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This collection contains Honours, Masters and Ph.D by coursework theses from University of Adelaide postgraduate students within the School of Social Sciences. The material has been approved as making a significant contribution to knowledge.
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Item Open Access Environmental history of the Willunga Basin 1830s to 1990s(1994) Newman, Lareen A.; School of Social SciencesEnvironmental History is a relatively new field of study which seeks to establish historic trends relative to environmental change and to use the insight gained to assist future management. As yet there are few such Australian studies on a detailed regional basis. The Willunga Basin is an important region within South Australia in physical, economic and social terms, but it currently experiences a variety of environmental problems, including a minimal amount of native vegetation, winter flooding and gully erosion. It was perceived that these problems could benefit from some knowledge of the area's environmental history. Therefore , using a range of sources and methods, historical trends were established in the key aspects of rainfall, surface and groundwater drainage, gully erosion, vegetation , population, settlement and land use, and these trends were t hen compiled to provide this Environmental History of the Willunga Basin from t he 1830s to the 1990s. It was ascertained that the Willunga Basin environment had changed significantly in some respects since -the first Europeans moved into the area in the 1830s. The nature, timing and magnitude of various changes were compared to provide some explanation of the contemporary environmental problems. These were found to have resulted from both human and non- human forces. Although one significant non-human change was a long-term decline in average annual rainfall over the 155 years from 1839 to 1993, European land use activities introduced since settlement in 1840 had often combined with natural processes and events to produce change. Extensive and intensive land use changes had made the environment more susceptible to change or had accelerated natural change in a particular direction.Item Open Access The relationship between sedimentation on Aldinga Reef, and Washpool Creek and Sellicks Creek catchments, Willunga Basin(1995) Wegener, Joanne E.; School of Social SciencesThis study assesses the relationship between sediment accumulation on Aldinga Reef in Gulf St. Vincent, and sediment discharges from two neighbouring rural catchments, Washpool Creek and Sellicks Creek, in the Willunga Basin, South Australia. Since European settlement, extensive woodland clearance, the introduction of plant species, and intensive agricultural activities have been major features of the Basin's environment. As a result erosion and gullying have been prevalent in the two catchments. The study compares patterns of erosion as noted from field observations, with analysis of a sediment core from a lagoon in Washpool Creek catchment. The palaeoecological approach was undertaken to investigate changes in vegetation, erosion and sedimentation associated with European land use practices on the rural catchment. Field observations indicated that erosion and gullying was greatest in Sellicks Creek catchment. Lead-210 dating of Washpool Lagoon sediments indicated that the rate of sedimentation was not as great as was expected from a catchment experiencing such severe erosion and gullying. The calculated 210pb flux indicated that sediment discharges from Wasbpool Creek catchment to the Gulf of St. Vincent were only negligible.Item Open Access "Christ kid, you're a weirdo": a Kristevan reading of Bad Boy Bubby(1998) Iocco, Melissa; School of Social SciencesThis thesis explores issues of identity and sexuality in the film Bad Boy Hubby, utilising Julia Kristeva's theories on abjection, love and melancholia. Through the examination of the film's representation of the 'self,' sexual difference and the Maternal body, this thesis argues that Bad Boy Hubby is unable to offer cinematic or psychical Oedipal resolution. This inability derives from what emerges in the film as an awareness and exploration of the crisis and disintegration of masculine subjectivity.Item Open Access The education of Aboriginal children in Adelaide : a comparative study(1971) Prideaux, David John; Dept. of GeographyItem Open Access The distribution of metal industry wastes in intertidal sediments near Whyalla, in Upper Spencer Gulf, South Australia(1981) Harbison, Ina Patricia; Gostin, Victor Andrew; School of Social SciencesIntertidal sediments near the B.H.P. steelworks at Whyalla, on the west coast of Spencer Gulf, were analysed by Atomic Absorbtion spectrometry to determine sedimentary, geochemical, and biological factors controlling the distribution and mobility of metals in the nearshore environment. Selective extraction procedures were used in an attempt to distinguish metals likely to be available to biota under a range of surface water conditions, from the total metal content of sediments.Item Open Access Women, environments and spirituality : a study of women in the Australian environment movement(1992) Cranwell, Caresse; Taylor, Sandra G.; School of Social SciencesThis study has explored the diversity that exists among women involved in the environment movement, their perceptions of environmental issues, their perceptions of women's role at this historic juncture, and their sources of inspiration and spirituality. It has explored to some degree the interconnection between these women's perceptions and those of ecofeminism.