• 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 ...

• 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 ...

  

• ‘Home is where the heart is broken?’: Examining the impact of intimate relationship challenges on meanings of home 

  Smith, Paula Ngaire (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 ...

  

• Travel Writing, Self and Other: Finding Reciprocal Space 

  Ullal, Kathleen (The University of Waikato, 2017)

  My thesis engages with the complex relationships between self and other as these are constructed in the travel writing of five authors: the early feminist Mary Wollstonecraft’s Letters Written During a Short Residence in ...

  

• The Māori female - her body, spirituality, sacredness and mana : a space within spaces 

  August, Wikitoria (University of Waikato, 2004)

  This thesis is an exploration of bodily rituals, practices and cultural spaces of the female Māori body. Critical social theories and Kaupapa Māori research paradigms are combined to disrupt and challenge hegemonic Western ...

  

... View More