Staff Members

Professor Robyn Longhurst

Qualifications: BSocSc, MSocSc, PhD Waikato Email: robynl@waikato.ac.nz Location: I2.09 Contact: +64 7 838 4466 ext. 8306

Research Interests:

Teaching:
Since 1992 I have taught papers from 100 level through to graduate level. I have played a major role in:
- People and Place: Introduction to Social and Cultural
- Geography (100 level)
- Contemporary Cultural Geographies (200 level)
- Gender, Place and Culture (200 level)
- Crossing Boundaries (graduate)
- Directed Research Project (graduate)

Research Interests
In 1985 I completed a Masters thesis in which I argued that sexual violence against women helps to ensure that space ‘belongs’ to men. In 1997 I completed a doctoral thesis titled ‘Geographies that Matter: Pregnant Bodies in Public Places’.

Over the past decade my main research interests have been in ‘geography and the body’. I’ve critiqued the (masculinist) epistemology and ontology of the discipline. I have also focused attention on the ways in which particular axes of embodied subjectivity such as gender, sexuality and maternity become entwined with space.

My current research interests are:
- maternities and space including mothers using ICT
- sex and gender studies including masculinity studies
- feminist, queer and poststructuralist theory
- 'fat' bodies: representations and materialities
- food, place and identity for migrant women
- qualitative methodologies

Selected Publications:

Books and recent selected publications
Johnston, L. and Longhurst, R. 2010: Space, Place and Sex: Geographies of Sexualities, Lanham, Rowman & Littlefield.

Longhurst, R: 2008: Maternities: Gender, Bodies and Space, New York, Routledge.

Longhurst, R. 2001: Bodies: Exploring Fluid Boundaries, London, Routledge.

D. Bell; J. Binnie; R. Holliday, R. Longhurst and R. Peace 2001: Pleasure Zones: Bodies Cities, Spaces, New York, Syracuse University Press.

Articles in refereed journals
Longhurst, R. 2009: YouTube: a new space for birth?, Feminist Review, Special Issue on birth edited by I. Tyler and C. Gatrell, 93, 46-63.

Longhurst, R., Johnston, L., and Ho, E. 2009: A visceral approach: cooking ‘at home’ with migrant women in Hamilton, New Zealand, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 34, 333-345. (ISI Journal Citation Reports in 2007 ranked this journal 1/44 (Geography) with an Impact Factor of 4.067.)

Johnston, L. and Longhurst, R. 2008: ‘Queer(ing) geographies ‘down under’: some notes on sexuality and space in Australasia’, Australian Geographer, 39, 3, 247-257.

Longhurst, R. Ho, E. and Johnston, L. 2008: Using the body as an instrument of research: kimch’i and pavlova, Area, 40 (2), 208-217.

Besio, K., Johnston, L. and Longhurst, R. 2008: ‘Sexy beasts and devoted mums: narrating nature through dolphin tourism, Environment and Planning A, 40, 1219-1234.

Book chapters
Longhurst, R. 2010: The disabling affects of fat: the emotional and material geographies of some women who live in Hamilton, New Zealand, in E. Hall, V. Chouinard, and R. Wilton (eds) Disabling geographies: mind and body differences in society and space, Ashgate.

Longhurst R. 2009. Embodied Knowing. In Kitchin R, Thrift N (eds) International Encyclopedia of Human Geography, Volume 3, pp. 429-433. Oxford: Elsevier.

Longhurst R. 2009. Interviews: In-Depth, Semi-Structured. In Kitchin R, Thrift N (eds) International Encyclopedia of Human Geography, Volume 5, pp. 580-584. Oxford: Elsevier.

Longhurst, R. 2008: Feminism and Geography (1995): Gillian Rose, in P. Hubbard, R. Kitchin and G. Valentine (eds) Key Texts in Human Geography, London, Sage, pp. 163-169.

Book reviews
Longhurst, R. 2010 Teaching Social Geography in New Zealand, in Book Review Forum. Author Meets Critics. A Set of Reviews and a Response, Vincent J. Del Casino Jr. Social Geography: A Critical Introduction, Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009. Social & Cultural Geography, 11(6), 619-620.

Longhurst, R. 2010: Review essay on three books - Maternal encounters: the ethics of interruption; Feminist mothering in theory and practice, 1985-1995: a study in transformative politics; Feminist art and the maternal, Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy, 25(3), 696-703

Farrelly, E. 2008: Blubberland: the dangers of happiness (Cambridge, MA; MIT Press). Reviewed for Cultural Geographies 2010: 17(3), 417-418.

Other contributions to refereed journals
Longhurst, R. 2008: Afterword: Geographies of sexuality and gender ‘down under’, Australian Geographer, 39, 3, 381-387.

Longhurst, R. 2007: Cultural geography: different encounters, encountering difference, Documents d'Anàlisi Geogràfica, 50, 5-120.

Research Publications:

You may like to view publications from 1997 onwards for Professor Robyn Longhurst

Expertise:

Performance Based Research Fund Panel
Appointed by the Tertiary Education Commission as a member of the PBRF Peer Review Panel ‘Social Sciences and Other Cultural/Social Studies’ for the 2006 Quality Evaluation

Editorial Duties
Appointed 1 January 2007 co-editor of Gender, Place and Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/0966369x.asp

1997 commenced three year term as co-editor of New Zealand Geographer. 1999 took on role of corresponding editor. Appointed for a second term 2000-2002.

Member Editorial Board of Dialogues in Geography (launched 2010)

Member Social Geography section of Geography Compass (2010-)
http://www.geography-compass.com/

Member Editorial Board of The Open Geography Journal (2008-)

Member Editorial Advisory Board of Gender, Place and Culture (term ended 2007 when I took on role of editor)

Member Editorial Advisory Board for Transactions Institute of British Geographers (2005-2009)

Member Editorial Advisory Board of ACME: An International E-Journal for Critical Geographies

Member Editorial Advisory Board for Social and Cultural Geography. (term ended mid-2009)

Member Editorial Advisory Board of New Zealand Geographer (term ended mid-2009)

Memberships
Chair, International Geographical Union Commission on Gender and Geography, 2008-2012

Invited member of International Geographical Union Commission on Gender and Geography for two terms 2000-2003 and 2004-2007

Waikato Branch of the New Zealand Geographical Society 1992-continuing

Waikato Gender Research Network