Elspeth Tilley
Biographic Data
| ID | 3855800 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elspeth Tilley |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elspeth |
| FAMILY NAME | Tilley |
| SIGNATURE | TILLEY E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Massey University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3422-7209 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Frogging the Waterfront
This article examines the neglected role of artistic ritual in built environment climate adaptation, using the knitting metaphor of “frogging” (the deliberate unravelling of existing work) to explore processes of unmaking and remaking socio-ecological relationships. Based on a five-day participatory art installation, I’m Y(e)arning For Something, at The Performance Arcade in Aotearoa New Zealand, we analyze how creative, ritualized encounters sur…
Climate theater as reversal agent
This article examines short plays produced by Climate Change Theater Action (CCTA), using a lens from Mark Fisher who is living with us still (eerily haunting us, perhaps) through his two books Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? (2009) and The Weird and the Eerie (2016). We first draw on Capitalist Realism to examine our current capitalist predicament and its numbing of sensation that makes it difficult to envision alternatives. We conn…
Applied theatre as transdisciplinary research
This article advances transdisciplinarity as a potentially useful applied theatre theory and method. It maps the ways transdisciplinary research principles informed and framed an applied theatre project and suggests that making applied theatre explicit rather than implicit as a transdisciplinary research process may help practitioners conceptualise and manage projects. In our case, it also increased our ability to contribute to second-order (syst…
Feminist Discourse Analysis
Feminist discourse analysis has evolved out of linguists' particular concern with text and talk as gendered interactions, and feminist scholars' particular concern with discourse as an apparatus of patriarchy, to become, today, a wide‐reaching approach for understanding and critiquing the power of language and the language of power in many incarnations and contexts. Feminist discourse analysts understand discourse as establishing categories of in…
Young adult literacy learners describe the text–orality nexus
Research has described the importance of orality at work and in everyday life but little agreement currently exists on how to theorize modern orality. This study explores how young adult literacy learners thought about and employed their textual (print) literacy within the oral contexts of their lives. We interviewed 88 mainly unemployed young persons undertaking literacy training to assess how their literacy fitted within their everyday lives, e…
Limited gender differences in ethical decision making between demographics in the USA and New Zealand
Purpose – The literature is divided upon whether a gender difference occurs with respect to ethical decisions. Notable researchers Tannen and Gilligan demonstrated gender difference while subsequent researchers indicate that gender differences are becoming more neutralized. The paper aims to discuss these issues. Design/methodology/approach – This paper analyzes the gender demographic and intercultural influences on ethical decision-making by und…
New Views on a 'Stuck' Issue
This article explores attitudes towards immunisation and immunisation communication materials among parents and caregivers currently facing immunisation decisions in Aotearoa New Zealand. The research aimed to discover, from an open-ended qualitative investigation, new ways to conceptualise and explain immunisation decision-making, and identify participants' own views on approaches worth trialling as ways to increase immunisation rates. The resea…
Temporal Discourse and the News Media Representation of Indigenous-Non-Indigenous Relations
Time is a particularly powerful construct in postcolonial societies. Intermeshed with discourses of race, place and belonging, European ideas of time as linear, Cartesian and chronological function as enduring discursive categories that frame public debate within conceptual legacies from colonialism. There is substantial evidence internationally that modernist and mechanical temporal discourses of progress and efficiency have impeded Indigenous a…
When words fail us
This article describes a use of visual imagery in research reporting that helps to emphasize the human and social dimensions of research issues and encourage different ways of thinking about the findings and implications. During the literature review, in order to establish the authors’ longitudinal research into adult literacy, they observed that research participants’ own perspectives and rich life-worlds were usually invisible in final reports …
Propaganda - Who, Us? The Australian Government 'Terror Kit
This study tests allegations that the Australian government's 2003 'terror kit' was propaganda. Because propaganda's definition and function are contested, content analysis was trialled as a method of clarifying propaganda detection. A propaganda index was developed using both manual and computerised coding, and while each method had limits, together they produced reliable and valid results. Measured against the index, Howard's letter scored a 62…
When words fail us
This article describes a use of visual imagery in research reporting that helps to emphasize the human and social dimensions of research issues and encourage different ways of thinking about the findings and implications. During the literature review, in order to establish the authors’ longitudinal research into adult literacy, they observed that research participants’ own perspectives and rich life-worlds were usually invisible in final reports …
Limited gender differences in ethical decision making between demographics in the USA and New Zealand
Purpose – The literature is divided upon whether a gender difference occurs with respect to ethical decisions. Notable researchers Tannen and Gilligan demonstrated gender difference while subsequent researchers indicate that gender differences are becoming more neutralized. The paper aims to discuss these issues. Design/methodology/approach – This paper analyzes the gender demographic and intercultural influences on ethical decision-making by und…
Temporal Discourse and the News Media Representation of Indigenous-Non-Indigenous Relations
Time is a particularly powerful construct in postcolonial societies. Intermeshed with discourses of race, place and belonging, European ideas of time as linear, Cartesian and chronological function as enduring discursive categories that frame public debate within conceptual legacies from colonialism. There is substantial evidence internationally that modernist and mechanical temporal discourses of progress and efficiency have impeded Indigenous a…
Propaganda - Who, Us? The Australian Government 'Terror Kit
This study tests allegations that the Australian government's 2003 'terror kit' was propaganda. Because propaganda's definition and function are contested, content analysis was trialled as a method of clarifying propaganda detection. A propaganda index was developed using both manual and computerised coding, and while each method had limits, together they produced reliable and valid results. Measured against the index, Howard's letter scored a 62…
Propaganda - Who, Us? The Australian Government 'Terror Kit
This study tests allegations that the Australian government's 2003 'terror kit' was propaganda. Because propaganda's definition and function are contested, content analysis was trialled as a method of clarifying propaganda detection. A propaganda index was developed using both manual and computerised coding, and while each method had limits, together they produced reliable and valid results. Measured against the index, Howard's letter scored a 62…
When words fail us
This article describes a use of visual imagery in research reporting that helps to emphasize the human and social dimensions of research issues and encourage different ways of thinking about the findings and implications. During the literature review, in order to establish the authors’ longitudinal research into adult literacy, they observed that research participants’ own perspectives and rich life-worlds were usually invisible in final reports …
Temporal Discourse and the News Media Representation of Indigenous-Non-Indigenous Relations
Time is a particularly powerful construct in postcolonial societies. Intermeshed with discourses of race, place and belonging, European ideas of time as linear, Cartesian and chronological function as enduring discursive categories that frame public debate within conceptual legacies from colonialism. There is substantial evidence internationally that modernist and mechanical temporal discourses of progress and efficiency have impeded Indigenous a…
Limited gender differences in ethical decision making between demographics in the USA and New Zealand
Purpose – The literature is divided upon whether a gender difference occurs with respect to ethical decisions. Notable researchers Tannen and Gilligan demonstrated gender difference while subsequent researchers indicate that gender differences are becoming more neutralized. The paper aims to discuss these issues. Design/methodology/approach – This paper analyzes the gender demographic and intercultural influences on ethical decision-making by und…
New Views on a 'Stuck' Issue
This article explores attitudes towards immunisation and immunisation communication materials among parents and caregivers currently facing immunisation decisions in Aotearoa New Zealand. The research aimed to discover, from an open-ended qualitative investigation, new ways to conceptualise and explain immunisation decision-making, and identify participants' own views on approaches worth trialling as ways to increase immunisation rates. The resea…
Young adult literacy learners describe the text–orality nexus
Research has described the importance of orality at work and in everyday life but little agreement currently exists on how to theorize modern orality. This study explores how young adult literacy learners thought about and employed their textual (print) literacy within the oral contexts of their lives. We interviewed 88 mainly unemployed young persons undertaking literacy training to assess how their literacy fitted within their everyday lives, e…
Feminist Discourse Analysis
Feminist discourse analysis has evolved out of linguists' particular concern with text and talk as gendered interactions, and feminist scholars' particular concern with discourse as an apparatus of patriarchy, to become, today, a wide‐reaching approach for understanding and critiquing the power of language and the language of power in many incarnations and contexts. Feminist discourse analysts understand discourse as establishing categories of in…
Applied theatre as transdisciplinary research
This article advances transdisciplinarity as a potentially useful applied theatre theory and method. It maps the ways transdisciplinary research principles informed and framed an applied theatre project and suggests that making applied theatre explicit rather than implicit as a transdisciplinary research process may help practitioners conceptualise and manage projects. In our case, it also increased our ability to contribute to second-order (syst…
Frogging the Waterfront
This article examines the neglected role of artistic ritual in built environment climate adaptation, using the knitting metaphor of “frogging” (the deliberate unravelling of existing work) to explore processes of unmaking and remaking socio-ecological relationships. Based on a five-day participatory art installation, I’m Y(e)arning For Something, at The Performance Arcade in Aotearoa New Zealand, we analyze how creative, ritualized encounters sur…
Climate theater as reversal agent
This article examines short plays produced by Climate Change Theater Action (CCTA), using a lens from Mark Fisher who is living with us still (eerily haunting us, perhaps) through his two books Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? (2009) and The Weird and the Eerie (2016). We first draw on Capitalist Realism to examine our current capitalist predicament and its numbing of sensation that makes it difficult to envision alternatives. We conn…
Sociology (8 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Social science (3 works) · Aotearoa (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Critical discourse analysis (2 works)