Honours theses: Recent submissions
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GENETIK: An analytical study of the contemporary gamelan music of Dewa Ketut Alit
Published 2019-12-01This thesis seeks to reveal the innovative compositional methods in Balinese composer Dewa Ketut Alit’s 2012 work for Gamelan Salukat ‘Genetik’ through transcription and analysis. In this experimental work inspired by ...Open AccessThesis -
Methods to assess the impacts of subnational sustainability
Published 2019Environmental, social, and economic problems, such as global warming, natural disasters, urbanization, and poverty, are interlinked and become more complexly entwined under globalization. In 2015, recognizing global problems ...Open AccessThesis -
Gates and channels: An ANT-oriented approach to understanding fan community behaviour and identity on a Discord chat server
Published 2019-01-01The aim of this thesis is to understand how humans and software are entwined in the development of an online fan community. It is situated on the popular text- and voice-chat program Discord, which has enjoyed rising ...Open AccessThesis -
‘Crimes of passion’ or ‘horrific murders’? A corpus-based Critical Discourse Analysis of reporting on domestic and non-domestic violence in The Sydney Morning Herald and The Daily Telegraph.
Published 2019-01-01This dissertation examines the current state of print news reporting of violence against women (VAW) in Australia. Specifically, it examines how blame and responsibility is encoded in articles on domestic violence (DV) and ...Open AccessThesis -
Scale-Critical Stories from the Casula Parklands
Published 2020-01-09This thesis offers the concept of the scale-critical story as a mode of attentive critical and ethical engagement with the more-than-human world. Using Derek Woods’ notion of scale critique, and thinking with other scholarship ...Open AccessThesis