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The vocabulary of aviation radiotelephony communication in simulator emergencies and the contradictions in air traffic controller beliefs about language use

Drayton, Jennifer (Victoria University of Wellington, 2021)

This thesis encompasses a mixed methods enquiry into the language used in air traffic control in simulated emergency situations in the United Arab Emirates. The workplaces studied employ pilots and controllers from a diverse ...
A Study of Long-Form Works for the Jazz Ensemble

Brake, Ryan (Victoria University of Wellington, 2021)

Reflections (In Mosaic) is a long-form work written for a modern jazz orchestra. While made up of seven smaller parts, it is intended to be listened to as a single continuous performance. Reflections (In Mosaic) serves as ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
“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 ...
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 ...
Heartfelt Love: Singing Maiden Characters in Romantic Vocal Music, 1800-1850

Liu, Haiman (Victoria University of Wellington, 2021)

The images of maidens in Italian opera and German lieder from the period 1800-1850 are vivid. In the plots of the operas and the scenes and stories of the lieder almost invariably these characters focus enthusiastically ...
Timbral Processes in Three Selected Works by Olga Neuwirth, Kaija Saariaho and Clara Iannotta, and Their Influence on a Portfolio of Creative Works

Ballard, Sarah (Victoria University of Wellington, 2021)

The instrumental music of composers Olga Neuwirth, Kaija Saariaho and Clara Iannotta inhabits an inventive sphere of approaches to timbre, inviting a variety of possibilities of considering how sound can be organised to ...
‘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 ...
He kete hauora taiao: A Bicultural Ecological Assessment Framework

Belcher, Sara (Victoria University of Wellington, 2021)

Ka mau tonu ngā taonga tapu o ngā matua tupuna Koinei ngā taonga i tuku iho, na te ātua Hold fast to the treasures of the ancestors For they are the treasures that have been handed down to us by God’ (Dymond, 2013, p. ...
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 ...
Written Feedback In Second Language Writing: Perceptions Of Vietnamese Teachers And Students

Nguyen, Phuong Anh (Victoria University of Wellington, 2021)

Writing can be very challenging for ESL students since they need to overcome the changes associated with academic writing styles and their mechanics in order to improve their writing skills (Hyland & Hyland, 2006). In ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
How did the Key Competencies of the New Zealand Curriculum Feature in Student Music Therapy Practice for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder?

Sutherland, Emmett (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)

This study aimed to discover how the key competencies featured in student music therapy with three children who have autism spectrum disorder. Individual music therapy was carried out in the natural environment of a primary ...
Novice Teachers' Thinking Development from Practicum to Early Career

Hoang, Anna Trang Ngoc (Victoria University of Wellington, 2020)

Teacher education programmes have focused on training student teachers with knowledge of teaching methodologies and good teaching performance. What is going on inside student teachers’ minds in their processes of learning ...
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, ...