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Showing 1 to 20 of 41 for “"Moana"”.
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Moana Springs Aquatic Facility
ELC Engineering presents the design for the Moana Springs Aquatic Facility, as part of an ongoing effort by the Sierra Nevada Community Aquatics (SNCA) to build a state-ofthe- art aquatics facility in the Truckee Meadows. The planning and development of the Moana Springs Aquatic Facility intends to …
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Māori wards in Tauranga Moana and Aotearoa: Liminal local government democracy
… including elected Council members from Tauranga Moana and members of Te Rangapū Mana Whenua o Tauranga Moana Partnership, were conducted. Additionally, participant observations took place at three public meetings on Māori wards. The way the current form of local government representative …
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He Vā: Possibilities in Moana Relationships: Pūrākau with five Pacific educators
… stories and reads the vā between Māori and Moana peoples. I understand the vā to be a dynamic relational fabric woven from past, present, and future encounters that links all entities indelibly. My work reveals the vā in the work of five educators from the Pacific in their cultural-ethical …
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Navigating national priorities, regionalism and internationalisation in National Universities of Moana Oceania
This thesis explores how national universities in Moana Oceania navigate national priorities, regionalism, and internationalisation. Focussing on five institutions - the National University of Samoa, Tonga National University, Solomon Islands National University, National University of Vanuatu and …
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An Analytical Perspective on Moana Research And the Case of Tongan Faiva
This thesis adopts an analytical approach to Moana research from a “Pacific Studies” perspective, focusing as it does on Moana languages and Moana indigenous knowledge. From this perspective it analyses and discusses the imposition of Western paradigms in Moana research and in Moana language, both …
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He moana pukepuke e ekengia e te waka: Navigating a changing climate: A waka voyaging perspective
Human-induced climate change is threatening the ocean, natural ecosystems, and the global human population. Some groups, including Māori in Aotearoa, and Indigenous communities globally, will be disproportionately affected by the negative consequences of climate change. The current national and …
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Locating Moana through children’s eyes: “Seeing with others” in cultural identity and global media in Aotearoa New Zealand
… media, with particular attention to Disney’s Moana (2016). Through a child-centred, transnational lens, the research examines how young audiences make sense of ethnicity, culture, and identity in mediated stories, and how these interpretations are shaped by their personal, familial, and …
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Ngāti Rehua o Te Moananui o Toi: Cobwebs of Colonisation
… and intentional connection with whenua and moana tupuna, as embodied through tikanga. The thesis also examines the holes and patches in this sail, delving into the destruction wrought by colonisation and the ongoing injustice faced by Ngāti Rehua. The thesis, thus, highlights the unbreakable …
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E kore e ngaro, he takere waka nui: Te mātauranga whakatere waka me ōna take nunui
E kapi ana te hautoru o te ao i te Moana nui a Kiwa. I ngā tau manomano ka huri, ka puea ake i Āhia ki te tonga mā rāwhiti, he iwi māia, he iwi mātau ki te hanga me te whakatere i ō rātou waka. Ka tupu ngātahi hoki i a rātou tētehi mātauranga whakatere i tarawhitia e rātou ngā tōpito katoa o te …
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CONNECTING TO THE MAURI OF THE MOANA: Using a community-based, intuitive and qualitative ecological monitoring process to connect with and consider the mauri of local marine ecosystems
… Māori. Using the phenomenologically based Hauora Moana monitoring method, I investigate whether this provides enough information, with a sufficient degree of accuracy and reliability, from the perspective of the communities using it, to make informed decisions that fit with their collective …
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The Price Tag of a 5-Star Culture: Cultural Performance and the Politics of Luxury in Oʻahu’s Hotel Industry
… Hotel, the Sheraton Princess Kaiulani, and the Moana Surf Rider, the study investigates how Hawaiian culture is performed, curated, and commodified as part of a five-star guest experience. Through ethnographic research and interviews with Native Hawaiian performers, artists, and cultural …
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'A Place Called Slaughter Race': Spectres of conflict in contemporary Disney animation
… Zootopia (Byron Howard and Rich Moore, 2016), Moana (Ron Clements and John Musker, 2016) and Ralph Breaks the Internet (Rich Moore and Phil Johnston, 2018). By interrogating these films on the levels of narrative, aesthetics and production, I chart a series of tensions and contradictions …
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Primary health care nurses discussing sexual health with older clients
BACKGROUND Primary health care (PHC) nurses are responsible for providing a comprehensive and accurate assessment of their clients’ health to ensure holistic care and improve health outcomes. Older adults (over 65 years) who are seen in PHC frequently have long term health conditions that impact on …
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National economic development and tropical deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1987.
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Te Whare Tāhuhu Kōrero o Hauraki Revitalising 'Traditional' Māori Language of Hauraki
… te mihi ki te hunga i upoko pakaru, i toka tū moana ki te whakarangatira i te reo Māori. Otirā, i hāngai ngā kaupapa whakamāui reo ki te reo ōpaki, ki te reo kōrero, ki te reo kāuta. Ko tāku e whakapae nei, ko te reo e ngaro nei i roto i ngā mahi whakaora reo, ko te reo kāmehameha o ngā toi …
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Telling Another Story: Looking for Ways of Working in Partnership with Indigenous Australian People Seeking Help for Alcohol and Other Drug Problems from Mainstream Services
This thesis examines a case for the inclusion of narrative therapy by mainstream alcohol and other drug (AOD) services in counselling Australian indigenous people. Narrative therapy and narrative practices emerged from work developed in partnership with indigenous practitioners in the 1980s in …
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Insecure, unpredictable, hoping to survive: Four cases of Māori people living precariously in Hamilton, Aotearoa New Zealand
A conceptualisation of precarity is introduced and adopted. A critique of contemporary conceptualisations of precarity is presented, drawing especially on Stuart Hall’s interpretation of articulation and Marx’s concept of relative surplus population. Much of the literature on precarity focusses on …
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Raça, Jinshu, Race: Whiteness, Japanese-ness, and Resistance in Sūkyō Mahikari in the Brazilian Amazon
<p>This dissertation presented an analysis of how leaders and adherents of a Japanese religion called Sūkyō Mahikari understand and interpret <em>jinshu</em> (race) and <em>hito</em>(person) in a particular way, and how this ideology is practiced in the city of Belém, in the Brazilian Amazon. The …
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