scholarly journals Ash Stories: A Spell against Forgetting

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 156-173
Author(s):  
Madeleine Collie
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Plant Health ◽  
Ash Trees ◽  
Complex Relationships ◽  
The Way

This paper will explore The Ash Project (2016-2019), which worked to commission a memorial sculpture and a series of walks, talks, workshops and exhibitions to create closer relationships between ash trees and the local puow trade in plants has created increased risks to plant health, and the way in which plants can perform complex relationships to a collective sense of national and colonial identity, through an exploration of ash migrations to the colonies via acclimatisatioblics. This paper will situate the concerns of the ash within broader thinking about capitalism's intensifying impact on nature. It explores hn societies in Australia and New Zealand. Finally, the paper thinks about how we might perform memorial acts to curate love or care while acknowledging our complex shared histories in multi-species entanglements. 

scholarly journals Apprenticeship in New Zealand : its development, present organization and administration

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Richard Vaughan Kriby
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Organization And Administration ◽  
Boer War ◽  
Machine Age ◽  
The Village ◽  
To Receive ◽  
Made In ◽  
The Ideal ◽  
The Way

"Lumen Accipe et Imperti ", says the motto of Wellington College; and, in becoming a teacher, after being a pupil of the College, I fully accepted the injunction to receive the light and impart it. But it took the preparation of this thesis on the apprenticeship system to bring home to me the<br>strength of the human impulse implied in those four<br>Latin words.<br>In the ideal, the impulse is personified in Oliver Goldsmith's description of the village schoolmaster who "...tried each art, reproved each dull delay; Allur'd to brighter worlds, and led the way."<br><div>It is this impulse to seek skills and to hand them on which helps to explain the enigma of a system apparently always on the point of being out-moded, and yet surviving time and change, depression and prosperity, wars and its greatest challenge, the machine age.</div><div>In 1898 - before the Boer War - a Member of the New Zealand Parliament announced that a pair of boots had been made in 25 minutes, passing through 53 different machines and 63 pairs of hands. The tone of the brief, ensuing discussion was one suited to the occasion of an imminent demise, and a Bill for improvement of the apprenticeship system then before the House quietly expired.<br><br></div>

scholarly journals In Search of Authenticity: the ‘Global Popular’ and ‘Quality’ Culture—the Case of The Lord of the Rings Trilogy and Pavement

2005 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hilary Radner
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Lord Of The Rings ◽  
Quality Culture ◽  
The Way

Through an examination of three special issues devoted to The Lord of the Rings trilogy in Pavement, a New Zealand magazine, I propose to discuss the way in which the representation of these films suggests the complexities of the intersection between the global and the local within New Zealand culture and its consequences in particular in terms of the marginalisation of an indigenous discourse. I draw upon the work of scholars such as T. Bennett and J. Woolacott to define and examine the “reading formations” mobilized by the LOTR phenomenon within such publications as Pavement, directed towards a local NZ ‘hip’ readership.

scholarly journals The Contractual Interpretation of Tipping J

2016 ◽  
Vol 47 (2) ◽  
pp. 227
Author(s):  
Matthew Barber
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Supreme Court ◽  
Supreme Court Decision ◽  
The Other ◽  
Court Decision ◽  
The Supreme Court ◽  
Comprehensive Examination ◽  
The Future ◽  
Lower Courts ◽  
The Way

In the Supreme Court decision of Vector Gas Ltd v Bay of Plenty Energy Ltd, Tipping J put forward an approach to contact interpretation that, while indebted to that of Lord Hoffmann, was expressed differently and promoted the use of evidence of prior negotiations. Despite not gaining the support of any of the other sitting judges, this approach was swiftly taken up in the lower courts and, until recently at least, seems to have been accepted as representing New Zealand law. This article attempts a comprehensive examination of Tipping J’s approach. It concludes that, while coherent in principle, the detail of the approach is flawed in a number of ways, especially the way in which evidence of subsequent conduct is assumed to work. The future of Tipping J’s approach is considered.

Consensus Gained, Consensus Maintained? Changing New Zealand's Electoral Law 1927-2007

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
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James Christmas
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Political Parties ◽  
Legislative Process ◽  
Electoral Rules ◽  
Active Search ◽  
Self Interest ◽  
Electoral Change ◽  
Electoral Law ◽  
The Way

<p>In the eighty years between the passage of New Zealand's first unified Electoral Act in 1927, and the passage of the Electoral Finance Act 2007, the New Zealand Parliament passed 66 acts that altered or amended New Zealand's electoral law. One central assumption of theories of electoral change is that those in power only change electoral rules strategically, in order to protect their self-interest.1 This thesis is an investigation into the way New Zealand governments effect and have effected their desired changes to the electoral law through the legislative process, and the roles self-interest and the active search for consensus between political parties have played in that process. It argues that, while self-interest serves as a compelling explanation for a great deal of electoral law change in New Zealand, altruistic motivations and the development of parliamentary processes influenced behaviour to an equal, and perhaps even greater, extent.</p>

The way I see it: Working holidays in New Zealand

BMJ ◽  
2002 ◽  
Vol 324 (7332) ◽  
pp. 39S-39
Author(s):  
C. Schickerling
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
The Way

Valuing the soil natural capital: a New Zealand case study

Soil Research ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 51 (4) ◽  
pp. 278 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oshadhi Samarasinghe ◽  
Suzie Greenhalgh
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Natural Capital ◽  
Economic Valuation ◽  
Rooting Depth ◽  
Land Values ◽  
Valuation Method ◽  
Land Valuation ◽  
Farmland Values ◽  
Complex Relationships

Inherent characteristics of soil and land valuation data are used to examine the relationship between soil characteristics and rural farmland values to value soil natural capital in the 6000 km2 Manawatu catchment in New Zealand. The study applies a widely used economic valuation method to determine whether the value of inherent characteristics of soils is reflected in land values. We find empirical evidence that the characteristics used to describe soil natural capital stock, e.g. gravel class, drainage class, potential rooting depth, and profile available water, are reflected in rural land values. Moreover, we find that these characteristics of soil stocks do not behave simply as independent variables but that there are complex relationships between them influencing their value.

Global Teachers with Globite Cases

2005 ◽  
Vol 49 (3) ◽  
pp. 251-263 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carol Reid
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Policy Agenda ◽  
Professional Lives ◽  
Teacher Shortages ◽  
Immigrant Teachers ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
New Generation ◽  
Research And Policy ◽  
The Way

A key feature of contemporary changes in globalisation is the increasing transnational flows of people. Evidence of the way in which these changes are impacting on education in Australia today is found in the presence of its immigrant teachers. Teacher shortages in Australia have led to increasing numbers of immigrant teachers from non-European or non-English-speaking background countries. This article reviews the recent experiences of Australia, New Zealand and Canada in recruiting these teachers. The findings of a study into the presence of immigrant teachers in selected Australian schools are then presented. It was found that as these immigrant teachers negotiate the ‘authoritative discourses’ in their professional lives, they contribute to the reworking of the identity and work of teachers. The article concludes by sketching a research and policy agenda that arises in response to, and as an expression of the presence of this new generation of global/local teachers.

scholarly journals Brazil, Ethiopia, and New Zealand lead the way on climate-smart agriculture

2014 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Christine Negra ◽  
Sonja Vermeulen ◽  
Luís Gustavo Barioni ◽  
Tekalign Mamo ◽  
Paul Melville ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Smart Agriculture ◽  
The Way

scholarly journals Reconstructing dancer identities

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Emma Cosgrave
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Narrative Inquiry ◽  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Aotearoa New Zealand ◽  
Sense Of Security ◽  
Practice Performance ◽  
The Way

The Coronavirus (Covid-19) continues to reshape many lives socially, politically, and economically. Choreographic practice, performance, and those involved in dance are also affected in different ways. This article investigates the research question: How might the event of Covid-19 prompt the transformation of freelance dancers’ identities? Through a qualitative narrative inquiry, three freelance contemporary dancers from Aotearoa/New Zealand were interviewed. From a thematic analysis of the data, the theme of alienation and adaptability were drawn out. This research reveals that the event of Covid-19 has caused freelance dancers to question their identity and precarity within their communities and shifted their position to advance a sense of security. The stories shared by the dancers revealed that industry practices and conditions for freelance contemporary dancers in Aotearoa/New Zealand need redevelopment for greater sustainability, relevance and inclusion, which could pave the way for industry changes to occur post-covid-19.  

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