Browsing by Author "Johnston, Lynda"

• Body Tourism in Queered Streets: Geographies of gay pride parades 

  Johnston, Lynda (University of Waikato, 1998)

  This thesis begins with an examination of the construction of knowledge within tourism studies. I argue that tourism studies, like most social sciences, has been built on a mind/body dualism. The mind has been privileged ...

  

• Book review: Mates and lovers: a history of gay New Zealand 

  Johnston, Lynda (Routledge, 2011)

  This article reviews the book: “Mates and lovers: a history of gay New Zealand”, edited by Chris Brickell.

• Borderline bodies 

  Johnston, Lynda (Rowman and Littlefield, 2002)

  This chapter is about borders that are made and broken at gay pride parades. Specifically, I examine the discursive and material borders maintained in tourism discourse. Binary oppositions such as self/other, straight/gay, ...

  

• Changing bodies, spaces, places and politics: Feminist geography at the University of Waikato 

  Longhurst, Robyn; Johnston, Lynda (New Zealand Geographical Society, 2005-01-10)

  'Place matters' in the production of knowledge. This article examines the production of feminist geographical knowledge at a particular place - the Department of Geography, Tourism and Environmental Planning at the University ...

• Community-university collaborations: creating hybrid research and collective identities 

  Cave, Jennifer Barbara Jane; Johnston, Lynda; Morrison, Carey-Ann; Underhill-Sem, Yvonne (The Royal Society of New Zealand., 2012)

  In this article we explore the politics of community-university collaborative research and activism. We are scholars based in universities as well as members of various 'communities'-queer, Pasifika and Māori-hence we ...

• "It was kind of awkward and kind of special all at once": Lesbians' experiences of conception, maternity and family spaces 

  Melville, Lisa (The University of Waikato, 2021)

  This thesis examines the decision making and experiences of lesbians creating families in and through spaces and places where heterosexual relationships are predominant. I explore the conception spaces of homes and fertility ...

  

• Muslim women’s embodied geographies in Hamilton, Aotearoa New Zealand: An intersectional approach 

  Soltani, Anoosh (The University of Waikato, 2018)

  This thesis focuses on the embodied geographies of a diverse group of Muslim women who live in Hamilton, New Zealand. Given that Islamophobia is on the rise gloablly, it is important and timely to examine in more depth the ...

  

• Women sex workers’ embodied experiences of sport, exercise and physical leisure in Aotearoa New Zealand 

  O'Leary, Grace (The University of Waikato, 2019)

  This thesis focuses on women’s bodies that occupy and move in and between spaces of sex work and sport, exercise and physical leisure. Extending the literature that continues to describe women sex workers as victims, this ...

  

• Feelings of home and belonging amongst Bhutanese women and girls with refugee backgrounds who live in New Zealand 

  Basnet, Sunita (The University of Waikato, 2018)

  This thesis focuses on the everyday home geographies of Bhutanese women and girls with refugee backgrounds in Aotearoa New Zealand. It examines feelings of being at home and belonging for 37 resettled Bhutanese women and ...

  

• Coming home through football: A geographic exploration of long-distance fandom 

  Baker, Tegan Alexandra (The University of Waikato, 2018)

  This thesis focuses on the relationship between long-distance football fandom and home. It examines how the act of supporting non-domestic football clubs is a symbolic and material connection to multiple scales of home for ...

  

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