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The list below indicates the general areas of active
research of School staff. You are very welcome to contact staff members directly
to find out more about their work to date. Click on the "School Research
Profile" drop-down box to view research topics, or browse the list below.
Labour Market Dynamics
Paul
Spoonley, Ann Dupuis
Staff in the LMD research programme have considerable
expertise in changing employment relationships, non-standard work, labour market
policies, supply and demand in regional labour markets, labour market participation
of immigrants, pathways to employment and entrepreneurship. Members of the team
work with a range of government, private sector and community organisations. URL:
http://lmd.massey.ac.nz<
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of page] Indigenous Theory and Practice
Michael Belgrave
Kaupapa Maori
and Fa'asamoa in social policy and social work, in entrepreneurial activity, and
in teaching and research. The critical examination of the academic (re)presentation
of indigenous groups in social policy and social work, the exploration of indigenous
strategies of resistance, and the recognition of Maori customary title.
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of page] International Relations
and Development Assistance
Adam
Claasen,Graeme
Macrae, Eleanor Rimoldi
Globalisation
and armed conflict; national obligations to international covenants on human rights;
development assistance; inequality and poverty. The effects of colonisation and
globalisation on indigenous cultures.
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and Applied Economics
Mike
O’Brien, Grant Duncan, Ann Dupuis
The School monitors and comments on practical changes in social
security, social services, labour market and health care policies in New Zealand
and overseas. Study of the diverse political-economic theories that have influenced
social policy in New Zealand, including:
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questions
of social justice and equity and the critical analysis of public policy (gender,
disability, ethnicity, etc.); -
the "New Public
Management"; -
the influence of neo-liberal
and "third way" economic theory on public institutions and political
economy.
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Gender
Studies
Ann Dupuis, Jenny
Lawn, Mary Paul, Joe
Grixti, Mark Henrickson, Kathryn Rountree
The representation of gender in literature, popular media and film, and the gender
analysis of social problems. The effects of systems of political economy and public
policy on the well-being, employment and equality of women, including the significance
of the informal economy and unpaid work
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Immigration, Race Relations and Ethnic
Identity
Graeme
Macrae, Michael Belgrave, Cluny Macpherson
Immigration and race-relations policies; settlement of migrants
in New Zealand; Neo-fascism and anti-Semitism. Interethnic relations and ethnic
identity. The place of te Tiriti o Waitangi in Aotearoa/New Zealand, including
the various definitions and standpoints on "biculturalism"; claims and
legal theory relating to the Waitangi Tribunal and its proceedings.
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of page] Film and Television
Brian McDonnell,
Joe Grixti, Simon
Sigley.
The history and content of film and TV in Australasia, Europe
and the United States, as well as the nature of their audiences. Film noir, Horror.
The effects of violence and horror scenes on young viewers.
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of page] New Zealand’s Literary and Visual
Culture
Mary
Paul, Jenny Lawn, Brian
McDonnell, Simon Sigley.
Specialist
research has focused on Janet Frame, Ronald Hugh Morrieson and Robin Hyde; Kiwi
Gothic.
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Zealand Studies
Mary
Paul, Jenny Lawn, Brian
McDonnell, Peter Lineham, Kerry
Howe, Michael Belgrave, Eleanor
Rimoldi, Kathryn Rountree
Interdisciplinary study of New Zealand society, culture, with
particular strengths in NZ film, religious history, race relations, and public
policy.
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and Religious Practices
Kathryn
Rountree, Peter Lineham, Mark
Henrickson
History and ethnography of institutional and indigenous religions,
their rituals and beliefs. Cults and alternative or "new age" religions.
Relations between the Church and the State.
[top of page] European
History
Peter
Lineham, Adam Claasen
Revolutions
and military history of Europe; Germany, the Second World War and Fascism.
[top of page] Pacific and
Asian Cultures and History
Eleanor Rimoldi, Kerry
Howe, Kathryn Rountree, Graeme
Macrae , Cluny Macpherson, Paul
Spoonley
The study of indigenous Asian-Pacific cultures, especially Samoa,
Bougainville and Papua New Guinea, Indonesia. The experiences and perceptions
of the Pacific and its peoples by early European explorers and missionaries.
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Studies and Theory
Warwick
Tie, Jenny Lawn, Mary
Paul, Joe Grixti, Kerry
Howe
Staff have a wide range of expertise in general social and cultural
theory: Marxism, analysis of popular culture, psychoanalysis of culture and society
(including Trauma Studies), narrativization of History, postmodernism, postcolonialism,
feminism.
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Conflict, Change and Urbanisation
Graeme
Macrae, Ann Dupuis, Eleanor Rimoldi
Economic,
social and cultural change, including: the impact of tourism and colonisation
on local cultures; contemporary urbanisation and changes in housing and labour
markets; change and conflict in societies.
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Written
Communication
Jenny
Lawn, Kathryn Rountree
Theory
and practice of teaching written communication, particularly to postgraduate students
and students intending to work in the Information Technology industry. Computer-assisted
learning; constructivist pedagogy.
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