Michela J Stinson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3100515 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michela J Stinson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michela J |
| FAMILY NAME | Stinson |
| SIGNATURE | STINSON M J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Waterloo |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8449-4049 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 54 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Scaling hope
Peritraumatic leisure
Tourism, worldmaking, and disquieting settler atmospherics
This article considers how affects animate and uphold tourism and settler colonialism. Engaging a ‘curious’ postdisciplinary research methodology informed by the relational power of listening, I trace the emergence of two interrelated atmospheres in the city of Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada, both of which exemplify how settler colonialism is built and maintained as a structure of feeling that supports larger processes of worldmaking via tourism.…
Defacing
Rock climbing is frequently constructed as a tourism practice that exemplifies rational, solo, masculine quests to conquer the natural world. This paper troubles such gendered norms through an investigation of Southern Ontario’s Niagara Escarpment (Canada) as a space of climbing tourism. Drawing on actor-network theory, our aim is to situate the drifts and dissolutions of affect through the narrative capacities of rock climbing. Specifically, we …
Tracing the materiality of reconciliation in tourism
Conceptualizing cultural sensitivity in tourism
This study contributes to the conceptualization of cultural sensitivity in tourism based on an analysis of tourism and social science literatures associated with Indigenous peoples in Canada. The study used a systematic literature review methodology, which consisted of thematically analysing 56 English language, tourism and social science journal articles. Findings indicate that while cultural sensitivity is rarely explicitly defined, several the…
Becoming common plantain
As tourism scholars have turned to matters of reflexivity, epistemology, and ethics in research and practice, questions have been raised about how those in positions of privilege ought to situate their knowledge/power and take responsibility for enacting justice. In this article, we convey and engage the merits of becoming common plantain (i.e., Plantago major)—a familiar, low-lying plant species that has become “naturalized” to North America—as …
A decolonizing settler story
On actor-network theory and anxiety in tourism research
A decolonizing settler story
Becoming common plantain
As tourism scholars have turned to matters of reflexivity, epistemology, and ethics in research and practice, questions have been raised about how those in positions of privilege ought to situate their knowledge/power and take responsibility for enacting justice. In this article, we convey and engage the merits of becoming common plantain (i.e., Plantago major)—a familiar, low-lying plant species that has become “naturalized” to North America—as …
Tracing the materiality of reconciliation in tourism
Tourism, worldmaking, and disquieting settler atmospherics
This article considers how affects animate and uphold tourism and settler colonialism. Engaging a ‘curious’ postdisciplinary research methodology informed by the relational power of listening, I trace the emergence of two interrelated atmospheres in the city of Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada, both of which exemplify how settler colonialism is built and maintained as a structure of feeling that supports larger processes of worldmaking via tourism.…
Conceptualizing cultural sensitivity in tourism
This study contributes to the conceptualization of cultural sensitivity in tourism based on an analysis of tourism and social science literatures associated with Indigenous peoples in Canada. The study used a systematic literature review methodology, which consisted of thematically analysing 56 English language, tourism and social science journal articles. Findings indicate that while cultural sensitivity is rarely explicitly defined, several the…
A decolonizing settler story
On actor-network theory and anxiety in tourism research
Conceptualizing cultural sensitivity in tourism
This study contributes to the conceptualization of cultural sensitivity in tourism based on an analysis of tourism and social science literatures associated with Indigenous peoples in Canada. The study used a systematic literature review methodology, which consisted of thematically analysing 56 English language, tourism and social science journal articles. Findings indicate that while cultural sensitivity is rarely explicitly defined, several the…
Becoming common plantain
As tourism scholars have turned to matters of reflexivity, epistemology, and ethics in research and practice, questions have been raised about how those in positions of privilege ought to situate their knowledge/power and take responsibility for enacting justice. In this article, we convey and engage the merits of becoming common plantain (i.e., Plantago major)—a familiar, low-lying plant species that has become “naturalized” to North America—as …
Defacing
Rock climbing is frequently constructed as a tourism practice that exemplifies rational, solo, masculine quests to conquer the natural world. This paper troubles such gendered norms through an investigation of Southern Ontario’s Niagara Escarpment (Canada) as a space of climbing tourism. Drawing on actor-network theory, our aim is to situate the drifts and dissolutions of affect through the narrative capacities of rock climbing. Specifically, we …
Tracing the materiality of reconciliation in tourism
Tourism, worldmaking, and disquieting settler atmospherics
This article considers how affects animate and uphold tourism and settler colonialism. Engaging a ‘curious’ postdisciplinary research methodology informed by the relational power of listening, I trace the emergence of two interrelated atmospheres in the city of Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada, both of which exemplify how settler colonialism is built and maintained as a structure of feeling that supports larger processes of worldmaking via tourism.…
Scaling hope
Peritraumatic leisure
Sociology (8 works) · Tourism (7 works) · Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research (5 works) · Ecology (5 works) · Environmental ethics (5 works) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Narrative (4 works) · Psychology (4 works)