scholarly journals Editorial

2018 ◽  
pp. 2
Author(s):  
Alan Cocker
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Cultural History ◽  
Editorial Team ◽  
Design History ◽  
Broad Field ◽  
Personal Reflections

As we stated in our first issue of BackStory in December 2016, the editorial team has sought to produce a journal with an appeal beyond the academy to those working in the broad field of New Zealand art, media and design history. We have reached out to those working in the country’s libraries, galleries and museums for contributions and we have also provided space for commentaries and personal reflections on particular aspects of our cultural history.

scholarly journals Editorial

2016 ◽  
pp. 2-3
Author(s):  
Alan Cocker
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Cultural History ◽  
Editorial Team ◽  
Design History ◽  
Art And Design ◽  
Perceived Need ◽  
University Of Technology ◽  
History Of ◽  
Design Production ◽  
The University

It is a pleasure to be able to introduce the first issue of BackStory. The idea behind this journal is to provide a medium for those interested in ‘looking back’ at New Zealand’s art, media and design history. These are the stories that lie behind current media, art and design production and practice in this country. It is envisaged that this new journal will provide an opportunity to explore our rich heritage in these fields. In part the motivation to launch a new journal is to meet a perceived need. The country presently does not have a journal which has the focus envisaged for BackStory. The Journal of New Zealand Art History (JoNZAH) was last published in 2012/13 and its absence has meant that those interested in reading and writing about this aspect of our cultural history lost a valued publication. The editorial team has approached the Hocken Library who provided editorial and production input for the JoNZAH and gained their support for the BackStory initiative. It is acknowledged that the new journal is not a re-launch or continuation of the JoNZAH. Instead, BackStory: Journal of New Zealand Art, Media and Design History, seeks to broaden the scope of its predecessor to include media and design history. The editorial teamhope that those who valued the JoNZAH will find value in this journal as a worthy successor.The initial editorial team for BackStory is drawn from the Auckland University of Technology (AUT) and an Editorial Advisory Board has been established. The establishing editorial team are Minna Pesonen (Designer), Rosemary Brewer, Alan Cocker and Peter Hoar from the School of Communication Studies, Peter Gilderdale from the School of Art & Design and Simon Mowatt from the Faculty of Business. It is the hope of this team that BackStory has an appeal beyond academia and will inspire contributions from those working in this country’s libraries, galleries and museums as well as others who have an interest in the history of New Zealand art, design, photography and media. We are pleased that this first issue contains contributions from curators at the Auckland Museum and Te Papa, and that there is a wide representation of different material drawn from across the target disciplines. Our hope is that the quality of the research and writing, and the common New Zealand focus will entice readers into crossdisciplinary explorations. All submissions except commentaries will be blind peer reviewed by two reviewers to conform to university research publication standards but we are seeking contributions that will have an appealbeyond the university. In the so-called online age the decision to publish a printed form is deliberate. The editorial team are seeking the highest print production standards conscious of the artifact value of this journal.

Editorial

2017 ◽  
pp. 2-3
Author(s):  
Peter Hoar
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Editorial Team ◽  
Local Market ◽  
Design History ◽  
Recorded Sound ◽  
The Arts ◽  
The World ◽  
1960S And 1970S ◽  
New Zealanders

Kia ora and welcome to the second issue of BackStory. The members of the Backstory Editorial Team were gratified by the encouraging response to the first issue of the journal. We hope that our currentreaders enjoy our new issue and that it will bring others to share our interest in and enjoyment of the surprisingly varied backstories of New Zealand’s art, media, and design history. This issue takes in a wide variety of topics. Imogen Van Pierce explores the controversy around the Hundertwasser Art Centre and Wairau Māori Art Gallery to be developed in Whangarei. This project has generated debate about the role of the arts and civic architecture at both the local and national levels. This is about how much New Zealanders are prepared to invest in the arts. The value of the artist in New Zealand is also examined by Mark Stocker in his article about the sculptor Margaret Butler and the local reception of her work during the late 1930s. The cultural cringe has a long genealogy. New Zealand has been photographed since the 1840s. Alan Cocker analyses the many roles that photography played in the development of local tourism during the nineteenth century. These images challenged notions of the ‘real’ and the ‘artificial’ and how new technologies mediated the world of lived experience. Recorded sound was another such technology that changed how humans experienced the world. The rise of recorded sound from the 1890s affected lives in many ways and Lewis Tennant’s contribution captures a significant tipping point in this medium’s history in New Zealand as the transition from analogue to digital sound transformed social, commercial and acoustic worlds. The New Zealand Woman’s Weekly celebrates its 85th anniversary this year but when it was launched in 1932 it seemed tohave very little chance of success. Its rival, the Mirror, had dominated the local market since its launch in 1922. Gavin Ellis investigates the Depression-era context of the Woman’s Weekly and how its founders identified a gap in the market that the Mirror was failing to fill. The work of the photographer Marti Friedlander (1908-2016) is familiar to most New Zealanders. Friedlander’s 50 year career and huge range of subjects defy easy summary. She captured New Zealanders, their lives, and their surroundings across all social and cultural borders. In the journal’s profile commentary Linda Yang celebrates Freidlander’s remarkable life and work. Linda also discusses some recent images by Friedlander and connects these with themes present in the photographer’s work from the 1960s and 1970s. The Backstory editors hope that our readers enjoy this stimulating and varied collection of work that illuminate some not so well known aspects of New Zealand’s art, media, and design history. There are many such stories yet to be told and we look forward to bringing them to you.

Settler Histories and Indigenous Pasts: New Zealand and Australia

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bain Attwood
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Cultural History ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Race And Ethnicity ◽  
First Generation ◽  
Historical Writing ◽  
Younger Generation ◽  
The 1950S

This chapter focuses on historical writing in New Zealand and Australia, which has been transformed since 1945. In the 1950s and 1960s, as the number of academic historians increased exponentially and growing professionalization occurred, a project of constructing a progressive story of masculinist nation-making and nationalism became dominant, while in the 1970s and 1980s, a younger generation of historians—many of them women and first-generation Australians—challenged this triumphant nationalist story of self-realization as they embraced social and cultural history and their emphases on the differences of class, gender, sexuality, race, and ethnicity. There is one area in which historical writing in New Zealand and Australia has undoubtedly been distinctive, at least in terms of its public impact; namely, that concerning the pasts of the indigenous peoples. The chapter then looks at the historiography of aboriginal–settler relations in Australia and New Zealand.

scholarly journals Feathered Friends and Human Animals: General Biology and Comparative Description within the New Zealand Poultry Industry Press, c.1900-1960

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Janine Ruth Cook
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Cultural History ◽  
Animal Studies ◽  
Elementary Science ◽  
Animal Husbandry ◽  
Poultry Industry ◽  
General Biology ◽  
Nature Study ◽  
History Of ◽  
Mind Set

<p>Within the New Zealand poultry industry press between 1900 and 1960, scientific approaches were promoted and ‘sentimentality’ discouraged, yet comparative and anthropomorphic description suggesting similarities between chickens and humans persisted. Feathered Friends and Human Animals explores this phenomenon within poultry journals, newspapers, advice books and official publications. Four key themes of comparison are identified: ideas about the chicken mind, the chicken-as-worker, poultry ‘eugenics’, and health and hygiene.  It is argued that humanitarian, theological, and philosophical ideas, the ‘natural’ empathetic and humoured identification that arises through everyday contact with animals within relatively small systems, and the rationalisation of industry, were all significant factors contributing to sustained comparison. However, the public articulation of fundamental biological ideas – encapsulated in the modern, overarching concept of ‘general biology’ – validated and integrated these discourses.  General biology influenced new trends in education and in the popular and public articulation of research into the life sciences of this period. It encouraged the integration of sympathetic naturalist persepectives, including evolutionary based ideas about ‘natural laws’, with emerging new science that continued to establish many fundamental biological principles through extrapolation from experimental animals to human animals. This study demonstrates that poultry experts’ attended to this same blend of older naturalist science and new scientific knowledge.  Historians’ focus on emerging specialist science in the early twentieth century has tended to obfuscate the realities of science education within the applied sciences and amongst lay audiences, and the continued interest in fundamental aspects of biology within professional science. The findings of this study reveal that farming ideas did not develop within a bubble, determined only by animal husbandry traditions and industry-specific applied research. They also suggest that practitioners’ conceptions of biology within applied fields of this era were not as distinct as has been supposed.  As a ‘bottom-up’ cultural history of science, this study illustrates the articulation of general biology within an agricultural context. This is the key contribution offered to local and international historiography. However, other elements of the study expand existing scholarship. In exploring ideas about race and eugenics, it offers a broader framework for social historians, who, while cognisant of the eugenic mind-set of this period, have granted little attention to general biology as a professional trend. It offers insight into the agendas and tensions within school nature study and elementary science. It is also the first comprehensive history of the New Zealand poultry industry. Poultry-keeping engaged up to around 60 percent of the nation’s households in this period, including thousands of farmers who kept sideline flocks, but as a predominantly domestic (as opposed to export) industry it has been overlooked by social and agricultural historians.  The field of human animal studies, which has tended to gloss over both this era of transition prior to modern agribusiness and scientific discourses, is also advanced by this study, and this is the first New Zealand agricultural history to engage with this field and examine animal husbandry ideologically. It reveals how fundamental science knowledge, entwined with moral perspectives, continued to shape ideas about animals’ needs and behaviour well beyond the Victorian period. Assumptions of similarity however, were not always beneficial for the animal, and human-bird comparison was used to both justify and deny kind treatment.</p>

Experiences of Implementing a Large-Scale Blended, Flipped Learning Project

2018 ◽  
pp. 3839-3849
Author(s):  
Hazel Owen ◽  
Nicola Dunham
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Tertiary Education ◽  
Health Science ◽  
Flipped Learning ◽  
Tertiary Institution ◽  
Tertiary Institutions ◽  
Post Secondary ◽  
Aotearoa New Zealand ◽  
Personal Reflections

In the context of ongoing global adoption of all forms of technology eLearning has continued to evolve, informed by a growing body of research. Many schools, tertiary institutions, and other organisations, are implementing a variety of eLearning initiatives, although, frequently it appears the investment does not always equate to more engaged, knowledgeable, skilled learners. Tertiary education in Aotearoa, New Zealand covers all post-secondary education and is analogous to the term Higher Education in other countries. This chapter draws on the implementation of a large-scale blended, flipped learning project at a tertiary institution in Aotearoa, New Zealand. The project (within the Health Science faculty) was driven by a desire to improve student learning experiences, and develop a common semester with a suite of interdisciplinary postgraduate qualifications. The discussion is based on personal reflections, which provide different perspectives of the initial phases, from three participants in the associated study (two of whom are also the authors of this chapter). During the project two key prevalences were observed. The first was an ingrained set of beliefs, often unquestioned, that shaped overall expectations of what an eLearning experience might comprise. Interpretations and implications are discussed using the lens of mindsets to illustrate how beliefs of ‘self' fundamentally influence a person's ability to embrace - and thrive in - a period of change. The second prevalence was a familiarity with large-scale, ‘monolithic' eLearning developments, which translated into discomfort with an agile approach. The overall aim of this chapter is to provide sufficient detail to draw educators and administrators together to apply the recommendations offered, while providing support for 'change agents' - as well as those ambivalent about reform. The authors are keen to highlight how ultimately rewarding, but also emotionally and physically demanding, the implementation of reform can be for those educators on 'the front lines'.

From service quality to service theory and practice

2015 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 2-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chatura Ranaweera ◽  
Marianna Sigala
Keyword(s):  
Service Management ◽  
Research Priorities ◽  
Considerable Change ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Editorial Team ◽  
Service Research ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Research Perspectives ◽  
Personal Reflections ◽  
Service Theory

Purpose – The purpose of this editorial paper is to set out the vision for the Journal of Service Theory and Practice (JSTP). Design/methodology/approach – Together with personal reflections of the authors, it is based on a review of literature on the past, the present and the future of service research, an analysis of a broad range of global environmental trends, as well as interviews, communications and feedback from eminent scholars in the field of service research. Findings – The paper sets out the expanded aims and scope for the JSTP. It also explains the rationale for the change in title and elaborates upon expectations for manuscripts submitted to the journal. Research limitations/implications – It identifies a set of research priorities for the journal and the field. Practical implications – It highlights the importance of translating theory into practice by making meaningful recommendations and action plans for firms and managers. Originality/value – This paper is written at a time when the journal has been undergoing considerable change, including retitling as well as the complete restructuring of the editorial team. It is also written at a time when the field of service management is being transformed by new approaches and research perspectives. As such, it is both necessary and timely.

scholarly journals UNIT ROOTS IN LIFE—A GRADUATE STUDENT STORY

2014 ◽  
Vol 30 (4) ◽  
pp. 719-736 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter C. B. Phillips
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Graduate Student ◽  
Initial Conditions ◽  
Unit Roots ◽  
Senior Administrators ◽  
To Come ◽  
Former Teachers ◽  
Personal Reflections ◽  
The University ◽  
Old Friends

On the evening of March 7, 2008, the New Zealand Econometric Study Group Meeting held its Conference Dinner. The venue was the Owen Glenn Building, the spectacular new home of the Auckland Business School and the Department of Economics at the University of Auckland. The meeting was organized by my colleagues, co-authors, and close companions Donggyu Sul and Chirok Han. Chirok did double duty by videotaping the evening, Donggyu coordinated festivities with consummate skill, and we settled in to a memorable evening.Econometricians, old friends, former students, two of my former teachers, faculty, and senior administrators were gathered together to celebrate my 60th birthday. Many had traveled long distances from overseas and navigated busy schedules to come to this event. It was a singular honor. My wife and daughter were with me. Opening speeches from Bas Sharp and John McDermott broke the ice with endearing tales from the past and jokes about some mysterious hole in my vita. I stood at the front table, looked out, and felt a glow of fellowship envelop me. I was fortunate indeed. Life had bestowed many gifts. The warmth of family, friends, and collegiality were at the top of the list. My education and early training in New Zealand were a clear second.What follows is a graduate student story. It draws on the first part of the speech I gave that evening at the NZESG conference dinner. It mixes personal reflections with recollections of the extraordinary New Zealanders who shaped my thinking as a graduate student and beginning researcher—people who have had an enduring impact on my work and career as an econometrician. The story traces out these human initial conditions and unit roots that figure in my early life of teaching and research.

scholarly journals Acknowledgement to Reviewers of Maritime Technology and Research in 2020

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
MTR Editorial Office
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
South Africa ◽  
Hong Kong ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Editorial Team ◽  
Editorial Process ◽  
Considerable Time ◽  
Generous Contribution ◽  
Christopher Nolan

The editorial team greatly appreciates the reviewers who have dedicated their considerable time and expertise to the journal’s rigorous editorial process in 2020, regardless of whether the submissions were finally published or not. In 2020, a total of 45 articles were submitted to the journal, with a median time to first decision of 50 days, and 71 days from submission to publication. The editorial team would like to express their sincere gratitude to the following reviewers for their generous contribution in 2020: Agnieszka Lazarowska, Poland Akihiko Matsuda, Japan Aldo Chircop, Canada Anand Kumar, Malaysia Anastasia Christodoulou, Sweden Anthony Paul Sison Guerrero, United States Anthony Yaw Karikari, Ghana Arunachalam Ponshanmugakumar, India Asen Asenov, Bulgaria Birgit Pauksztat, Sweden Boris Svilicic, Croatia Carlos Efrén Mora Luis, Spain Chalermpong Senarak, Thailand Chandrashekher Umanath Rivonker, India Che Abd Rahim Mohamed, Malaysia Christiaan Adika Adenya, Kenya Christopher Nolan, United States Dimitrios Dalaklis, Sweden Dong-Taur Su, Taiwan Ergun Demirel, Turkey Fatima Zohra Bouthir, Morocco Florin Rusca, Romania Floris Goerlandt, Canada Fu Ming Tzu, Taiwan Geng-Ruei Chang, Taiwan George H. Kaplan, United States Giulio Dubbioso, Italy Hao Long, China Hong Oanh Owen Nguyen, Australia Jacopo Aguzzi, Spain Jagan Jeevan, Malaysia Jerónimo Esteve-Perez, Spain Jiangang Jin, China Jianjun Wu, China Jianmin Li, China Jiao Jialong, China Juan Carlos Astudillo, Hong Kong Jun Ando, Japan Kantapon Tanakitkorn, Thailand Kwan Ouyang  Taiwan Laura Piñeiro, Spain Li Ye, China Lidong Fan, Australia M. P. R Prasad, India Maciej Reichel, Poland Mahinda Bandara, Sri Lanka María-Araceli Losey-Leon, Spain Marta Mańkowska, Poland Maruj Limpawattana, Thailand Masayoshi Doi, Japan Mate J. Csorb, Norway Ming-Cheng Tsou, Taiwan Mohammed Russtam Suhrab Ismail, Malaysia Mohd Hazmi Bin Mohd Rusli, Malaysia Moses Kopong Tokan, Indonesia Mumini Dzoga, Kenya Neil J. Douglas, New Zealand Nucharee Nuchkoom Smith, Thailand Oghenetejiri Digun-Aweto, South Africa Olabisi Michael Olapoju, Nigeria Olaf Chresten Jensen, Denmark Om Prakash Sha, India Paul Tae-Woo Lee, China Pengfei Zhang, United Kindom Peter RANERI, Sweden Peter Ralph Galicia, Philippines Phansak Iamraksa, Thailand Phatchara Sriphrabu, Thailand Proshanto Mukherjee, China Saikat Banerjee, India Sarinya Sanitwong Na Ayutthaya, Thailand Seonho Cho, Korea Sheree-Ann Adams, Grenada Supawat Chaikasem, Thailand Surasak Phoemsapthawee, Thailand Suresh Bhardwaj, India Thee Chowwanonthapunya, Thailand Vasilios D. Tsoukalas, Greece Wirachaya Chanpuypetch, Thailand Yodchai Tiaple, Thailand Yottana Khunatorn, Thailand

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