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Showing 1 to 20 of 70 for “"New Zealanders"”.
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Shame and Resilience among Pākehā New Zealanders
… of shame has never before been undertaken in a New Zealand social context. As New Zealand is a multi-cultural nation and the experience of shame is culture specific, it was necessary to narrow the investigation to one particular sub-culture. Pākehā New Zealanders were chosen as the target …
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Talking the talk: New Zealanders remember the Vietnam War
From 1964 to 1972, almost 4,000 New Zealand military personnel served in Vietnam, most in an active combat role. The war was a politically and socially divisive issue for New Zealanders in general, but it can be argued that its greatest impact has been on the veterans themselves. This thesis will …
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Policy, occupation and transnationalism: New Zealanders living in Australia
… the integration and transnational practices of New Zealand migrants in Australia. The Trans-Tasman Travel Arrangement (TTTA) that was implemented in 1973, allows New Zealand citizens to live, work and travel to Australia with few restrictions. Since then, the TTTA has only undergone one major …
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Psychological Stress and Coping in Adolescent Muslim New Zealanders: A Key Informant Perspective
… that impact on the wellbeing of young Muslims in New Zealand. This thesis describes the findings of a thematic analysis of interviews conducted with 21 key informants who work in close capacity with adolescent Muslims in New Zealand. Themes that emerged from the analysis were that young Muslim New …
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"Motherhood", "the family" and Murphy Brown : New Zealanders' receptions of an American sitcom text
… construction of 'motherhood' and 'the family' in New Zealand. It investigates how differently positioned viewers made sense of, and responded to, a particularly controversial episode of the American sitcom Murphy Brown. It also assesses the extent to which this programme was able to 'set the …
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Exploring the nexus of loneliness, stigma, health complaints, and primary medical care in older New Zealanders
… complaints, and primary medical care in older New Zealanders was explored from a social constructionist perspective. The intent of the studies was the support and explanation of the underlying arguments of the thesis. For this age group loneliness is a clinical condition which merits greater …
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The Meke Meter™: Exploring the wellbeing and quality of life of New Zealanders during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020
… While the national 2020 lockdown in Aotearoa New Zealand (NZ) was successful from a disease containment perspective, its impact on the wellbeing of individuals must be explored. The aim of this study was to explore the quality of life (QoL) and wellbeing of New Zealanders during the COVID-19 …
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Multimodal (im)politeness: the verbal, prosodic and non-verbal realization of disagreement in German and New Zealand English
… the disagreeing behaviour of Germans and New Zealanders exhibited during televised panel discussions on a verbal, prosodic, and non-verbal level. More specifically, the present study aims to uncover whether there are differences in the use of prosodic and non-verbal cues between the two …
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"Any rags, any jazz, any boppers today?": Jazz in New Zealand 1920-1955
This thesis explores the history of jazz in New Zealand from the 1920s to the mid–1950s, surrounding a central theme examining how New Zealanders acquired and responded to jazz. I describe how jazz, as music, dance, and popular culture, was brought to New Zealand during the period 1920–1955. In …
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Lying: Strategies to Manage Undesirable Communicative Situations in Japan and New Zealand
This study explores how Japanese and New Zealand people manage undesirable communicative situations by applying lying strategies, specifically, how they manage refusal situations by using untruthful excuses. Lying is a communicative strategy that people sometimes adopt to manage undesirable …
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Expanding Diversional and Recreational Therapy to other healthcare and support settings
… Therapy is a healthcare practice in Aotearoa New Zealand which uses recreation and activity-based interventions to enhance wellbeing. Diversional and Recreational Therapy is a goal-oriented practice with a strong holistic approach to care. This project highlights the need to expand these …
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"Bringing it home" New Zealand responses to the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939
This thesis discusses New Zealander's attitudes to and involvement in the Spanish Civil War, 1936 to 1939. Although distance muted the war's impact, three general divisions of opinion developed in New Zealand - pro-Republicanism, pro-Francoism and "Non-Interventionism". The first Labour …
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Constructions of national identity and the nation: the case of New Zealand/Aotearoa
… identity and the nation, using the case study of New Zealand. The main empirical data are 'ordinary talk', from 41 New Zealanders interviewed in London in late 1994 and early 1995. The thesis investigates the work which is done in participants' talk by constructions of national identity and the …
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The Treaty of Waitangi: a study of its making, interpretation and role in New Zealand history
… has been a subject of some significance in New Zealand – a distinctive but subtle thread running through the fabric of the country’s history and shaping attitudes to race relations. A conviction strongly held by New Zealanders is that the treaty has made the country different from other …
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