Urban society and the opportunity structure in New Zealand, 1902–22: The Caversham Project∗

Olssen, Erik; Brooking, Tom; Heenan, Brian; James, Hamish; McLennan, Bruce; Griffen, Clyde

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“…Thus for instance population geographer Brian Heenan contributed to the discussions about geographical mobility revealing that against earlier expectations Caversham except during the First World War had high levels of outward mobility although the data was weaker for women. 125 This was important because it added empirical evidence to Fairburn's thesis about atomized populations of the 1850s to 1880s giving rise to weak communities with high levels of drunkenness and violence and weakening class formation. 126 This was counter balanced by another study of spatial mobility within Caversham and circular migration away from and back to the suburb; much of the mobility literature tending to down play intra-and inter-suburban movements.…”

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Historical Geography in New Zealand, 1987–2007

Roche

2008

History Compass

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This article reviews historical geography in New Zealand over the period 1987 to 2007. It indicates that research in the 1980s and 1990s has filled some of the gaps identified by earlier reviewers while more recent research has used new approaches to pose new questions such as those surrounding post colonialism. A feature of historical geography research over the last 15 years has been a number of collaborative projects, most notably a national historical atlas. The future for historical geography in New Zealand arguably calls for a stronger re‐engagement with human geography.

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Historical Geography in New Zealand, 1987–2007

Roche

2008

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“…The resulting detailed social history database and set of publications has built up a rich description of the distinctive character and local history of the area (Cooper, Law, Malthus and Wood 2000;Olssen 1995;Olssen et al 1999; also see , http://www. otago.ac.nz/nzpg/caversham/index.html .…”

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Gender and daily mobility in a New Zealand city, 1920–1960

Law

2002

Soc. Cultural Geog.

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Although it is widely accepted that transport-like other social practices-is gendered, the concept of gender used in transport research is often one-dimensional, with the focus on gendered variations in behaviour rather than on gendered meaning and identities. In this paper, I develop a more complex and multi-stranded way of approaching the issue of gender and transport (or rather, daily mobility). A case study of a neighbourhood in the New Zealand city of Dunedin in the early decades of last century is presented to explore how the practices of daily mobility constituted gender. A three-part concept of gender is developed as a basis for analysis: gender as a pattern of social relations, a cultural system of meaning and a component of personal identity. This is then used to analyse a collection of sixty oral histories. T he period 1920-1960 is particularly interesting; in these decades extensive and widely used public transport systems (notably electric trams) shared urban streets with bicycles and pedestrians, and the emerging private modes of motorcycle and motor car. As new transport technologies were taken up, they offered the opportunity for new social practices to be formed around their use, for cultural meanings to be assigned to the technologies and for embodied individual subjectivities to be constructed. I argue that we can usefully interpret the shifting patterns of transport use through the lens of gender, and that we can come to understand the process by which gender is constructed by attention to everyday trip-making and presence on the street.

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School History in New Zealand and Australia

Guyver¹

2010

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Urban society and the opportunity structure in New Zealand, 1902–22: The Caversham Project∗

Cited by 3 publications

References 7 publications

Historical Geography in New Zealand, 1987–2007

Historical Geography in New Zealand, 1987–2007

Gender and daily mobility in a New Zealand city, 1920–1960

School History in New Zealand and Australia

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