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What is the experience of being both Māori and Pākehā? Negotiating the experience of the hybrid cultural object
(Auckland University of Technology, 2014)
This dissertation addresses the question: “What is the experience of being both Māori and Pākehā?” and has as its subtitle: “Negotiating the experience of the hybrid cultural object.” The methodologies used are Kaupapa ...
Female Māori identity: a multimodal interaction analysis
(Auckland University of Technology, 2013)
Research into Māori identity has revealed cultural identities that neglect to include a large number of Māori and/or negative identities that are grounded in negative representations of Māori. Fluid Māori identity is an ...
Relinquishing and discovering self: a case study investigation of gamer identity in an online world
(Auckland University of Technology, 2011)
The purpose of this thesis was to gain a comprehensive understanding of implemented game design factors, various forms of identity creation, as well as the powerful hold of an avatar in the Massively Multiplayer Online ...
Hyphenated living: between longing and belonging, an exposition of displacement as liminality in the transnational condition
(Auckland University of Technology, 2007)
This thesis explores a complex concept of home with respect to issues of belonging and displacement from both a personal and transnational1 perspective, which deals with the here in New Zealand and there in the Netherlands. ...
The return of the Polynesian Phantom
(Auckland University of Technology, 2009)
This research project, Return of the Polynesian Phantom, investigates self-portraiture through the mediums of moving image, digital modeling, object making, and installation. It seeks to consider in these media an ambiguous ...
Manu is my homegirl: navigating the ethnic identity of the Māori adoptee
(Auckland University of Technology, 2012)
The adoption of New Zealand infants and children was such a prevalent practice in the 1960s and 1970s that it has been described as one of New Zealand’s greatest ‘social experiments’ (Else, 1991, p. 197). The secrecy ...
Mapping the self-portrait: navigating identity and autobiography in visual art
(Auckland University of Technology, 2007)
The thesis Mapping the Self-Portrait: Navigating Identity and Autobiography in Visual Art is a practical project. It explores the relationship between autobiography and self- portraiture, and how these notions of the self ...
Where do, I lie?
(Auckland University of Technology, 2012)
This research engages the creative practices of filmmaking, photography, spatial installation and performance. It culminates in a gallery installation of serial interlinking works that instantiate the question of identity ...
How do Chinese print media in New Zealand present ideas of Chinese cultural identity?
(Auckland University of Technology, 2007)
Two case studies examine and elaborate the idea of how the Chinese print media in New Zealand present Chinese cultural identity. The thesis examines the free Chinese newspapers given away in shops, supermarkets and other ...
Ko te awa tōku piringa ka puta, ka ora - he tangata, he whenua, he tangata whenua
(Auckland University of Technology, 2010)
The Waikato river is regarded as the ancestor of the Waikato people and an instrinsic element of the people's identity, who's name is derived from the river. The people and their river are inextricably connected. This ...