Following the success of prominent feature films shot on location, including Tolkien's wildly
popular The Lord of the Rings, New Zealand boasts an impressive film tourism industry. This …

Abstract The 'Southern Man'advertising campaign for Speight's beer mobilizes imagery of
the South Island High Country to present a particular construction of masculine identity. The …

The promotion, enhancement and maintenance of" independence" and" ageing in Place"
have been fundamental themes in policy and practice relating to older people in New …

Studies of culture and place form a long tradition in geography but, within rural studies, less
attention has been given to the ways in which contrasting ethnicities intersect with specific …

Rural mythologies have long been an important component in expressions of national
identity in New Zealand. As a pastoral nation carved from the bush in the nineteenth century …

This thesis analyses the representation of Wellington in tourism films between 1912, the
year in which the first New Zealand tourism film depicting Wellington was released, until …

As rural areas seek to diversify their economic base, there is an expectation that local
community groups will play a key role in driving change. Bottomup models of social change …

Contested Worlds provides an introduction both to a multitude of geographical worlds which
are currently being actively constructed and contested, and to a range of different …

'Community'as both location and structure of relationships is undergoing change. In the
Western world the rate of changes will inevitably accelerate in this new century. Our …

Rural sociology in New Zealand has been associated with some of New Zealand's most
famous early social analysis: Somerset's Littledene and Doig's survey of dairy farmers …