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A changing face for island festivals: A case study from Waiheke Island
(2019)"Islandness" Island communicative ecology Festival features Benefits - constraints Waiheke snapshot Waiheke Island festival categories Waiheke Island festivals - benefits 3 case studies Island restival reclamation Scult ... -
Impacts of migration on Pacific diaspora communities in New Zealand and on the island countries of Samoa, Niue and Tonga
(2021-11-27)• Migration • Pacific diaspora in NZ • Impact of migration on diaspora in NZ • MIRAB economies • Narratives of migration -
Gentification: Change and Glen Eden
(2021-10)Housing New Zealand What is gentrification? Gentrification can not be stopped but can be managed Lessons learned on how to manage gentrification Immigration and aging Live-ability and housing type Intensification is ... -
Pursuing community development and resistance to oppression: Rainbow communities in Uganda
(2021-10)Life for rainbow (LGBTQIA+) people and communities in a number of countries in Africa is harsh and repressive, with discriminatory and oppressive laws and penal codes, and high levels of homophobia in communities. For ... -
Newmarket Arts Trust: A brief history (2004–2021)
(Unitec ePress, 2021-12-16)BACKGROUND The Newmarket Arts Trust (NAT) was formed in 2004. The original trustees were a mixture of people involved in the art world –– myself –– Sue Haigh (no relation to the author, local resident and active member ... -
Interview with Joan Lardner-Rivlin
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Research report : youth volunteering in Auckland, 2019
(Unitec ePress, 2020-12-17)PREFACE: This research was sponsored by Volunteering Auckland (VA). It is part of their wider research into volunteering by young people (13 to 18 years). Previous work carried out by VA showed that at the age of 18 years ... -
First-year student achievement, attendance, and demography at NorthTec’s Bachelor of Applied Social Work Programme : a quantitative inquiry
(Unitec ePress, 2020-12-17)This paper reports on a quantitative inquiry into student achievement, attendance and demography and their correlations in the first year of an undergraduate social work degree at NorthTec, Whangārei, New Zealand. Data on ... -
Pūrākau : our world is made of stories
(Unitec ePress, 2020-12-17)Ua ta‘u mai e Pālagi i a i tatou, o le lalolagi e faū i atoma [atoms], ae tatou Sāmoa e lē valelea-matou [tagata-Sāmoa] e te iloa o le lalolagi e tele tala. The white man has told us that the world is made of atoms, but ... -
Community development in a fractured future
(Unitec ePress, 2020-12-17)This article explores the implications for community development in a near-term future context of some degree of ecological and societal collapse. The extreme likelihood of near-term future collapse is well known to most ... -
Early welfare in Kurow, New Zealand
(Unitec ePress, 2020-02-24)This story is taken mainly from the booklet Four Shillings and Threepence (2008), produced by the Kurow Heritage & Information Centre. One of New Zealand’s first hydroelectric power stations was built on the Waitaki ... -
Language and myths of poverty
(Unitec ePress, 2020-02-24)“Poverty strikes dead the very souls of all who come within sight, sound or smell of it.” G.B. Shaw, Major Barbara This paper explores the popular and political myths and language used about poverty and those who are ... -
The rise and fall and rise again of an environmental social enterprise. (With apologies to the makers of The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin, one of my favourite British comedy series)
(Unitec ePress, 2020-02-24)Ki te kahore, he whakakitenga, ka ngaro te iwi Without foresight or vision the people will be lost In this paper I update earlier work on the case study in social enterprise in waste and recycling, using a community- ... -
Change and development in Glen Eden 2017: report to Waitakere Ranges Local Board
(Unitec ePress, 2020-02-24)This paper has been expanded from the report previously published by ePress on 13.11.2017 [https://hdl.handle.net/10652/3981] This is a report on change and development issues facing Glen Eden. The Waitakere Ranges Local ... -
Placing youth in a volunteer framework
(Unitec ePress, 2018-12-19)Volunteering Auckland faces an encouraging challenge: it has more youth volunteers than it has organisations willing to place them. As a nonprofit that helps other nonprofits find and maximise a volunteer base, Volunteering ... -
The experiences of diverse-gender tertiary students : structural discrimination and microaggressions
(Unitec ePress, 2018-12-19)The following objectives framed the study: 1. To examine whether diverse-gender students experience discrimination related to their gender identities within tertiary settings in New Zealand and, if so, to identify the ... -
Rethinking the true impact of voluntourism in line with new community development standards
(Unitec ePress, 2018-12-19)The volunteer tourism market now represents over $2 billion annually but its impact is not yet adequately understood. Studies that have considered the impacts of voluntourism on host communities have had some significant ... -
Laudato si’ : establishing local approaches for global ecological conversion
(Unitec ePress, 2018-12-19)In 2017 the Aotearoa Community Development Association (ACDA) and the International Association for Community Development (IACD) held a conference, Sustainably yours: Community development and a sustainably just future, ... -
Poverty in New Zealand
(Unitec ePress, 2018-12-19)Poverty is an important socio-political issue in Aotearoa New Zealand. The Children’s Commissioner’s Child Poverty Monitor has established the following measures of poverty: material hardship (households that go without ...
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