Browsing by Supervisor "Longhurst, Robyn"
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Body Tourism in Queered Streets: Geographies of gay pride parades
(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 ... -
Boundaries of absolute protection: distribution of benefit and harm to birds through law and planning in New Zealand
(University of Waikato, 2014)Endemic birds in New Zealand are under threat, and increasingly so, as human activity reshapes the land, reconstitutes the water, consumes space and resources and alters faunal composition. The decline of biodiversity is ... -
Dairy farm women in the Waikato 1946-1996: fifty years of social and structural change
(The University of Waikato, 2001)Research on dairy farm women in New Zealand is minimal. Women have long worked on dairy farms but their contribution remains largely invisible in the literature and documentation. Researchers have failed to duly record the ... -
Fabric, fitness, and femininity: A new materialist analysis of the activewear phenomenon
(The University of Waikato, 2021)Activewear refers to casual clothing designed specifically for both function (enables and supports movement) and fashion. Since the early 2000s (and arguably earlier), activewear has seen a dramatic increase in popularity ... -
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 ... -
Health ‘in queer street’: constituting sickness, sexualities and bodies in the spaces of lesbian health
(The University of Waikato, 2001)This thesis explores lesbian health. The appeal of this project is its attention to the constitutions, resistances, and reproductions involved in the construction of ‘lesbian health’. ‘Lesbian health’ provides the context ... -
'Home is where the heart is': everyday geographies of young heterosexual couples' love in and of homes
(University of Waikato, 2010)This thesis focuses on the relationships between heterosexuality, love, and home. It examines the homemaking practices and relationship activities of 14 heterosexual couples, and in particular the experiences of women in ... -
Inside the Resource Management Act: A Tainui Case Study
(The University of Waikato, 2010)Under the Resource Management Act (RMA) 1991 councils are required to promote the sustainable management of physical and natural resources within their respective areas. In carrying out their duties, councils are obliged ... -
"It was kind of awkward and kind of special all at once": Lesbians' experiences of conception, maternity and family spaces
(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 ... -
Journeys and battles: Spatial and gendered discourses of obsessive-compulsive disorder
(University of Waikato, 2011)Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a (mental) health condition that, despite its highly spatial characteristics and high prevalence, has been largely overlooked by human geographers. This thesis seeks to help rectify ... -
Land/seascapes of exclusion: social order on the coastal margins
(The University of Waikato, 2002)The hegemonic discourse of coastal planning and development has an impact on the social ordering of Aotearoa/New Zealand’s coastal communities in a number of ways. One way in which social order is controlled and maintained ... -
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 ... -
Negotiating Noise in the Home
(University of Waikato, 2014)Thinking about how to visually observe space and place has long been central to the theory and practice of geographic enquiry. This preoccupation with vision is by no means isolated to geography, and is embedded in the ... -
Sex and gender in World of Warcraft: Identities, love, and power
(University of Waikato, 2015)This thesis examines how gamers construct sex and gender in the online game World of Warcraft (WoW), with a particular focus on connections between intimate relationships and gendered power relations. Every year more people ... -
Stories of relocation to the Waikato: Spaces of emotion and affect in the 2010/2011 Canterbury earthquakes, Aotearoa New Zealand
(University of Waikato, 2014)Emotion and affect are enmeshed in the lives of relocated Cantabrians. A project on the lived geographies of relocation disrupts the predominance of model based approaches in hazards and disaster literature. The previously ... -
Te ahi tawhito, te ahi tipua, te ahi nā Mahuika: Re-igniting native women’s ceremony
(The University of Waikato, 2019)This research examines the multiple ways in which Māori, and Hawai’ian and Native American women, are re-activating feminine ceremonial forms and recovering sacred relationships with customary feminine deities. Attention ... -
Te Awa Atua, Te Awa Tapu, Te Awa Wahine: An examination of stories, ceremonies and practices regarding menstruation in the pre-colonial Māori world.
(University of Waikato, 2011)This thesis examines Māori cosmological stories, ceremonies, and traditional practices regarding menstruation in pre-colonial Māori society. I use kaupapa Māori and mana wahine as a theoretical and methodological framework, ... -
The digital lives of Muslim sportswomen: Navigating the spaces of sport, culture, and social media
(The University of Waikato, 2019)This research focuses on the multiple and diverse ways that Muslim sportswomen navigate a range of online spaces. In exploring the digital lives of Muslim sportswomen, this research moves beyond stereotypical representations ... -
'Thinking-through-Complicity' with Te Iwi o Ngāti Hauiti: Towards a Critical Use of Participatory Video for Research
(University of Waikato, 2012)This thesis explores some of the seductions and dangers of participatory video for research (PVR) involving Indigenous Māori and Pākehā research partners. The project within which PVR was used focused on exploring relationships ... -
Tū te turuturu nō Hine-te-iwaiwa: Mana wahine geographies of birth in Aotearoa New Zealand
(University of Waikato, 2014)This thesis examines the embodied, spiritual and spatial experiences of maternity for Māori women. It reveals how colonial and patriarchal discourses are embedded and embodied in the spaces of childbirth in Aotearoa New ...
