New ZealandriversThis paper examines how attitudes towards rivers in Aotearoa New Zealand have evolved since the country's settlement by Europeans, two centuries ago. For most of our postcolonial history, rivers have been viewed as something to be controlled and managed—even "improved." But today...
This thesis places meaning and self or identity at the centre of its enquiry into how New Zealand mountaineers sustain their commitment to an adventurous leisure activity. Thus, it seeks to address the current lack of knowledge regarding the way in which activities such as mountain climbing can ...
The rationale being Latin binomials were universal and their meaning was defined by a specified, preserved specimen, the Type. Whereas common names were often localised, generalised, and vulgar as the label “common” implies. To be a serious botanist or even a serious gardener you needed to ...
vast and deep injustices some groups suffer as a consequence of often unconscious assumptions and reactions of well-meaning people in ordinary interactions, media and cultural stereotypes, and structural features of bureaucratic hierarchies and market mechanisms—in short, the normal processes of everyday...
The primary interest was on the verbal (i.e. social), non-verbal (i.e. embodied) and material (inter)actions that were central to the quilters' meaning-making processes. This praxis and process of informal learning usually make it invisible because ...
The r-value of 0.2141 indicates a weak positive relationship between outdoor activities and demographics, meaning that none of the outdoor activities were significantly associated with demographic characteristics such as age, gender, marital status, and employment. From this, we find that variables ...
In particular, extensive Māori pūrākau (founding narratives) about Tāwhaki offer new insights for interpreting (a) the important role of the temporal setting for Gen 6:1–4; (b) the meaning of the phrase “sons of the god(s)”; and (c) the essential connection of the genealogies in...
Similar to historical treaties in Canada, the Treaty of Waitangi was also problematic in several respects. The Māori translation of the Treaty has been criticized for mistranslations that have altered the meaning and understanding of its terms. Also, some iwi (tribes) refused to sign the Treaty...
What may appear to be a resilient system can hold power structures, inequities, and exclusions in place that create "rigidity traps" [34,57]. Therefore, transformation is all-encompassing, involving shifts in meaning, perception, social networks, patterns, and institutional and governance ...
The Irish were also colonized by the English and the remnants of this bitter colonial past remain as one of the intricate historical complexities for Irish identity, just as it does for Māori. The meaning of Irishness and how the Irish negotiate a path between conflicting cultures and the ...