Browsing by Author "Johnston, Lynda"
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Muslim women’s embodied geographies in Hamilton, Aotearoa New Zealand: An intersectional approach
(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
(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
(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
(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 ... -
‘Home is where the heart is broken?’: Examining the impact of intimate relationship challenges on meanings of home
(University of Waikato, 2017)This thesis makes an original contribution to emotional and material geographies by addressing the ways in which mutually constituted meanings of home and identity change in the wake of intimate, coupled relationship ...