Agricultural Tourism

 

Kelsey's doctoral work focuses on the exchange of cultural and food related knowledge through the Willing Workers on Organic Farms program in New Zealand. Drawing on seven months of phenomenology-based ethnographic fieldwork, Kelsey's research examines the culture of World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms (WWOOF) participation in New Zealand, exploring the convergence and divergence of organisational, host and guest values, and the role of food and cultural exchange in shaping participants' experiences of the WWOOFing while drawing on the fields of tourism, anthropology, and geography. 

 

Kelsey's emerging work in this area focuses on:
 

• kitchen table tourism,

• sustainability narratives, local food, and food festivals, and

• food and slow tourism.

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Publications

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Mostafanezhad, M., Azizi, S., & Johansen, K. (2016). Valuing Organic Farm Volunteer Tourists in Hawai‘i: Farm Host Perspectives.  Current Issues in Tourism, 19(6), pp. 613- 617.  DOI: 10.1080/13683500.2014.961904

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Conference Proceedings 

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Johansen, K. (2019). Willing Workers on Organic Farms - Representation and Othering through Food. At the 2019 ATLAS Gastronomy and Tourism Research Group Meeting: Gastronomy and Tourism - Reflections on local food consumption in urban and rural areas, Universidade de Évora - Colégio do Espírito Santo, Évora, Portugal, February 20th – 23rd, 2019.

 

Johansen, K. (2017). ‘Becoming WWOOFer, Being Me’: Enacting and Embodying (Leisure) Identities. At the 2017 Leisure Studies Association Conference, Leeds Beckett University, Rose Bowl City Campus, Leeds, United Kingdom, July 4th – 6th 2017. AWARDED BEST PAPER PRIZE.
 

Johansen, K. (2017). Sharing Economy Implications for WWOOF Participation. At the 2017 Canadian Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, May 29th – June 2nd 2017.
 

Johansen, K. (2015). Negotiating Authenticity, Intimacy and Conflict that Accompanies ‘Backstage’ Access WWOOFing in New Zealand. At the Canadian Association of Geographers’ Annual Meeting. Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada, June 1st – June 5th 2015.

 

Johansen, K. (2015). Making Bread and Breaking Bread: Host-Guest Interactions among WWOOF Participants in New Zealand. At the Canadian Association of Food Studies Conference - Capital Ideas: Nourishing Debates, Minds and Bodies. University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, May 30th - June 2nd, 2015.