Historicising the ‘Big O.E.’: New Approaches to New Zealand Tourists and Travel Writing Abroad

2012 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 219-230 ◽  
Author(s):  
Genevieve de Pont
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Travel Writing ◽  
New Approaches

Neoliberalism, science institutions and new experiments in knowledge production

2011 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 350-354 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hugh Campbell
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Primary Production ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Economic Change ◽  
Agricultural Science ◽  
Important Influence ◽  
Multiple Outcomes ◽  
New Approaches ◽  
Political Project

The work of Larner on neoliberalism (e.g. Larner, 2003 , 2011 ) has had an important influence on scholars in the arguably most neoliberalized of economies – New Zealand ( Larner et al., 2007 ). Of particular importance is the direct confrontation of one of the key implicit framings within the prior scholarship on neoliberalism which has tended to equate all economic change during the last two decades as being caused by neoliberalization and all outcomes of these transformations as automatically bad. Larner (2011) argues for a decentring of the neoliberalism narrative as a sole explanation of all change in places like New Zealand. This commentary uses the revised approach of Larner and her New Zealand collaborators – Richard Le Heron and Nick Lewis – to briefly examine the consequences of neoliberalization in the context of state-funded science institutions in New Zealand. The result is an understanding of neoliberalization in the context of state-funded knowledge-production that recognizes multiple outcomes which resulted in both a reaffirmation of a core political project around traditional agricultural science, as well as the simultaneous emergence of new approaches, concepts and challenges. These new approaches are demonstrated by a group of new ‘transdisciplinary’ or methodologically innovative projects that are producing new kinds of knowledge about key transformations in primary production and new economic land use in New Zealand.

Travel writing and the first Marists in New Zealand

2010 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 345-364
Author(s):  
William Jennings
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Travel Writing

scholarly journals Ballerinas and Band Aids: The Performances of Urban Art in Post-Earthquake Christchurch

2018 ◽  
pp. 87-107
Author(s):  
Reuben Woods
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Hurricane Katrina ◽  
New Orleans ◽  
Strong Sense ◽  
Street Art ◽  
Urban Art ◽  
Political Discourses ◽  
New Approaches ◽  
Shared Space ◽  
Do It Yourself

While graffiti and street art span generations and all corners of the globe, it was still unexpected when Christchurch,a New Zealand city identified by many as a colonial English transplant with a perceived conservative air, was positionedas an urban art ‘destination’ in the wake of the devastating cluster of earthquakes in 2010 and 2011.1 Historically lacking a strong sense of street culture, such as that in New Orleans (which suffered similar devastation after Hurricane Katrina, 2005), Christchurch's post-quake landscape encouraged public discourses and as such required new approaches to shared space.2 As public expressions with do-it-yourself qualities already predisposed to make use of the post-quake landscape, graffiti and street art proved fitting additions to this terrain. They signified life and rebirth, while also engaging with loss and change, revealing the structures of urban and suburban existence, and creating political discourses.

scholarly journals New Nordic Environments in Eyvind Johnson’s Factual and Fictional Prose, 1928–1932

2018 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-41
Author(s):  
B. Thorup Thomsen
Keyword(s):  
Travel Writing ◽  
Interwar Period ◽  
Literary Modernism ◽  
New Approaches ◽  
Third Phase ◽  
Modes Of Representation ◽  
Hybrid Genre ◽  
Foreign Correspondence

AbstractThe main aim of the article is to offer a closer examination of interfaces between Johnson’s factual and fictional modes of writing around 1930, with a particular emphasis on analysing accounts and appreciations of modern environments, infrastructures and mentalities in “peripheral” as well as “central” Swedish locations. To frame theoretically this examination, the article opens by considering some aspects of the current scholarly discourses on the hybrid genre of travel writing, to which the nonfictional texts in question broadly belong, and on the interrelationship between factual and fictional modes of representation. The article goes on to consider three of Johnson’s newspaper reportage pieces that may be located in the subgenre of domestic travel writing, popular in the interwar period, while they also, as “foreign” correspondence of sorts, contribute to confounding the very concept of home nation as well as challenging the distinction between “off-centre” and “centre” in the nation space. In its third phase, the article discusses two novels that illustrate, respectively, the “marginal” and the metropolitan variant of domestic modernism in Johnson’s fictional work, thus complementing the reportage pieces. The article concludes by situating the discussion of Johnson’s narratives in the context of new approaches to Scandinavian literary modernism.

The Politics and Aesthetics of Extraction: Cultural Interventions in Blackwood’s and the Imperial

2020 ◽  
pp. 207-226
Author(s):  
Kristin Flieger Samuelian
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Travel Writing ◽  
Religious Enthusiasm ◽  
Cultural Interventions

This chapter contrasts how two late-Romantic periodicals, Blackwood’s and the evangelical Imperial Magazine, extracted and repurposed material from other sources. It focuses first on J. H. Merivale’s 1819 Blackwood’s articles that translates strategic excerpts from Giuseppe Ballardini’s 1608 Italian miscellany, Prato fiorito. These translations suggest that superstition and religious enthusiasm are fundamental components of European Catholicism. o the Catholic cultures of the Continent. In so doing, they illustrate how a discourse composed of extracts can be simultaneously fragmentary and coherent and how extraction can be a practice of both assemblage and disarticulation. Soon thereafter, the Imperial would follow suit, intermixing extracts from older devotional works with contemporary missionary narratives. Because the focus of the travel writing is often the newest worlds of Australia and New Zealand, the Imperial specifically locates evangelicalism within a project of Tory imperialism.

Applying Sun-Yuan liquefaction detection method in the February 2011 Christchurch (Mw 6.3) earthquake, New Zealand

2013 ◽  
Vol 46 (3) ◽  
pp. 157-166
Author(s):  
Rui Sun ◽  
Longwei Chen ◽  
Xiaoming Yuan
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Detection Method ◽  
Strong Motion ◽  
Seismic Acceleration ◽  
Strong Motion Data ◽  
Seismic Stations ◽  
The Real ◽  
Motion Data ◽  
Data Centre ◽  
New Approaches

In April 2011, 27 processed seismic acceleration records at 27 seismic stations whose epicental distances were less than 50 km in Feb. 22 Christchurch, New Zealand earthquake (Mw6.3), were collected from GeoNet strong motion data centre. Applying Sun-Yuan liquefaction detection method on the selected records, 9 liquefied sites and 18 non-liquefied sites were blindly identified thereof in May 2011, prior to the real liquefaction reports (papers) been published. Up to present, liquefaction detection results of 11 sites, i.e., 8 liquefied sites CBGS, CCCC, CHHC, CMHS, HPSC, PRPC, REHS and SHLC and 3 non-liquefied sites PPHS, HVSC and LPCC, were confirmed by publications which were consistent with the detections. New approaches and proof (or evidence) need to be pursued to demonstrate the detected results on other sites, i.e., liquefied site LINC and 15 non-liquefied sites.

scholarly journals Travel writing and New Zealand: an introduction

2010 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 339-343 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian Conrich ◽  
Tim Youngs
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Travel Writing
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