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Knowledge-making Endeavours of the Dutch East India Company in Malabar, 1663-1795

Gopurapillil Muralidharan, Meera (Victoria University of Wellington, 2021)

The Malabar Coast of south-western India, presently comprising the modern state of Kerala, played a unique role in the history of Indian Ocean trade in the early modern period. Of the spices involved in expanding trade ...
Campaign: A Content Analysis of the New Zealand-based Chinese Language Ethnic Media’s Coverage of the 2008, 2011 and 2014 New Zealand General Elections

Hoyle, Caleb (Victoria University of Wellington, 2021)

New Zealand’s ethnic Chinese population has grown significantly since the selection criteria of immigrants shifted from being defined by ethnic or national origin to personal merit in 1987. The ease with which non-citizens ...
The Quietist Posit: A Methodologically Agnostic Resolution to the Problem of Qualia

Quartermaine-Bragg, Nicolas (Victoria University of Wellington, 2021)

This thesis paper addresses the aim and methodology of an argument by Daniel Dennett (1988; 1992), who proposes an eliminativism with regards to the referent of the term “qualia”. Dennett’s argument centres on the purported ...
‘The Menace of Effeminacy’: Medical and Popular Discussions of Masculinity in Interwar New Zealand, c.1918-1939

Wallace-Buckland, Ailish (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)

In January 1932, the Sydney-based lifestyle magazine Health and Physical Culture published an article titled ‘The Menace of Effeminacy’. This article, written by Carl Hertzig, and read by magazine-subscribers across the ...
Resolving The Democratic Dilemma: Contestation, Anti-Power and Democracy

Tonello, Samuele (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)

This thesis in divided in two main parts. First, I develop the claim that current democracies are unable to properly defend what I deem the pivotal feature to evaluate the quality of a political system - namely the people’s ...
New Zealand Medical Missions in South China – Ko Tong Hospital in the Kirk Years, 1896-1917

Stevenson, Louise A. (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)

During the rainy season of 1909, the first hospital of Western medicine opened to the public in the bustling market town of Ko Tong, Upper Panyu, China. Po Wai Yiyuen, or ‘The Hospital of Universal Love’, was a medical ...
“It came from me” – Māori representation in Ramai Te Miha Hayward’s authorship

Smith, Sian (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)

Addressing the critical question of authorship in historical film, this thesis considers Ramai Te Miha Hayward’s works dealing with Māori and Pākehā intercultural representations. During a time when Māori in film were ...
Taking the Stand: Women as Witnesses in New Zealand’s Colonial Courts c.1840-1900

Bowyer, Elizabeth (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)

The study considers women as witnesses in New Zealand’s colonial courts from c.1840 to 1900. An analysis of women as witnesses adds another dimension to what is known about the everyday but often compelling presence of ...
Cheers! Selling Health and Happiness: Advertising Alcohol in New Zealand, c.1900-1945.

Duncan, Marie (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)

Abstract At the turn of the 20th century New Zealand’s newspapers were filled with advertising material offering information on a wide variety of products. Among these advertisements were those for alcohol, a commodity ...
Tempting the Chinese Dragon: Political Economy of Chinese Tourism to New Zealand

Gaspar, Elizabeth (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)

This thesis explores the international political economy (IPE) of outbound Chinese tourism within the context of New Zealand. New Zealand as a case study shows the impact of tourism changes on a nation reliant on tourism. ...
Michael Harmel (1915-1974): A South African Communist and His Discourse

Oralek, Milan (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)

This thesis explores the life and work of a South African journalist, editor, and activist Michael Alan Harmel (1915–1974), a political mentor and friend of Nelson Mandela. A resolute believer in racial equality and ...
Trap or Treasure: An economic history of primary production in Hawke's Bay province, 1945-2010

Davie, Malcolm (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)

Comprised of a broad range of primary activities, Hawke’s Bay is one of New Zealand’s foremost agricultural provinces. Consequently, the province provides an excellent template by which to assess New Zealand agriculture ...
Motivations for Pursuing Radical Life Extension

Campbell, Lucinda April (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)

In bio-ethics, the potential practical and ethical implications of radical life extension are being seriously debated. However, the role of motivation in relation to dramatically increasing the human life span has been ...
Royal Opportunity: Noble Marriages in the Reigns of Elizabeth I and James VI/I, 1558-1625

Kay, Christianna (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)

This thesis explores Queen Elizabeth I’s and King James VI/I’s management of and involvement in noble marriages from 1558 to 1625 by merging two methodologies: an analysis of an extensive, custom-made database of 380 noble ...
The Concept of ‘Joint’ Intelligence: Its Origins and Enactment, 1900-1942: From London, Toward Wellington

Nicoll, Matthew (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)

This thesis seeks to begin the conceptualisation of the ‘Joint’ in Intelligence. Through theorising the isolationist tendencies of Intelligence Studies, it will first position itself between foundational and peripheral ...
Commitment Without Consequences. A Carnapian Approach to Fictional Objects and Negative Existence Statements

Gilchrist, Michael Alexander (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)

The overall aim of this thesis is to present a fresh perspective on three closely related areas of enquiry: Descriptivist theories of reference, Direct Reference theories and the Carnapian approach to questions of existence ...
"Every Bloody Right To Be Here": Trans Resistance in Aotearoa New Zealand, 1967 - 1989

Hansen, Will (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)

Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, trans people in Aotearoa New Zealand resisted cisgender hegemony in numerous ways. This thesis aims to explore three key methods of trans resistance practiced during the period between 1967 ...
Traditional Institutions' Management of Sacred Forests in Tanzania: History, Narratives, and Evidence from Njombe Region, 1880s-2019

Mgaya, Edward (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)

Forest management entails interdependence between nature and society at different levels and systems. In Africa, one example of the interdependence of nature and society is ‘sacred forests,’ groves of trees with special ...
The Source Conflict Cost Criterion: A Pragmatic Approach to Floating Conclusions

Morales Delgado, Jorge Andrés (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)

Our research examines the problem of multiple lines of reasoning reaching the same conclusion, but only through different and unrelated arguments. In the context of non-monotonic logic, these types of conclusions are ...
The First-Class, the Familiar and the Forgettable: An analysis of Prime Ministerial performance in New Zealand

Smith, Katherine (Victoria University of Wellington, 2019)

Within the literature associated with political leadership, scholarship directly focused upon political performance in office is thinly conducted, both in New Zealand and in other areas across the world. This thesis aims ...