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Jenkins, Ray G. "Gold Coast Historian and their Pursuit of the Gold Coast Pasts : 1882-1917." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 1985. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.522361.
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The aim of this thesis is to try and explain why southern Gold Coast intellectuals began to write systematically and consistently, in English, about particular aspects of the Gold Coast past, during the years of British imperial conquest and early control, between 1882 and 1917. The first three chapters explore existing limitations and lacunae in Ghanaian historiography and in studies of 'cultural imperialism', and recommend alternative conceptual and methodological strategies, appropriate to a vigorous analysis of the historical literature produced by members of culturally heterogeneous communities, during a period of crisis and change. In the next five chapters, these alternative strategies provide the basis for an investigat ion into the conditions, which facilitated the proliferation of published history, and, for a detailed textual analysis of the extant publications of seven Gold Coast historians. The conclusion suggests that this first, prolific phase in the development of local Gold Coast historiography may only be understood when perceived in the context of the history of an emergent Gold Coast Euro-African Society and isolates strategies and themes, which merit further research. As the biographical and family history of the intellectuals concerned remains virtually unexplored and since much of early Gold Coast Euro-African history was published in the local press and is not readily accessible to historians, four appendices are included to help redress these omissions and to facilitate the presentation of this study.
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Stamm, Sean Salguero Walter Gomez Jr Felipe Duen̋as Ruben. "Broccoli floret cutter Gold Coast Packaging, Inc. /." Click here to view, 2009. http://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/mesp/14/.
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Thesis (B.S.)--California Polytechnic State University, 2009.Project advisor: James M. Meagher. Title from PDF title page; viewed on Feb. 2, 2010. Includes bibliographical references. Also available on microfiche.
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Power, David Patrick Carleton University Dissertation History. "British policy on the Gold Coast 1805-1831." Ottawa, 1986.
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Williams, Peta. "Beach Use & Carrying Capacity on the Gold Coast." Thesis, Griffith University, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/367761.
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Over the years many studies have been completed on the carrying capacity of specific recreational activities. These studies generally focus on the factors and interactions that are limiting the growth of an area and what barriers need to be removed to allow for this growth. This study looks specifically at the perception of carrying capacity of Gold Coast beaches and the way in which they are used by tourists and locals.
For the purpose of this study the definition of Beach Carrying Capacity is the perceived number of people that can fit comfortably on a beach, including the surf zone, before adversely affecting an individual person’s beach recreation experience and/or the surrounding environment. Beach usage encompasses all activities participated along any adjacent infrastructure including parks and oceanway, sandy beach and surf zone areas including swimming, surfing, walking, sunbaking and picnicking.
During the research period a short questionnaire was produced and applied to a range of people along various Gold Coast beaches and within Griffith University. The questionnaire looked at what people used the beach for and how they perceived the crowding on the beaches. Results showed that the carrying capacity on Gold Coast beaches, by the survey respondents’ perceptions, has already been reached on some of the Gold Coast’s most popular beaches.
The study then looked at and compared the results from the Portugal study (da Silva, 2002) to those obtained on the Gold Coast. Results showed that the survey data collected from the two locations does not differ greatly. Perceptions of beach carrying capacity and the general activities people used the beach for were uniform in both study locations.
This study highlights the importance of beach monitoring as it allows us to determine what people are using the beach for and how they would like them to be used. The information obtained about how people are using the beaches will provide valuable data to coastal councils and coastal management authorities to help future beach planning and management.
Recommendations are made to enhance and continue future beach monitoring research with the use of current beach camera technology such as CoastalCOMS.Thesis (Masters)
Master of Philosophy (MPhil)
School of Engineering
Science, Environment, Engineering and Technology
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NARDINI, DARIO. "Surfers Paradise. Un’etnografia del surf sulla Gold Coast australiana." Doctoral thesis, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10281/241201.
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Questa tesi è un’analisi etnografica del surf e della “cultura sportiva” che esso alimenta nella regione/città della Gold Coast, all’estremità sud-orientale dello Stato del Queensland, in Australia. In questa area turistica dal clima mite e costantemente battuta dalle onde, infatti, il surf ha trovato un’accoglienza particolare, ed è diventato parte integrante del paesaggio, segnando l’identità del luogo e contribuendo a definirne il patrimonio. In questo processo, nella «surfing culture» della Gold Coast hanno trovato espressione istanze locali così come questioni di più ampio respiro, come il rapporto col mare e con la spiaggia che in Australia ha storicamente assunto una rilevanza sociale particolare, un’idea di identità nazionale fondata su moderatamente aggiornati principi coloniali e la co-costruzione delle categorie e degli attributi di genere (e in particolare di quelli legati alla mascolinità).
A partire da una concezione delle pratiche sportive come “passioni ordinarie” e come “pratiche di consumo”, vale a dire come attività cui ci si dedica per vocazione e che danno di conseguenza vita a un sistema di senso entro il quale i nostri gesti prendono valore, ho ripercorso le traiettorie culturali secondo le quali il surf diventa qui particolarmente significativo per i suoi praticanti.
La tesi si divide in sette Capitoli. Nel Capitolo 1 si è cercato di offrire una panoramica critica introduttiva sulla letteratura esistente sul surf. Nel Capitolo 2 ho cercato di proporre una visione comprensiva del surf in quanto disciplina ibrida, che non può essere ridotta, se vogliamo renderne conto, a una sola delle categorie epistemologiche attraverso cui simili attività sono state lette, come quelle di “sport”, di “gioco”, di “danza”, di “performance”, eccetera. Nel Capitolo 3 vengono trattate le metodologie adottate e cerco di riflettere criticamente sul mio posizionamento sul terreno. Il Capitolo 4 e il Capitolo 5 analizzano le modalità socialmente e culturalmente orientate secondo le quali in Australia, e sulla Gold Coast in particolare, si sono storicamente costituiti peculiari “modelli di apprezzamento” del mare e della spiaggia, che contribuiscano a orientare l’esperienza dei surfisti. Nel Capitolo 6 vengono descritti i modi e le strategie attraverso i quali il surfista in Australia è diventato una sorta di incarnazione contemporanea dell’eroe romantico, nonché, allo stesso tempo, un’espressione emblematica di alcune delle caratteristiche associate con l’idea di un “carattere” e di un’identità “tipicamente” australiani. Il Capitolo 7, infine, cerca di chiarire come di fatto questa associazione tra surf e “australianità” dia vita, soprattutto sulla Gold Coast, a una cultura sportiva prevalentemente maschile e quasi esclusivamente bianca, organizzata attorno a due principi fondamentali: quello della reciprocità (nei confronti delle onde e dell’oceano), e quello della competizione con gli altri surfisti per stabilire la priorità e l’ordine di avvicendamento sui picchi.This thesis is an ethnographic analysis of surfing and the surfing culture on Australia’s Gold Coast (Queensland, Australia). In such a touristic region, the mild climate, warm water and the quantity and quality of waves have attracted many surfers, that have created a real surfing legacy. Surfing here contributes to shape the landscape and has become an integral part of the cultural heritage and of a socially constructed idea of “a life in the Gold Coast style”. Therefore, in the process of definition of the local surfing culture, both local and more wide questions are involved. Firstly, the particular relation with the beach and the ocean Australian people have historically developed deeply influence the way surfers enjoy riding the waves. Secondly, an “imagined” sense of Australian-ness rooted on the colonial history of the country is reflected and reproduced in the local surfing environment. Finally, surfing actively participate to the co-construction of the gender categories and attributes (especially those linked to masculinity). In this thesis, surfing is conceived as an “ordinary passion” into which practitioners invest their time and resources in order to give a deeper meaning to their lives. As happens to the consumption practices which are based on a free individual choice, surfing reflects the “character” and values of those who show their commitment to it. In this way, it constitutes a cultural “frame” in which the surfers’ gestures make sense. The thesis is divided in 7 chapters. Chapter 1 is a critical review of the existent scientific literature on surfing. In Chapter 2, surfing is conceived as a hybrid bodily practice that cross the boundaries between “sport” and “game”, “sport” and “performance”, “sport” and “dance”, and so on. Chapter 3 is about the methodologies adopted for this research. Moreover, a broader reflection on reflectivity and the body in the ethnographic study of sporting activities is proposed. The socially and culturally ways through which in Australia and on the Gold Coast particular “modality of enjoyment” of the beach and the sea have been historically produced are investigated in Chapter 4 and 5, that also describe the way these modes of appreciation inform surfing culture on the Gold Coast. In Chapter 6, a view of the surfer as an athletic, contemporary version of the “romantic hero” is discussed. On the Gold Coast, this image also epitomizes some of the main features attached to the Australian “character” and identity. Chapter 7 describes how this reciprocal relationship between the surfers’ image and an idealized Australian identity has built a mainly manly and white sporting culture, organized around two ambivalent but coherent principles of social relations: on the one hand, the reciprocity between the surfer and the ocean that offers him so much “fun”; and, on the other hand, the competition among surfers to establish the priority on the line-up (that is, to establish who has the right to enjoy that reciprocity with the sea and who is instead excluded from it).
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Mitchell, Patrick. "A Place in the Sun: An Exploration of the Theatre Ecology of the Gold Coast of Australia." Thesis, Griffith University, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/367025.
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A Place in the Sun explores theatre and its practice in a distinctive Australian regional community, the Gold Coast in the South East corner of Queensland. Theatre in Australian communities, from small regional towns to capital cities has, historically, been the site of a great deal of activity and achievement and this study sought to engage with its contemporary form. This study asked whether there was a local theatre practice, what it comprised, who was involved and why they were so engaged.
To facilitate this inquiry, I proposed that the theatre and performance activities of a community be seen as an ecology. The ecological paradigm links the individual elements of theatre-making; the various people, companies and types of performance. Reinforcing this is a paradigm of integration that highlights a relationship that is symbiotic between these elements and the social, cultural and economic environment that they operate in. Using an ecological paradigm allows us to consider the elements of theatre as being involved in constant exchanges that makes all parts of this ecology reliant to some degree on all the other parts.
This study was underpinned by two initial guiding propositions. The first was that there was a discernible relationship between a community and the theatre that is made in it. The existence of a relationship means that understanding the community assists in understanding the theatre that emanates from it, and vice versa. The second was that considering theatre and performance in ecological terms provides a significant and constructive opportunity to reframe our understanding of the nature of this relationship between theatre, its practice and the community from which these emerge.Thesis (PhD Doctorate)
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
School of Education and Professional Studies
Arts, Education and Law
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Pires, Victor Wolthers de Lorena. "Testing Policy Making Theory through Practice: The Development of an Urban Agriculture Strategy for the City of Gold Coast." Thesis, Griffith University, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/368153.
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Cities have always been dependent on a variety of resources not only for their survival, but also to enable them to serve as places of innovation and civilisation. One of the most important of these resources is food, which recently has been threatened by actual and anticipated concerns surrounding climate change, peak oil, economic crises and environmental degradation. Attention has focused in recent years on the potential to supply a greater proportion of the food requirements of cities by producing and processing more food locally, either within or close by the city in question. Consequently, gradually, food is reappearing on the agenda of a growing number of local governments, as municipalities engage directly with food systems as an integral part of their responsibilities.
In the City of Gold Coast, up to 95% of the fresh food consumed comes from somewhere else. Recently, perhaps as a consequence of natural events that have severely interrupted the supply of food to the city, both political and community interest in local food has grown. On the community side, demand for locally grown and produced food seems to be on the rise, politically, the release and implementation of the Gold Coast Climate Change Strategy 2009 – 2014 suggested a political commitment to increase local food production and purchase.Thesis (PhD Doctorate)
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Griffith School of Environment
Science, Environment, Engineering and Technology
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Baku, D. K. "An intellectual in nationalist politics : The contribution of Kobina Sekyi to the evolution of Ghanaian national consciousness." Thesis, University of Sussex, 1987. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.377063.
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Tsey, Christian E. "Gold Coast railways : the making of a colonial economy, 1879-1929." Thesis, University of Glasgow, 1986. http://theses.gla.ac.uk/2799/.
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Abaka, Edmund. "Kola nut production in Ghana (Gold Coast and Asante), 1865-1920." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape7/PQDD_0011/NQ39250.pdf.
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Gadzekpo, Audrey Sitsofe. "Women's engagement with Gold Coast print culture from 1857 to 1957." Thesis, University of Birmingham, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.398890.
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Hogan, Jane. "Evaluation of automation on the Gold Coast University Hospital Pharmacy department." Thesis, Griffith University, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/410157.
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Background: Pharmacy robotics have been implemented globally to create medication management efficiencies. However, translation to the Australian public hospital environment has not been evaluated. It is also not known what factors influence pharmacy staff to use new technologies that could guide future automation implementation strategies.
Aim: The primary aim of this research is to evaluate the introduction of a Pharmacy Robotic Dispensing System (PRDS) in an Australian public hospital pharmacy and the impact it had on pharmacy staff medication supply activities in both the dispensary and imprest management.
Secondly, this research aims to identify factors that influence hospital pharmacy staff acceptance of robotics during implementation and over time.
Method: This study was conducted in a tertiary public hospital on the Gold Coast, Australia and took place in two phases, each phase consisting of a staff survey and a time in motion study.
Phase one: May 2016; an initial assessment prior to the PRDS becoming operational for baseline data. Data for the staff survey and time and motion study were collected and analysed in this phase.
Phase two: August 2017; PRDS had been operational for 15 months and the study was repeated. Data for the staff survey and time in motion study were remeasured in this phase for comparative analysis
Staff survey: A single centred, prospective, longitudinal cohort quantitative study. Pharmacy staff were surveyed using the Extended Technology Acceptance Model (ETAM). Fischers exact test and correlation analysis of paired responses was used to identify significant factors influencing usage of the PRDS between the two time points.
Time in motion study: A single centred, prospective, longitudinal time in motion study. Time stamped video footage was collected tracking medication orders in numbered containers throughout the pharmacy dispensary. Activities observed and recorded comprised of dispensing, labelling, assembly of items, number of items and time waiting to be actioned. Data was analysed and compared overall turnaround times; time waiting to be actioned; dispensing, assembly and labelling times; plus dispensing rates (items/person/hours). Fitbit Zip® used to anonymously track pharmacy assistant steps per day in the dispensary. Dispensing software (iPharmacy ®) supplied the location of stocked medication and electronic tracking databases provided data for imprest medication supply turnaround time, picking and waiting for action times. Median turnaround times and Mann Whitney U test used to examine relationships between phases, plus mean steps per day and two tailed t-test used to analyse changes in movement.
Results: Sixty four respondents completed surveys during phase one (70%: 64/91) and 34 paired surveys were collected fifteen months later in phase two (53%: 34/64). Respondents were predominantly young, female with a tertiary qualification. Initial perceptions of the pharmacy robot did not change over time, with the exception of ‘reliability’. Participants found the robot less reliable than expected after working with it for fifteen months. Departmental leaders had greatest influence on technology acceptance during implementation and over time. Other key factors correlating with pharmacy staff acceptance included: how useful the robot was perceived to be; ease of use; and how relevant the robot was for an individual role. Higher levels of education had a negative association with usage during implementation and age was not a factor. Medication stored in the robot was limited to 46% (n=20,771 full packs) of total pharmacy holdings (n= 45,437 full packs). At baseline, 774 orders were received in the dispensary over five days increasing by 13% to 887 in phase two (p<0.01). Dispensary workload increased, staff levels remained constant and pharmacy assistant movement significantly reduced (p<0.05). However, there were no significant changes to dispensing rates and turnaround times.
Conclusion: This study identified critical insights influencing staff acceptance of pharmacy robots that will help inform future implementation. The influence of pharmacy leaders emerged as key influence on technology acceptance. Leveraging on this influence a communication strategy prior to implementation should include information on useful functions and known benefits of the system customised for individual roles. In addition, pharmacy robotics has the potential to absorb increased workload and reduce staff movement in the dispensary when staffing levels remained constant. However, turnaround times alone are too simplistic as a sole measure of benefits for robotics in Australian public hospital pharmacy.Thesis (Masters)
Master of Medical Research (MMedRes)
School of Pharmacy & Med Sci
Griffith Health
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Southorn, Ed J. "Anchors Away: Contested Space and Local Resistance on Australia's Gold Coast." Thesis, Griffith University, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/397591.
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The neoliberal ascendancy has exacerbated social conflict around urban growth in emergent cities, demonstrating how contested space is a signifier of late modernity. Government officials and elected agents with limited funding for public infrastructure and public services may be forced to choose between retaining public open space or divesting public land to property developers able to access global funding streams. The resultant spatially determined risk generates community debate in which local residents choose between promises of economic security or maintaining publicly accessible sites for recreation and the delivery of public services. In such cases, the collective identity of a particular place may be at stake. This thesis, in two components, explores via a case study of Australia’s largest regional city, how contested space gives rise to local resistance in a battle over the development of public space for private gain.
Place is more than lines on a map, buildings and other tangible attributes, it is a multi dimensional process of social spatialization in which ideas, memories and experiences coexist with physical representations generating beliefs and understandings of what a place means or should mean, so that the being of a place, as it were, with ongoing particular geometries of power, is mythological, incorporating imaginative and experiential views and concepts. An exegetical analysis of the Gold Coast, in southern Queensland, applies such an ontological framework to explain the public debate surrounding a narrow, four kilometre beachfront site, known as The Spit, mostly undeveloped public parkland, proposed for a high rise casino resort and a cruise ship terminal. The multi-billion dollar development was marketed as an economic saviour for a mature tourism destination, supported by a pro-development dominant ideology alliance of local government, the local property development industry and the local newspaper. The development plan was reflexively opposed by residents no longer willing to accept that high rise property development catering for tourists was an ideal strategy to sustain the local economy. The local resistance created an identity crisis in which the equilibrium of the Gold Coast collective identity is disturbed.
The theoretical spatial concepts explored critically in the exegesis are exemplified creatively in a narrative journalism inquiry into The Spit development debate, drawing on semi -structured interviews, personal experiences as a long time Gold Coast resident, attendance at public meetings and rallies, examination of local newspaper coverage and reflections on an extensive topological exploration of The Spit, a walking trip. Such an approach provides in-depth elaboration in which place and space become story, providing complementary ways of seeing to enhance engagement and meaning, enriching the contested space discourse of The Spit and in a broader context providing a local iteration of the disruption of the social contract in the first quarter of the new millennium.Thesis (PhD Doctorate)
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
School of Hum, Lang & Soc Sc
Arts, Education and Law
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Hajdu, Joseph George, and mikewood@deakin edu au. "Japanese investment on the Gold Coast: The interface of globalization and locality." Deakin University. School of Australian and International Studies, 2000. http://tux.lib.deakin.edu.au./adt-VDU/public/adt-VDU20050915.161432.
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This study explored the interface between the forces of globalization and a given place, at a given time, the Gold Coast during the 1980s. The global economic boom of the 1980s was one in which the role of Japan was particularly important. In less than half a decade capital flows from Japan surged to make it the world's largest investor. Locations in the Pacific Basin were favoured destinations for Japanese investment, one of the most significant was the Gold Coast. Japanese capital and tourism helped transform its urban area from a national resort to an international tourist destination and resort centre, The surge of capital arriving to the Gold Coast was a function of economic conditions in Japan, as was its steep reduction after November 1989, Thus the Gold Coast became integrated into global capital flows and so dependent on decisions made in Tokyo, one of the main financial centres of the world. However this study has also sought to explore a more complex reality; namely, that this place also became the interface of complex cultural forces and perceptions. The wealth of the Japanese investors on the Gold Coast enabled them to realize their dream of developing projects in the most fashionable global styles. These styles were essentially Western, and it was onto these that their Japanese owners ascribed their own meanings; meanings that reflected the cultural baggage that they had brought from Japan, and through which were filtered the economic and environmental realities of the Gold Coast. The Gold Coast as locality also included residents. Hence it became an interface between two different groups of people, the Japanese and the strongly Anglo-Celtic local community. Some in the local community perceived the Japanese presence as a threat to their perception of the Gold Coast, in fact, a threat to their perception of Australia's national identity. A campaign based on the politics of memory of the Japanese developed on the Gold Coast. Within weeks it became a national debate in which isolationalist, if not xenophobic traditionalists, concentrated on the Gold Coast challenged the economic rationalism and multicultural tolerance of the self-interested and ideologically convinced advocates of globalization. Governments at all levels sought to arbitrate, to legitimize standpoints, but more often than not were seen to move into positions of ineffectual flexibility. The forces of globalization on the Gold Coast were catalysts for change that in turn provoked local opposition which rapidly became a debate about national identity and direction. It is in the exploration of the complex and contradictory economic, cultural and political forces engendered by globalization that this study has sought to make a distinctive contribution.
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Stockwell, S. E. "British business, politics and decolonisation in the Gold Coast c. 1945-60." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1993. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.240323.
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Edwards, Peter. "Trust : Power and Engagement, Participatory Water Planning on the Gold Coast, Australia." Thesis, Griffith University, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/365305.
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Community and participatory engagement processes have received heightened attention on the political agenda with an increasing number of scholars and practitioners viewing them as a key component in robust, democratic decision-making. These participatory practices are, however, far from perfect. In order to refine and strengthen these imperfect practices it is first necessary to understand in detail how they work. This thesis uses a case study of the Gold Coast Waterfuture Strategy, a participatory engagement process held on the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia in 2004 and 2005 to focus on two elements that can strengthen or undermine participatory engagement processes. These two key elements are power and trust. This thesis argues, following a networked theory of power that a variety of different modalities of power are exercised during participatory engagement processes, with some of these power modalities contributing to strong trust relationships. Other modalities of power, however, undermine trust relationships. Understanding how these modalities of power undermine or strengthen trust is an important contribution to strengthening participatory engagement processes overall. In dissecting the Gold Coast Waterfuture Strategy Community Advisory Committee process in detail through the lens of specific modalities of power, several key outcomes came to light. First, when individual modalities of power are investigated, it was discovered that participants in the Gold Coast Waterfuture Strategy seemed able to selectively target their trust to deserving individuals or institutions. Second, not all negative modalities of power automatically engender distrust, nor do all positive modalities of power automatically engender trust. Third, the importance of context has been highlighted. It is truly a key issue that needs to replace blanket, universal institutions in many cases. Fourth, there are different mechanisms at play between expert planning and policy systems and participatory planning and policy-making. These mechanisms appear to be able to allow participants to selectively trust or distrust rather than have a general distrust of processes.Thesis (PhD Doctorate)
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Griffith School of Environment
Science, Environment, Engineering and Technology
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Murray, Thomas Peter. "Surf Zone Circulation and Transient Rip Currents on a Microtidal and Wave Dominated Open Coast Beach, Gold Coast, Australia." Thesis, Griffith University, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/367054.
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Surf zone circulation patterns are recognised in the literature as having an important influence on cross- and alongshore exchange of water, sediment, and floatsam in the surf zone. Any study of surf zone circulation patterns therefore has implications for sediment transport, biological processes and beach safety, with the majority of studies focusing upon rip current circulation and rates of cross-shore exchange of drifters due to rip currents.
The aim of recent research has been to describe surf zone circulation patterns and retention of floatsam in the surf zone, with a major focus on informing rip current escape strategies and hazard mitigation. Previous studies have focused upon single bar embayed beaches in a microtidal environment or open coast beaches in a mesotidal or macrotidal environment, exposed to a generally shore-normal wave climate and displaying relatively stable bar morphology. This thesis explored surf zone circulation patterns and transient rip currents on the open beaches of the northern Gold Coast, Australia. These beaches are characterised as being microtidal and wave dominated, double bar, open coast beaches with no bounding headland morphology. The beaches are exposed to a highly variable wave climate, which is often bimodal and bidirectional and the dominant angle of wave approach is oblique to the shoreline. The double bar beach state combinations are complex and highly dynamic and sandbar and rip features are often skewed in response to the oblique angle of wave approach and prevailing longshore current.Thesis (PhD Doctorate)
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Griffith School of Engineering
Science, Environment, Engineering and Technology
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Vecchio, Nerina. "Socioeconomic differentials among older Australians : an investigation of Gold Coast residents, 1998-1999 /." [St. Lucia, Qld. : s.n.], 2002. http://www.library.uq.edu.au/pdfserve.php?image=thesisabs/absthe16652.pdf.
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Ali, Ayub. "Physical Processes of a Shallow Subtropical Estuarine System : Coombabah Lake, Gold Coast, Australia." Thesis, Griffith University, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/366810.
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Estuaries are of immense importance to many communities. It has been estimated that
60 to 80 % of commercial marine fishery resources depend on estuaries for part, or all
of, their life cycle. The characteristics of estuarine flow, water quality and sediment
conditions are important as they play a critical role in the functionality and health of
these systems. This study utilised both field data and numerical modelling technique to
help enhance our understanding of the physical processes of a very shallow subtropical
estuarine system.
This study first quantified various salt flux components within the shallow subtropical
estuarine system Coombabah Lake in Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia to better
understand the system’s physical processes for assisting future management decisions in
this ecologically and economically significant region. Residual water transport was
identified as the dominant factor influencing residual salt transport, which alternates
direction frequently.
This study then developed a new simple and robust traversing system to measure flow
properties within estuarine bottom boundary layers to estimate two important
parameters used in numerical modelling of aquatic systems: bed shear stress and bed
roughness height. Four commonly-employed techniques: (1) Log-Profile; (2) Reynolds
stress; (3) Turbulent Kinetic Energy; and (4) Inertial Dissipation used to estimate bed
shear stresses from velocity measurements were also compared. Bed shear stresses
estimated with these four methods agreed reasonably well; of these, the Log Profile
method was found to be most useful and reliable for the unstratified conditions studied.
A three-dimensional hydrodynamic model with unstructured meshes utilising the
MIKE3 FM modelling system and simulated the hydrodynamic regime was set up for
Coombabah Lake to assist with enhancing our understanding of the hydraulic properties
within this shallow sub-tropical estuarine system. The sensitivity of calibration
parameters of a very shallow estuarine model was also investigated. The model utilised
the hydraulic data collected by the newly developed traversing system and that collected
during the first part of the study used to examine salt flux dynamics. The hydrodynamic
regime of the lake was found to be favourable for settlement of suspended sediments.
The results also revealed that the correct bathymetry is the most important parameter for
accurate modelling, followed by appropriate bed roughness in the numerical scheme for
very shallow environments.
This study finally provided an understanding of the sediment dynamics within
Coombabah Lake and the surrounding waters. It utilised ten days of observed
hydrodynamic and sediment data and employed the three-dimensional model with
unstructured meshes utilising the MIKE3 FM modelling system. Sediment dynamics of
the lake were found to be dominated by advection process driven by tides with wave
and wind playing minor roles – even though the system was shallow. Simulation results
agreed well with field data and supported the aforementioned findings. Correlation
between TSS and turbidity was very poor; therefore, the employed automatic data
logging system (turbidity meters) was determined inappropriate for the estimation of TSS concentration in the very shallow subtropical estuarine system.Thesis (PhD Doctorate)
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
School of Engineering
Science, Environment, Engineering and Technology
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Hathaway, Paul Terence. "An assessment of sediment behaviour and properties on Gold Coast beaches, Queensland, Australia." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 1997. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/36013/1/36013_Hathaway_1997.pdf.
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The movement of sediment in the nearshore zone is of particular interest along
many densely populated sandy coastlines throughout the world. The city of the
Gold Coast in southeast Queensland, Australia, is such a location. With residential
and apartment buildings built close to the shoreline, it has a history of property
threatening erosive events which make knowledge of the transport of the sandy
sediment that lines its beaches a prime concern. Between 1880 and 1910, training
walls were constructed at the mouth of the Tweed River. They were extended in the
early 1960's. This construction has interrupted the supply of sediment to the Gold
Coast from its updrift (southern) border. The resultant reduction in sediment supply
has severely depleted the protective barrier formed by offshore shoals, increasing
the volume of sediment required from the nearshore reserves in times of high
energy wave conditions such as those experienced in storms and cyclones.
Analysis centered on a suite of samples collected in 1972, and later sieved by Gold
Coast City Council soils laboratory staff The samples were collected on five shore
normal lines, distributed along the Gold Coast shoreline. Seven boreholes were
sampled along each of these lines in water depths ranging from 6 - 30 m. Each
borehole was drilled to 4.5 m into the sea bed, samples being collected in 0.75 m
sections. This drilling program gave the 210 samples used in this thesis.
Several researchers have indicated a limiting water depth for the nearshore active
zone of about 12-15 m for sediment in this region. Results from this analysis
indicate that this depth is indeed important in the distribution of sediment in this
region. However it appears to be better described as a boundary between two
energy systems. The sediment distribution in the onshore and offshore directions
are determined at this boundary.
Findings show that at this boundary the sediment shows the following properties:
• Percent fines which is
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Parker, John Stephen. "Ga state and society in early colonial Accra, 1860s-1920s." Thesis, SOAS, University of London, 1995. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.297229.
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Grischow, Jeff Douglas. "A history of development in the Northern Territories of the Gold Coast, 1899-1957." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape9/PQDD_0006/NQ38309.pdf.
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Wrangham, Elizabeth Mary. "The Gold Coast and the First World War : the colonial economy and Clifford's administration." Thesis, SOAS, University of London, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.325586.
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Taylor, Rachael C. "Understandings, indicators, and implications of enhanced adaptive capacity within agricultural development interventions in Northern Ghana." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2017. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/68274/.
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Enhanced adaptive capacity is increasingly being pursued as an objective of agricultural development interventions due to the perceived vulnerability of smallholder farming communities to a range of shocks and stresses. This research used two case studies of agricultural development interventions in Northern Ghana to examine diverse understandings of adaptive capacity, potential indicators of enhanced adaptive capacity, and the implications of this for sustainable agricultural livelihoods. The thesis reviews relevant theoretical literature to situate the study among complex adaptive systems thinking and sustainability discourses. Associated policy documentation is reviewed to set the context in which, and identify why, development interventions seek to enhance adaptive capacity. The primary methods of data collection were interviews, focus groups, and ethnography, as well as secondary data in the form of documentation from the case studies. Multiple understandings of adaptive capacity were identified in both case studies, including ‘formal' understandings of the projects' funders and management, and ‘informal' understandings of field staff and participating farmers. The findings contribute to theory, policy and practice through explicit recognition of the diversity of understandings of adaptive capacity, which has not been appreciated or analysed previously. Indicators of enhanced adaptive capacity emerged from the findings. Findings show how features of social capital were integral to enhanced adaptive capacity and played a dominant role in beneficial outcomes, even when not the priority of the interventions. This implies a set of indicators of enhanced adaptive capacity that can inform theoretical discourse, policy and programme planning, and monitoring and evaluation in practice. Finally, this research identified the role of social capital in contributing to enhanced adaptive capacity, which supports sustainable agricultural livelihoods. These findings contribute lessons for similar ongoing and future agricultural development interventions and recommend a focus on features of social capital rather than physical and technological capital.
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Hernaes, Per O. "Slaves, Danes, and African coast society : The Danish slave trade from West Africa and Afro-Danish relations on the Eighteenth-Century Gold Coast /." Trondheim : NTNU, 1995. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb38868537r.
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Chitra, Eric, and n/a. "Bionomics of Culicoides molestus (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae): a pest biting midge in Gold Coast canal estates." Griffith University. School of Environmental and Applied Science, 2004. http://www4.gu.edu.au:8080/adt-root/public/adt-QGU20041119.101151.
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Culicoides molestus (Skuse) is the major species of biting midge that plagues human comfort in the estuarine Gold Coast region of southeast Queensland. Local authorities have initiated a search for an effective, non-chemical means of control, that would minimize human-midge interaction. The effectiveness of a program to control an organism, such as a biting midge, is dependent upon knowledge of the biology of the particular organism of interest. This project revolved examines the lifecycle of C. molestus in detail. It addresses questions regarding the location, seasonal distribution, and dispersal of its juvenile stages in the sand of infested beaches, and their response to chemical treatment, the monthly and annual cycles of the adult midge, and the possibilities of achieving laboratory oviposition, as a first step to laboratory colonisation. The distribution of eggs, larvae and pupae of C. molestus was found to be mostly concentrated around, but below, mean tide level. They also occurred well below the mean tide level. Eggs and larvae have been recovered from as deep as 10 cm in the sand. A seasonal study of the juveniles of this species indicated that they were more strongly influenced by tides than seasons. After a routine pest-control larviciding treatment, a beach recolonisation study revealed that beaches become suitable for oviposition approximately two months after treatment. Large larvae invaded the sprayed areas within days of treatment, which suggests the existence of a refuge outside of the reach of the insecticide. Larvae found in clean (egg- and larva-free), isolated sand containers, placed on the study beach, indicated that larvae could swim in or on the water as a way of moving around the beach. Extended bite-rate studies highlighted the existence of four peaks in adult midge biting activity during the course of a year, around the mid seasons. The strongest peaks of activity were found to be in autumn and spring, but the data suggest that the species undergoes four generations in a year. Through a series of trial-and-error experiments, oviposition under laboratory conditions was achieved. Although the time from blood-feeding to egg maturation is not yet well determined, it occurs within an eight day mean survival period. Blood quality appears critical for adult blood-fed midge survival. Midges fed on the blood of a volunteer who was frequently exposed to midge bites do not live long enough to mature its eggs. The partial ovarial development of one unfed adult female, reared in the laboratory, indicates that C. molestus is facultatively anautogenous.
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Fuller, Harcourt. "Building a nation : symbolic nationalism during the Kwame Nkrumah era in the Gold Coast/Ghana." Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2010. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/2379/.
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"Many of my people cannot read or write. They've got to be shown that they are now really independent. And they can only be shown by signs. When they buy stamps they will see my picture - an African like themselves-and they will say "Aiee ... look here is our leader on the stamps, we are truly a free people" (Kwame Nkrumah, 'Why the Queen's head is coming off our coins,' Daily Sketch, 20th' June 1957,12). For almost two decades (1951 - 1966), Kwame Nkrumah was the major nationalist leader in the Gold Coast/Ghana and the living personification of the Ghanaian nation-state. In this thesis I analyse the dynamics of how Nkrumah attempted to construct a homogenous national identity for Ghana, the first country in Sub- Saharan Africa to gain independence from a European imperial power. His nation- building strategies encompassed the propagandistic use of political iconography, expressed through what I call "symbols of nationhood," including money, postage stamps, monuments, museums, dress, non-verbal maxims (Adinkra symbols), the national anthem, emblems, and both national and party flags. The premiership of the self-proclaimed Civitatis Ghaniensis Conditor - Founder of the State of Ghana -was also characterized by the 'cult of personality' where he branded the nation with his image by personalizing these public symbols of nationhood. Despite these efforts, much of his nation-building projects became quite contentious and contradictory within the country and with foreign nations. They were consistently countered by alternative historical narratives and competing symbolisms from the departing British colonial officials (from whom he inherited much of these symbolisms), as well as traditional leaders, opposition parties, the military, merchants and intellectuals in Ghana. Since the 1966 coup that toppled him, many of the symbols of nationhood that Nkrumah constructed have been debated, demolished, reconsidered and reengineered by successive governments to rewrite the Ghanaian historical narrative and the legacy of Nkrumah himself. The examination of symbols of nationhood has largely been neglected in the literature on anti-colonial nationalism. The thesis is based on archival research conducted in the Public Record Office, the British Museum, the British Library, the British Postal Museum and Archive, the National Archives of Ghana, the Ghana Post Archives, and the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library & Museum (USA).
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Sedigh, Mahnaz. "Analysis of the Hydrodynamics and Morphological Changes of the Gold Coast Seaway Ebb-Tidal Delta." Thesis, Griffith University, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/366044.
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The Gold Coast Seaway (GCS), known as the Nerang River Entrance (NRE) prior to stabilisation, is located at one of Australia’s premier tourist centres, and consequently, the provision of a safe navigation channel is significantly important for recreational boating and commercial craft activities between the ocean and the estuary. The tidal regime in the area is semi-diurnal with neap and spring tidal ranges of 0.3m to 2m respectively, and the entrance has a minor ebb dominant current regime. The dominant offshore wave climate is south to south east, and the beaches have a wave dominated, double bar morphology. The entrance location had undergone drastic changes due to natural processes prior to its stabilisation in 1986. These changes were significantly influenced by the dominant northward wave condition which, in combination with the resultant longshore sediment transport (LST), resulted in the entrance’s net northward migration prior to the stabilisation. The entrance has experienced an alteration in the inlet tidal prism since stabilisation and the implementation of the artificial bypassing system. As a result, the extent of the ebb-tidal delta offshore and its equilibrium volume have changed.Thesis (PhD Doctorate)
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Griffith School of Engineering
Science, Environment, Engineering and Technology
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Chitra, Eric. "Bionomics of Culicoides molestus (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae): a pest biting midge in Gold Coast canal estates." Thesis, Griffith University, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/367178.
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Culicoides molestus (Skuse) is the major species of biting midge that plagues human comfort in the estuarine Gold Coast region of southeast Queensland. Local authorities have initiated a search for an effective, non-chemical means of control, that would minimize human-midge interaction. The effectiveness of a program to control an organism, such as a biting midge, is dependent upon knowledge of the biology of the particular organism of interest. This project revolved examines the lifecycle of C. molestus in detail. It addresses questions regarding the location, seasonal distribution, and dispersal of its juvenile stages in the sand of infested beaches, and their response to chemical treatment, the monthly and annual cycles of the adult midge, and the possibilities of achieving laboratory oviposition, as a first step to laboratory colonisation. The distribution of eggs, larvae and pupae of C. molestus was found to be mostly concentrated around, but below, mean tide level. They also occurred well below the mean tide level. Eggs and larvae have been recovered from as deep as 10 cm in the sand. A seasonal study of the juveniles of this species indicated that they were more strongly influenced by tides than seasons. After a routine pest-control larviciding treatment, a beach recolonisation study revealed that beaches become suitable for oviposition approximately two months after treatment. Large larvae invaded the sprayed areas within days of treatment, which suggests the existence of a refuge outside of the reach of the insecticide. Larvae found in clean (egg- and larva-free), isolated sand containers, placed on the study beach, indicated that larvae could swim in or on the water as a way of moving around the beach. Extended bite-rate studies highlighted the existence of four peaks in adult midge biting activity during the course of a year, around the mid seasons. The strongest peaks of activity were found to be in autumn and spring, but the data suggest that the species undergoes four generations in a year. Through a series of trial-and-error experiments, oviposition under laboratory conditions was achieved. Although the time from blood-feeding to egg maturation is not yet well determined, it occurs within an eight day mean survival period. Blood quality appears critical for adult blood-fed midge survival. Midges fed on the blood of a volunteer who was frequently exposed to midge bites do not live long enough to mature its eggs. The partial ovarial development of one unfed adult female, reared in the laboratory, indicates that C. molestus is facultatively anautogenous.Thesis (Masters)
Master of Philosophy (MPhil)
School of Environmental and Applied Science
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Smith, Mary-Anne. "Quality Tourism Experiences: a Qualitative Study of Gold Coast Resident's Perspectives as both Tourists and Hosts to Tourists." Thesis, Griffith University, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/365815.
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In an experiential economy, tourists demand quality tourism experiences. Tourists want more than to see sights or to overnight in a hotel, they want each component of their travel to deliver a quality experience. As the industry becomes more competitive, industry focus and research on the determinants of quality tourism experiences is burgeoning.This research studies Gold Coast resident’s perspectives of quality tourism experiences both as a tourist and as a host to tourists. China tour group individuals applied their quality filters of pricality, functionality, aesthetics and familiarity, to benchmark the China tour mediating quality concepts, Tour leader, Locally hosted visits, Tour elements, Tour group, Tour destination, and Hosting to evaluate a quality tourism experience.
Situated within the social sciences, the design of this research is multifacted and uses a blended approach of traditions and methods with the intent of interpretion and meaning-making. To this end an interpretive constructivist approach lead to the adoption of a blend of phenomenology and ethnography traditions.Thesis (PhD Doctorate)
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Griffith Business School
Griffith Business School
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Barskile, Zawadi Iyanjura. "Carrying our Spirit with Us: Gold Coast Spiritual Continuities in Eighteenth-Century Suriname and North America." The Ohio State University, 2005. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1392908329.
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Furse, James. "Ecosystem Engineering by Euastacus sulcatus (Decapoda: Parastacidae) in the Hinterland of the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia." Thesis, Griffith University, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/365614.
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In the mountains of the Gold Coast Hinterland (Queensland, Australia), Euastacus sulcatus (Decapoda: Parastacidae) is the largest aquatic invertebrate, largest member of the aquatic shredder guild, and probably plays a key role in the area’s stream ecology. The objective of this study was to investigate the ecological effects of E. sulcatus in the streams of the Gold Coast Hinterland, but in particular to assess the species’ capacity to act as an effective ecosystem engineer, obtain measures of the ecosystem services provided by the species, and evaluate the likely impacts of the crayfish on downstream water quality. To achieve this objective, an estimate of the population size of E. sulcatus was obtained; a series of experiments measured the species’ capacity to liberate nutrients from leaf litter, reduce the particle-size of the leaf litter, and mobilise and redistribute organic and inorganic materials in a flowing stream environment. This information allowed estimation of the species’ ecological impact(s) per unit time as a measure of the ecosystem services provided by E. sulcatus in the headwater streams of the study area. During this study E. sulcatus was common and abundant with a within-stream density of ~0.5 crayfish m-2. The total population of E. sulcatus in the study area was estimated at >860,000 crayfish. Correction for strong seasonal variation in activity was required for ecological impact calculations, and the “ecologically effective” population was estimated at >570,000 crayfish (biomass ~12 tonnes wet weight (WWT)). Crayfish significantly liberated nitrogen and phosphorus from leaf litter into the water column via consuming leaf litter and excreting nutrients. The phosphorus dynamic was complex, however the overall effect of crayfish was to facilitate eventual “loss” of phosphorus from the system with binding/absorption to substrates, particularly leaf litter, evident as the mechanism. The ecologically effective population was estimated to liberate at least 140 kg of nitrogen, 1.5 kg of phosphorus, and facilitate the loss of around 0.15 kg of soluble phosphorus from leaf litter per annum. Crayfish consumed large amounts of leaf litter while significantly reducing its particle-size. The ecologically effective population consumed at least 14 tonnes WWT of whole leaf litter, producing ~4.5 tonnes WWT of fine particles (<1 mm), with a nett consumption of ~9 tonnes WWT leaf litter per annum. The day-to-day activities of crayfish led to significant mobilisation and downstream export of materials 1 mm diameter, with about half this material of organic origin. The ecologically effective population facilitated the mobilisation and downstream export of around 90 tonne-meters (dry weight) material per annum. Given this annual crayfish-export effect is dramatically overwhelmed by the periodic flood spates in the area, it is unlikely crayfish-mediated export of materials is negative for downstream water quality. In the field it is anticipated that the liberated nutrients will be stripped from the water column by other biota, and/or abiotic processes, and eventually recycled back into and retained in the headwater ecosystems. Similarly, crayfish-mediated particle-size reduction of leaf litter will facilitate further processing by other biota, and recycling and retention of this material in the headwater regions. In the typical baseflow conditions, the instream mobilisation of materials will be positive for maintaining the high quality of water flowing from the headwater streams, by maintaining streambed complexity and ecological processes such as enhanced decomposition of organic detritus. Euastacus sulcatus is a common, abundant and ecologically aggressive species, and the results of this study support a conclusion that this species is an effective ecosystem engineer. The population of E. sulcatus clearly provides a number of ecosystem services, and even lower bound estimates indicate the magnitude of these services are fairly substantial at a local scale, and must be of appreciable benefit in maintaining the function and health of the headwater stream ecosystems.Thesis (PhD Doctorate)
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Griffith School of Environment
Science, Environment, Engineering and Technology
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Cuttriss, Andrew K. "Sea Turtle Ecology in the Gold Coast Region, Australia: Habitat Use, Nesting Behaviour and Movement Patterns." Thesis, Griffith University, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/365239.
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Habitat destruction and human exploitation has caused major declines in global sea turtle populations, resulting in six out of the seven species of sea turtles being classified as endangered or critically endangered by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN). Extensive research has been undertaken on sea turtle nesting, breeding structure and abundance, migration and threats. However, little detailed information is available within the literature on sea turtle nesting behaviour, movement patterns and habitat usage within southern peripheral habitat limits of eastern Australia. This study investigates sea turtle ecology within the southern peripheral habitat limits on the east coast of Australia, Gold Coast region. The study focuses on the green, Chelonia mydas and loggerhead, Caretta caretta turtles, two species known to utilise the marine habitats of the Gold Coast Broadwater, South Stradbroke Island (SSI) and Cook Island (NSW) complex. The research quantified aspects of the nesting behaviour, movement patterns, habitat availability and usage, with a specific focus on the extensive seagrass meadows of the Gold Coast Broadwater. Seagrass habitats within the Broadwater were mapped in 2008 using aerial photography revealing that meadows cover 1208 ha within the Gold Coast Broadwater, an increase of 347 ha since 1987. Overall, 166 seagrass patches were mapped ranging in size from 0.25 ha to 124.4 ha with a mean size of 7.3 ± 15.9 ha. Despite the increase in the total seagrass extent, there was a significant decline in the mean patch size of seagrass meadows between 1987 and 2005. Despite the importance of seagrass meadows for turtles as foraging areas, the meadows in the Broadwater appeared to be poorly utilised by turtles.Thesis (Masters)
Master of Philosophy (MPhil)
Griffith School of Environment
Science, Environment, Engineering and Technology
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Dur, Fatih. "The integrated land use and transportation indexing model : assessing the sustainability of the Gold Coast, Australia." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2012. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/54190/1/DurFatih_PhD_Thesis_20120511.pdf.
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Urban sustainability and sustainable urban development concepts have been identified as the ultimate goal of many contemporary planning endeavours and have become central concepts on which the urban development policies are formulated. In the confinement of these concepts, land use and transport integration has been highlighted as one of the most important policy objectives considering the interrelationship between them and available intervention means of planning. While its interpretation varies, in Australia, it has been embraced as integration of land use and transport planning/policies and been an integral part of regional and local plans. Accordingly, a number of principles have been defined to guide its implementation, to name a few, planning for compact and connected urban development, encouraging active transport modes, creation of mixed-use activity centres and public transport precincts, provision of high quality public transport services, and enhancing character and amenity of urban areas. However, there is lack of an evaluation framework to measure the extent of achievement of implementation of these principles. In pursuit of filling this gap, this study aims to devise an evaluation framework to measure the performance of urban settings according to the integration principles in South East Queensland, Australia context and to demarcate problematic areas which can be intervened by planning tools...
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Bonabom, Isidore. "The development of a truth regime on 'the human' : human rights in the Gold Coast (1945-57)." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2012. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/38621/.
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The thesis proposes to approach the idea of human rights as a specific truth regime on ‘the human' that contests those regimes of falsity which deny the essence of humanness on grounds such as race, sex, colour, gender, national or social origin. This theoretical proposition is supported by a case study of the deployment of the idea of human rights in the Gold Coast from 1945 up to Ghana's independence from colonial rule in 1957. As such, the study analyses how the concept of human rights, affirmed in the 1945 United Nations Charter and the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights and articulated in the 1950 European Convention on Human Rights, influenced domestic politics in one British colony in Africa. At the same time, the study highlights the way in which post-World War II nationalism produced some of the most important political changes affecting this region in this era. Relying on a first-hand investigation of archival and primary sources, the thesis scrutinizes the formulation of demands for the collective right to self-determination which emanated from nationalist movements, the evolving drafts for a bill of rights in Ghana's Independence Constitution and the debates on whether or not to extend the European Convention on Human Rights to the Gold Coast. The particular and disprivileged position of women in the colony is a subject of critical commentary throughout the thesis. By examining critically the emergence of the human rights idea, the study draws attention to the complex interplay of factors as well as actors that inspired a new-fangled notion of universal rights, while highlighting the way politics, including Cold War politics, contributed to define the subject of human rights in an ambiguous, incomplete but promising way.
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Leney, Katya. "The politics of higher education in the Gold Coast and French West Africa from 1945 to independence." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.624741.
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Mortensen, Jonas Brandi. "Agent-Based Modelling of Short-Term Juvenile Bull Shark Movement in a Semi-Enclosed Gold Coast Estuary." Thesis, Griffith University, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/367675.
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This project investigated the value and future potential of a coupled Eulerian-Lagrangian agent-based modelling approach as an alternative method of investigating the movement and habitat use of juvenile bull shark Carcharhinus leucas in small peri-urban estuaries. Through the use of the MIKE21 modelling suite (DHI), a depth-averaged two-dimensional hydro-dynamic model was developed and implemented as a means to capture the spatio-temporal variation in hydrodynamics of the semi-enclosed Tallebudgera Creek estuary. This system provides a suite of habitats comprising artificial residential canals, polyhaline and brackish creek sections in a peri-urban setting. The hydrodynamic model served as the dynamic foundation of a spatially heterogeneous agent-based model (ABM) developed for juvenile C. leucas. The movement formulation of juvenile C. leucas was represented as a kinesis search for optimal conditions, while a random walk model served as a control.
The hydrodynamic model performed satisfactorily in terms of capturing the variations of key physical conditions of Tallebudgera Creek. Modelled values of surface elevation and flow dynamics were in good agreement with measured data sets. Simulated mean levels of salinity and temperature were likewise in good agreement with measured means; however, model analysis revealed a high sensitivity to increased freshwater influxes, and a delay in model response time.
Three neonate and juvenile individuals of C. leucas were captured and attached with acoustic tags for tracking of movement in Tallebudgera Creek. Short-term continuous tracks of a juvenile C. leucas were successfully collected as a means to relate observed movement to out-puts of the hydrodynamic model and measurements of water quality, while consecutive data-points of animal position served as validation data for the agent-based model.
Analysis of C. leucas track data revealed a high site preference for the middle reach of the system over the course of the tracking campaign, even during periods when salinity levels were < 1 PSU. However, an avoidance of high salinities > 27 PSU was evident. Significant movement of the animal in a downriver direction only occurred after a period of increased flow velocities and turbidity, suggesting that these parameters may play an important role in directing shark movement in conjunction with salinity.
The agent-based models in their current developmental stage performed unsatisfactorily in capturing observed movement, and their predictive ability was generally poor. The current ABM formulation of C. leucas movement is therefore deemed insufficient to capture the observed pattern of behaviour. However, unforseen technical difficulties originating from the narrow and shallow nature of the Tallebudgera Creek system prevented a full assessment of the ABM results.
Despite current technical issues that were impracticable to be resolved under the available timeframe, this study represents a first attempt to construct and implement agent-based modelling to investigate bull shark movement and habitat use in a spatially and temporally dynamic hydrologic environment. It is predicted that once these technical difficulties are overcome, agent-based modelling as a research tool holds great promise for future investigation of the habitat ecology of C. leucas to benefit its conservation and management.Thesis (Masters)
Master of Philosophy (MPhil)
Griffith School of Environment
Science, Environment, Engineering and Technology
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Getz, Trevor Russell. "That most perfidious institution : the slow death of slavery in nineteenth century Senegal and the Gold Coast." Thesis, SOAS, University of London, 2000. http://eprints.soas.ac.uk/29008/.
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That Most Perfidious Institution is a study of Africans - slaves and slave owners - and their central roles in both the expansion of slavery in the early nineteenth century and attempts to reform servile relationships in the late nineteenth century. The pivotal place of Africans can be seen in the interaction between indigenous slave-owning elites (aristocrats and urban Euro-African merchants), local European administrators, and slaves themselves. My approach to this problematic is both chronologically and geographically comparative. The central comparison between Senegal and the Gold Coast contrasts the varying impact of colonial policies, integration into the trans-Atlantic economy; and, more importantly, the continuity of indigenous institutions and the transformative agency of indigenous actors. By evaluating the different outcomes of attempted reforms both in these regions in general and within sub-regions and societies, this dissertation develops a fuller picture of both slave agency and the resistance of slave owners. Slavery in these regions during the nineteenth century was characterised by a normative model in which local elites were able to resist, divert, and appropriate metropolitan attempts to end or restrict their access to and control of slaves, often with the cooperation of administrators. This contrasted with the ability of slaves to liberate themselves or to take part in mass emancipations in certain situations, illustrating the circumstances under which the political- economic hegemony of slave-owners could be circumvented. The general 'failure' of emancipation masks a series of compromises, negotiations, and self-liberations which took place largely outside the official record. However, the continuity of indigenous social attributes - especially the social/kinship characteristics of indigenous slavery - constrained the ability of slaves to effect their liberations. This situation could be transformed only by the introduction of new economic opportunities, the decreasing reliance of administrators on slave owners, and politicisation and social change amongst slaves themselves.
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Brukum, Nana James Kwaku. "The Northern Territories of the Gold Coast under British colonial rule, 1897-1956, a study in political change." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp02/NQ28272.pdf.
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Elliott, Amanda Louise. "Sedimentology and ecological health of man-made canal and marina systems : an example from the Gold Coast, Australia /." Title page, contents and abstract only, 2001. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09SB/09sbe463.pdf.
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Taylor, Rebecca Susan. "International trade in British West Africa during the colonial era : Sierra Leone, the Gold Coast and the Gambia." Thesis, University of Portsmouth, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.343392.
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Nicholas, Phillip Bancroft. "Across The Atlantic To Jamaica: Enslavement And Cultural Transformations Of The Gold Coast Diaspora During The 18th Century." W&M ScholarWorks, 2020. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1616444490.
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As the Asante emerged in the 18th century as a political dominant state and continued to expand and consolidate territory in the Gold Coast, the defeated enemies were enslaved and forcibly transported to slave markets. Simultaneously, coastal people in Fante territory convicted of crimes for violating social and cultural norms or kidnapped by private coastal agents were enslaved and taken to slave markets where European buyers purchased them. Those casualties of war and coastal captives were ripped from their families, communities, and culture in the Gold Coast, and then experienced further isolation during the middle passage. The Gold Coast captives shipped to and sold in Jamaica had to adapt to their new environment while encountering white oppression and attempts to control their agency. The slaves’ initial responses against white supremacy were isolated resistances. Despite being separated from their homes, families, and communities, Gold Coast slaves in the mid to late 18th century Jamaica changed their tactical approach against white supremacy by establishing bonds with their former enemies and different ethnic groups. From those new collectives, the isolated resistance expanded to encompass larger geographical territory. In the process, a cultural transformation emerged as Gold Coast slaves shared their customs, rituals, and traditions with Igbo, Congo, and Creole, Jamaican-born slaves to survive in Jamaica.
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Murdoch, Michelle. "Factors Influencing the Conservation Status Of the Glossy Black-Cockatoo (Calyptorhynchus Lathami Lathami) on the Gold Coast, Queensland." Thesis, Griffith University, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/366496.
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Calyptorhynchus lathami, the Glossy-black Cockatoo, is a highly specialized monophagous bird feeding only on the cones of Allocasuarina species. Studies elsewhere have shown that C. lathami are restricted by a tight energy budget, forcing them to select high quality food sources, thereby minimizing effort and time in feeding, and resulting in the birds feeding in some trees and ignoring other apparently suitable trees. This specialized feeding habit, in conjunction with recent and ongoing habitat loss, is expected to cause a decline in their population in many localities. This study examined the abundance and distribution of C. l. lathami on the Gold Coast, Queensland.
The feeding status and stability of feed trees was examined, comparing between feed and non-feed trees within a site, and between sites, determining why some trees and sites are fed upon, whilst others are ignored. The results indicate that many areas containing Allocasuarinas had little to no current potential as a food source due to low cone production. Ultimately, it was found that many birds were feeding in few suitable sites, with most sites being unsuitable. Where trees with adequate cones crops were observed, it was found that C. lathami would feed in the areas with abundant cones. Within these areas, the birds were feeding on trees with large cone crops.
This study also used the number of chewings (pieces of cones: C. lathami feeding residue) to estimate bird abundance. The population size was calculated using the quantity and age of C. lathami feeding in the study area, and their daily food requirements. It was calculated that between 250 and 690 C. lathami were been feeding on the Gold Coast. On-going habitat loss on the Gold Coast may suggests that this population is not stable.Thesis (PhD Doctorate)
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Griffith School of Environment
Science, Environment, Engineering and Technology
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Taylor, Linnet. "Global travellers on the digital dirt road : international mobility, networks and ICT diffusion in Ghana." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2013. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/44712/.
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This thesis focuses on the intersection of human mobility and technology diffusion in Africa. With Ghana as a case study, it looks at how the diffusion of internet access and use are influenced by international mobility. The research is based in the literature on the diffusion of innovations, international knowledge transmission, migration and development, and Information and Communication Technologies for Development (ICT4D). It begins from the hypothesis that international mobility may contribute to lowering barriers to internet penetration in developing countries by facilitating flows of resources, including equipment, finance, skills and knowledge. The research is based on four different datasets: a survey of the internet cafes in the North of Ghana and in Accra; an online survey of users in northern internet cafes; a network study incorporating internet cafe owners and managers in higher-value-added areas of the IT sector, and in-depth interviews with policymakers and donor organisations involved in ICT4D interventions. The data was analysed using a combination of fuzzy-set Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA) and network analytic techniques including visualisation, statistical analysis and qualitative analysis. The findings show that international mobility makes an important contribution to the base of adoption capacity for new technologies in poor and remote regions. It enables entrepreneurs and IT workers to address market gaps that restrict access to material and financial resources; by providing access to international circuits of knowledge and ideas which help individuals gain a foothold in the IT sector, and by facilitating local private-sector provision of the internet through internet cafes which serve the hardest-to-reach populations. The thesis concludes by suggesting potential entry points for ICT4D and migration policy in developing countries regarding the efficiency and effectiveness of ICT4D interventions, the role of the private sector in promoting internet usership, and the role of mobility in building adoption capacity in low-income areas.
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Murray, Dominique Frances. "Violence in Paradise: The Physical, Social and Perceived Environments in a Beachside Entertainment District." Thesis, Griffith University, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/366566.
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The research presented in this thesis examines the features of the physical, social and perceived environments that facilitate or inhibit the occurrence of crime, violence, intoxication and injuries in nightclub districts, using Surfers Paradise, Queensland, Australia as a case study. Five primary research questions are addressed: (1) What are the environmental dynamics of alcohol-related violence and injuries in the Surfers Paradise district? (2) How do data contributions made by agencies other than police affect our understanding of the spatial and temporal dynamics of alcohol-related violence and injuries? (3) How has the introduction of the 3am lockout affected the spatial and temporal distribution of alcohol-related violence and injuries as reported by the agencies contributing to the database? (4) How do bar users perceive social and physical environmental cues in entertainment venues? And (5) do the perceptions of bar fight participants differ from those of non-participants? These questions have been addressed through two studies that are underpinned by a conceptual model that highlights key environmental factors suggested by environmental criminology and environmental psychology. Routine activity theory is the main theory that frames the research.Thesis (PhD Doctorate)
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
School of Criminology and Criminal Justice
Arts, Education and Law
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Moyes, Samantha. "The Making of the Everyday: A Study of Habits in Colonial Ghana (Gold Coast) during the Early Twentieth Century." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/31712.
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Everyday practice often goes unquestioned. Yet in Gold Coast society during the early twentieth century, everyday habits and practices served as an important device for both subalterns and elites to negotiate status or contest colonial control. Between 1900 and 1920, the Gold Coast was experiencing many changes that offered opportunities for actors to influence, negotiate, or contest emerging everyday habits and experiences. The monitoring and modification of everyday habits provided a way for the British colonial government to consolidate its rule in the Gold Coast following the period of military expansion in the late nineteenth century. For many Gold Coasters, increased access to education, the expansion of wage labour and the cocoa industry, led to a reconfiguration of social status and relations affecting daily life.
While scholars are increasingly examining the theme of everyday practices, many tend to focus on the experiences of subaltern peoples. This study focuses instead on the role of an emerging, yet subjected, urban elite comprised of educated Africans. Caught between their understanding of African “tradition” and Western ideas of modernity, educated African elite attempted to influence everyday experiences and habits as a way to claim greater authority and enhance their position in the colony. Furthermore, this study examines how colonial administrators, too, used everyday habits and experiences to reinforce colonial governance in Gold Coast. In early twentieth century Gold Coast society, everyday habits and practices served as a battleground for contests for authority and influence as educated Africans and colonizers narrativized their own concepts of modernity and visions of the Gold Coast’s future in the pages of colonial reports, diaries, missionary correspondence, and Gold Coast newspapers. Using this and other primary source material, this thesis demonstrates how space, personhood, and food became important arenas through which various actors – African and European – vied to control, construct, and influence everyday habits and experiences in early twentieth century Gold Coast.
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Lance, Yoko. "Unique variety of Japanese language developed through language contact on the Gold Coast, Australia in first-generation Japanese communities." Thesis, Griffith University, 2022. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/416045.
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To investigate how minority groups such as the Japanese speaking communities on the Gold Coast in Australia have developed a variety of the Japanese language, a survey was conducted with 31 first-generation Japanese immigrants. Among the unique 216 words collected, 26 new words, 45 catachrestic loanwords that bring new concepts of ideas or things into the Japanese language, 101 non-catachrestic loanwords co-existing with semiotically-matching other Japanese words, nine words with phonological modifications and 35 interjections were recorded. As a result, the most used unique words were non-catachrestic loanwords. Most words were related to their everyday lives; however, some were related to politics or of a more conceptual nature, unlike similar research conducted in Brazil before WWII. Nouns were the most popular unique words collected in terms of word classes. The names of things, shops, facilities, and occupations are often used in loanwords, as it is easier to use the same names in Japanese and English conversations. All the loanword verbs collected were formed with the suffix ‘-suru (to do)’. Some loanword adjectives were formed with the suffix ‘-na’. No ‘Taigen + -ru’ verbs or ‘loanwords + -i’ adjectives were confirmed. Among 26 new words used/developed on the Gold Coast, most were shortened nicknames of places and shops, such as ‘Hanja (Hungry Jacks)’, ‘Debijo (David Jones)’, ‘Raria (Australia)’, ‘Ōsu (Australia)’, ‘Wāsu (Woolworths)’, ‘Sushitore (Sushitrain)’, ‘Pashi (Pacific Fair)’, ‘Robitan (Robina Town Centre) and ‘Imigure (former Department of Immigration and Border Protection)’. Most of the words were clippings and compound clippings such as ‘Buri (Brisbane)’ and ‘Burobi (buro+bi, Broadbeach)’, and one loanblend ‘Japasen (for people who only date Japanese)’, one calque ‘Kokumin (National Australia Bank)’, one native creation ‘Donishī (Sydney)’, and two words ‘Ūru’ and ‘Ōru’ (both from the airport code ‘OOL’) from the Japanese tourism industry register were collected. For catachrestic loanwords, most of them were direct loans; however, some loanshifts such as ‘pikkingu (picking, meaning fruit picking)’ and ‘raundo (around, travelling around in Australia)’ were observed. For non-catachrestic loanwords, some names of places and occupations and things in their everyday lives were often used. Some words were used because they have slightly different impressions from the standard Japanese words, such as ‘yaoya’ and ‘vege shop’. For both catachrestic and non-catachrestic loanwords, some influence in shortenings from the local English slang/dialect was found as well, such as ‘Burijī (Brissie: Brisbane)’, ‘Ūrī (Woolies: Woolworths)’, ‘Bābī (Barbeque)’ and ‘mojī (mozzie: mosquito)’.
Some phonological modifications influenced by English were found, such as ‘aikea’ instead of ‘ikea’ for the name of the interior shop IKEA, and ‘garāji’ instead of ‘garēji’ for garage. Some uncommon loanwords in Japan, such as ‘petorōru’, ‘petorō’, ‘petoro’, ‘petororu’, and 'petoraru’ for petrol, showed various phonological adaptations.
Many loanwords for interjections were recorded, such as ‘oh my god’, ‘oh dear’, ‘oops’ and ‘awesome’. They often show code-switching behaviour for interjections with English accenting and pronunciation done unconsciously. More intentional code-switching behaviour is also observed to soften the situation, make it humorous, or dodge a straight answer. This code-switching is natural and easier to use for smooth communication in their life with two languages. Most participants had a positive attitude towards integrating English into their Japanese language. They think it is unavoidable living in an English-dominated society, and many of them speak English more often than Japanese. Although some words can only be expressed in English, this research found that people on the Gold Coast tend to integrate English into their Japanese conversations mainly for their convenience. It is not from the loss of their Japanese proficiency as their language skills are constantly updated through frequent return trips to Japan and access to online content in Japanese. It is considered embarrassing to mix languages too often in Japan, but it is very hard to avoid it in their life on the Gold Coast. However, they still try to avoid it in a formal or semiformal situation and outside their community.
This research contributes new data to the field of Japanese language variation through language contact. There is no previous research conducted in this field, especially on Japanese people in Australia. It is significant to research and record the living language at the present time on the Gold Coast, Australia.Thesis (Professional Doctorate)
Doctor of Visual Arts (DVA)
School of Hum, Lang & Soc Sc
Arts, Education and Law
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Fredline, Elizabeth. "Host Community Reactions to Major Sporting Events: The Gold Coast Indy and the Australian Formula One Grand Prix in Melbourne." Thesis, Griffith University, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/366728.
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It is a widely held and not unfounded belief, that major events stimulate the local economy and 'showcase' the region to the world, potentially promoting future tourism and business activity. This is one of the major reasons that there is increasing private and public sector support for events based economic development strategies. There are other important positive impacts that are often associated with the staging of events, many of which may directly benefit the local population, including the development of facilities and infrastructure, entertainment and social opportunities, and a sense of pride brought about by playing host to a major event.
However, it is also clear that there are outcomes of staging an event that have a negative impact on the local population. Any event attracting large numbers of visitors to a relatively small area is likely to create some problems with noise, traffic, crowding and disruption. There are also likely to be other costs specific to the event or its implementation.
While some of the costs and benefits of an event may affect the whole community, others tend to impact on certain subgroups of the population. For example, residents who are involved in tourism may receive a direct economic benefit, and those who have a particular interest in the theme of the event socially and psychologically benefit, to the extent that they are entertained by it. Similarly, some subgroups are more affected than others by the negative impacts, particularly those living (or conducting their routine activities) closest to the event's focal point. The issue of the relative costs and benefits is therefore compounded by concerns about distributive justice.
This dissertation examines the ways in which local residents react to the staging of a major sporting event within their community. Two case studies, involving the Formula One Grand Prix in Melbourne and the Gold Coast Indy Car Race, were examined within a framework that combined aspects of traditional methods of investigating host community perceptions of tourism with social representations theory. Social representations are the ways in which people perceive various phenomena in the world around them. By identifying these different 'patterns' of perceptions, and profiling the subgroups of the community who hold them, it is possible to gain a better understanding of both the tangible and intangible impacts of events, and how they differentially affect the quality of life of local residents.
Through a combination of quantitative and qualitative methods, five different ways of perceiving the impacts of these events were examined. The five levels can be regarded as points along a continuum, ranging from extremely negative to very positive. The largest group identified, in the middle of the continuum, demonstrated ambivalence in terms of their views on the impact of the event on their quality of life. However, given that they perceived a slightly positive overall community impact, and were largely in favour of the continuation of the event, they can be regarded as being more similar to the positive groups.
In profiling the residents who held each of the representations identified, it was found that the most negative group was generally comprised of those residents whose routine activity space regularly included the focal points of the respective events. Very few members of this group had any financial involvement in tourism, and almost all of them were totally disinterested in motor racing.
At the other end of the continuum, in the most positive group, very high levels of interest in motor sport were observed, and more than half of this group worked in tourism or at least perceived some boost to levels of trade in their industry because of the event. The ambivalent group was characterised by low levels of contact with the areas around the respective tracks. They generally lived a long distance away and rarely travelled to the region.
The investigation of the spatial variation in the perception of event impacts was supplemented through a Geographic Information Systems Analysis, which mapped the perceptions of a number of impacts across the two cities. Finally, an examination of qualitative data, collected via open-ended questions presented to each respondent, provided greater depth of understanding of the basis for differing social representations. It also provided insight into the most salient issues that residents consider when contemplating the impact of an event.Thesis (PhD Doctorate)
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
School of Tourism and Hotel Management
Griffith Business School
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Jenkins, Julie A. "'Wives of the Gods' : debating Fiasidi and the politics of meaning." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2012. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/43200/.
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In the south-eastern Volta Region of Ghana, a form of female religious affiliation to local shrines commonly known as trokosi, has been the subject of a campaign consisting of Christian-based NGOs and various government agencies that has successfully criminalised the practice and organised ‘liberations' and rehabilitations of the initiates. Protagonists of the abolition campaign argue that trokosiwo are illegitimately initiated to specific shrines based on an offence committed by another lineage member, acting as a perpetual figure of restitution. They also argue that the practice constitutes a form of ‘female ritual slavery' by translating the term trokosi as “slave of the gods” and arguing that the socio-economic status and social relations of the trokosiwo indicate their ‘slavery'. The highly publicised abolition campaign stimulated a counter-campaign, led by a neo-traditional organisation, that argued that the female shrine initiates are Queen-Mothers (rather than slaves), role-models to their lineage (rather than figures of restitution), and are socially privileged. Central to these contestations has been the figure of the fiasidi, particularly those initiated to shrines in one locality, Klikor. Abolitionists define fiasidiwo as being a variant of trokosi, despite some key differences. Those that contest this representation justified their position by highlighting the socio-economic position of fiasidiwo in Klikor's three shrines and pointing out the critical ways it differed from the representation of the Trokosi Slave. Members of the Klikor shrines also became political actors in the debates that ensued, by developing a close alliance to the neo-traditionalist organisation and creating their own organisation to network with similar shrines. This thesis considers the debates around trokosi and fiasidi at the national level and explores in detail the meaning attached to fiasidi and her position in the Klikor shrines and community. At its core, is an ethnography of the three shrines, their ritual specialists and initiates. I explore the way in which meaning is ascribed to the fiasidi, through narratives of the past, through the symbolism of key rituals and through the structured interactions between petitioners and ritual specialists. A concluding section then considers the intersection between these meanings and the contested terrains of religion in the debates about the Trokosi Slaves.
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Ankisiba, Charles. "Traditional chiefs, land and the politics of development : a case study of the Birim North District, Ghana." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2013. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/47211/.
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Currently there is a resurgence of the role of traditional chiefs in the development of sub-Saharan African countries. It has been proposed that African countries need to adopt more effective and pragmatic approaches, which are rooted in local societies and cultures and can therefore provide developmental outcomes. This thesis examines whether traditional chieftaincy in Ghana, which is a highly respected institution compared to other African countries can be effective and legitimate providers of public goods. This is done by analysing the way chiefs' exercise authority over community land and the revenue it produces. The study analysed land management practices under chiefs' authority and the dynamics of the politics of negotiating compensation for land and public goods. The main finding of the thesis is that investment in public goods might be facilitated by the development of multi-institutional arrangement that ensures collaboration among state and non-state institutions at the local level as a form of co-production for development. The implications of this arrangement on the political authority of chiefs at the local level are examined. The thesis questions the notion that it is custom and tradition that makes leadership provided by chiefs effective, and argues that what matters for development is how legitimate traditional authority is exercised in practice. The main conclusions of the thesis are that: firstly, although chiefs' are important traditional authorities in Ghana, they do not exercise political authority that is effective, as expected, for the development of local communities. There should therefore be caution in elevating traditional authority as the most effective legitimate form of locally rooted authority in Africa, given that Ghana is a country where chiefly authority is still extremely strong and respected. Attention should rather be focussed on the use of local cultural repertoires and multi-institutional collaborations, which have local problem-solving characteristics for development. Secondly, the thesis also provides evidence that shows how activities of mining companies potentially contribute to development of local communities. As a result there is the need to take a more nuanced view of how mining companies operate in Africa.