Michela is a PhD candidate and critical tourism researcher. She holds a BA Hons. in Psychology and an MA in Recreation and Leisure Studies, both completed at the University of Waterloo. Michela previously worked as the project manager for the SSHRC Partnership Development Grant A Partnership for Critical Tourism Studies.
Research interests
Tourism orderings, stories, affect, ruination, land, settler colonialism
Michela is interested in disruptive and unsettling relations of tourism, particularly in regards to how stories, sounds, objects, and affects are ordered to maintain political and structural formations like nationalism and settler colonialism in tourism places. Her PhD research thinks through these orderings in the city of Niagara Falls, Ontario, with a focus on relations of land, infrastructure, atmospherics, and ruination.
Research highlights
Find Michela: ORCiD, Google Scholar
Publication highlight: Becoming common plantain