https://hdl.handle.net/10182/48 2018-01-25T15:19:54Z https://hdl.handle.net/10182/8912 Multiple dimensions of mediation within transnational advertising production: cultural intermediaries as shapers of emerging cultural capital Kobayashi, Koji; Jackson, S. J.; Sam, M. P. The paper re-conceptualizes cultural intermediaries as shapers of “emerging cultural capital” (Prieur, A., and M. Savage. 2013. “Emerging Forms of Cultural Capital.” European Societies 15 (2): 246–267; Savage, M., F. Devine, N. Cunningham, M. Taylor, Y. Li, J. Hjellbrekke, and A. Miles. 2013. “A New Model of Social Class? Findings from the BBC’s Great British Class Survey Experiment.” Sociology 47 (2): 219–250) and re-frames their practice of signification and negotiation as informed by “multiple dimensions of mediation.” Drawing on a case study of Nike’s transnational advertising production and interviews with key actors within the context of production, the paper examines how the creative/cultural labour process cuts across global and national fields of cultural production and consumption through which popular culture and middle-brow tastes were mediated, signified and represented. In particular, a television campaign for the Japanese youth market was critically analysed to reveal how specific new tastes, lifestyles and consumption practices were legitimized as emerging forms of cultural capital. Consequently, their taste-making practices are profoundly implicated in symbolic struggles and cultural changes emerging within/from the increasingly “globalizing” field of cultural production. 2017-08-16T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/10182/8910 From compliance to co-production: emergent forms of agency in sustainable wine production in New Zealand Rosin, Christopher; Legun, K. A.; Campbell, H.; Sautier, M. This article engages with non-human agency through the interrogation of the emerging role of metrics in the governance of sustainability in the New Zealand primary sector. In it, we argue that the agency of the metrics builds on previous work that has elaborated the impact of audited best practice on the subjectivities of producers and processors, including the recent examination of the active influence of metrics that engenders unexpected and uncontrolled change in social networks of production. In this case, the analysis of the influence of metrics shifts to those used within a recently introduced ‘learning’ tool (Wine Industry Sustainability Engine) that can be classified as an effort in transition management. The capacity of metrics as agents is already apparent in the perceived interactions and engagements with the Wine Industry Sustainability Engine tool as expressed by likely users during assessments of the usability of initial pilot software. Using their response, we demonstrate that, despite intentions to use the tool to foster particular sets of practices and ethics through benchmarking, the metrics have multiple roles in production worlds—compelling compliance to regulations, creating new ways to communicate complex relations and practices, and generating information for reflexive self-evaluation. Through these roles, we argue, metrics clearly operate as both a material and ontological non-human actor, expressed in different ways in different assemblages. This conclusion has implications for the application of transition management more broadly, and helps us to better understand what we want metrics to accomplish, what they can accomplish, and the possible gap between the two. 2017-12-01T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/10182/8788 Upper Waitaki limit setting process: social-economic profile of the Waitaki Catchment Taylor, N.; Harris, S.; McClintock, W.; Mackay, Michael D. This social profile summarises the current state of the Waitaki Catchment in South Canterbury, South Island of New Zealand (see Maps in attachment 1). The profile provides a baseline from which future water management options can be assessed. It forms a part of the social-economic technical assessment commissioned by ECAN to assist the two Waitaki Catchment zone committees establish water quality limits for the Catchment as part of a sub-regional plan. Water quantity will continue to be managed through the Waitaki Catchment Water Allocation Regional Plan. 2015-05-01T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/10182/8713 Foreshore reserves Ryan, R. J. Throughout history people have recognised the importance of the narrow strip of land immediately behind the land sea interface. The build their houses, villages, towns and cities within easy reach of the sea. Access to and from the sea is highly valued and in New Zealand it has been guaranteed to the general public over most of the coastline by the retention from sale by the Crown of a strip of land approximately 20 metres wide measured from the mean high water mark. In Marlborough this 20 metre strip of land has received the unique land classification of "Local Purpose Reserve for Sounds Foreshore Purposes" and is subject to the provisions of Section 7 of the Reserves and Other Lands Disposal Act 1982 and the Reserves Act 1977. The total area is some 1,500 hectares extending along 900 kilometres of the coastline. Objectives of the Dissertation (a) To describe and analyse the legislation and management policies governing foreshore reserve. (b) To provide a document that will contribute to the development and implementation of Sound management policies for foreshore reserves in accordance with existing legislation. An error in production has resulted in there being no Page 38, however there is no text missing. 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z