Welcome to the collected works of Dr. Paul Tully
Writer, researcher, and observer of the everyday
I am a tourism and leisure studies scholar. I obtained my PhD with the department of tourism at the University of Otago in 2026.
My research critically examines phenomena with the aim of benefitting the well-being and rights of species, individuals, and/or communities.
My travels unlocked curiousity about the social world. I now use frames of tourism, and leisure more broadly, to seek understanding of the everyday.
Latest release
Paul Tully & Neil Carr | 2026
Animal Entanglements in Tourism and Leisure: Questions of Power, Relationality, and Obligations
This timely and innovative book explores the implications of human tourism, leisure, hospitality, and events for all animals, blending emergent thoughts relating to posthumanism, animalcentrism, and relationality to expand on how we see our relations with nonhuman animals and our obligations to them…
Paul Tully & Neil Carr | 2026
Challenging power by tracing nonhuman animals in leisure through archival research: A critical reflection.
In this paper, the authors examine how archives contain a power that silences and hides the nonhuman animal presence through critical reflection on the searching of an archive and face-to-face communication with archival staff…
Paul Tully & Neil Carr | 2026
Animal-centric research of human and non-human animal entanglements in tourism
This conceptual chapter is contextualised by aspects of posthumanism and such a belief of nonhuman animals. The discussion explains the current knowledge of entanglements in tourism as related to nonhuman animal rights and welfare and human moral obligations…