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Lesley Johnston

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ID148371
NAMELesley Johnston
GIVEN NAMESLesley
FAMILY NAMEJohnston
SIGNATUREJOHNSTON L
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Waikato
ORCID0000-0001-7686-9181
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS43
TOTAL CITATIONS925
AUTHOR COUNT43
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1996
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX16
  • Digital nomads and coworking spaces’ infrastructures: Disruptions and repairs of place, bodies and labour during pandemic times

    Open Access•Joke J Methorst, Lesley Johnston et al.•ARTICLE•Applied Mobilities•2025•References: 13

  • Changing senses of gendered places: Mums, homes and a coastal neigbourhood during the Covid-19 pandemic in Aotearoa New Zealand

    Open Access•Elizabeth Arnott, Lesley Johnston•ARTICLE•Social & Cultural Geography•2025•References: 23

  • Challenging the myth of women's empowerment: Mining development and commercial sex in a Zambian town

    Open Access•Lesley Johnston, Margaret Mulenga et al.•ARTICLE•Wellbeing Space and Society•2024

    Commercial sex and mining have long been interwoven. With the spread of neoliberal capitalism, social relations around the mine site have become increasingly commodified. This ethnographic study examines the experiences of female sex workers in the mining town of Solwezi, Zambia. Women's stories offer insight into the lives of those excluded from the conventional women's economic empowerment narrative that has been widely adopted by the mining in…

  • ‘Cripping’ care in disability sport: An autoethnographic study of a highly impaired high-performance athlete

    Amanda Lowry, Robert C Townsend et al.•ARTICLE•Qualitative Research in Sport and…•2022

    In this article we combine the fields of critical disability studies and the sociology of sport to disrupt and extend current understandings of athlete welfare and care. A focus on athlete welfare is producing heightened awareness of the need for institutional, structural and personal support for athletes. Notions of ‘care’ are proliferating in sport discourse, with sport organisations routinely described as having a ‘duty of care’ towards athlet…

  • Everyday activisms: Parental places and emotions of disability activism in Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand

    Open Access•Carey‐ann Morrison, Esther Woodbury et al.•ARTICLE•Area•2022•Cited by: 1•References: 41

    This paper considers the everyday spaces and places of disability activism for parents of disabled children in Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand. Geographers and disability scholars are yet to consider disability activism in a range of everyday child–parent spaces. Parents resist, rework, and subvert ableist structures and spaces in ways that may seem unremarkable, but that are indeed significant acts. We question the meaning of activism by examin…

  • Play, protest and pride: Un/happy queers of Proud to Play in Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand

    Open Access•Lesley Johnston, Gordon Waitt•ARTICLE•Urban Studies•2021•Cited by: 5•References: 45

    This article extends discussion of urban activism through paying attention to the emotional and embodied politics of a sports event. We draw on research of the ‘Proud to Play Games’, an inaugural regional multi-sports event held during the Auckland Pride Festival in Aotearoa New Zealand, 2016. Feminist and queer theories of emotion and affect – particularly the promise of happiness – produce nuanced understandings of urban gay pride events. We fo…

  • Fashioning hybrid Muslim women’s veiled embodied geographies in Hamilton, Aotearoa New Zealand: Hijabi Spaces

    Akbar Soltani, Lesley Johnston et al.•ARTICLE•Gender Place & Culture•2021•Cited by: 3•References: 21

    In this article, we foreground the intersection of hijab and fashion as multiple expressions of Muslim women’s gendered identities and geographies in Hamilton, Aotearoa New Zealand. Muslim women use their bodies to express adaptations of femininity, religion, and nationalities. Using an embodied geography lens, this article grapples with mutual intersecting identities, including gender, religion and nationality and wider relations of power. Drawi…

  • Disabled people's embodied and emotional geographies of (not)belonging in Aotearoa New Zealand

    Open Access•Carey-Ann Morrison, Carey‐ann Morrison et al.•ARTICLE•Health & Place•2020•Cited by: 14•References: 25

  • Embodying 'accidental ethnography: Staying overnight with former Bhutanese refugees in Aotearoa New Zealand

    Sunita Basnet, Lesley Johnston et al.•ARTICLE•Social & Cultural Geography•2020•Cited by: 5•References: 31

    This research brings together two key areas, ‘embodied geographies’ and ‘accidental ethnography’. ‘Embodied geographies’ involve making bodies central to geographical studies. ‘Accidental ethnography’ involves researchers having to (re)negotiate the initial terms of engagement in their fieldwork. By bringing together these two areas, we aim to enrich both. In order to do this, we focus on a research project that examines Bhutanese women and girl …

  • Flourishing in fragile academic work spaces and learning environments: Feminist geographies of care and mentoring

    Gail Adams-Hutcheson, Lesley Johnston•ARTICLE•Gender Place & Culture•2019•Cited by: 13•References: 17

    In this article we discuss the ways in which a feminist ethos of care and the associated practice of mentoring allows feminist geography to flourish in teaching, working and learning spaces. We argue that our working relationship – based on care, mentoring and friendship – is crucial in order to survive and deflect structural inequalities. Our working relationship spans across undergraduate, graduate, postgraduate and early career stages at a sin…

  • Assessing the effects of a Canadian-Mongolian capacity building program for health and environmental impact assessment in the mining sector

    Open Access•Lesley Johnston, Colleen Davison et al.•ARTICLE•Environmental Impact Assessment…•2019•Cited by: 3•References: 18

  • Home level bureaucracy: Moving beyond the ‘street’ to uncover the ways that place shapes the ways that community public health nurses implement domestic abuse policy

    Open Access•Fiona Cuthill, Lesley Johnston•ARTICLE•Sociology of Health & Illness•2019•References: 52

    Street‐level bureaucracy is an increasingly useful way to understand how strategic policy is implemented in day‐to‐day practice. This approach has uncovered the ways that individual health and social care practitioners work within institutional constraints to influence policy implementation at the micro‐level. Nonetheless, despite the diversity of settings where these street‐level bureaucrats (SLBs) work, little attention has been focused on the …

  • Intersectional feminist and queer geographies: A view from ‘down-under’

    Lesley Johnston•ARTICLE•Gender Place & Culture•2018•Cited by: 17•References: 29

    Despite rapid growth of geographies of genders and sexualities over the past decade, there is still a great deal of homophobia, transphobia, and heterosexism within academic knowledges. A queer and feminist intersectional approach is one way to highlight gendered absences, institutionalized homophobia and transphobia. To understand the diversity of genders and sexualities, feminist and queer geographers must continue to talk about, for example, g…

  • Queer Geographies

    Open Access•Lesley Johnston, Lynda Johnston•CHAPTER•International Encyclopedia of…•2017

    Queer is a contested concept. It can be utilized as an all‐embracing term for sexual dissidents, yet queer theorists have argued against identity categories of all kinds. Queer theories are used to engage critically with gender and sexual normative categories. Queer geographical scholarship has examined the active production of spaces and places as heterosexual, as well as critiquing the geographical discipline as heteronormative. Geographers hav…

  • Harnessing opportunities for good governance of health impacts of mining projects in Mongolia: Results of a global partnership

    Open Access•Michaela Pfeiffer, Delgermaa Vanya et al.•ARTICLE•Globalization and Health•2017

    BACKGROUND: The Sustainable Development Goals call for the effective governance of shared natural resources in ways that support inclusive growth, safeguard the integrity of the natural and physical environment, and promote health and well-being for all. For large-scale resource extraction projects -- e.g. in the mining sector -- environmental regulations and in particular environmental impact assessments (EIA) provide an important but insufficie…

  • Gender and sexuality III: Precarious places

    Open Access•Lesley Johnston•ARTICLE•Progress in Human Geography•2017•Cited by: 18•References: 26

    This progress report considers precarious geographies of genders and sexualities at a range of intersecting scales. In a time currently characterized as precarious, anxious and insecure, feminist and queer geographers are well placed to examine vulnerable geographies – including their own – of bodies, lives and labours. The review considers the ways precarity operates as a concept, condition and experience by first asking what and where is precar…

  • Māori tourism geographies: Values, morals and diverse economies

    Open Access•Sandi Ringham, Naomi Simmonds et al.•ARTICLE•MAI Journal A New Zealand Journal…•2016

    Mori working in tourism negotiate moral terrains of their own world and those of visiting tourists, all of which are layered with colonial and capitalist values of Aotearoa New Zealand and beyond. We draw on research with Mori tourism providers in the North Island's central, coastal and northern regions to address the question: How and in what ways do Mori working in tourism (re)construct their places and identities through practising Mori values…

  • Gender and sexuality II: Activism

    Open Access•Lesley Johnston•ARTICLE•Progress in Human Geography•2016•Cited by: 35•References: 47

    This report considers genders and sexualities within and across spaces of activism. Geographers concerned with social belonging, equity, human rights, civic duties, and gendered and sexed identities often engage in activism through participatory research and/or direct action. This report brings together geographical scholarship on feminist and queer (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, queer) – LGBTIQ – activism to examine the construc…

  • Sexuality and Space

    Open Access•Lesley Johnston, Lynda Johnston•CHAPTER•International Encyclopedia of the…•2015

  • Gender and sexuality I: Genderqueer geographies

    Open Access•Lesley Johnston•ARTICLE•Progress in Human Geography•2015•Cited by: 24•References: 26

    This report considers gender diversity across a range of spaces and places. I note that while the notion of gender has been troubled, there exist opportunities to trouble it further. I highlight the scholarship that has sought to deconstruct genders, and the binary framing of man/woman and male/female roles and relationships. The queering of sexuality has meant that geographers are now tracing the ways in which lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender…

  • Knowledge Mobilization/Transfer and Immigration Policy: Forging Space for NGOs-the Case of Ceris-The Ontario Metropolis Centre

    Open Access•John Shields, Preston et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of International…•2015•References: 15

  • Feeling and tourism studies

    Dorina-Maria Buda, Dorina Maria Buda et al.•ARTICLE•Annals of Tourism Research•2014•Cited by: 46•References: 37

  • Bodies, gender, place and culture: 21 Years On

    Robyn Longhurst, Lesley Johnston•ARTICLE•Gender Place & Culture•2014•Cited by: 77•References: 22

    This article examines research on embodiment published in Gender, Place and Culture (GPC) over the past two decades. We searched using the keywords ‘body’, ‘bodies’, ‘embodiment’, ‘embody’, ‘flesh’, ‘fleshy’, ‘corporeality’ and ‘corporeal’, the titles and abstracts of all the articles that have appeared in GPC since it first began publication in 1994. Articles containing these keywords were listed in a searchable bibliography. What we found was a…

  • Dirty dancing: The (non)fluid embodied geographies of a queer nightclub in Tel Aviv

    Chen Misgav, Lesley Johnston•ARTICLE•Social & Cultural Geography•2014•Cited by: 26•References: 40

    This paper examines the (non)fluid embodied geographies of a queer nightclub in Tel Aviv, Israel. The nightclub is considered to be a space of sexual liberation and hosted the Friendly Freedom Friday party. Yet, the space of the nightclub is also divided by gender and sexuality. We draw on individual in-depth interviews and participant observations to examine the tensions that arise from, and between, gay men, transwomen and club spaces. A number…

  • Here, and Not Yet Here: A Dialogue at the Intersection of Queer, Trans, and Culture

    Giuseppe Aiello, Giorgia Aiello et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of International and…•2013•Cited by: 4•References: 15

    To start this dialogue, guest editor Karma R. Chávez posed a series of general and unbinding questions to participants about the meanings of queer theory and its relationship with questions of culture. The dialogue unfolded over the course of three weeks in an online forum and covered several important themes. First, participants engaged questions surrounding the meaning of queer, and its relationship to different cultural and linguistic contexts…

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  • Using ‘the body’ as an ‘instrument of research: Kimch’i and Pavlova

    Open Access•Robyn Longhurst, Elsie Ho et al.•ARTICLE•Area•2008•Cited by: 153•References: 18

    Often researchers position themselves in relation to race, age and gender, but the body is less often discussed as an actual ‘instrument of research’. We aim to extend thinking on this point by reflecting on a project we conducted on migrant women and food in New Zealand. We present a vignette as an example of how we used our bodies as ‘instruments of research’ at a ‘shared lunch’ attended by new migrants from a range of different countries. At t…

  • A visceral approach: Cooking 'at home' with migrant women in Hamilton, New Zealand

    Open Access•Robyn Longhurst, Lesley Johnston et al.•ARTICLE•Transactions of the Institute of…•2009•Cited by: 150•References: 15

    People's visceral experiences of food - the tastes, textures and aromas - can tell us a great deal about their emotional and affective relations with place. Questions of bodies and embodiment are increasingly becoming a focus for geographers and migration scholars. In this article we extend some of this work by examining how the visceral can shape (and be shaped by) a range of socio-political relations. We concentrate on food and eating as a cent…

  • Bodies, gender, place and culture: 21 Years On

    Robyn Longhurst, Lesley Johnston•ARTICLE•Gender Place & Culture•2014•Cited by: 77•References: 22

    This article examines research on embodiment published in Gender, Place and Culture (GPC) over the past two decades. We searched using the keywords ‘body’, ‘bodies’, ‘embodiment’, ‘embody’, ‘flesh’, ‘fleshy’, ‘corporeality’ and ‘corporeal’, the titles and abstracts of all the articles that have appeared in GPC since it first began publication in 1994. Articles containing these keywords were listed in a searchable bibliography. What we found was a…

  • Critical geographies of love as spatial, relational and political

    Open Access•Carey-Ann Morrison, Carey‐ann Morrison et al.•ARTICLE•Progress in Human Geography•2012•Cited by: 63•References: 26

    Geographers to date have resisted writing about feelings, affects, places and spaces of love. It is timely to put love on the geographical agenda. We begin by addressing the question ‘what does love do?’, and we review the work of geographers who have been thinking about love via a number of different theoretical lenses. We then argue for a consideration of love as spatial, relational and political. We prompt geographers to think critically about…

  • Flexing Femininity: Female body-builders refiguring 'the body

    Lesley Johnston•ARTICLE•Gender Place & Culture•1996•Cited by: 56

    This paper considers the built bodies of female body-builders and their training environments. Empirical findings suggest that place of training provides a material and discursive environment that reworks bodies in the feminine/masculine binary. However, the female body-builder works her body within this binary as well as beyond the acceptable feminine/masculine dualism. Three possible, non-exclusive, readings of female body-builders are offered.…

  • Mobilizing pride/shame: Lesbians, Tourism and Parades

    Lesley Johnston, Lynda Johnston•ARTICLE•Social & Cultural Geography•2007•Cited by: 54•References: 7

    In this paper I focus on Pride Scotland in order to examine the construction and performance of lesbian tourism geographies. Queer theories are used to argue that tourism spaces of Pride Scotland provide important sites for the examination of the co-construction of pride and shame for lesbian parade participants. Within these sites celebrations of pride are underscored by notions of shame. Pride/shame politics may be productive and are lived thro…

  • Feeling and tourism studies

    Dorina-Maria Buda, Dorina Maria Buda et al.•ARTICLE•Annals of Tourism Research•2014•Cited by: 46•References: 37

  • (Troubling) spaces of mountains and men: New Zealand's Mount Cook and Hermitage Lodge

    Karen M Morin, Robyn Longhurst et al.•ARTICLE•Social & Cultural Geography•2001•Cited by: 42•References: 13

    In this paper we trace one pervasive expression of hegemonic New Zealand national identity that developed around the sport of mountaineering from the 1880s, culminating in Sir Edmund Hillary's historic first climb of Mount Everest in 1953. The image of the masculine mountaineering hero, developed on and around New Zealand's highest peak, Mount Cook, is, however, inherently unstable, and we focus on two sites of potential disruption. First, we exa…

  • (Other) bodies and tourism studies

    Open Access•Lesley Johnston, Lynda Johnston•ARTICLE•Annals of Tourism Research•2001•Cited by: 37•References: 22

  • Gender and sexuality II: Activism

    Open Access•Lesley Johnston•ARTICLE•Progress in Human Geography•2016•Cited by: 35•References: 47

    This report considers genders and sexualities within and across spaces of activism. Geographers concerned with social belonging, equity, human rights, civic duties, and gendered and sexed identities often engage in activism through participatory research and/or direct action. This report brings together geographical scholarship on feminist and queer (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, queer) – LGBTIQ – activism to examine the construc…

  • Dirty dancing: The (non)fluid embodied geographies of a queer nightclub in Tel Aviv

    Chen Misgav, Lesley Johnston•ARTICLE•Social & Cultural Geography•2014•Cited by: 26•References: 40

    This paper examines the (non)fluid embodied geographies of a queer nightclub in Tel Aviv, Israel. The nightclub is considered to be a space of sexual liberation and hosted the Friendly Freedom Friday party. Yet, the space of the nightclub is also divided by gender and sexuality. We draw on individual in-depth interviews and participant observations to examine the tensions that arise from, and between, gay men, transwomen and club spaces. A number…

  • Gender and sexuality I: Genderqueer geographies

    Open Access•Lesley Johnston•ARTICLE•Progress in Human Geography•2015•Cited by: 24•References: 26

    This report considers gender diversity across a range of spaces and places. I note that while the notion of gender has been troubled, there exist opportunities to trouble it further. I highlight the scholarship that has sought to deconstruct genders, and the binary framing of man/woman and male/female roles and relationships. The queering of sexuality has meant that geographers are now tracing the ways in which lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender…

  • Embodied geographies of food, belonging and hope in multicultural Hamilton, Aotearoa New Zealand

    Open Access•Lesley Johnston, Lynda Johnston et al.•ARTICLE•Geoforum•2011•Cited by: 24•References: 8

  • Gender and sexuality III: Precarious places

    Open Access•Lesley Johnston•ARTICLE•Progress in Human Geography•2017•Cited by: 18•References: 26

    This progress report considers precarious geographies of genders and sexualities at a range of intersecting scales. In a time currently characterized as precarious, anxious and insecure, feminist and queer geographers are well placed to examine vulnerable geographies – including their own – of bodies, lives and labours. The review considers the ways precarity operates as a concept, condition and experience by first asking what and where is precar…

  • Intersectional feminist and queer geographies: A view from ‘down-under’

    Lesley Johnston•ARTICLE•Gender Place & Culture•2018•Cited by: 17•References: 29

    Despite rapid growth of geographies of genders and sexualities over the past decade, there is still a great deal of homophobia, transphobia, and heterosexism within academic knowledges. A queer and feminist intersectional approach is one way to highlight gendered absences, institutionalized homophobia and transphobia. To understand the diversity of genders and sexualities, feminist and queer geographers must continue to talk about, for example, g…

  • Queen(s‘) Street or Ponsonby Poofters? Embodied Hero Parade Sites

    Open Access•Lesley Johnston, Lynda Johnston•ARTICLE•New Zealand Journal of Geography•1997•Cited by: 17•References: 14

    In this paper I highlight some spatial and body politics of the HERO parade, Aotearoa/New Zealand's biggest gay pride parade. The proposed site change of the HERO parade, from Queen Street to Ponsonby Road, was debated at length in local newspapers. This debate can be theorised as contingent on western hierarchical dualisms such as mind/body, public/ private, straight/gay. 1 offer an embodied geography through a focus on the constitutive relation…

  • Disabled people's embodied and emotional geographies of (not)belonging in Aotearoa New Zealand

    Open Access•Carey-Ann Morrison, Carey‐ann Morrison et al.•ARTICLE•Health & Place•2020•Cited by: 14•References: 25

  • Flourishing in fragile academic work spaces and learning environments: Feminist geographies of care and mentoring

    Gail Adams-Hutcheson, Lesley Johnston•ARTICLE•Gender Place & Culture•2019•Cited by: 13•References: 17

    In this article we discuss the ways in which a feminist ethos of care and the associated practice of mentoring allows feminist geography to flourish in teaching, working and learning spaces. We argue that our working relationship – based on care, mentoring and friendship – is crucial in order to survive and deflect structural inequalities. Our working relationship spans across undergraduate, graduate, postgraduate and early career stages at a sin…

  • Naturalizing bodies and places

    Open Access•Susan Frohlick, Lesley Johnston•ARTICLE•Annals of Tourism Research•2011•Cited by: 10•References: 28

  • Queer(ing) Geographies ‘Down Under: Some notes on sexuality and space in Australasia

    Lesley Johnston, Lynda Johnston et al.•ARTICLE•Australian Geographer•2008•Cited by: 9•References: 11

    Over the past 15 years geographers in the UK, USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and elsewhere have been increasingly concerned with issues of sexuality and space and have produced an array of work under the heading ‘queer geographies’. This paper considers the importance of place in the production of queer geographies. Material representing queer geographies is drawn from Web pages, conversations and e-mail exchanges (a questionnaire survey) wi…

  • Sexy Beasts and Devoted Mums: Narrating Nature through Dolphin Tourism

    Open Access•Kathryn Besio, Lesley Johnston et al.•ARTICLE•Environment and Planning A…•2008•Cited by: 9•References: 27

    This paper focuses upon a growing activity within New Zealand's ecotourism market: viewing and swimming with dolphins. Drawing on poststructuralist feminist theory we examine some of the ways in which New Zealand dolphin tour operators and others represent dolphins in relation to sex and gender. Three sets of data inform this research: (1) promotional materials, such as postcards, brochures, Internet websites, and advertising; (2) participant-obs…

  • Play, protest and pride: Un/happy queers of Proud to Play in Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand

    Open Access•Lesley Johnston, Gordon Waitt•ARTICLE•Urban Studies•2021•Cited by: 5•References: 45

    This article extends discussion of urban activism through paying attention to the emotional and embodied politics of a sports event. We draw on research of the ‘Proud to Play Games’, an inaugural regional multi-sports event held during the Auckland Pride Festival in Aotearoa New Zealand, 2016. Feminist and queer theories of emotion and affect – particularly the promise of happiness – produce nuanced understandings of urban gay pride events. We fo…

  • Embodying 'accidental ethnography: Staying overnight with former Bhutanese refugees in Aotearoa New Zealand

    Sunita Basnet, Lesley Johnston et al.•ARTICLE•Social & Cultural Geography•2020•Cited by: 5•References: 31

    This research brings together two key areas, ‘embodied geographies’ and ‘accidental ethnography’. ‘Embodied geographies’ involve making bodies central to geographical studies. ‘Accidental ethnography’ involves researchers having to (re)negotiate the initial terms of engagement in their fieldwork. By bringing together these two areas, we aim to enrich both. In order to do this, we focus on a research project that examines Bhutanese women and girl …

  • Community‐university collaborations: Creating hybrid research and collective identities

    Open Access•Jenny Cave, Lesley Johnston et al.•ARTICLE•Kōtuitui New Zealand Journal of…•2012•Cited by: 5•References: 15

    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 regularly venture beyond the formal research spaces of the academy and enter into critical collaborative research with others working in ‘the community’. In what follows we first outline collaborative community‐based research litera…

  • Here, and Not Yet Here: A Dialogue at the Intersection of Queer, Trans, and Culture

    Giuseppe Aiello, Giorgia Aiello et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of International and…•2013•Cited by: 4•References: 15

    To start this dialogue, guest editor Karma R. Chávez posed a series of general and unbinding questions to participants about the meanings of queer theory and its relationship with questions of culture. The dialogue unfolded over the course of three weeks in an online forum and covered several important themes. First, participants engaged questions surrounding the meaning of queer, and its relationship to different cultural and linguistic contexts…

  • Flexing Femininity: Female body-builders refiguring 'the body

    Lesley Johnston•ARTICLE•Gender Place & Culture•1996•Cited by: 56

    This paper considers the built bodies of female body-builders and their training environments. Empirical findings suggest that place of training provides a material and discursive environment that reworks bodies in the feminine/masculine binary. However, the female body-builder works her body within this binary as well as beyond the acceptable feminine/masculine dualism. Three possible, non-exclusive, readings of female body-builders are offered.…

  • Producing Feminist Geography 'Down Under

    Robin Peace, Robyn Longhurst et al.•ARTICLE•Gender Place & Culture•1997•Cited by: 3

  • Queen(s‘) Street or Ponsonby Poofters? Embodied Hero Parade Sites

    Open Access•Lesley Johnston, Lynda Johnston•ARTICLE•New Zealand Journal of Geography•1997•Cited by: 17•References: 14

    In this paper I highlight some spatial and body politics of the HERO parade, Aotearoa/New Zealand's biggest gay pride parade. The proposed site change of the HERO parade, from Queen Street to Ponsonby Road, was debated at length in local newspapers. This debate can be theorised as contingent on western hierarchical dualisms such as mind/body, public/ private, straight/gay. 1 offer an embodied geography through a focus on the constitutive relation…

  • (Other) bodies and tourism studies

    Open Access•Lesley Johnston, Lynda Johnston•ARTICLE•Annals of Tourism Research•2001•Cited by: 37•References: 22

  • (Troubling) spaces of mountains and men: New Zealand's Mount Cook and Hermitage Lodge

    Karen M Morin, Robyn Longhurst et al.•ARTICLE•Social & Cultural Geography•2001•Cited by: 42•References: 13

    In this paper we trace one pervasive expression of hegemonic New Zealand national identity that developed around the sport of mountaineering from the 1880s, culminating in Sir Edmund Hillary's historic first climb of Mount Everest in 1953. The image of the masculine mountaineering hero, developed on and around New Zealand's highest peak, Mount Cook, is, however, inherently unstable, and we focus on two sites of potential disruption. First, we exa…

  • Queering Tourism: Paradoxical Performances of Gay Pride Parades

    Lesley Johnston, Lynda Johnston•BOOK•Queering Tourism•2007

    Gay Pride parades are annual arenas of queer public culture, where embodied notions of subjectivity are sold, enacted, transgressed and debated. From Sydney to Rome, Queering Tourism analyses the paradoxes of gay pride parades as tourist events, exploring how the public display of queer bodies - the way they look, what they do, who watches them, and under what regulations - is profoundly important in constructing sexualized subjectivities of bodi…

  • Mobilizing pride/shame: Lesbians, Tourism and Parades

    Lesley Johnston, Lynda Johnston•ARTICLE•Social & Cultural Geography•2007•Cited by: 54•References: 7

    In this paper I focus on Pride Scotland in order to examine the construction and performance of lesbian tourism geographies. Queer theories are used to argue that tourism spaces of Pride Scotland provide important sites for the examination of the co-construction of pride and shame for lesbian parade participants. Within these sites celebrations of pride are underscored by notions of shame. Pride/shame politics may be productive and are lived thro…

  • Queer(ing) Geographies ‘Down Under: Some notes on sexuality and space in Australasia

    Lesley Johnston, Lynda Johnston et al.•ARTICLE•Australian Geographer•2008•Cited by: 9•References: 11

    Over the past 15 years geographers in the UK, USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and elsewhere have been increasingly concerned with issues of sexuality and space and have produced an array of work under the heading ‘queer geographies’. This paper considers the importance of place in the production of queer geographies. Material representing queer geographies is drawn from Web pages, conversations and e-mail exchanges (a questionnaire survey) wi…

  • Using ‘the body’ as an ‘instrument of research: Kimch’i and Pavlova

    Open Access•Robyn Longhurst, Elsie Ho et al.•ARTICLE•Area•2008•Cited by: 153•References: 18

    Often researchers position themselves in relation to race, age and gender, but the body is less often discussed as an actual ‘instrument of research’. We aim to extend thinking on this point by reflecting on a project we conducted on migrant women and food in New Zealand. We present a vignette as an example of how we used our bodies as ‘instruments of research’ at a ‘shared lunch’ attended by new migrants from a range of different countries. At t…

  • Sexy Beasts and Devoted Mums: Narrating Nature through Dolphin Tourism

    Open Access•Kathryn Besio, Lesley Johnston et al.•ARTICLE•Environment and Planning A…•2008•Cited by: 9•References: 27

    This paper focuses upon a growing activity within New Zealand's ecotourism market: viewing and swimming with dolphins. Drawing on poststructuralist feminist theory we examine some of the ways in which New Zealand dolphin tour operators and others represent dolphins in relation to sex and gender. Three sets of data inform this research: (1) promotional materials, such as postcards, brochures, Internet websites, and advertising; (2) participant-obs…

  • Space, Place, and Sex: Geographies of Sexualities

    Lesley Johnston, Lynda Johnston et al.•BOOK•Space, place, and sex•2009

    Introduction: Geography, Bodies, Sex, and Gender Chapter 1: Geography Closest In: The Body Chapter 2: At Home with Chapter 3: Communities: A Sense of Belonging Chapter 4: Sex and the City Chapter 5: Rural Erotics Chapter 6: Nations and National Identity Chapter 7: Global Intimacies Conclusion

  • A visceral approach: Cooking 'at home' with migrant women in Hamilton, New Zealand

    Open Access•Robyn Longhurst, Lesley Johnston et al.•ARTICLE•Transactions of the Institute of…•2009•Cited by: 150•References: 15

    People's visceral experiences of food - the tastes, textures and aromas - can tell us a great deal about their emotional and affective relations with place. Questions of bodies and embodiment are increasingly becoming a focus for geographers and migration scholars. In this article we extend some of this work by examining how the visceral can shape (and be shaped by) a range of socio-political relations. We concentrate on food and eating as a cent…

  • The role of community representatives on health service committees: Staff expectations vs. reality

    Open Access•Sally Nathan, Lesley Johnston et al.•ARTICLE•Health Expectations•2011

    OBJECTIVE This paper examines staff views about legitimacy of different roles for community representatives sitting on health service committees as part of a formal Community Participation Program (CPP) in an Area Health Service (AHS) in Australia. DESIGN A cross-sectional survey using a self-completed questionnaire by staff on committees with community representation in the AHS in 2008. SETTING The study site has a population of approximately 1.…

  • Naturalizing bodies and places

    Open Access•Susan Frohlick, Lesley Johnston•ARTICLE•Annals of Tourism Research•2011•Cited by: 10•References: 28

  • Embodied geographies of food, belonging and hope in multicultural Hamilton, Aotearoa New Zealand

    Open Access•Lesley Johnston, Lynda Johnston et al.•ARTICLE•Geoforum•2011•Cited by: 24•References: 8

  • Community‐university collaborations: Creating hybrid research and collective identities

    Open Access•Jenny Cave, Lesley Johnston et al.•ARTICLE•Kōtuitui New Zealand Journal of…•2012•Cited by: 5•References: 15

    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 regularly venture beyond the formal research spaces of the academy and enter into critical collaborative research with others working in ‘the community’. In what follows we first outline collaborative community‐based research litera…

  • Critical geographies of love as spatial, relational and political

    Open Access•Carey-Ann Morrison, Carey‐ann Morrison et al.•ARTICLE•Progress in Human Geography•2012•Cited by: 63•References: 26

    Geographers to date have resisted writing about feelings, affects, places and spaces of love. It is timely to put love on the geographical agenda. We begin by addressing the question ‘what does love do?’, and we review the work of geographers who have been thinking about love via a number of different theoretical lenses. We then argue for a consideration of love as spatial, relational and political. We prompt geographers to think critically about…

  • Here, and Not Yet Here: A Dialogue at the Intersection of Queer, Trans, and Culture

    Giuseppe Aiello, Giorgia Aiello et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of International and…•2013•Cited by: 4•References: 15

    To start this dialogue, guest editor Karma R. Chávez posed a series of general and unbinding questions to participants about the meanings of queer theory and its relationship with questions of culture. The dialogue unfolded over the course of three weeks in an online forum and covered several important themes. First, participants engaged questions surrounding the meaning of queer, and its relationship to different cultural and linguistic contexts…

  • It’s complicated’: Love, selves and Others – a response to Inwood

    Open Access•Carey-Ann Morrison, Carey‐ann Morrison et al.•ARTICLE•Progress in Human Geography•2013•Cited by: 2•References: 2

    Addressing the question ‘does using the term “Other” in relation to geographies of love flatten out difference?’ we argue that, while it may have this potential, it can also recognize collectivity (which is not necessarily the same as uniformity) among people. Politics involves working out which differences matter, when and where. Critiquing oppositional categories such as Self/Other (also love/hate, universal/particular) may do more to prompt cr…

  • Feeling and tourism studies

    Dorina-Maria Buda, Dorina Maria Buda et al.•ARTICLE•Annals of Tourism Research•2014•Cited by: 46•References: 37

  • Bodies, gender, place and culture: 21 Years On

    Robyn Longhurst, Lesley Johnston•ARTICLE•Gender Place & Culture•2014•Cited by: 77•References: 22

    This article examines research on embodiment published in Gender, Place and Culture (GPC) over the past two decades. We searched using the keywords ‘body’, ‘bodies’, ‘embodiment’, ‘embody’, ‘flesh’, ‘fleshy’, ‘corporeality’ and ‘corporeal’, the titles and abstracts of all the articles that have appeared in GPC since it first began publication in 1994. Articles containing these keywords were listed in a searchable bibliography. What we found was a…

  • Dirty dancing: The (non)fluid embodied geographies of a queer nightclub in Tel Aviv

    Chen Misgav, Lesley Johnston•ARTICLE•Social & Cultural Geography•2014•Cited by: 26•References: 40

    This paper examines the (non)fluid embodied geographies of a queer nightclub in Tel Aviv, Israel. The nightclub is considered to be a space of sexual liberation and hosted the Friendly Freedom Friday party. Yet, the space of the nightclub is also divided by gender and sexuality. We draw on individual in-depth interviews and participant observations to examine the tensions that arise from, and between, gay men, transwomen and club spaces. A number…

  • Sexuality and Space

    Open Access•Lesley Johnston, Lynda Johnston•CHAPTER•International Encyclopedia of the…•2015

  • Gender and sexuality I: Genderqueer geographies

    Open Access•Lesley Johnston•ARTICLE•Progress in Human Geography•2015•Cited by: 24•References: 26

    This report considers gender diversity across a range of spaces and places. I note that while the notion of gender has been troubled, there exist opportunities to trouble it further. I highlight the scholarship that has sought to deconstruct genders, and the binary framing of man/woman and male/female roles and relationships. The queering of sexuality has meant that geographers are now tracing the ways in which lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender…

  • Knowledge Mobilization/Transfer and Immigration Policy: Forging Space for NGOs-the Case of Ceris-The Ontario Metropolis Centre

    Open Access•John Shields, Preston et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of International…•2015•References: 15

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