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Abstract Objects in the Causal Order

Ngai, Justin (Victoria University of Wellington, 2013)

Abstract entities have long been viewed as entities that lack causal powers; that is, they cannot be constitutive of causes or effects. This thesis aims to reject this claim and argue that abstract objects are indeed part ...
Achieving a ‘Delicate Equilibrium:’ Are Southeast Asia’s Maritime States Indonesia and the Philippines Hedging China?

Sousa-Santos, Jose (Victoria University of Wellington, 2017)

One of the prescient questions within international relations today concerns the rise of China and what strategies states should deploy in response. This is particularly pertinent in the Asia Pacific neighbourhood. Southeast ...
Actually or Potentially Within Reach: The Place of China in New Zealand’s Grand Strategy 1965-1972

Belgrave, David (Victoria University of Wellington, 2016)

In 1965 New Zealand was an active member of alliances designed to contain the People’s Republic of China in South East Asia. Late the previous year, the Defence Council had warned Cabinet that New Zealand could be at war ...
The Alchemical Patronage of Sir William Cecil, Lord Burghley

Campbell, James Stuart (Victoria University of Wellington, 2009)

This thesis examines the alchemical patronage of Sir William Cecil, Lord Burghley (1520-1598), Principal Secretary and later Lord Treasurer to Queen Elizabeth I. Through an examination of Cecil's surviving papers, along ...
All the King’s Horses and all the King’s Men: International anti-corruption discourse, political economy analysis and assemblage theory

Staveley, Howard (Victoria University of Wellington, 2013)

Corruption emerged as a key issue area in international relations and development in the 1990s. However, efforts to control corruption have, to date, been relatively unsuccessful. This has prompted international organisations, ...
Assessing the motivations of New Zealand’s International Interventions: From Practice to Theory

Mitchell, Matthew (Victoria University of Wellington, 2015)

Since the end of the Cold War New Zealand has participated in numerous international interventions, both within the Asia-Pacific region and further afield. As a small state with limited resources and influence what have ...
As We Build our World We Build our Minds: The Causal Role of Technology in the Development and Evolution of Human Psychological Traits

Gers, Matt (Victoria University of Wellington, 2011)

Do genes or environments have more of a role to play in the development of psychological traits? The nature versus nurture debate takes many forms and recent developmental systems arguments consider the roles of developmental ...
At home with New Zealand in the 1960s

Thomson, Richard (Victoria University of Wellington, 2014)

Published by A H & A W Reed to immediate success late in 1961, New Zealand in Colour was the first of many large-format books of colour photographs of New Zealand. While they belonged to a tradition of scenic reproduction ...
Balancing rangatiratanga and kawanatanga: Waikato-Tainui and Ngāi Tahu’s Treaty settlement negotiations with the Crown

Fisher, Martin (Victoria University of Wellington, 2015)

Waikato-Tainui and Ngāi Tahu’s negotiations with the Crown produced the first two major iwi-based agreements of the modern era of Treaty settlements in New Zealand/Aotearoa. While the existing historiography has previously ...
Ban the Bullet-Point! Content-Based PowerPoint for Historians.

Maxwell, Alexander (Victoria University of Wellington, 2007)

Powerpoint arouses many strong feelings, but the debate over the popular program typically pits advocates against detractors: fewer people discuss how PowerPoint should best be used in the classroom. Howard Strauss of ...
Beyond the Wards: Exploring the personal accounts of three New Zealand nurses during the Great War in Egypt

Clark, Hannah (Victoria University of Wellington, 2016)

Drawing upon the primary accounts of three Great War nurses – Mildred Salt, Louisa Higginson and Daphne Rowena Commons – who all served in the Mediterranean and Middle East, this thesis explores the theme of identity – ...
Bishop Hobhouse: the Nelson episcopate (1859-1865) of the Rt. Rev Edmund Hobhouse D.D., first bishop of Nelson, New Zealand

Clarke, Timothy Peter (Victoria University of Wellington, 1977)

In 1841 New Zealand became a diocese of the United Church of England and Ireland and the Rev. George Augustus Selwyn, a former student and tutor of Eton, was consecrated as its bishop. Throughout the colony's earliest years ...
'The Blessed Land': Narratives of Peasant Resistance at Nandigram, West Bengal, in 2007

McConnochie, Adam (Victoria University of Wellington, 2012)

In early 2007, the West Bengal state government in India sought to acquire over 10,000 acres of cultivated rural land in Nandigram, East Midnapur. The government, the Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI-M) led Left ...
Blizzard City: Built Environment and Civilization in Antarctica, 1911-1961

Moffat-Wood, Alex (Victoria University of Wellington, 2012)

This thesis investigates four Antarctic built environments between 1911 and 1961: Robert Falcon Scott’s 1910-1912 Terra Nova expedition base at Cape Evans, Ross Island; Sir Douglas Mawson’s 1911-1914 Australasian Antarctic ...
Breathing Through their Noses: Candidate Selection and Role Adaptation amongst First-Term MPs in the New Zealand Parliament

Barnes, Steven (Victoria University of Wellington, 2010)

Sir Keith Holyoake, New Zealand Prime Minister from 1960 to 1972, famously counselled first-term Members of Parliament to ‘breathe through their noses’, suggesting that it was in their best interests to keep their heads ...
The BRI and AIIB: A Challenge to the Liberal International Order?

Whyte, Thomas (Victoria University of Wellington, 2018)

First announced in 2013, the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has become a central component of Chinese foreign policy under the presidency of Xi Jinping. Given the scope and vision of the BRI, several fundamental questions ...
Bringing a Gender Perspective to the Peace Table: Women in Myanmar’s Peace Process

Thein, Zin Mar (Victoria University of Wellington, 2019)

Ethnic division and inequality lie at the heart of Myanmar's internal conflicts. In these conflicts, ethnic women are the most vulnerable group based on their ethnicity and gender. They are not only victims of violence, ...
Budapest and Thessaloniki as Slavic Cities (1800-1914): Urban Infrastructures, National Organizations and Ethnic Territories

Maxwell, Alexander (Victoria University of Wellington, 2005)

Nationalism depends on the spread of urbanization and, as Karl Deutsch noted, improved communication networks. This means that nationalist organizations tended to appear in cities, even cities dominated by another ethnic ...
Bush Frontier: North Taranaki, 1841-1860: A Study in Economic Development

Quin, Brian Gerard (Victoria University of Wellington, 1966)

If it needs a justification, this account is an attempt to fill in what I consider to be a gap in the story of New Zealand's economic development. A considerable amount of research has been done on the economic development ...
Butoh: Granting Art Status to an Indefinable Form

Caldwell, Shane (Victoria University of Wellington, 2017)

Butoh is a kind of art, but exactly what kind of art is not so easy to see. While traditionally considered a type of dance, there are a number of butoh works that are not readily identifiable as dance works, if in fact ...