Browsing Honours Theses and Postgraduate Coursework by title
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The 2011-2012 Russian protests and the precedents of protest in post-Soviet Eurasia
Published 2012-01-01This study places the 2011-2012 Russian protests within the framework of Eurasian mass-civil mobilisation. Researchers have examined the shared and divergent properties of these events, commonly labelled „colour revolutions.‟ ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people(s) in Australian print news: A corpus-based critical discourse analysis
Published 2021-08-23This thesis investigates the representation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people(s) in mainstream Australian newspapers. It combines approaches from corpus linguistics and critical discourse analysis to examine ...Open AccessThesis -
Aboriginal fathers / fathers roles: Are they recognised in Australia's contemporary society?
Published 2009-08-11This thesis is focused on fathers, in particular Indigenous fathers, in general with a view to establishing what literature currently identifies and recognises the role fathers play in Australian society today. This project ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
Aboriginal Glass Artefacts of the Sydney Region
Published 2011-01-01Aboriginal glass artefacts (AGAs) have become the ‘type fossil’ for recognizing post-contact sites in countries with colonial pasts. Whether such reliance on AGAs is a valid development is contentious as the identification ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
Achieving Justice and Seeking Truth: The Evolution of International Criminal Tribunals
Published 2013-01-01This thesis examines the way in which international criminal tribunals have changed and evolved over time, using the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg and the International Criminal Tribunal for the former ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
Across the borderlines - Coalitional feminist politics beyond identity and difference
Published 2017-01-01First lines of the Introduction (as abstract not provided): Class and identity politics have long had a vexed relationship. Proponents of ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
Adapting Against Assimilation: Recovering Anishinaabe Student Writings in Carlisle Indian School Periodicals, 1904 –1918
Published 2021-07-20Carlisle Indian School was a federal boarding school in Pennsylvania which operated between 1879-1918 aiming to strip Native American youth of their indigenous culture and assimilate them with Anglo-American society. To ...Open AccessThesis -
Adaptive Preference Formation & Autonomy: Moving towards Respect
Published 2017-01-01First lines of the Introduction (as abstract not provided): This thesis seeks to primarily answer the following question: are adapted preferences autonomous? In pursuing the answer of this question, I am unsurprisingly ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
Addressing the Impacts of Red Meat Consumption: Lessons from Australia’s Tobacco Control Regime
Published 2019-01-07In spite of the negative impacts red meat consumption is having on public health and the environment, the issue is largely absent from environmental politics literature. This thesis will address this gap by considering ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
Aid-for-Trade: the Way Forward for Development?
Published 2012-01-01The failure to eradicate poverty through trade-induced economic growth over a number of decades raises questions about the latest initiative: Aid-for-trade. After examining whether the initiative signifies a new paradigm ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
Algorithmic logics of taste: Cultural taste and the Netflix recommender system
Published 2019-12-17Algorithms are new cultural intermediaries (Bourdieu, 1984) that shape contemporary cultural experiences and identities. Their obscurity and complexity, however, hinder us from understanding their logics and processes as ...Open AccessThesis -
Alien Agendas: A Comparative Analysis of Conspiracy Theories Across Western States
Published 2019-01-07Conspiracy theories have been a topic of interest among academic and non-academic literature for decades. As of recently, the political implications of public conspiracism has begun to be taken seriously. Political science ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
‘All sorts and conditions of men’: Beckett’s Budget, masculinity and sensational working-class journalism in inter-war Australia
Published 2011-01-01This thesis closely analyses John Sleeman’s sensational newspaper Beckett’s Budget, a notorious commercial and political publication in Sydney’s inter-war press market. It considers the paper’s role in working-class, ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
Allodium and Conquest: Renegotiating the Transnational History of the alod
Published 2022-10-19This thesis examines the history of the legal term “alod”, a condition denoting absolute ownership of land without acknowledgement to any superior. This longue durée study uncovers its origins in late antiquity, its medieval ...Open AccessThesis -
The Amazons in PostHomerica: A Multifaceted Semi-divine Genos
Published 2019-11-01What are the Amazons, and how should we understand their identity and mode of being throughout the Greek mythic corpus? The aim of this thesis is to build upon the work of previous scholars, as there is still much that can ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
American Knowledge and Ignorance In Comparative Perspective
Published 2011-01-01How does foreign affairs knowledge in America compare cross-nationally? Are Americans really as ignorant as commentators and scholars suggest? Despite the interest in the topic, there are surprisingly few serious works of ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
Analysing Applications of Teaching Methods Observed in Young Children's Free Musical Play
Published 2022-12-13Implementation of musical play in children’s pedagogy has received extensive investigation from a range of researchers. From Marsh’s (2010) seminal work documenting instances of play in primary school playgrounds to ...Open AccessThesis -
ANALYSIS OF FLUID STRUCTURE-INTERACTION (FSI) PROBLEMS IN ANSYS
Published 2015The Fluid-Structure Interaction problems occur in many natural phenomena and man-made engineering systems, this fact has promoted the research in this area. The research in this field of study is implementing two different ...Open AccessThesis -
The Anarcho-Syndicalist Platform for Indigenous Rights: A Trans-National study of Settler-colonialism, White Labourism and the International Worker‟s of the World in Australia and South Africa
Published 2011-01-01This thesis considers the legal stasis triggered by the 2007 "Northern Territory National Emergency Response‟ and suggests clarification can be found in the historical precedent of settler-colonialism. Through a trans-national ...Open AccessThesis, Honours -
Anatomy of State Failure
Published 2007-12-19Abstract In the 1990s, failed states emerged as a pernicious threat to both regional security and the wellbeing of millions of people worldwide. While this phenomenon has been welldocumented, explaining why and how states ...Open AccessThesis, Honours