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The Geological Present: A Critique of the Aesthetic Anthropocene

Taylor, Lachlan Gregory (Victoria University of Wellington, 2018)

This thesis is a response to an emergent discourse on the relationship between the visual arts and the Anthropocene. The latter—the stratigraphic designation for a new geological epoch—has accrued a popularity within the ...
Strategies of action and marginalised identities in Pop Culture Paganism and Magic

Todd, Rebecca Maree (Victoria University of Wellington, 2018)

In this thesis I will argue that marginalised individuals are highly represented in the Pop Culture Paganism and Magic community, because it is a religious movement which encourages participants to use the cultural symbols ...
Wellington Pacific Bible College 2006–2016 Teachings, Trials and Talanoa

Ioane Roach, Eseta (Victoria University of Wellington, 2018)

This is the first academic study of the Wellington Pacific Bible College (WPBC), a distinctive adult educational institution in New Zealand, focussed on teaching the Bible in the languages of the Pacific. The thesis ...
Phenomenology of the Eucharist: A Reflection on Traditioning

Connors, Kevin James (Victoria University of Wellington, 2018)

This thesis is an enquiry into how relationship differs from identity. It studies the senses of relationship and identity in the history of the Eucharist. The aim of the thesis is to describe how relationship and identity ...
Religious Studies Achievement Standards in New Zealand state secondary schools: Philosophy, pedagogy and policy

Chote, John (Victoria University of Wellington, 2018)

This thesis outlines and examines the factors that account for the post-2009 growth in the adoption and use of the NCEA Religious Studies Achievement Standards by state secondary school teachers in New Zealand. My ...
The Role of Religion, Spirituality and Faith in the Processes of Significant Trauma and Recovery

O'Brien, Lynnette (Victoria University of Wellington, 2018)

For some people, religion, spirituality and faith (RSF) serves an important function, helping them deal with difficult everyday life challenges. This qualitative ethnographic study examines how and in what ways a group of ...
Art for Audience's Sake: How can audience-centric art interpretation enhance meaning, diversity and accessibility?

Caldwell, Nicola (Victoria University of Wellington, 2018)

Art interpretation can make or break an individual’s experience in an art gallery. At its best, it can inspire a sense of connection, expanded understanding and excitement but, at its worst, it can leave visitors feeling ...
Vandalia: Identity, Policy, and Nation-Building in Late-Antique North Africa

Parker, Eugene (Victoria University of Wellington, 2018)

In 534, after the conquest of the Vandal kingdom, Procopius tells us that the emperor Justinian deported all remaining Vandals to serve on the Persian frontier. But a hundred years of Vandal rule bred cultural ambiguities ...
Where is the Queer? A case study of LGBTQ representation in Aotearoa New Zealand exhibitions

Derksen, Peter (Victoria University of Wellington, 2018)

Modern museums and galleries are cultural spaces that often participate in human rights advocacy and social activism. Exhibitions within these spaces are the physical manifestations of these ideologies, the way that ...
DEMOLITION AND RELOCATION OF HINDU TEMPLES IN MALAYSIA: PRAGMATIC RESPONSES OF INDIAN HINDU COMMUNITIES IN PENANG

Teo, Sue (Victoria University of Wellington, 2018)

This thesis examines the pragmatic responses of Indian Hindus when their century-old Hindu community temples face threats of demolition by the Malaysian government. I argue that their compliance with the demolition is a ...
Heritage and Participation: a case study of advocacy in post-earthquake Christchurch

Ford, Rebecca Margaret Halliday (Victoria University of Wellington, 2018)

This dissertation explores the advocacy for the Christchurch Town Hall that occurred in 2012-2015 after the Canterbury Earthquakes. It frames this advocacy as an instance of collective-action community participation in a ...
Conspicuous Invisibility: Votive Offerings from Female Dedicators on the Athenian Acropolis

Wellington, Stacey (Victoria University of Wellington, 2018)

The mechanics of Athenian society in many ways empowered citizen women as essential components of their community. This reality, being at odds with Athens’ pervasive patriarchal ideology, was obscured by men anxious to ...
Keeping the tradition alive: An analysis of contemporary Jain religious education for children in India and North America

Bothra, Shivani (Victoria University of Wellington, 2018)

How do Jains, adherents of one of the oldest minority religions in India, maintain their identity and protect their way of life when surrounded by non-Jain religions? Even more striking, how do Jains in the United States, ...
Livy's Witch-hunts: A Study of Investigations into Veneficium found in Livy

Grandy, Liam (Victoria University of Wellington, 2018)

This thesis is an exploration of large scale incidents of veneficium as they are depicted in Livy’s Ab Urbe Condita. Livy’s earlier books include references to four quaestiones de veneficiis, investigations into poisoning, ...
Explaining the moderate platform of the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood: Against the inclusion-moderation hypothesis

Booysen, Hanlie (Victoria University of Wellington, 2018)

Throughout its existence, the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood (SMB) has consistently maintained a moderate policy on governance. The main aim of this study is to explain this moderation. Previous literature has usually explained ...
Another elderly lady to be knocked down: Heritage discourse and the protest to save the Missions to Seamen building, 1986

Gordon, Alexander (Victoria University of Wellington, 2018)

Through a specific historical case study, Another Elderly Lady to be Knocked Down applies discourse theory and the Authorised Heritage Discourse (AHD) to the context of urban built heritage in Aotearoa New Zealand. Previously, ...
Pentecostals and politics in Ghana’s Fourth Republic: From enclave to engagement

Acheampong, Fredrick (Victoria University of Wellington, 2018)

Using a case study of six Pentecostal ministries, spanning four strands of Pentecostalism in Ghana, this study examines Pentecostals’ engagement with politics during the Fourth Republican era of Ghana’s political history ...
Natural monuments: rethinking arboreal heritage for twenty-first-century Aotearoa New Zealand

Goldsmith, Susette (Victoria University of Wellington, 2018)

The twenty-first century is imposing significant challenges on nature in general with the arrival of climate change, and on arboreal heritage in particular through pressures for building expansion. This thesis examines the ...
Enter the Matrix: An Examination of Patrick Pound's The Great Exhibition

Mitchell-Anyon, Milly (Victoria University of Wellington, 2018)

This thesis considers the practice of New Zealand-born artist, Patrick Pound (b. 1962) through an analysis of his survey show, Patrick Pound: The Great Exhibition, which was staged at the National Gallery of Victoria in ...
The Art of Chronic Pain: Creating an Exhibition Proposal on Chronic Pain for a New Zealand Gallery

Wells, Melissa (Victoria University of Wellington, 2017)

The original idea for this research came from a combination of the work that Richard Sandell has done on social inclusion in the United Kingdom, and my personal experiences with chronic pain. The aim of this research is ...