Michael Roche
Biographic Data
| ID | 3630618 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Roche |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Roche |
| SIGNATURE | ROCHE M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Massey University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4252-9175 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 55 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 229 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 55 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Forgetting and Remembering: Kenneth Cumberland and Soil Erosion in New Zealand, 1940s to 2020s
The speed and scale of landscape transformation in New Zealand was almost immediately apparent to British geographer Kenneth Cumberland on his appointment to Canterbury University College in 1938. His efforts culminated in the nationally and internationally well‐regarded book ‘Soil Erosion in New Zealand: A Geographical Reconnaissance (1944a)’, which paired with his significant public advocacy for reform contributed to the passage of the Soil Con…
Indian Casualties of the 1918 Influenza Pandemic in New Zealand
The Indian population in New Zealand numbered less than 200 out of 1.1 million in 1916. The impact of the 1918 influenza pandemic on the population was never-the-less considerable. The paper, using various sources, seeks to identify the victims and their life courses while situating them within the standard historical accounts of the pandemic in New Zealand
The “Rediscovery” of Reginald Ford and his New Zealand Antarctic Lectures, 1905 to 1926
Reginald Ford, steward on Scott’s Discovery expedition, settled in New Zealand in 1905 and over the next two decades gave public lectures about his Antarctic experiences. Hitherto unrelated biographical details of Ford’s early life are assembled, and something of the character of his lantern slide lectures are reconstructed from various sources. The means by which Ford established his authority as a public speaker included his actual participatio…
Evaluating Stable and Situational Expressions of Passive-Aggressive Personality Disorder: A Multimethod Experience Sampling Case Study
Passive-aggressive (PA) personality traits have received increasing attention in the research literature and are known to interfere with treatment engagement and recovery. Theoretical disagreements about PA, combined with its omission from the DSM-5, have left open many questions regarding its dynamic structure and temporal stability. Our goal in the present case study was to use a multimethod, experience sampling assessment framework for a singl…
Bringing biodynamic agriculture to New Zealand in the 1920s and 1930s
Biodynamic agriculture as a form of alternative agriculture dates to a series of lectures delivered by philosopher Rudolf Steiner in 1924 at Schloss Koberwitz (then in Germany now Kobierzyce in Poland). In 2019 biodynamic agriculture occupies some 190,000 ha in 55 countries, though nearly half remains concentrated in Germany. This paper explores the introduction of biodynamic agriculture principles and practices to New Zealand in the 1920s and 19…
Practice in place in empire forestry: Owen Jones in Ceylon, Australia and New Zealand, 1911–55
Making Value Out of Ethics: The Emerging Economic Geography of Lab-grown Meat and Other Animal-free Food Products
Animal-free animal food products, such as lab-grown meat and synthesized milk, are on the cusp of appearing in the supermarket. With the network of techno-science startups and university laboratories with venture capital, research grants, and donations flowing into them, the transition from techno-fantasy to actually existing industry could occur in the next few years. But the emerging animal-free food industry is a site of social and economic ex…
Self-Knowledge for Humans
Quassim Cassam laments the focus that philosophers place on so-called trivial self-knowledge, e.g. knowing that one believes it is raining or knowing that one wants salmon for dinner. ‘Substantial’ self-knowledge, by contrast, includes knowledge of one's values, character traits, aptitudes, emotions, abilities, etc. Cassam claims that while the latter is of great interest to non-philosophers, contemporary philosophers largely ignore it. A major a…
Seeing scenic New Zealand: W. W. Smith’s eye and the Scenery Preservation Commission, 1904–06
Road maintenance – patching a hole in mobilities‐roading research: A case study of the Longbeach Road Board, Canterbury, New Zealand, 1911–1938
With respect to transport and mobilities literatures this paper (1) offers from historical geography, the suggestion that mobilities insights are not restricted to the present or future, (2) illustrates this through a microscale analysis of road maintenance and (3) and, most importantly, focusses on the upkeep of the road network whereas most of the existing work is on the creation and extension of roads as part of state building projects. Road m…
Learning to become a better man”: Insights from a fathering programme for incarcerated Indigenous men
This paper reports a qualitative study of incarcerated Indigenous fathers in Australia, using a framework of generative fathering. Researchers interviewed 28 imprisoned Indigenous men about their experiences of parenting and their responses to a parenting programme. Participants identified how the programme supported their learning and their capacity to embrace the role of parenting the next generation. Responses indicate that the programme's for…
Materialising taste
This chapter presents silver fern farms (SFFs) eating quality (EQ) programme as a strategic aperture through which to explore how taste is being mobilised in the creation of these new meat relationships. It talks about eating quality is promissory in so far as it looks forward to economic futures that might happen. The chapter also talks about animating the mobilisation of taste is the desire to materialise it as an attribute able to be stabilise…
Enacting BAdairying as a system of farm practices in New Zealand
This chapter provides two sorts of contextual information to help depict the active material, and discursive agency of environment in which farmers were contemplating to commit to stewarding their soil, land and land uses differently. It addresses an operational fusion of BA and dairying, an assembled approach to farming that is motivated by soil issues, and future possibilities of soil tended differently. The chapter explores the BAdairying phen…
Forest governance and sustainability pathways in the absence of a comprehensive national forest policy — The case of New Zealand
Frances B. Lysnar: New Zealand's first woman FRGS , 1913
In 1913 the Royal Geographical Society ( RGS ), in the face of mounting pressure, decided to readmit women as Fellows ( FRGS ). Amongst the first group of successful nominees was Frances B. Lysnar, a New Zealand teacher, amateur artist and traveller. This paper briefly positions Lynsar in colonial New Zealand and examines how she engaged with ‘geography’, revisits her book New Zealand: The Dear Old Maori Land (1915), and assesses how she used ‘ F…
(Re)Interpreting exotic plantation forestry in 1920s New Zealand
Environmental historians who have contributed to the understanding of 'econationalism' in New Zealand and within the sub-area of forest history have shown how deforestation produced a preservationist impulse and an exotic afforestation response to timber famine. My own work, in partial contrast, has tended to explore the largely unsuccessful efforts at indigenous forest management for production in the nineteenth century as well as suggesting tha…
The fall and rise of agricultural productivism? An Antipodean viewpoint
Much debated in the early 2000s, the productivist/post-productivist transition is revisited from an Antipodean perspective from where it was variously both strongly adopted and vigorously contested as a theorization of rural change. The context in which the terminology of productivism and post-productivism, particularly the various classes of the former, appeared is discussed. Although multifunctionalism is endorsed, the persistence of productivi…
Introspection and Consciousness
Journal Article Introspection and Consciousness Get access Introspection and Consciousness. edited bySmithies Declan & Stoljar Daniel. (Oxford: OUP, 2012. Pp. x + 425. Price $78.00.) Michael Roche, Michael Roche *Mississippi State University, USA E-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar William Roche William Roche †Texas Christian University, USA Search for other works by this author on:…
A Difficulty for Testing the Inner Sense Theory of Introspection
A common way of testing the inner sense theory of introspection exploits the possibility of damage to inner sense. Such damage is expected to lead to first-personal deficits/impairments of one kind or another. I raise various problems for this way of testing the theory. The main difficulty, I argue, stems from the existence of the method subserving confabulation
Valuing lively materialities: Bio‐economic assembling in the making of new meat futures
Variable profitability within N ew Z ealand's red meat sector has again led to the problematisation of its constitutive relationships. This problematisation has almost inevitably focused on the structural transformation of the sector. Rather than beginning with structural transformation, we draw on assemblage theory to trace the assembling work associated with three unstable bio‐economic projects: Primera lamb, Wagyu beef and FarmIQ . The paper o…
Gender and Twenty-First-Century Corporate Crime: Female Involvement and the Gender Gap in Enron-Era Corporate Frauds
We extend the scarce research on corporate crime to include gender by developing and testing a gendered focal concerns and crime opportunities framework that predicts minimal and marginal female involvement in corporate criminal networks. Lacking centralized information, we developed a rich database covering 83 corporate frauds involving 436 defendants. We extracted information from indictments and secondary sources on corporate conspiracy networ…
Food Regimes Revisited: A New Zealand Perspective
Food Regimes' was coined by Friedmann and McMichael in 1989 and provided a organising framework for a considerable amount of Australian and New Zealand research during a period of economic restructuring and 'deregulation'. Subsequently Food regimes were overtaken by other perspectives in New Zealand and elsewhere including an interest in commodity productions chains, regulation, postproductivist landscapes, and post structural political economy. …
Forestry as imperial careering: New Zealand as the end and edge of empire in the 1920s–1940s
Forestry is interestingly situated within British imperial networks of the 19th and early 20th centuries whereby India was arguably the main node. Drawing on Lambert and Lester's concept of ‘imperial careering’ as a way of exploring imperial networks, this paper further extends its application to foresters as a group of middle‐level technical experts as well as carrying it into the 20th century when the British Empire was by some measures at its …
Seeds of Empire: The Environmental Transformation of New Zealand
World War One British Empire Discharged Soldier Settlement in Comparative Focus
This essay draws together the disparate literature on World War One soldier settlement throughout the British Empire. It shows that an agrarian myth in various forms underlay the various settlement schemes. ‘Failure’ was also a wide spread motif for the schemes and the level and nature of failure is discussed. Comparative approaches and case studies are frequently used by writers in this field and some of the issues involved are discussed. Finall…
Gender and Twenty-First-Century Corporate Crime: Female Involvement and the Gender Gap in Enron-Era Corporate Frauds
We extend the scarce research on corporate crime to include gender by developing and testing a gendered focal concerns and crime opportunities framework that predicts minimal and marginal female involvement in corporate criminal networks. Lacking centralized information, we developed a rich database covering 83 corporate frauds involving 436 defendants. We extracted information from indictments and secondary sources on corporate conspiracy networ…
The fall and rise of agricultural productivism? An Antipodean viewpoint
Much debated in the early 2000s, the productivist/post-productivist transition is revisited from an Antipodean perspective from where it was variously both strongly adopted and vigorously contested as a theorization of rural change. The context in which the terminology of productivism and post-productivism, particularly the various classes of the former, appeared is discussed. Although multifunctionalism is endorsed, the persistence of productivi…
Rapid Reregulation, Agricultural Restructuring, and the Reimaging of Agriculture in New Zealand1
As a member of the Cairns Group, New Zealand is an excellent case for investigation of the impacts of market-based restructuring and the emergence of new mechanisms for regulation. The paper examines how agriculture in New Zealand has been impacted by economic reforms that have fundamentally changed the nature and interrelations of regulatory arrangements and economic processes. The paper sketches the origins of New Zealand's agricultural crisis …
Market metaphors, neo‐liberalism and the construction of academic landscapes in Aotearoa/New Zealand
New Zealand's far‐reaching experiment with neo‐liberal economic and social policies has become a model for many right‐leaning economic commentators—and some governments—throughout the ‘developed’ world. We are highly critical of such sentiments, noting that the ‘New Zealand experiment’ has been anything but good for New Zealand itself. Our argument focuses upon the way that neo‐liberal rhetorics of ‘competitiveness’ have reconstituted the landsca…
Living local, growing global: Renegotiating the export production regime in New Zealand’s pipfruit sector
Making Value Out of Ethics: The Emerging Economic Geography of Lab-grown Meat and Other Animal-free Food Products
Animal-free animal food products, such as lab-grown meat and synthesized milk, are on the cusp of appearing in the supermarket. With the network of techno-science startups and university laboratories with venture capital, research grants, and donations flowing into them, the transition from techno-fantasy to actually existing industry could occur in the next few years. But the emerging animal-free food industry is a site of social and economic ex…
Valuing lively materialities: Bio‐economic assembling in the making of new meat futures
Variable profitability within N ew Z ealand's red meat sector has again led to the problematisation of its constitutive relationships. This problematisation has almost inevitably focused on the structural transformation of the sector. Rather than beginning with structural transformation, we draw on assemblage theory to trace the assembling work associated with three unstable bio‐economic projects: Primera lamb, Wagyu beef and FarmIQ . The paper o…
Pluriactivity: An exploration of issues with reference to New Zealand's livestock and fruit agro-commodity systems
Seeds of Empire: The Environmental Transformation of New Zealand
Rural geography: Searching rural geographies
Globalization, Sustainability, and Apple Orcharding, Hawke's Bay, New Zealand
The political economy of agriculture literature increasingly focuses research on production-consumption relations of different agro-food systems. This paper examines contextual pressures facing orchardists in the globally oriented apple complex of Hawke's Bay, New Zealand. The paper details the emerging political economy of orcharding in the crisis conditions of the 1990s under the joint influences of globalization forces, interest in sustainabil…
Expanding exotic forestry and the expansion of a competing use for rural land in New Zealand
Forest governance and sustainability pathways in the absence of a comprehensive national forest policy — The case of New Zealand
Rural geography: A borderland revisited
The plurality of research traditions within rural geography continues to be apparent. Some of the legacies of agricultural geogra-phy, plus the new possibilities offered by
Farmers' Interest Groups and Agricultural Policy in New Zealand during the 1980s
During the 1980s in New Zealand the fabric of state support which had gradually expanded after World War 2 was suddenly removed. Farmers' interest groups found they were unable to influence appreciably the general direction of macroeconomic policy or to contain the influence of deregulationist policies on agriculture. A political economy approach is used to conceptualise and offer preliminary theoretical suggestions about the changing interconnec…
Rural geography: A stock tally of 2002
This annual review of journal publications in rural geography suggests no reduction in the plurality of research traditions in this corner of the discipline, although there are signs of a repositioning from stances adopted in previous years. In particular, but not exclusively, this relates to discussion of the utility of a postproductivist transition, the
Sustaining the fruits of labour: A comparative localities analysis of the integrated fruit production programme in New Zealand's apple industry
The land we have we must hold’: Soil erosion and soil conservation in late nineteenth- and twentieth-century New Zealand
Perspectives on the Post-1984 Restructuring of State Forestry in New Zealand
Political economy literature is drawn upon to situate the widespread restructuring of the New Zealand state forestry sector since the mid-1980s. The discussion highlights a questioning of the economic functions and performance of the New Zealand Forest Service since the 1970s as a more significant contribution to restructuring than the environmentalists' campaigns over the preservation of indigenous forest. The unexpectedly short-term existence o…
Learning to become a better man”: Insights from a fathering programme for incarcerated Indigenous men
This paper reports a qualitative study of incarcerated Indigenous fathers in Australia, using a framework of generative fathering. Researchers interviewed 28 imprisoned Indigenous men about their experiences of parenting and their responses to a parenting programme. Participants identified how the programme supported their learning and their capacity to embrace the role of parenting the next generation. Responses indicate that the programme's for…
World War One British Empire Discharged Soldier Settlement in Comparative Focus
This essay draws together the disparate literature on World War One soldier settlement throughout the British Empire. It shows that an agrarian myth in various forms underlay the various settlement schemes. ‘Failure’ was also a wide spread motif for the schemes and the level and nature of failure is discussed. Comparative approaches and case studies are frequently used by writers in this field and some of the issues involved are discussed. Finall…
Making Fruitful Comparisons: Southern Hemisphere Producers and the Global Apple Industry
Apples along with bananas and oranges are major constituents of a global fresh fruit and vegetable complex (FFV). This paper adopts Philip McMichael's ideas of singular incorporated comparison within a food regimes framework as a means of examining the major Southern hemisphere apple exporting countries. A high level of differentiation among apple exporting countries is revealed in the way in which various producers are integrated into the global…
The New Zealand timber economy, 1840–1935
Forestry as imperial careering: New Zealand as the end and edge of empire in the 1920s–1940s
Forestry is interestingly situated within British imperial networks of the 19th and early 20th centuries whereby India was arguably the main node. Drawing on Lambert and Lester's concept of ‘imperial careering’ as a way of exploring imperial networks, this paper further extends its application to foresters as a group of middle‐level technical experts as well as carrying it into the 20th century when the British Empire was by some measures at its …
Wilderness to Orchard: The Export Apple Industry in Nelson, New Zealand 1908-1940
The orchard is suggestive of the ways in which commercial apple growing was represented as an idealised lifestyle linking rural economy and nature. But it was dependent on spraying as a means of controlling pests and disease and shaped increasingly by apple importing countries
Expanding exotic forestry and the expansion of a competing use for rural land in New Zealand
The New Zealand timber economy, 1840–1935
Perspectives on the Post-1984 Restructuring of State Forestry in New Zealand
Political economy literature is drawn upon to situate the widespread restructuring of the New Zealand state forestry sector since the mid-1980s. The discussion highlights a questioning of the economic functions and performance of the New Zealand Forest Service since the 1970s as a more significant contribution to restructuring than the environmentalists' campaigns over the preservation of indigenous forest. The unexpectedly short-term existence o…
Fighting over the forests
Farmers' Interest Groups and Agricultural Policy in New Zealand during the 1980s
During the 1980s in New Zealand the fabric of state support which had gradually expanded after World War 2 was suddenly removed. Farmers' interest groups found they were unable to influence appreciably the general direction of macroeconomic policy or to contain the influence of deregulationist policies on agriculture. A political economy approach is used to conceptualise and offer preliminary theoretical suggestions about the changing interconnec…
Pluriactivity: An exploration of issues with reference to New Zealand's livestock and fruit agro-commodity systems
Valuing nature, The decline and preservation of old-growth forests
Sustainability, corporate growers, regionalisation and Pacific‐Asia links in the Tasmanian and Hawkes Bay apple industries
This paper examines the differing modes of insertion of the Australian and New Zealand apple industries into world apple markets, part of the evolving global fresh fruit complex. It is argued that the mix and behaviours of key actors in the global apple industry are realigning market links and production systems. Industry actors in Australia and New Zealand are confronting issues of quality and sustainability as a result of pressures from consume…
Globalization, Sustainability, and Apple Orcharding, Hawke's Bay, New Zealand
The political economy of agriculture literature increasingly focuses research on production-consumption relations of different agro-food systems. This paper examines contextual pressures facing orchardists in the globally oriented apple complex of Hawke's Bay, New Zealand. The paper details the emerging political economy of orcharding in the crisis conditions of the 1990s under the joint influences of globalization forces, interest in sustainabil…
Market metaphors, neo‐liberalism and the construction of academic landscapes in Aotearoa/New Zealand
New Zealand's far‐reaching experiment with neo‐liberal economic and social policies has become a model for many right‐leaning economic commentators—and some governments—throughout the ‘developed’ world. We are highly critical of such sentiments, noting that the ‘New Zealand experiment’ has been anything but good for New Zealand itself. Our argument focuses upon the way that neo‐liberal rhetorics of ‘competitiveness’ have reconstituted the landsca…
The land we have we must hold’: Soil erosion and soil conservation in late nineteenth- and twentieth-century New Zealand
Sustaining the fruits of labour: A comparative localities analysis of the integrated fruit production programme in New Zealand's apple industry
Planting power, the afforestation of the commons and state formation in Portugal
Making Fruitful Comparisons: Southern Hemisphere Producers and the Global Apple Industry
Apples along with bananas and oranges are major constituents of a global fresh fruit and vegetable complex (FFV). This paper adopts Philip McMichael's ideas of singular incorporated comparison within a food regimes framework as a means of examining the major Southern hemisphere apple exporting countries. A high level of differentiation among apple exporting countries is revealed in the way in which various producers are integrated into the global…
Rapid Reregulation, Agricultural Restructuring, and the Reimaging of Agriculture in New Zealand1
As a member of the Cairns Group, New Zealand is an excellent case for investigation of the impacts of market-based restructuring and the emergence of new mechanisms for regulation. The paper examines how agriculture in New Zealand has been impacted by economic reforms that have fundamentally changed the nature and interrelations of regulatory arrangements and economic processes. The paper sketches the origins of New Zealand's agricultural crisis …
Living local, growing global: Renegotiating the export production regime in New Zealand’s pipfruit sector
Rural geography: Searching rural geographies
Wilderness to Orchard: The Export Apple Industry in Nelson, New Zealand 1908-1940
The orchard is suggestive of the ways in which commercial apple growing was represented as an idealised lifestyle linking rural economy and nature. But it was dependent on spraying as a means of controlling pests and disease and shaped increasingly by apple importing countries
New Zealand's ‘New Order’: Town Planning and Soldier Settlement After the First World War
Rural geography: A stock tally of 2002
This annual review of journal publications in rural geography suggests no reduction in the plurality of research traditions in this corner of the discipline, although there are signs of a repositioning from stances adopted in previous years. In particular, but not exclusively, this relates to discussion of the utility of a postproductivist transition, the
Rural geography: A borderland revisited
The plurality of research traditions within rural geography continues to be apparent. Some of the legacies of agricultural geogra-phy, plus the new possibilities offered by
A Philosophy of Geography for New Zealand Schools Foreword: Clark on a Philosophy of Geography
Historical Geography in New Zealand, 1987–2007
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 h…
Imperial Ethos, Dominions Reality: Forestry Education in New Zealand and Australia, 1910-1965
The forces that started formal forestry education in Australia and New Zealand from 1910 and 1924 respectively are traced. The controversies and difficulties experienced by the forestry schools that were started are examined and the links between the two countries in forestry education are noted. Forestry education arose amidst inter-state jealousies, class divisions and personal animosities. It emerged in the 1960s as a truly university educatio…
A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words: Cartoons and Social Commentary
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