemporary media in recent years and have been cited as harmful after several mass-murders ...
Messy Multiculturalism - A critical conversation about state multiculturalism and the lived everyday experiences of cultural diversity in Aotearoa New Zealand.

Lystlund Hansen, Sara (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)

This thesis provides an ethnographic study of multiculturalism in Aotearoa New Zealand, which investigates the tensions between government-led stories about social harmony and tolerance and the stories told by members of ...
Sex trafficking, victimisation and agency: The experiences of migrant women in Malaysia

Abdul Hamid, Haezreena Begum binti (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)

Malaysia has criminalised sex work. However, its geographic location, porous borders and proximity to major trade and traffic routes have ensured a growth in sex trafficking activities. As a result, the ‘United Nations ...
Scraping By and Making Do: Navigating New Zealand’s Welfare System

Walford-Bourke, Evelyn (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)

In August 2017, debate over Green Party co-leader Metiria Turei’s declaration of two-decade-old benefit fraud sparked an ongoing discussion around poverty in New Zealand that revealed the fraying edges of the country’s ...