Browsing by Author "Tie, Warwick"
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- ItemFlesh, blood, relic & liturgy : on the subject of the museum : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Museum Studies, Massey University, Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa, Manawatū, New Zealand(Massey University, 2023-09-30) Haig, Nicholas GrahamThis thesis models a methodology for disturbing the liberal-progressive accord in museum practice and for contesting the ascendancy of post-criticality within museology. Together the liberal-progressive accord and post-critical museology normalise a subject position that, despite appearances of agency, cannot act upon its socio-historical situation. How, I ask, might the subject of the museum be reinvested in ways that counteract its demise in the relation between the contemporary museum and museology? Seeking to re/establish the conditions of existence for (a) critical museology, in the first instance this thesis asserts the primacy of “the subject” as the museological problematic requiring theorisation. A poetical-analytical schema of flesh, blood, relic and liturgy, a schema that pivots on the transposition of the work of Eric L. Santner into a museological frame, provides the means for reasserting the primacy of the subject in a manner able to anticipate new capacities for action in that subject. Incited by the museal representation of violent legacies, in particular the centennial commemorations of the First World War, this thesis encircles one institutional formation and two exhibitionary productions: The Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa and its exhibition Gallipoli: The Scale of Our War and the standalone production, The Great War Exhibition. These monographs provide material instrumental to the argument. Emerging as a negation of the negation that follows the schema’s intervention into the relation between the museum and museology are three affirmations addressed to the prospects of (a) critical museology: (1) a critical museology must transfer crisis into the heart of its language; (2) a critical museology must attend to that which does not work but which is made to work in the museum; (3) a critical museology must strike at that which is not there.
- ItemManaging the irresistible force : an analysis of the means by which the Corrections Division of the Department of Justice relates to voluntary sector agencies : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Masters in Social Work at Massey University(Massey University, 1993) Tie, WarwickThis thesis engages the work of French philosopher, Michel Foucault. I use his studies on government to explore the way in which the Corrections Division of New Zealand's Department of Justice relates to voluntary-sector social work agencies. The title "Managing the Irresistible Force" refers to the Division's management of its potential to over-regulate voluntary agencies. This investigation is an historical one. It comprises two parts. The first part examines the development of community involvement policy within the Corrections Division, between 1950 and 1992. The second part enquires into the administrative practices through which the Corrections Division has related to voluntary-sector agencies. Three case studies are used in this investigation. They are those of Marriage Guidance (between 1960 and 1992), the joint-hostel ventures (of the 1960s and 1980s) and the voluntary-sector involvement as a whole since 1988. Three themes emerge from these two studies. The first is that the Corrections Division has sought public participation in the belief that such involvement improves the Division's ability to control crime. Community involvement has also been propelled by public belief about the superior humaneness of community-based sanctions compared to imprisonment. The second theme argues that the Corrections Division has primarily related to the voluntary sector by creating normative frameworks through which it has intended those agencies to interact with itself and its clients. The third theme demonstrates the Division's propensity not to interfere directly in the functions of voluntary agencies. This reticence to intrude mirrors the above observation that the Division has sought to regulate the voluntary sector indirectly through the development of normative frameworks. A contemporary issue which arises from these three themes is how voluntary-sector agencies can influence the nature of the normative frameworks which the Division constructs. The pursuit of this goal is important if those agencies are to retain a say in how they interact with the Corrections Division and its clients.
- ItemTrouble in paradise : contradictions in platform capitalism and the production of surplus by Airbnb hosts in regional tourist towns : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Sociology at Massey University, Albany, New Zealand(Massey University, 2019) Pennell, Stella MariaA tendency toward crisis in social reproduction characterizes digital capitalism. Increasingly, the economic system shows itself unable to generate subjectivities and social processes for addressing the physical and psychical need required for its reproduction. Emblematic of that contradiction is the individualism of digital capitalism which compels people to commodify themselves beyond the ‘normal’ state of abstracted labour power associated with capitalism, to become ‘entrepreneurs of the self’. An extreme form of commodification of the self is evident in a new form of capitalism termed ‘platform capitalism’ which manifests through organizations such as Airbnb. Like the notion of the ‘entrepreneur of the self’, this kind of commodified self is increasingly too thin and too instrumental to be self-sustaining. The commodification of people and of private spaces result in shifts of subjectivity as a response to the production of surplus-meaning and surplus-enjoyment and indicates capture of a new sphere for capitalist activities at the expense of social reproduction. This research explores the construction of Airbnb hosts’ subjectivities across four tourist towns in New Zealand (Picton, Wanaka, Paihia and Whitianga). Placed within the context of global capitalism, tourism is a major economic contributor to the New Zealand economy, estimated at $24 billion annually. Concurrently, regional areas of New Zealand are experiencing challenges relating to economic stagnation, ageing populations and changes to population numbers. Common across people living in these regional towns is a political imperative to commodify their life-worlds for the tourist market. Increasingly, the mechanisms that are synonymous with platform capitalist ventures, of Airbnb in this instance, are becoming significant means through which, the realization of this political imperative occurs. Using a qualitative research framework, in-depth semi-structured interviews were conducted with 28 Airbnb hosts, then analyzed using an inductive and iterative thematic analysis. The emerging themes presented here are commodification, biopolitics and the intensification of time and space. Collectively, the themes demonstrate how the contradictions of surplus and of social reproduction manifest within the digital platform of Airbnb. The research informs issues and debates in contemporary theory on capital’s tendency towards crises of social reproduction.