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The Modernisation of the Labour Party, 1979-97. By Christopher Massey
Get PDFThis is a pre-copyedited, author-produced version of an article accepted for publication in Twentieth Century British History following peer review. The version of record Karl Pike, The Modernisation of the Labour Party, 1979-97. By Christopher Massey, Twentieth Century British History, 2020;, hwaa043, https://doi.org/10.1093/tcbh/hwaa043 is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1093/tcbh/hwaa043
Jeremy Corbyn’s suspension from the Labour Party: a move with few historical precedents
No full textFour individuals who served as Labour leader have had the whip withdrawn, three of whom after serving as leader; the fourth, Michael Foot, had the whip withdrawn (and then reinstated) long before he was elected to Labour’s top post. Christopher Massey discusses the historical context of the decision to suspend Jeremy Corbyn
Labour NEC: comparing the 2020 walkout with the last time the left walked out in 1986
No full textChristopher Massey compares the left’s walkout of the Labour Party’s National Executive Committee meeting in November 2020 with the last time such a substantial walkout occurred in March 1986. Whilst the actions of the ‘hard’ left in 1986 rendered the meeting inquorate and stopped disciplinary action being taken against a Militant member, the virtual walkout of the left caucus in 2020 had no such impact
The growth of agricultural administration 1880-1900 : the dairy industry as a test case : thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in History at Massey University
Get PDFNo historical writer is likely to deny that the growth of a relatively intensive administration was an integral part of the total Liberal achievement. Nevertheless, little enough research has been done on the nature of governmental growth in this period. Gibbons and Brooking have performed some of the spadework in this field and this thesis will attempt to slightly broaden and deepen the enquiry. 1
Sea Gibbons, P.J. "'Turning Tramps into Taxpayers' – The Department of Labour and the Casual Labourer in the 1890's", unpublished M.A. thesis, Massey University, Palmerston North, 1970; and T.W.H. Brooking, "Sir John McKenzie and the Origins and Growth of the Department of Agriculture, 1391-1900", unpublished M.A. thesis, Massey University, Palmerston North, 1972. It is particularly in the explanation of Liberal administrative growth, comparable only with that experienced in the early years of the first Labour Government, that the hypothesis developed below will take a different course. Gibbons on the Labour Department, and Brooking on the Department of Agriculture, have emphasized the role of personalities, especially master bureaucrats, in their explanations of the massive quantitative and qualitative growth that the Liberal period of government (1891-1911) witnessed. The zealot Tregear, it would seem, successfully applied his peculiar bureaucratic ethic during those years of the 1890's when his idealism and effective control of the Labour Department existed in a relationship which enabled him to provide his conscious contribution to the "administrative revolution" then taking place. J.D. Rtitchie, Brooking suggests, was only able to work his unobstrusive revolution once he was under the supervision of T.Y. Duncan and R. McNab, both decidedly weaker Ministers of Agriculture than Sir John McKenzie. [From Introduction
Labour NEC: comparing the 2020 walkout with the last time the left walked out in 1986
No full textChristopher Massey compares the left’s walkout of the Labour Party’s National Executive Committee meeting in November 2020 with the last time such a substantial walkout occurred in March 1986. Whilst the actions of the ‘hard’ left in 1986 rendered the meeting inquorate and stopped disciplinary action being taken against a Militant member, the virtual walkout of the left caucus in 2020 had no such impact
Labour NEC: comparing the 2020 walkout with the last time the left walked out in 1986
No full textChristopher Massey compares the left’s walkout of the Labour Party’s National Executive Committee meeting in November 2020 with the last time such a substantial walkout occurred in March 1986. Whilst the actions of the ‘hard’ left in 1986 rendered the meeting inquorate and stopped disciplinary action being taken against a Militant member, the virtual walkout of the left caucus in 2020 had no such impact
Interview with Nicholas Christopher, author of Somewhere in the Night: Film Noir and the American City
Get PDFInterview with Nicholas Christopher, author of Somewhere in the Night: Film Noir and the American Cit
Designing fruit packaging with kōwhaiwhai pūtoi koiora (auxetic kōwhaiwhai) : an exegesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Design, Massey University, College of Creative Arts, Wellington, Aotearoa
No full textAotearoa fruit exporters are interested in creating packaging that displays a genuine connection to Aotearoa’s cultural values. This industrial design project aims to create blueberry packaging that is driven by the concept of Kaitiakitanga, or guardianship. This is a core cultural value in Aotearoa that speaks of a holistic interest in protection and safekeeping of the environment, ourselves and each other. As a research project, this is located adjacent to a wider body of research coordinated by Massey University’s School of Food and Advanced Technology. It is carried out in collaboration with visual artist Maihi Potaka (Ngāti Hauiti, Ngāti Manawa, Te Ātihaunui-ā-Pāpārangi), an established Kōwhaiwhai practitioner. The process involved consultative expertise including cultural, industrial and technical input, and explorative iterative design sampling with shared reflective practice in the cultural expression of kōwhaiwhai. The design research investigates the behaviour and potential of kōwhaiwhai pūtoi koiora (auxetic kōwhaiwhai) in a context of produce packaging design. Multiple material and form design samples develop into a folded paperboard fruit punnet concept. These design-led explorations facilitate further opportunities for packaging applications as well as reflection on the significance of designing for real-world industry alongside localised cultural learning
Infinite regress : metafictional memoir : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Masters in English at Massey University, Manawatu, New Zealand
Get PDFWriters like James Frey, author of the controversial work A Million Little Pieces,
have shown aspiring memoirists the negative consequences of deliberately fabricating
portions of a memoir. The question memoir writers now face: how much can an author
add to or omit from a memoir before it risks betraying the reader’s trust in the author,
which is essential to the proper functioning of memoir as a genre?
I discovered I would be unable to produce a coherent or truthful memoir without
fictionalising portions of it in a manner that could have subjected me to the same
criticisms Frey faced. Because I did not want to produce a wholly fictional work but
felt unable to reveal certain aspects of my true life in a straightforward memoir format, I
instead made the problem of producing a truthful memoir the central focus of my work.
My novella, Infinite Regress, uses metafiction to subvert the genre of memoir as
an attempt to work around this issue of truthful self-representation. The analysis
following Infinite Regress examines the characteristics of memoir as a genre, how
reader response to memoirs hinges on readers being able to trust the memoirist, and the
consequences of a memoirist breaking that trust. I then examine metafiction as a
possible method of side-stepping the issue of truth in memoir; through use of
metafiction, an author can deliberately draw a reader’s attention to the problematic
nature of truth in any narrative.
Finally, I demonstrate how metafiction does not ultimately represent a solution to
the problem of truthful self-representation, and I determine that writing a memoir in a
metafictional mode may only be preferable to not writing a memoir at all
Marlowe on immortality : a thesis presented in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Philosophy in English at Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand
Get PDF“Marlowe on Immortality” considers the work of Christopher Marlowe (1564-93) for its ideas of immortality. He employs varying genres to represent differently the intersections which arise between concepts, encounters which often reflect the historical collisions of ideologies. The question for research is “How do Marlowe’s texts function to represent conflicts in the late sixteenth century among and between classical, Christian and gnostic concepts of immortality?” The thesis employs an eclectic approach, including generic analysis and close reading of references in Marlovian texts to immortality. An introductory biographical chapter precedes a focus in Chapter Two upon the influence of Ovid in Marlowe’s works. Under consideration here are his translation Ovid’s Elegies, the play Dido, Queen of Carthage, an epitaph, a dedicatory epistle, and a mythic interlude in Hero and Leander.
Chapter Three is concerned with the stars, as stellar discourse impinges upon ideas of immortality. The first section is on the classical process of stellification in Marlowe’s work. The second is on the Tamburlaine plays; their focus shifting from stellification motifs arising within a classical cosmology, to discussions of stellar influence. The third concerns the astrology and astronomy in Doctor Faustus. An Appendix is attached which provides background to sixteenth-century understandings of cosmology. It is suggested that Marlowe does not employ Copernican thinking, but foregrounds an Aristotelian perspective against a Neoplatonist conception of the Heavenly spheres
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