title: Kingdom Animalia, phylum Rotifera: wheel animals

authors: Duggan, Ian C.

abstract: Little is known of Aotearoa New Zealand’s marine rotifer fauna, with only 17 taxa recorded thus far, three of which are new records since 2000, from Waituna Lagoon, Southland: Notholca cf. marina/labis Focke, 1961, Notholca salina Focke, 1961, and Synchaeta vorax Rousselet, 1902 (Duggan & White 2010) (Table 12.1; Fig. 12.1). A total of 480 rotifer taxa were recorded from New Zealand and its outlying islands by Shiel et al. (2009), but the majority of these were freshwater taxa (Shiel et al. 2009: tables on p. 138 and checklist on p. 153). Most of the 17 marine taxa recorded are widespread planktonic species, with only one endemic taxon recognised: Notholca pacifica (Russell, 1962). Benthic species, which are diverse and abundant elsewhere, are under-represented. Rotifer sampling from New Zealand marine environments has been spatially and temporally restricted, and mesh sizes used in marine zooplankton studies have been too coarse to collect most species. A checklist of extant New Zealand marine Rotifera is provided.

text: Kingdom Animalia, phylum Rotifera: wheel animals Little is known of Aotearoa New Zealand’s marine rotifer fauna, with only 17 taxa recorded thus far, three of which are new records since 2000, from Waituna Lagoon, Southland: Notholca cf. marina/labis Focke, 1961, Notholca salina Focke, 1961, and Synchaeta vorax Rousselet, 1902 (Duggan & White 2010) (Table 12.1; Fig. 12.1). A total of 480 rotifer taxa were recorded from New Zealand and its outlying islands by Shiel et al. (2009), but the majority of these were freshwater taxa (Shiel et al. 2009: tables on p. 138 and checklist on p. 153). Most of the 17 marine taxa recorded are widespread planktonic species, with only one endemic taxon recognised: Notholca pacifica (Russell, 1962). Benthic species, which are diverse and abundant elsewhere, are under-represented. Rotifer sampling from New Zealand marine environments has been spatially and temporally restricted, and mesh sizes used in marine zooplankton studies have been too coarse to collect most species. A checklist of extant New Zealand marine Rotifera is provided.

year: 2023

title: Travel Writing, Self and Other: Finding Reciprocal Space

authors: Ullal, Kathleen

subjects: reciprocity

abstract: My thesis engages with the complex relationships between self and other as these are constructed in the travel writing of five authors: the early feminist Mary Wollstonecraft’s Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark; the Victorian polymath William Morris’ Icelandic Journals; travel writer and historian Robert Byron’s The Road to Oxiana; and Nobel Prize for Literature recipients V. S. Naipaul’s An Area of Darkness and Orhan Pamuk’s Istanbul: Memories and the City. The texts under consideration appeared respectively in 1796, 1873, 1937, 1964 and 2006: they therefore encompass a range of conceptions of the self and other. 
My examination of these authors’ works prompts a reconsideration of the Saidian self/Other binary, in search of a less polemical stance towards this socially constructed relationship. In problematising this binary, I adopt feminist and postcolonial perspectives and apply critical textual analysis. I posit, and find, that the self and other are mutually constitutive. I suggest this shift visually and textually by using self-other, rather than the more usual self/Other.
I find that these travel writers point to several ways in which the self/Other binary, cemented textually in place by Said’s Orientalism, is not fixed but rather is as unstable and shifting as each individual’s subjectivity. While power and knowledge are clearly contributory factors to that subjectivity, I show that these, too, are not fixed, but are rather shifting concepts variously influencing the shape of the self-other relationship, as are the notions of home which inflect these works. Writing itself clearly serves as a vivifying home of sorts for these writers and, crucially, as a means of remaking or refashioning the self.
I employ an interpretative process that compares and contrasts the departing with the returning self, as against the intercultural experiences encountered and the changes attendant on those experiences. I find that the self-other relationship can be more richly apprehended by interpellating a redefined notion of reciprocity, one removed from its usual (Western) signification as part of a straightforward exchange of commodity or service. This redefined notion of reciprocity sees value in difference in the social encounter, where difference is acknowledged but not subsumed. 
My research contributes to the dynamic nature of travel writing studies by exploring beyond prevailing theoretical co-ordinates. Overall, my findings – and redefining of terms – indicate that seeking out such reciprocal engagements in these authors’ travel writings is a fruitful expansion in the field of travel writing studies.

text: Travel Writing, Self and Other: Finding Reciprocal Space My thesis engages with the complex relationships between self and other as these are constructed in the travel writing of five authors: the early feminist Mary Wollstonecraft’s Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark; the Victorian polymath William Morris’ Icelandic Journals; travel writer and historian Robert Byron’s The Road to Oxiana; and Nobel Prize for Literature recipients V. S. Naipaul’s An Area of Darkness and Orhan Pamuk’s Istanbul: Memories and the City. The texts under consideration appeared respectively in 1796, 1873, 1937, 1964 and 2006: they therefore encompass a range of conceptions of the self and other. 
My examination of these authors’ works prompts a reconsideration of the Saidian self/Other binary, in search of a less polemical stance towards this socially constructed relationship. In problematising this binary, I adopt feminist and postcolonial perspectives and apply critical textual analysis. I posit, and find, that the self and other are mutually constitutive. I suggest this shift visually and textually by using self-other, rather than the more usual self/Other.
I find that these travel writers point to several ways in which the self/Other binary, cemented textually in place by Said’s Orientalism, is not fixed but rather is as unstable and shifting as each individual’s subjectivity. While power and knowledge are clearly contributory factors to that subjectivity, I show that these, too, are not fixed, but are rather shifting concepts variously influencing the shape of the self-other relationship, as are the notions of home which inflect these works. Writing itself clearly serves as a vivifying home of sorts for these writers and, crucially, as a means of remaking or refashioning the self.
I employ an interpretative process that compares and contrasts the departing with the returning self, as against the intercultural experiences encountered and the changes attendant on those experiences. I find that the self-other relationship can be more richly apprehended by interpellating a redefined notion of reciprocity, one removed from its usual (Western) signification as part of a straightforward exchange of commodity or service. This redefined notion of reciprocity sees value in difference in the social encounter, where difference is acknowledged but not subsumed. 
My research contributes to the dynamic nature of travel writing studies by exploring beyond prevailing theoretical co-ordinates. Overall, my findings – and redefining of terms – indicate that seeking out such reciprocal engagements in these authors’ travel writings is a fruitful expansion in the field of travel writing studies.

year: 2017

title: Race, culture and ethnicity: Organisation of Maori social groups: A working paper

authors: Nikora, Linda Waimarie

subjects: Maori

abstract: Three concepts have guided the conceptual orientation to studies of human groups within the social sciences. They are those concepts of race, culture, and ethnicity. These are discussed with specific reference to Maori peoples and their development in Te Aohurihuri.

text: Race, culture and ethnicity: Organisation of Maori social groups: A working paper Three concepts have guided the conceptual orientation to studies of human groups within the social sciences. They are those concepts of race, culture, and ethnicity. These are discussed with specific reference to Maori peoples and their development in Te Aohurihuri.

year: 1995-06-01