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Citations
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World Ranking
7049
National Ranking
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2018 - Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand

Overview

Robyn Longhurst is affiliated with Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand. Their research spans primarily across the Social Sciences with a focus on Sociology and Political Science, Safety Research, General Health Professions, Museology, and Geography, Planning and Development.

Their work addresses diverse topics including Disability Rights and Representation, Homelessness and Social Issues, Healthcare innovation and challenges, Fashion and Cultural Textiles, Gender, Feminism, and Media, Crafts, Textile, and Design, and Anthropological Studies and Insights.

Longhurst has published in several academic journals. Frequent publication venues include Health & Place, Journal of Consumer Culture, Gender Place & Culture, Area, and New Zealand Geographer.

Some recent papers authored or coauthored by Longhurst are as follows:

  • "Disabled people's embodied and emotional geographies of (not)belonging in Aotearoa New Zealand," 2020, Health & Place
  • "Postfeminism, consumption and activewear: Examining women consumers' relationship with the postfeminine ideal," 2022, Journal of Consumer Culture
  • "Fashioning hybrid Muslim women's veiled embodied geographies in Hamilton, Aotearoa New Zealand: #hijabi spaces," 2021, Gender Place & Culture
  • "Everyday activisms: Parental places and emotions of disability activism in Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand," 2021, Area
  • "The New Zealand Geographer reaches 75," 2020, New Zealand Geographer

They have collaborated frequently with several coauthors, notably:

  • Lynda Johnston
  • Carey-Ann Morrison
  • Esther Woodbury
  • Julie Brice
  • Holly Thorpe

Robyn Longhurst was recognized as a Fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand in 2018.

Best Publications

  • Bodies: Exploring Fluid Boundaries

    Robyn Longhurst

  • Space, Place, and Sex: Geographies of Sexualities

    Lynda Johnston;Robyn Longhurst

  • Using 'the body' as an 'instrument of research': kimch'i and pavlova

    Robyn Longhurst;Elsie Ho;Lynda Johnston

  • A visceral approach: cooking ‘at home’ with migrant women in Hamilton, New Zealand

    Robyn Longhurst;Lynda Johnston;Elsie Ho

  • VIEWPOINT The Body and Geography

    Robyn Longhurst

  • Dis)embodied geographies

    Robyn Longhurst

  • Interviews: In-Depth, Semi-Structured

    R. Longhurst

  • Maternities: Gender, Bodies and Space

    Robyn Longhurst

  • Placing Masculinities and Geography

    Lawrence D. Berg;Robyn Longhurst

  • ‘Corporeographies’ of Pregnancy: ‘Bikini Babes’:

    Robyn Longhurst

  • Fat bodies: developing geographical research agendas

    Robyn Longhurst

  • Using Skype to Mother: Bodies, Emotions, Visuality, and Screens

    Robyn Longhurst

  • Critical geographies of love as spatial, relational and political

    Carey-Ann Morrison;Lynda Johnston;Robyn Longhurst

  • Bodies, gender, place and culture: 21 years on

    Robyn Longhurst;Lynda Johnston

  • Geography and gender: masculinities, male identity and men:

    Robyn Longhurst

  • Becoming Smaller: Autobiographical Spaces of Weight Loss

    Robyn Longhurst

  • The Geography Closest In - the Body… the Politics of Pregnability

    Robyn Longhurst

  • ‘At least in person there would have been a cup of tea’: interviewing via Skype

    Gail Adams-Hutcheson;Robyn Longhurst

  • Plots, plants and paradoxes: contemporary domestic gardens in Aotearoa/New Zealand

    Robyn Longhurst

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

    Lynda Johnston;Robyn Longhurst

  • Landscapes: Ways of Imagining the World

    Robyn Longhurst

Frequent Co-Authors

Robin Kearns
Robin Kearns University of Auckland
Darrin Hodgetts
Darrin Hodgetts Massey University

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