Showing papers in "Leisure\/loisir in 2022"
TL;DR: In this paper , the authors investigate the decisive role of two types of social media brand communication, namely firm-created content (FCC) and user-generated content (UGC), on customer engagement.
Abstract: ABSTRACT Social media marketing efforts have been considered an essential role for businesses to stay in the competition and ensure the prosperity of the business world. This study aims to investigate the decisive role of two types of social media brand communication, namely firm-created content (FCC) and user-generated content (UGC), on customer engagement. Drawing on 257 fans of a coffee shop page on Facebook and using the structural equation modelling approach, the finding of this study indicated that FCC and UGC are significant predictors of customer engagement in the form of ‘like,’ ‘share,’ and ‘comment.’ The results indicate that UGC is a stronger predictor of liking and sharing than FCC, but that the effect of FCC on commenting is greater than that of UGC. The findings of this study contribute to the leisure context by examining the effect of two types of social media brand communication on customer engagement.
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TL;DR: In this article , the authors explored the everyday gendered assumptions that exist and are reproduced by elite bridge players and found that these gendered stereotypes are used to explain and defend why more women are not playing at elite level.
Abstract: Ingrained gendered discourses about women’s abilities and skills impact on their participation in leisure and sport. This paper argues that gendered stereotyping extends to the serious leisure context of mindsport in the form of neurosexism. The card game bridge is played by a roughly equal proportion of men and women but at elite-level male players significantly outperform female players worldwide. Based on 52 semi-structured interviews, the paper explores the everyday gendered assumptions that exist and are reproduced by elite bridge players. Many of the research participants draw on ideas of male brains being more rational, logical and competitive whereas women’s brains are perceived to be more emotive, unfocused and uncompetitive. These gendered stereotypes are used to explain and defend why more women are not playing at elite level. Such neurosexist and behaviourist assumptions actively reproduce inequality within mindsport to the detriment of women bridge players. This article shows that neurosexism reinforces ongoing, systemic inequalities around gendered experiences of serious leisure, thereby reproducing gendered inequalities and hindering greater participation and inclusion in mindsport.
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TL;DR: In this paper , the authors trace responsibilization through fiscal policies and administration schemes characterizing four neoliberalism tenets: privatization, efficiency, individualism, and accountability in municipal recreation access provisions.
Abstract: ABSTRACT Through the lens of neoliberalism, the purpose of this paper is to illustrate the techniques of responsibilization in municipal recreation access provisions. Using data from interviews with 16 municipal recreation administrators in Atlantic Canada, we trace responsibilization through fiscal policies and administration schemes characterizing four neoliberalism tenets: privatization, efficiency, individualism, and accountability. Our findings identified four techniques of responsibilization embedded in access provisions for low-income citizens: 1) privatizing recreation provisions by off-loading programming responsibility; 2) not advertising financial assistance programmes and other informal financial support; 3) assuming accessing financial assistance programs is easy, and 4) verifying low-income status. The responsibilization inherent in these access provisions cultivates relational distance, which we suggest challenges the provisions’ ‘accessible’ nature.
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TL;DR: In this article , the authors utilized socialist feminist theory to explore the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on rural low-income mothers' capacity to facilitate leisure and support their families' well-being.
Abstract: ABSTRACT The COVID-19 pandemic has disproportionately affected rural low-income mothers due to intersecting and compounding factors such as gender, race, income, and disability, among others. In this study, we utilized socialist feminist theory to explore the impacts COVID-19 had on rural low-income mothers’ capacity to facilitate leisure and support their families’ well-being. Through semi-structured interviews with 29 rural low-income mothers, our findings indicated that these women were uniquely challenged with having to balance paid and unpaid work and entertaining children at home while dealing with pandemic-related employment insecurity. These mothers were disadvantaged due to inaccessible personal leisure resources, intensified by the closure of public parks and trails.
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TL;DR: In this paper , the authors used a pragmatic measurement approach to examine changes in physical literacy (PL) and physical activity (PA) behavior outcomes associated with a community-based PL programme for youth with and without disabilities.
Abstract: ABSTRACT This study used a pragmatic measurement approach to examine changes in physical literacy (PL) and physical activity (PA) behaviour outcomes associated with a community-based PL programme for youth with and without disabilities. A single group, pre-post study was conducted with 67 youth (68.7% male; 62.7% with a disability; 12.2 ±1.7 years) participating in a 16-week, inclusive PL programme offered across three community sites. Valid, age-appropriate outcome measures were completed at baseline and post-programme. Gains were found in movement competence (Cohen’s dz = 0.99; n = 46), overall self-regulated motivation (dz = 0.29; n = 43), confidence (dz = 0.15 to 0.21; n = 43), and minutes spent in moderate PA behaviour (dz = 0.83; n = 20). Peer relationships ratings (n = 35) indicated strong social support, and mean weekly attendance was 78.5% (n = 62). Findings provide evidence of gains in PL, particularly motor competence, and PA behaviour outcomes associated with PL programme participation in youth with and without disabilities.
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TL;DR: In this article , the authors examined the impact of healthcare workers' job stress from fear of COVID-19 on travel intentions (TI) and willingness to pay (WTP) and investigated the direct path between FC and WTP.
Abstract: ABSTRACT This study aims to examine the impact of healthcare workers’ job stress (JS) from fear of COVID-19 (FC) on travel intentions (TI) and willingness to pay (WTP). It also investigates the direct path between FC and WTP. Moreover, it tests the moderation role of FC on the relationship between healthcare workers’ JS and TI. Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modelling (PLS-SEM) was employed to analyze the data gathered from 401 frontline registered nurses working in pandemic hospitals in Turkey. The findings revealed that healthcare workers have the intention to travel and are willing to pay more for additional safety measures. The findings also indicated that FC negatively moderates the link between JS and TI. The results of this study provide theoretical and practical implications for tourism practitioners and marketers.
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TL;DR: In this article , the ghost in the machine metaphor is used to conjure the possibility of us all evolving past those originally intended purposes, uses, and limitations set for us within colonialist academic institutions imbued with white supremacist logics.
Abstract: ABSTRACT In I, Robot the phrase ‘ghosts in the machine’ referred to the unexpected possibility of artificial intelligence evolving past its original intended purpose. In this paper, we use the metaphor to conjure the possibility of us all evolving past those originally intended purposes, uses, and limitations set for us within colonialist academic institutions imbued with white supremacist logics. We call on each other to exceed those limitations, igniting possibilities otherwise by triggering spectral, subversive mis-repeats that agitate a domino-effect disruption of those billions of academic machines that for too long have been left on automatic status quo.
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TL;DR: In this article , the authors used desk research to extract the most common hotel attributes from the literature, interviews with experts for verification, and a survey of potential hotel guests using an online-questionnaire with rating scales.
Abstract: ABSTRACT This study empirically assesses the importance of common hotel attributes for German leisure travellers in general, and the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on perceived importance in particular. We used desk research to extract the most common hotel attributes from the literature, interviews with experts for verification, a survey of potential hotel guests using an online-questionnaire with rating scales. The data thus collected was analyzed using nonparametric tests to identify the essential hotel attributes and indicate differences in perceived importance between several subgroups. Our analysis shows that cleanliness of the room/bath and price/performance ratio were considered to be the most important attributes for German leisure travellers in the pre-pandemic phase. Significant differences were observed for several attributes depending on gender, age, income, experience, and peer-to-peer accommodations, indicating a high degree of target-group heterogeneity. The COVID-19 pandemic seems to rearrange the importance of some attributes and the travel behaviour.
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TL;DR: In this paper , the authors report on the ethnographic findings of Rob Porter who found himself "locked down" in Pinellas County, Florida at the beginning of the pandemic and explore the need for adaptation in the industry so that it can weather future disaster events.
Abstract: When COVID-19 emerged in January of 2020, few anticipated the duration and global reach of this disaster event. This paper reports on the ethnographic findings of Rob Porter who found himself ‘locked down' in Pinellas County, Florida at the beginning of the pandemic. Using ethnographic research methods including participant observation, interviews, and photography this essay reports on the changing nature of the tourism industry;supply chain challenges and substitutions;public health mandates;and political messaging. All of these variables significantly influenced the health and sustainability of the tourism industry in Pinellas County. Finally, we explore the need for adaptation in the industry so that it can weather future disaster events. © 2022 Canadian Association for Leisure Studies / Association canadienne d'études en loisir.
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TL;DR: In this article , the authors used Ponic and Frisby's organizational dimension of inclusion as a conceptual framework to examine how CSROs support the inclusion of low-income families in sport and recreation.
Abstract: Fee assistance programmes (FAPs) used by community sport and recreation organizations (CSROs) are a popular means of addressing the financial barriers low-income families face. However, there is a dearth of literature that speaks to the other ways CSROs support the inclusion of low-income families. The purpose of this study is to use Ponic and Frisby’s organizational dimension of inclusion which was published in 2010, as a conceptual framework to examine how CSROs support the inclusion of low-income families in sport and recreation. Through data analysis, three main themes were constructed to illuminate how CSROs facilitated inclusion to support sport and recreation participation for low-income families: 1) CSROs’ financial access provisions; 2) supplying equipment; and 3) relationship building. Our findings indicated that New Brunswick CSROs facilitate inclusion through supports beyond FAPs, but these practices continue to have a narrow focus on financial limitations.
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TL;DR: Zhang et al. as mentioned in this paper examined the extent to which individual and area-level socioeconomic statuses correlate with the preferences and participation in physical activities during leisure time and found that both individual income and area level SES were significantly associated with participation in walking, whereas individual educational attainment was positively associated with sports.
Abstract: ABSTRACT This study examines the extent to which individual and area-level socioeconomic statuses (SES) correlate with the preferences and participation in physical activities during leisure time. A multistage, random clustered sample taken from the China Health and Nutrition Survey of 2015 was used. Results from multi-level analyses indicated that both individual income and area-level SES were significantly associated with participation in walking, whereas individual educational attainment was positively associated with participation in sports. Moreover, leisure preference mediated the relationship between individual SES, area-level SES, and participation in sports. Based on these findings, this article suggests that both individual and area-level influences should be taken into account when developing health policies to promote active lifestyles. In addition, mediation effect of leisure preference in LTPA should be emphasized when implementing intervention program.
TL;DR: In this article , the authors used an interpretive phenomenological analysis to understand how coach evaluators build relationships in evaluation situations and how those relationships are needed for achieving certification in Canada.
Abstract: Amateur sports organizations rely on volunteer coaches to ensure that successful programmes are implemented. As such, in Canada, it has become common practice that these coaches must participate in minimum educational experiences and demonstrate their coaching abilities through an evaluation. With a low number of coaches achieving certified status relative to those engaging in training workshops it becomes important to understand more about the evaluation process. Thus, the purpose of this research was to understand how Coach Evaluators (CEs) build relationships in evaluation situations and how those relationships are needed for achieving certification. Using an interpretive phenomenological analysis, data were collected through semi-structured interviews with 27 CEs representing 14 sports in Canada. The results identified themes that were explained by applying a framework on coaching types. Through this framework, this research determined the success or non-success of the evaluation process.
TL;DR: In this paper , the relevance of leisure in current social unrest and the ways in which scholars thinking through leisure can attend to discussions part of social movements and radical resistances is explored.
Abstract: ABSTRACT This essay offers a reflection on the relevance of leisure amidst current social unrest and the ways in which scholars thinking through leisure can attend to discussions part of social movements and radical resistances. This paper interrogates the ways leisure is bound up in socio-political tension through its direct link to capitalism, labour, and reproduction of the status quo while, simultaneously, being part of the action needed to resist such harms, necessary for our analyses as leisure scholars. As we continue to reflect on TALS’s ‘New Leisure Studies’ panel (2021) and Mowatt’s sensibility in considering, ‘what is “leisure” in the midst of [this socio-political] landscape?, we feel that in these challenging times, more critical analysis, openness, connectedness, and creativity is required to reflect the nuanced and interconnected social dynamics of leisure more fully.
TL;DR: Wang et al. as mentioned in this paper investigated tourists' emotional well-being in routine life with travel motivations and intention during the COVID-19 pandemic and found that tourists' positive emotions toward their routine life could increase their repeat travel intention and motivation of "safety & convenience" but decrease the need of "family socialization" for tourism consumption.
Abstract: ABSTRACT This study attempts to investigate tourists’ emotional well-being in routine life with travel motivations and intention during COVID-19. Based on a survey of 511 Macao outbound vacationers, this study tested the hypotheses and revealed that the push factor of ‘escape & relaxation’ and two motivational constructs of ‘ safety & convenience’ and ‘family socialization’, which much concerned tourists during COVID-19 pandemic, could significantly influence tourists’ repeat travel intention. Moreover, the results indicated that tourists’ positive emotions toward their routine life could increase their repeat travel intention and motivation of ‘safety & convenience’ but decrease the need of ‘family socialization’ for tourism consumption, while negative emotions did the opposite. This study empirically confirmed the significant effects of emotional well-being in routine life on tourists’ travel motivations and intention during the COVID-19 pandemic. Some theoretical implications for future research and managerial implications for tourism recovery were discussed.
TL;DR: The authors examined the relationship between socio-economic status (SES) and leisure preferences with Canadian secondary data collected in the 1970s and found that higher SES was positively associated with breadth of leisure activities, but negatively associated with time in activities associated with lower SES.
Abstract: ABSTRACT We examined the relationship between socio-economic status (SES) and leisure preferences with Canadian secondary data collected in the 1970s. In leisure studies, there is little to no research drawing on the omnivore hypothesis to examine the relationship between SES and leisure. With the omnivore hypothesis, higher SES is expected to be associated with greater breadth of leisure activities in addition to greater investment in activities associated with higher SES. The cultural omnivore pattern has also largely been associated with a cultural shift during the 1980s with little research on the phenomena before that time period. As expected, higher SES was positively associated with breadth of leisure activities, but negatively associated with time in activities associated with lower SES. Results demonstrated the potential for the cultural omnivore hypothesis to inform our understanding of the ways SES shapes leisure consumption in a Canadian context and questions the time-limited nature of these phenomena.
TL;DR: In this paper , the authors explored how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected six paid recreation staff working within long-term care homes within Manitoba, Canada during the province's second pandemic wave (late 2020 to early 2021).
Abstract: Since the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic, long-term care homes within Canada have shifted the ways they operate and deliver vital care and quality of life opportunities for residents. While attention has increasingly been paid to the experiences of some care providers (e.g., nurses, personal support workers) to these pandemic-necessitated changes, decidedly less attention has been devoted to the experiences of those providing recreation opportunities to long-term care residents. This exploratory qualitative study was carried out to help address this knowledge gap. Using in-depth interviews, this study explored how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected six paid recreation staff working within long-term care homes within Manitoba, Canada during the province’s second pandemic wave (late 2020 to early 2021). Our research findings raise important questions about the ways recreation provision within long-term care could be impacted through and after the COVID-19 era.
TL;DR: In this paper , a mixed-methods study examined the influence of a painted designs (e.g., traditional games, random circles) intervention on the physical activity experiences of elementary school children.
Abstract: ABSTRACT Interventions such as painted designs on school tarmacs may increase children’s physical activity during school hours. This mixed-methods study examined the influence of a painted designs (e.g., traditional games, random circles) intervention on the physical activity experiences of elementary school children. Systematic observations and accelerometer data were collected to evaluate the type and quantity of student physical activity. Interviews were used to explore teacher and student experiences. Observed physical activity was not significantly different between intervention and control schools (t(43) = 0.22, p = 0.83), and children at the intervention schools undertook less physical activity (steps, moderate, vigorous, and combined moderate-to-vigorous activity) as compared with the control school (t = 2.71–4.35, p < 0.05). Teachers and students commented that the painted designs were confusing but held potential for inclusiveness, physical activity, and learning. Additional resources and instruction may assist in better use of painted designs for physical activity and academic learning.
TL;DR: In this paper , the authors use Bayo Akomolafe's metaphor of finding darkness as a literary placeholder, weaving personal narratives with scholars who refuse colonial assemblages and challenge what has been brought to light.
Abstract: ABSTRACT In times of uncertainty, one would seek the light at the end of the tunnel for clarity. By using Bayo Akomolafe’s metaphor of finding darkness as a literary placeholder, I weave my personal narratives with scholars who refuse colonial assemblages and challenge what has been brought to light. I write-through a time of being lost in the light and explain what it means to find, stay, and be in the darkness. This piece explains finding darkness as resistance to the colonial gaze and troubles the notion of self and visual representations of identity. It also means to embrace and stay hidden with displaced stories and inspire wonder as an incomplete and ongoing practice of wayfinding in the academy.
TL;DR: In the Raising the Curtain on the Lived Experiences of Dementia project as discussed by the authors , eleven individuals living with dementia participated as "peer collaborators" in weekly co-creative workshops over two years.
Abstract: ABSTRACT The lived experience of dementia includes loss of identity due to the negative and pessimistic social narratives that are stigmatizing and socially isolating. In the community-based participatory research (CBPR) project Raising the Curtain on the Lived Experiences of Dementia, eleven individuals living with dementia participated as ‘peer collaborators’ in weekly co-creative workshops over two years. The purpose of this study was to investigate how peer collaborators described their involvement in Raising the Curtain in relation to their social participation and ability to effect social messages about dementia. Data gathered from the workshops, including transcripts (8) and one-on-one evaluation interviews (103), were used for analysis. Research findings revealed that the participants’ engagement as peer collaborators fostered their ability to enact resistance and social citizenship, including sharing lived experiences, combating the stigma of dementia, engendering inclusion and belonging, and promoting advocacy. Using CBPR to foster social citizenship suggests that meaningful and purposeful approaches to leisure are possible for individuals living with dementia.
TL;DR: In this article , relational mentorship is seen as a move towards shared vulnerability, but also a relationship that is reciprocal, non-competitive, and non-authoritarian, reflecting on growth-spurring (and often uncomfortable) conversations about privilege, race, inaction, and personal tensions with/in the systems in which we continue to be complicit.
Abstract: ABSTRACT We see relational mentorship as a move towards shared vulnerability, but also a relationship that is reciprocal, non-competitive, and non-authoritarian. We reflect on growth-spurring (and often uncomfortable) conversations about privilege, race, inaction, among other topics amidst social unrest and personal tensions with/in the systems in which we continue to be complicit. Through returning to cultural protocols, love, thinkacting, theorypracticing, and attentiveness to the affects of our full selves, we discuss the difficult and ‘sacred’ work of support one another’s goals, celebrate milestones, and above all else, prioritize well-being above our individual or academic achievements in a neoliberal institution. We focus this paper on: (1) locating relational mentorship amongst existing approaches, (2) articulating relational mentorship and our experiences of it in relation to ongoing socio-political events, and (3) the ways relational mentorship can serve as a critique-in-practice of long-standing academic performances.
TL;DR: Barrrick et al. as discussed by the authors discuss the challenges faced by the 16th Canadian Congress on Leisure Research (CCLR 16) held in May 2021, which was postponed from an in-person gathering to a virtual gathering the following year due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Abstract: For some time, we, the guest editors of this special issue (Simon Barrick, Dan Henhawk and Felice Yuen), along with many other leisure scholars have been engaged in discussions about struggle; struggles with research, struggles with one’s identity and of finding one’s place in academia, and struggles with the academy and the ways it is implicated in upholding a system of colonialism. As described by Sandy Grande (2004), colonialism is ‘a multidimensional force underwritten by Western Christianity, defined by white supremacy, and fueled by global capitalism’ (p. 19). The impetus to push forward this special issue of Leisure/Loisir stemmed from events surrounding the 16th Canadian Congress on Leisure Research (CCLR 16) held in May 2021. CCLR 16 was postponed from an in-person gathering to be held in Edmonton, Alberta, in May 2020, to a virtual gathering the following year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Given the uncertain nature of global events during that time, the Canadian Association for Leisure Studies board of directors aligned CCLR 16 with the Federation for Humanities and Social Sciences’ Congress 2021 – an annual opportunity for Canadian Humanities and Social Sciences scholarly associations to gather individually and collectively each spring. However, amid widespread criticism of the Federation’s (in)action toward systemic discrimination and anti-Black racism – led by organizations such as the Black Canadian Studies Association (2021)– the CCLR 16 organizing committee opted to leave the Federation, returning CCLR 16 to an independent conference.
TL;DR: The authors explored six "lessons learned" which emerged from the tensions/conflicts I encountered while doing this project in the confines of academia with the goal of considering how academics and practitioners can create knowledge in anti-racist ways.
Abstract: ABSTRACT Black feminist thought is produced by and for Black women, but could it be applied by – be the conceptual lens for – others? How do/should I position myself as a white woman doing Black feminist work? How do I de-centre myself, centre Black voices, and also use the power that my whiteness provides to do the type of social justice work Black feminist thought approaches demands? Here, I wrestle with the answers to these questions mainly through my ‘conversations’ with Black feminist intellectuals such as Collins (2000), Lorde (2007), Cooper (2018), and Kendall (2020). In this reflective piece, I explore six ‘lessons learned’ which emerged from the tensions/conflicts I encountered while doing this project in the confines of academia with the goal of considering how academics and practitioners can create knowledge in anti-racist ways.
TL;DR: In this article , a multi-day canoe journey along an ancestral water route within Thaidene Nene National Park Reserve is described as part of a six-year (2016-2021) international partnership project entitled Tracking Change.
Abstract: ABSTRACT This paper examines how land-based methodologies in parks and protected areas can serve Indigenous priorities while challenging settler colonial logics and conventional aims of Eurocentric research. We report on collaborative research with the Łutsël K’é Dene First Nation (Northwest Territories) as part of a six-year (2016–2021) international partnership project entitled Tracking Change. Focus is placed on a multi-day canoe journey along an ancestral water route within Thaidene Nene National Park Reserve. We interpret lessons learned during the canoe trip to underscore how land-based methodologies prioritize outcomes of observing change, storying land, and fostering community capacities. Accordingly, land-based methodologies focus less on accumulating knowledge or claiming truths, and more on facilitating and transmitting Indigenous knowledges, histories, relations, and practices. Incorporating land-based methodologies into parks and protected areas research can therefore amplify Indigenous contributions to management and interpretation discourses and support the critical project of decolonizing the leisure field.
TL;DR: In this paper , the impact of day-camps on children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) was analyzed based on nine articles selected from seven databases, which shed light on the adaptations or intervention strategies as well as the support to be offered to young children with ASD in the camp setting.
Abstract: ABSTRACT Attending a day camp during summer has many benefits for children and their families. When a child has special needs, challenges may be encountered. This is especially true for children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Based on nine articles selected from seven databases, the objective is to shed light on the adaptations or intervention strategies as well as the support to be offered to young children with ASD in the camp setting. Two main themes emerged from the analysis regarding the impact on children with ASD: 1) the development of social skills through specialized programmes or interventions and 2) the improvement of physical literacy through camp participation. It was also noted that training for practitioners is a key to achieving these positive outcomes.
TL;DR: This article found that new arrivants of colour experienced a decrease in self-reported mental health as they spend more time in their new country of settlement, and that a perception of necessity for leisure was a novel contribution to the new arrivant leisure literature.
Abstract: There is a tendency for new arrivants to experience a decrease in self-reported mental health as they spend more time in their new country of settlement. We wanted to discern whether new arrivants of colour (<10 years) to a mid-sized Ontario city had a similar story. With the knowing that positive and inclusive leisure experiences can buffer stressors for individuals, this research sought to hear about the mental well-being of new arrivants (between the ages 18–64) and the ways leisure enhances or detracts from their perceived mental well-being. Through photo elicitation qualitative interviews with five new arrivants contextualized existing literature in this area and described experiences of isolation, their transition experience, social stress and support, and building social capital through bridging and bonding. From our analysis, a novel finding we called, ”a perception of necessity for leisure” was a novel contribution to the new arrivant leisure literature.
TL;DR: In this article , the authors demonstrate how anti-racist storytelling can be germane to challenging the status quo in academia that allows inequities to exist, and discuss the role of allies.
Abstract: ABSTRACT Anti-racist storytelling serves as a mechanism to expose the power dynamics and structural racism embedded in U.S. society. The goal of this paper is to demonstrate how anti-racist storytelling can be germane to challenging the status quo in academia that allows inequities to exist. First, we begin by sharing and debriefing stories that illustrate the difficulties that Latinxs face within academic spaces. Second, we discuss the role of allies. Finally, we present a story of faculty engaging in a dinner discussion, which highlights the issues of power, representation, and voice in who gets to share the stories of people of colour. Critical race theory (CRT) guided the development of these stories, and a short discussion on the framework is included.
TL;DR: In this paper , a study of summer camps for Indigenous youth run by Christian organizations in Canada is presented, which is informed by a settler colonial studies lens and internet-mediated document analysis of camp websites, as well as questionnaires and semi-structured interviews completed with those who operate and work at these camps.
Abstract: ABSTRACT The Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada’s Final Report and Calls to Action highlighted the need for the truth about Indian residential schools to be known and the responsibility of churches and religious groups to take action to enact reconciliation with Indigenous peoples. Summer camps for Indigenous youth run by Christian organizations in Canada are sites that have not yet been given scholarly attention. Within this context, ‘What is happening in these spaces’ is a simple question, but one behind which is the heavy weight of residential school history and the TRC’s Calls to Action. In this paper, we share the results of our research, which was informed by a settler colonial studies lens, and internet-mediated document analysis of camp websites, as well as questionnaires and semi-structured interviews completed with those who operate and work at these camps. Our research addresses an important, but neglected, area of study and makes a timely and applied contribution to leisure studies.
TL;DR: In this article , the authors explored the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the consumption of cultural and creative industries (CCI) products seen from the islanders' perspective.
Abstract: The COVID-19 pandemic has a significant impact on the cultural and creative industries (CCI) sector and has accelerated the transition to digital culture. This article explores the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the consumption of CCI products seen from the islanders' perspective. The data were collected through a survey conducted in 2020. Results show that the COVID-19 pandemic has affected the consumption of cultural products and that socio-demographic characteristic does not influence the consumption of online cultural products during the pandemic period. The results further reveal that the increase in the consumption of online content of CCI during the pandemic was influenced by the attitude of people towards culture in the pre-pandemic time. Also, the consumption of online content of cultural products has proven to be more significant for respondents residing on small and medium-sized islands. The results could provide some valuable implications for cultural island policy. © 2022 Canadian Association for Leisure Studies / Association canadienne d'études en loisir.
TL;DR: In this paper , the authors examined how violence in National Hockey League (NHL) games, specifically fighting, impacts regular season attendance as a percentage of its capacity and found differences in this relationship between US and Canadian franchises along with differences after the NHL adopted policies to deter fighting in the game.
Abstract: Sport spectators often enjoy violence in sport games they attend. Our research note attempts to provide an examination of how violence in National Hockey League (NHL) games, specifically fighting, impacts regular season attendance as a percentage of its capacity. Furthermore, we look to understand if there are differences in this relationship between US and Canadian franchises along with differences after the NHL adopted policies to deter fighting in the game. Our sample period covers the 1980/1981 through 2019/2020 seasons. Results for Tobit regression estimations find fighting regardless of time period or country does not impact regular season attendance. However, we do find differences between the countries after new fighting rules were adopted. We provide some discussion as to why these findings occur, and how future leisure research can provide some further explanation into this relationship.
TL;DR: The Re-creation Collective offers key methodological practices that nourish us and our work together, such as deep visiting, intersectional praxis, (re)visiting accessibility, and accountability revisited as discussed by the authors .
Abstract: ABSTRACT In this paper, members of the Re-creation Collective offer key methodological practices that nourish us and our work together. These include deep visiting, intersectional praxis, (re)visiting accessibility, and accountability revisited. This methodological sharing is not intended to be prescriptive: there is not one ‘recipe’ for doing this work. We offer an emergent collection of hows, rather than a predictable list of whats. Nor is this sharing intended to be descriptive of all of the methodological choices we have made. Rather, we intend this sharing as inscriptive: some of the most profound ways our processes have marked us; a way to leave traces of our learnings for others; an offering of approaches for carving out methodological spaces that are capacious and profound enough to bring our many selves into.