title: Right of Way: Cruise Tourism in Fiordland, New Zealand

authors: James, Susanna

subjects: cruise tourism

abstract: Coastal cruises to the spectacular fiords and the UNESCO World Heritage Area of Fiordland are an emerging market within the sector of cruise tourism to New Zealand. The Resource Management Act 1991 (RMA) is the governing legislation for the allocation of access rights in New Zealand. In many regards, the RMA is seen as an example of Habermasian ideals of communicative action in practice, as it includes requirements for open and transparent public participation in decisions. This thesis explores the power relations within the decision-making process for the allocation of access rights of a common-property resource in a case study of cruise tourism in Fiordland.
A Foucauldian analysis has indicated a matrix of power relationships among the decision-making elite, through their legitimised and accepted role as planners in governmental organisations. This matrix has resulted in an alternative to a resource consent for cruise companies wanting access to Fiordland's internal waters, an Environmental Partnership, Deed of Agreement between the New Zealand Cruise Industry and Environment Southland. While the Deed of Agreement appears to follow sustainable management guidelines, the negotiation did not follow the process of public participation intrinsic in the RMA.

text: Right of Way: Cruise Tourism in Fiordland, New Zealand Coastal cruises to the spectacular fiords and the UNESCO World Heritage Area of Fiordland are an emerging market within the sector of cruise tourism to New Zealand. The Resource Management Act 1991 (RMA) is the governing legislation for the allocation of access rights in New Zealand. In many regards, the RMA is seen as an example of Habermasian ideals of communicative action in practice, as it includes requirements for open and transparent public participation in decisions. This thesis explores the power relations within the decision-making process for the allocation of access rights of a common-property resource in a case study of cruise tourism in Fiordland.
A Foucauldian analysis has indicated a matrix of power relationships among the decision-making elite, through their legitimised and accepted role as planners in governmental organisations. This matrix has resulted in an alternative to a resource consent for cruise companies wanting access to Fiordland's internal waters, an Environmental Partnership, Deed of Agreement between the New Zealand Cruise Industry and Environment Southland. While the Deed of Agreement appears to follow sustainable management guidelines, the negotiation did not follow the process of public participation intrinsic in the RMA.

year: 2003

title: Is correspondence truth one or many?

authors: Ulatowski, Joseph W.

abstract: On the correspondence theory of truth, a proposition is true if and only if it corresponds to fact. Criticisms of the correspondence theory of truth have argued that such a strict interpretation of the correspondence relation will not be able to account for the truth of statements about fiction or mathematics. This challenge has resulted in the introduction of more permissive correspondence relations, such as Austin’s correspondence as correlation or Tarski’s correspondence as reference satisfaction. Recently, some mediated correspondence theorists of truth have proposed that the correspondence relation holds not only between thought and world but also between thought and language. In this paper, I argue that correspondence truth, direct or mediated, is not a monistic theory of truth, the view that there is one and only way for a proposition to be true. To argue for this position, I will have to show that each of the correspondence theories accept direct and indirect ways of understanding the correspondence relation as well as address potential objections to the view that correspondence theory is not singular and monolithic.

text: Is correspondence truth one or many? On the correspondence theory of truth, a proposition is true if and only if it corresponds to fact. Criticisms of the correspondence theory of truth have argued that such a strict interpretation of the correspondence relation will not be able to account for the truth of statements about fiction or mathematics. This challenge has resulted in the introduction of more permissive correspondence relations, such as Austin’s correspondence as correlation or Tarski’s correspondence as reference satisfaction. Recently, some mediated correspondence theorists of truth have proposed that the correspondence relation holds not only between thought and world but also between thought and language. In this paper, I argue that correspondence truth, direct or mediated, is not a monistic theory of truth, the view that there is one and only way for a proposition to be true. To argue for this position, I will have to show that each of the correspondence theories accept direct and indirect ways of understanding the correspondence relation as well as address potential objections to the view that correspondence theory is not singular and monolithic.

year: 2023-10-31

title: The digital divide in New Zealand: The position of Maori and Pacific peoples

authors: Gibson, John

subjects: communication

abstract: Information and communication technology plays an ever-growing role in economic, political and social life and those who are unable to access such technologies are increasingly disadvantaged. Hence, what has come to be known as the 'digital divide' is of considerable significance. Here, indicators of that divide as it affects Maori and

text: The digital divide in New Zealand: The position of Maori and Pacific peoples Information and communication technology plays an ever-growing role in economic, political and social life and those who are unable to access such technologies are increasingly disadvantaged. Hence, what has come to be known as the 'digital divide' is of considerable significance. Here, indicators of that divide as it affects Maori and

year: 2002