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Conversations about Mother: Mnemonic Strategies for Narrating Survival in (Post-) War Germany
Get PDFThis article explores the strong correlations between mnemonic strategies and mnemonic triggers within family narratives. Families form narrative collectives with their own codes of narrative evocation. One sentence, even only one word, might open up a bundle of memories shared by all immediate kin. Such sharing can, however, be practised and interpreted differently by each family member; stories are also utilised strategically to bond with one family member and sideline another. Given the specific German context of this analysis, its stories and mnemonic devices demonstrate strategies of collective and individual dissociation and victimisation. They also lead us to better understand how very normal, average Germans might have tried to live a decent life with Christian and left-leaning political values, while having no techniques, post 1945, for articulating or reflecting on either trauma or National Socialism and their lasting impact on their nation. As with most other families, the war and post-war period was dominated by memories of struggle and collective grief. Survival narratives use emplotments that can be traced through generations of grandparents, parents, and grandchildren. Exploring such transgenerational conversations enables us to widen the perspective from transgenerational trauma towards a framework of compassion and narrative agency
Introduction - Not In Narrow Seas: The Economic History of Aotearoa New Zealand
No full textThe most important thing I want to say today is to thank the Stout Centre for its contribution to Not In Narrow Seas. I had the privilege of a Stout Fellowship for a year which was crucial in the writing of the nineteenth-century chapters of the book. I can also thank the “Stouties” who contributed to the book and are gratefully mentioned individually in the book’s acknowledgments
Gluon Theory: The Unified Unifiers
No full textThis paper is about two challenges concerning the gluons of partite objects. One is Marmodoro’s argument that from the non-objecthood of gluons, it follows that gluons do not unify objects. I demonstrate that Marmodoro’s argument fails. The second Challenge is about the unity of gluons themselves. I show that gluon theory will encounter a vicious regress if objects are gunky
Public Sector Accounting in Developing Countries: What We Know and What we Still Need to Know in General and in the African Context in Particular
Get PDFThis review paper examines the achievements, unintended consequences and the changing contexts of public sector accounting reforms in developing countries. In so doing, it points to two important directions for advancing public sector accounting research in developing countries in general and Africa in particular. Firstly, it suggests moving away from the narrow technical contextualisation and the ‘consultancy-based functionalist’ approaches offered by New Public Management (NPM) over the last three decades. Secondly, it advocates rethinking the imposition of the Word Bank’s development discourses on developing countries and applying the notion of ‘development’ as more of an analytical concept that can capture the idea of ‘publicness’, rather than as a phenomenon specific to a developing country context. This may enable public sector accounting research to implicate public value through accounting, which could have lasting impacts on developing countries’ societal and economic development
Worlding the South: Nineteenth-century literary culture and the southern settler colonies.
Get PDFIn 1847, Pacific Islander Kiro arrived in London to help the London Missionary Society with a translation of the Bible into Cook Islands Māori. As Kiro disembarked from the missionary ship onto the West India Docks, his status suddenly changed from a fellow Christian and facilitator of the missionary efforts in the South Pacific to a potential thief, an object of surveillance and suspicion. Michelle Elleray’s chapter on Kiro’s experiences in Worlding the south: Nineteenth-century literary culture and the southern settler colonies challenges our orientation toward colonial and Indigenous identity. Kiro exposes the challenges in reading not only Christian Pacific Islander experience, but in the problem of framing and accessing such experiences through British sites and archives
Taku teina, tōku rangatira. Recruitment, development and retention of Māori and Pasifika in science
Get PDFThe tuākana-teina (older-younger sibling) relationship is one of reciprocity that empowers leadership and support (Amopiu 2019). In response to the struggles of Māori and Pasifika students within educational institutions, the tuākana-teina relationship has been incorporated to enhance their cultural and academic well-being (Bishop and Glynn 2003; Callaghan et al. 2018; Oetzel et al. 2021; Parr 2016). In 1991, based upon this philosophy, Professor Michael Walker began the Tuākana programme within the School of Biological Sciences at Waipapa Taumata Rau, the University of Auckland. This paper examines the role of the Tūakana Biology programme in the recruitment, development and retention of Māori in Science at Waipapa Taumata Rau. Drawing from data and experiences of the programme from its inception to current day students, a secondary data analysis was conducted. Here we identify key components that make Tuākana Biology a success and challenges that restrict its implementation. We found the cultural space and community provided by Tuākana enhances Māori and Pasifika recruitment, development, and retention, positioning Tuākana Biology as a potential solution to Māori and Pasifika success within academia. Lack of funding, staffing capacity, and access to student data are the challenges the programme looks to overcome to realise its full potential. 
Building connectivity at the research-policy interface in Aotearoa through a public sector postdoctoral fellowship scheme
Get PDFImproving connectivity at the research-policy interface and supporting career development for early career researchers are twin goals of government-funded research systems in Aotearoa New Zealand and globally. The Aotearoa Ministry for Business, Innovation, and Employment (MBIE) began the process of overhauling the research system to achieve these, and other, goals through Te Ara Paerangi Future Pathways programme in 2021. Here, I propose a public sector postdoctoral fellowship scheme to place PhD graduates into roles within central government agencies, which MBIE could implement during the first phase of Te Ara Paerangi Future Pathways reforms. The Fellowship would strengthen collaboration at the research-policy interface and provide a low investment, high impact, opportunity to retain talent in Aotearoa by developing flexible career pathways for PhD graduates.  
Approaching Video Game Translation Using Localisation and Modernising Theories A Multimodal Applied Translation Project
Get PDFFor this project I am translating a video game from German to English. To begin this project I had to decide on which video game to translate, this involved trying to find a game that was older and as well as not a huge mainstream games as many mainstream or current video games originally created in German have already been translated into English as well as many other languages. As well as this an older game is necessary to explore ideas of modernisation as well as localisation. It also had to be a game that had some story, with written dialogue and less mechanical or fighter or platformer type games. On top of this the game would have to be rather short if intending to translate the entire game script for the project. After trying many different types of German games, I discovered an older game from 2003 called “Wendy: Der Traum von Arizona” for the Gameboy Colour. This game has many different characters, dialogue, small world exploring and tells a short story. You play as a young girl called Wendy. She and her friend Bianca are dreaming of going on a horse-riding holiday in Arizona. To get the money to afford to go, Wendy has to win horse tournaments
Family Violence and the Civil Law/Criminal Law Interplay – Some Reflections
Get PDFFamily violence is increasingly recognised as a serious social problem. That awareness has led to much legislation being passed to address the problem. The legislation has evolved from distinct civil and criminal roots to a point where the two closely interact. This article explores the sources and consequences of this interplay of the civil and the criminal in relation to family violence. The piece is dedicated to long-time colleague, Professor John Prebble, even though the topic does not grapple with his area of great expertise, the law of taxation
Dignity and Mana: in Aotearoa New Zealand Legislation
No full textThe term ‘dignity’ is used in a variety of legislative contexts in Aotearoa New Zealand, to express different ideas and perform different functions. It is also sometimes deployed alongside the Mäori concept of mana, suggesting a degree of legal association between these two discrete concepts. In this article we review the use of dignity in New Zealand case law and legislation, and critique the association being drawn between mana and dignity in our legal system. We also raise the possibility of a richer, locally legitimate conception of dignity to develop in Aotearoan law, one that draws on values and ideals from tikanga Māori – including but not limited to mana
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