Honours theses: Recent submissions
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Unresolved Sovereignty: The Origins of European Union Crisis, 1950 – 1953
Published 2019-01-07The dissertation identifies and analyses the origins of the present crises afflicting the European Union. It examines the Schuman Plan Conference of 1950-51 and the European Coal and Steel Community that provided the ...Open AccessThesis -
A very English Brexit: A comparative analysis of the immigration debate in the news media of the four UK nations
Published 2019-01-07This thesis compares the immigration discourses in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland during Britain’s EU referendum. It has been speculated that immigration was influential in the decision to leave the European ...Open AccessThesis -
Traversing the boundaries of the New Momism: Challenging the “good” mother myth in The Handmaid’s Tale (2017 –) and Big Little Lies (2017 –)
Published 2018-10-15This thesis explores the conflicting and polarising nature of contemporary motherhood, whereby tactics of surveillance and monitoring generate internalised anxieties surrounding the achievement of “good” motherhood. Through ...Open AccessThesis -
Rocky shores, mud, and mangroves: An assessment of economic intensification at the Yindayin rockshelter, Stanley Island
Published 2018-01-01Economic intensification is a prominent concept in hunter-gatherer literature, being used to explain increasing hunter-gatherer complexity and the transition to domestication and permanent settlement. This study used ...Open AccessThesis -
Harry Crawford v History: Problem Bodies, Queertrans Cosmogonies, and Historiographical Ethics in Cases of Gender Transgression in Late Nineteenth-Early Twentieth Century Australia
Published 2018-01-01The predominant cultural metanarrative of transgender existence is that we sprang fully formed into being sometime in the 1960s, like Athena stepping out of Zeus’s skull. And yet in every corner of human history we find ...Open AccessThesis