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'Jian Bei Pian': Lao She's Forgotten Wartime Epic Poem
Authors:   , Briggs Janette 
Published: November 2021

<p>This thesis is the first English-language critical study of Chinese author Lao She’s(1899-1966) wartime epic ballad Jian bei pian and includes the ballad’s first translation into English. The thesis addresses a gap in knowledge about his work, a gap previously covered by simplistic labelling of it as patriotic propaganda. Lao She’s reputation in the West largely rests on his modern fiction, although his literary output covered many genres, generating at different times in his life the full range of reactions in China between popular acclaim and violent censure. Much of his writing, done during periods of intense cultural and political upheaval in China, reflected the events through which he lived. Jian bei pian, his poetic record of a journey through northern China during the Second Sino-Japanese War, is unique, both of its time and outside of its time, yet it has received relatively little attention from critics in China or in the West. Recent Chinese studies on Jian bei pian have highlighted the poem’s patriotic elements, retrospectively interpreting it as an endorsement of China’s Communist Party and deeming it part of his wartime nation-building literature. In the West Jian bei pian has been almost completely ignored, apart from observations which similarly focus on its imputed status as patriotic propaganda and condemn or dismiss it for that reason. This thesis evaluates the evidence for and against Jian bei pian’s significance and effectiveness as wartime propaganda by examining the poem through frameworks of nation building theory. Textual analysis of Jian bei pian’s images of China, its narrative treatment of China’s history, and of culturally significant periods and sites, finds that the patriotic rhetoric is inconsistent. This finding echoes recent work of some Western scholars who have observed contradictions and insecurities in Lao She’s pre-war and wartime fiction that undermined his ability to convey a patriotic message. In rejecting Jian bei pian as nation-building, the thesis argues that Lao She’s writing of the poem was primarily driven by personal factors. Against the background of his recorded views, expressed motives and comments on the circumstances in which the poem was written, further textual analysis focuses on Jian bei pian’s diverse features reflecting the influence of traditional and classical elements of Chinese culture. This analysis of the poem’s composition, in both form and subject matter, highlights the importance of China’s classical poetry for Lao She, and suggests that Jian bei pian, in its travelogue depictions of a China where geography is overlaid with a sense of its history, literature and art, may belong in China’s classical jiyoushi (poems about travel) tradition – aspects of Jian bei pian recently noted by a few Chinese scholars but previously overlooked in the West.</p>
What educational and other experiences assist recently qualified nurses to understand and deal with clinical risk and patient safety?
Authors:   , Hawes Philip Charles 
Published: November 2021

<p>This research was undertaken to investigate how newly graduated nurses recognise and develop skills relating to clinical risk and patient safety. I set out to understand how and where new graduates learn those skills and what would help future undergraduate nurses better prepare for the complexities of the clinical setting. A qualitative research study using Appreciative Inquiry (AI) was the chosen methodology. This was selected for its aspirational outlook, which allows positive conclusions to be drawn from the study’s findings. Nine nurses in their first year of clinical practice participated in the study and they were interviewed on a one-to-one basis. The key findings demonstrated that the approaches to teaching clinical risk and safe patient care and experiences of these in the undergraduate setting were variable, with many participants describing that they were ill prepared for the rigours of the clinical environment. They identified workplace culture, clinical role models, exposure to the clinical environment; experiential learning, narrative story sharing, debriefing and simulation as contributing factors to their ability to learn and understand clinical risk and safe patient care. Despite their initial uncertainty, the participants were able to describe safe patient care and clinical risk. They identified cultures of safe patient care, safe teaching and safe learning. The participants further identified their preferred learning styles and recommended strategies that educationalists and clinical stakeholders employ to facilitate their professional development and understanding of clinical risk and patient safety. The participants identified a more thoughtful, structured and overt approach to teaching the subject of clinical risk and patient safety to prepare for the clinical environment. They desired more experiential exposure, either clinical or simulated. They highlighted the need for effective preceptors and role models, alongside opportunities for sharing their clinical experiences and debriefing critical incidents. Furthermore, they recognised aspects of workplace cultures that facilitated or hindered effective clinical practice and safe patient care.</p>
Introducing remote printing into the publishing industry of a small, remote economy: The case of New Zealand
Authors:   , Fabling Timothy 
Published: November 2021

<p>This research investigates the expected effects on developed business models of introducing remote printing technology into the New Zealand book publishing industry. Remote printing technology will both address and improve on the constraints of geographical proximity and market size, enabling the New Zealand book publishing industry to collectively grow and experience future prosperity. Aspects of technological innovation and consumer behaviour are examined to explore issues surrounding geographic proximity and supply chain inefficiencies. Criteria are developed using Just-In-Time (JIT) theory and Supply Chain Management (SCM) to evaluate where remote printing technology might best be integrated in the New Zealand book publishing industry’s supply chain. The mutual effects between remote printing technology adoption and the expected effects on business models are evaluated, identifying which model is expected to provide the most significant benefits in a New Zealand context. A case study of six New Zealand book industry respondents was conducted. Qualitative data was collected in semi-structured interviews with members associated within different sectors of the New Zealand book publishing industry. The interview data was supplemented with secondary data sources, including publicly available information about the New Zealand book industry. A within-case and cross-case analysis was performed around the research identified above. By evaluating developed business models and assessing which model/s effectively address the New Zealand context, remote printing offers brick-and-mortar booksellers the ability to better compete with offshore online booksellers. The expected effects remote printing technology will have on the New Zealand book industry are presented. A major contribution to this study is that remote printing technology could in fact have a revolutionary impact on the New Zealand book industry, compared to what has been previously considered.</p>
The Environmental Regulation of Marine Carbon Capture and Storage in New Zealand: Principles, Barriers and Gaps
Authors:   , Severinsen Gregory 
Published: November 2021

<p>This thesis concerns the regulation of a technology called carbon capture and storage (CCS). The technology is one way to mitigate anthropogenic climate change, by capturing carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions at point sources (such as power or industrial plants) and injecting them into deep underground geological formations. Specifically, the thesis looks at the framework of public environmental law that is needed for CCS in New Zealand where injection occurs offshore in its coastal marine area and exclusive economic zone. The thesis concludes that, when tested against existing principles in New Zealand's environmental law and the requirements of international law, current provisions in domestic law contain both significant barriers and gaps. These barriers must be removed and gaps must be filled. The thesis identifies three broad features of New Zealand's law that give rise to a range of barriers and that need to be addressed. First, there is substantial uncertainty as to how existing provisions would apply to CCS. Greater certainty is needed. Secondly, the classification of CCS as a form of marine dumping presents a significant barrier. The technology needs to be classified differently, and more positively. Thirdly, the law contains a general prohibition on considering the effects of activities on climate change. This may prevent CCS being deployed in practice, and needs to be reconsidered. New Zealand's existing law also contains three potential gaps, which must be filled. First, there is a dearth of CCS-specific regulatory and policy provisions within existing regimes such as the Resource Management Act 1991. This means operators and regulators would be operating in a regulatory and policy vacuum. Decisions may be inconsistent, fail to impose appropriate environmental standards, or fail to give appropriate weight to relevant considerations. Secondly, there are limitations in the ability of existing regimes to regulate the positive effects of activities – such as climate change mitigation - to ensure that they are actually achieved. Thirdly, existing law does not facilitate the kind of targeted and comparative decision-making process needed for CCS. This means that it does not provide an effective process for resolving tensions between competing resource interests in the sub-seabed.</p>
Secondary Sexting: A Restorative Framework for Understanding and Addressing the Harms of Sexting Behaviour among Secondary School Students
Authors:   , Wicks Emma 
Published: November 2021

<p>In New Zealand there is a growing concern over the engagement of teenagers in sexting, especially so-called ‘secondary sexting’, the non-consensual distribution of intimate images. This thesis aims to analyse the behaviour of sexting through a restorative lens and to outline the role of restorative responses can make in a New Zealand context. It combines a review of international literature on the subject with a pilot study of senior students at a New Zealand secondary school, a school that has deemed itself to be a “restorative school”. The empirical study employs a mixed-methods approach. The quantitative phase involved students (n=125) in Year 11 -13 completing a survey to ascertain the prevalence of sexing and their attitudes towards criminalization of different types of sexting. The qualitative phase involved focus groups with students (n=13), one-on-one interviews with staff (n=7) and parents (n=17) discussing how they would respond to a hypothetical scenario of secondary sexting. The study finds that although only a small percentage of students engaged in secondary sexting, secondary sexting is the cause of significant harm and there is need for an effective response. This thesis argues that restorative response has the most promise at addressing these harms. It also shows that applying a restorative framework to the analysis of the practice enables us to identify and challenge victim blaming tendencies in both popular opinion and official responses. It proposes that for New Zealand to adequately respond to sexting there needs to be a shift away from viewing secondary sexting as a result of poor choices to one that focuses on respectful relationships and the obligations that go with them.</p>
Opus Oppidum: Research for architecture, research beyond the city
Authors:   , Urquhart Breanna 
Published: November 2021

<p>Metropolises around the globe continue on the path of relentless growth under the extreme forces of urbanisation, whilst the provinces are neglected. This design-led research builds on recent discussions concerning New Zealand’s regional inequality and decline, calling upon the critical role of architecture. It asks, what about the small towns? What about the non-city? The research presented in this thesis was deployed through a dual inquiry; Firstly, it explores the emergent rurban context of the non-city as architecture’s project; Secondly, it seeks to reveal methods for architecture’s critical engagement as a catalyst towards regional transformation and prosperity. An uninhabited ‘buffer zone’ between Port Otago and the township of Port Chalmers is presented as the rurban context for architecture’s project. Developed in parallel to the design inquiry, the theoretical framework discusses new critical urban theory, arguing for a new lens to which design methods and experiments within form and field can be tested. The dual inquiry reveals strategies and tactics towards a transformative rurbanism equating to the final design proposition: Opus Oppidum: A possible armature. The conglomeration of the final design proposition, theoretical framework and exploration of design method, form a body of work that establishes the rurban condition (the non-city) as a place that desperately needs architecture’s critical engagement, and a place that is critical for the discipline of architecture.</p>
Working towards an ideal inclusive education model for refugee background people with disabilities in New Zealand
Authors:   , Croft Lucy 
Published: November 2021

<p>New Zealand accepts up to 750 refugees per annum, with a category for refugees with disabilities, as part of its quota obligation under the United Nations Convention relating to the Status of Refugees (1957) (Immigration New Zealand, 2016). Immigration New Zealand’s Refugee Resettlement Strategy states that education is one of the main priorities with helping refugees resettle in New Zealand (Immigration New Zealand, 2013) Although there is some literature available on refugee background people and education in New Zealand, there is little focus on refugee background people with disabilities in education. This research explores how inclusive education spaces for refugee background people with disabilities could be implemented, and perceptions surrounding disability and inclusion. In order to gain insights into the perceptions of people involved in policy or practice with refugee background people with disabilities, I used a feminist, qualitative methodology, and conducted semi-structured interviews with 11 participants who worked in education provision, non-government or government organisations that worked with refugee background people. These participants were interviewed in Auckland (n = 4), Wellington (n = 3) and Melbourne, Australia (n = 4). The Australian participants were interviewed in order to provide an alternative view to their New Zealand counterparts, although the primary focus was on New Zealand. My findings suggest that participant perceptions of disability and inclusion generally followed social and medical models of disability, but rarely ecological. Participants who have direct experience with disability of refugee background people had more carefully constructed ideas. Based on participant answers, I developed an ideal inclusive education model encompassing physical, relational and pedagogical spaces, which could be applicable to refugee background people with disabilities. The thesis findings informs existing theoretical models and understanding of inclusive education spaces, and encourages greater inclusion of refugee background people with disabilities in education in New Zealand.</p>
The performative Katherine Mansfield
Authors:   , Saker Nicola 
Published: November 2021

<p>This thesis looks at the role of performance in Katherine Mansfield’s life and its influence on her writing technique. It argues that there is a consistent thread of active engagement with performance throughout Mansfield’s life which profoundly influenced the content, construction and technique of her writing. It is divided into three chapters. The first examines Mansfield’s early years and the cultural context of colonial, Victorian Wellington and its performance culture as well as the familial and educational influences that surrounded her. The second chapter explores her later cultural context in London in the first decade after the turn of the century. The importance of popular culture such as music hall is examined, and Mansfield’s professional and personal performance experience is defined. The third chapter involves a close reading and analysis of Mansfield’s dramatic techniques through the examination of the stories as well as her use of theatrical imagery, motifs, allusions and plot details.</p>
Strategic interaction: Distrust and cooperation in US-China relations
Authors:   , Wilcox Shane 
Published: November 2021

<p>International cooperation is generally thought to be made possible, or at least enhanced, by a relationship of trust between nations. This proposition is examined with a particular focus on US-China relations, and proceeds through a critique of various models of cooperation that works to expose the limits imposed by the assumption of a causal relationship between trust and cooperation. A concept of strategic interaction is developed on the basis of analysis of values and interests, asymmetric exchange and distrust, and is offered as an alternative to grand strategic narratives for understanding the strategic behaviour of states.</p>
Diffuse Extragalactic Emission at Low Frequencies within the Epoch of Reionization 0-hour Field
Authors:   , Duchesne Stefan 
Published: November 2021

<p>Low-frequency radio imaging of the southern sky has become available with the advent of the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA). The topic of this thesis is the study of extended, low-frequency radio emission, with a primary focus on the non-thermal synchrotron emission associated with the intra-cluster medium (ICM) of galaxy clusters. We do not limit the study to such emission, however, and investigate a small sample of other interesting and extended radio emission from objects in the southern sky. A significant portion of this work is invested in detecting, and characterising, extended, diffuse radio emission from galaxy clusters within a 45 degree by 45 degree region of the southern sky centred on R.A. = 0 hours, decl. = -27 degrees. This field is chosen as a deep MWA image has been made available which is sensitive to extended structures. Within the field we search for low-frequency, diffuse cluster emission, previously detected or otherwise. In doing so we find 34 diffuse radio sources, 3 of which are newly detected haloes, 1 newly detected relic with many new candidates of each. Further, we detect a new phoenix candidate as well as 2 candidate dead radio galaxies at the centre of clusters. We confirm previous observations of such emission as well, and measure properties such as their integrated flux densities, spectral indices, and sizes where possible. We compare our sample of haloes with previously detected haloes and revisit established scaling relations of the radio halo power with the cluster X-ray luminosity and mass. We find that both scaling relations are consistent with previous findings despite the increase in sample size, though note that the raw scatter in the data for best-fitting parameters increases with increase in sample size. In this, we demonstrate the utility of low-frequency radio telescopes like the MWA in detecting such emission, showing that the MWA is pushing into higher-redshift, lower-mass systems, though we caution that the low resolution of the MWA can work against us. We follow-up on two galaxy clusters found to host extended emission - Abell S1136 and Abell S1063. In the case of Abell S1136 we observe the emission at its centre with the Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA) and determine the presence of a core, suggesting the emission to be that of an ancient episode of an active galactic nucleus in the central elliptical of the cluster, ESO 470-G020. After reducing archival ATCA data for Abell S1063 we find no evidence of a halo and consider the source to be constructed of blended point sources. We close with a description of a strong double-lobed radio source associated with a non-elliptical host ESO 472-G013, likely a spiral or irregular galaxy, that was found serendipitously whilst searching for diffuse cluster emission. We explore the host within the context of star-formation, and consider the possible origins of the AGN and lobes due to interaction with either the nearby spiral, ESO 472-G012, or a past or ongoing merger event.</p>
The Female Künstlerroman in the Writing of Virginia Woolf
Authors:   , Galbraith Rebekah 
Published: November 2021

<p>The defining features of the female Künstlerroman in Virginia Woolf’s writing suggest a revision of the narrative form to accommodate, navigate, and interrogate the artist’s gender and origins of her creativity. This thesis plots the birth of the female artist and the conditions of her artistic development within Woolf’s writing by first examining the construction of Rachel Vinrace, the rudimentary artist of the equally embryonic text, Melymbrosia (1912-1982). Rachel’s failure to privately self-identify as an artist is contrasted with her reluctance to accept her future potential as a wife and mother, suggesting that “woman” and “artist” are two mutually exclusive identities. For this reason, Woolf’s use of the female Künstlerroman examines the complexities of the female artist’s ability and, indeed, inability to acknowledge and inhabit her creative identity. But how, exactly, the narrative form develops in Woolf’s writing relies upon a reading of the relationship between the figure of the artist and the novel she occupies: Rachel Vinrace in Melymbrosia; Lily Briscoe and Mrs. Ramsay in To the Lighthouse (1927); Orlando in Orlando: A Biography (1928); Miss La Trobe and Isa Oliver in Between the Acts (1941). Each of these works present a modification of the female Künstlerroman, and, in doing so, a markedly different artist-as-heroine. Moreover, in Woolf’s later writing, the narrative development of the female artist incorporates aspects of historical non-fiction, the biographical and autobiographical, and epistolary and essayistic fictions. An analysis of the intertextual relationship between A Room of One’s Own (1929) and Orlando: A Biography, and Three Guineas (1938) and Between the Acts, is therefore critical to the argument of this thesis. The following is an exploration of how a variety of female artist-figures are constructed within Woolf’s writing: a musician, a painter, a social artist, a poet, and a pageant-writer-director. Through Woolf’s diverse expositions on the creative process, her heroines embody the personal difficulties women encounter as they attempt to realise their artistic potential. In this way, the female Künstlerroman is used by Woolf to examine, often simultaneously, the aesthetics of failure, as well as the conditions of success. But that a multitude of creative mediums appear in Woolf’s writing suggests there are universal obstacles when the artist in question is a woman, an implication in the narrative of the female Künstlerroman that the gender of a protagonist is the primary source of complication. Therefore, the degree to which each heroine achieves a sense of creative fulfilment is dependent on her ability to recalibrate her identity as a woman with her self-authorisation as an artist.</p>