Studies of Whiteness in Leisure Studies

Over the past 50 years, the relationship of Race and ethnicity with leisure has been examined in many ways. In this article, the authors first recommend that leisure research give attention solely to Race and provide a justification for this recommendation. Second, this article suggests leisure researchers have primarily viewed Race as a variable within leisure studies, thus providing limited insight into the relationship between Race and leisure behavior. Finally, this research note argues that leisure researchers should commit to promoting Race scholarship where the goal is to gain a better understanding of Race itself and then identify its relationship with leisure. Examples of Race scholarship and how it can be engaged by leisure researchers are provided. While evidence of Race scholarship exists within leisure research and should be acknowledged, these occurrences are minimal. A concerted effort by leisure researchers to stimulate Race scholarship is necessary to transform the way in which we explore Race in leisure research.

References made to a contemporary theoretical ‘crisis’ in leisure studies discourse have been made by a number of scholars in the field (Scraton, 1994; Coalter, 1997; Mommaas, 1997). This article examines the origins and nature of such a ‘crisis’ and attempts to map one possible route through the current academic impasse. It is argued that leisure studies’ reluctance to embrace recent theoretical advances in cognate disciplines and subject fields, together with a reticence to engage with poststructural discourse, has rendered culture marginal to leisure studies research. Increasing cultural analyses in sociology, geography and gender studies have been accompanied by widespread engagement with postmodernism and a concomitant disengagement with social and material analyses of power. This article discusses the role of the subaltern discourses of poststructural and postcolonial feminism as theoretical and political projects capable of addressing cultural and material power. The false dichotomy of social and cultural analyses in leisure, tourism and culture is then addressed in a dicussion of Othering. This discussion reveals the significance of the social-cultural nexus of leisure relations and the potential for research that engages with poststructuralism whilst continuing to further leisure studies' welldeveloped social policy discourse. In summary, poststructural feminist analyses are cited as one means of enhancing the theoretical sophistication of the subject field and of addresssing the current ‘crisis’.

This introduction presents an overview of key concepts discussed in subsequent chapters of this book. The book is committed to 'being critical', with such commitment being achieved through all chapters problematizing taken for granted 'truths' to encourage researchers and/or practitioners to continue to step outside of the disciplinary and subcultural box. The book approaches the sport and physical activity subcultures and the participants within them using different critical perspectives, with the goal of expanding the critical cultural sport psychology (CSP) discourse. Further, it takes a critical approach as each is committed to creating safe and/or socially inclusive spaces for sport and physical activity participants in order to promote psychological well-being and an ethically and socially just sport psychology. The book is divided into three parts: sociocultural dimensions of inclusion/exclusion in sport, critiques of the medical model, sport culture and sport research, self-reflection and reflexivity in sport psychology practice and research.

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ABSTRACTA 12-year-old boy is shot in a public park on the grounds of being a threat, yet despite the locational relevance there was a silence within leisure research. With this in mind, the aim of this manuscript is a manifesto on the manner that leisure-related research on race, social justice, quality of life, and leisure studies (more broadly, as an academy) must confront the silence with dealing with racism as structural and systematic. If we are to advocate in varying ways on the right of populations to enjoy the life sustaining opportunities that are afforded to them as citizens through leisure, then we must also hold ourselves accountable when those very leisure settings fail to deliver on that promise, and become life-threatening. Tamir Rice, is a case of the duality of silence on the structural nature of racism while also an opportunity to assert a social relevance for leisure research.

Storytelling is a genuinely human way of making meaning out of our lived experiences. With this mind, narrative inquiry – that is, doing research with firstperson accounts of experience – offers leisure researchers a meaningful way to produce knowledge that deepens and enlarges our understanding of leisure experiences. While our field is becoming increasingly comfortable with a variety of interpretive approaches to conducting research, it has largely ignored narrative as a method of inquiry. The purpose of this paper, is to provide a general orientation to narrative inquiry and underscore its relevance to leisure research. To achieve this aim, the author defines narrative and its elements, discusses the association between narrative explanation and meaning, outlines the aims of narrative inquiry, explains the fundamentals of conducting a narrative inquiry, and explains why it ought to appeal to researchers in leisure studies. In doing so, he encourages leisure researchers to take the “narrative turn” and add to a body literature that spans across so many academic fields.

Reasearch problem/aim: In this study, it was aimed to evaluate them under the titles of the sports sector (media, consumption, marketing) by mentioning primarily popular culture and sports issues. Method: In this study, a descriptive research model, which is used to investigate the events as they are, trying to determine the situation that happened, investigating the events and situations discussed in detail and examining their relationship. Findings: The notion that sports is one of the building blocks of popular culture, and as a result of its action, the media sheds considerable light on consumption and marketing. The popular culture field, which started to develop as a field of study on its own, has become important by societies in the world and scientific studies on this subject have increased rapidly. Especially the innovations brought by popular culture in the world and the rapidly increasing interest in sports, media, marketing and consumer products have made this issue more up-to-date. Today, most of the sources explain that popular culture is under the influence of the media and that sports, marketing and consumption provide access to more people. Especially, social media, which enters our homes and becomes the most important part of our daily life, is extremely important in creating and conveying these topics (sports, marketing, consumption). In this context, the relationship between popular culture, media, consumption and marketing in sports and their roles among each other was discussed as a result of the extensive literature review. Conclusion: it is seen that sports have an effect on popular culture products on media, marketing and consumption.

An excursion in sport, leisure and tourism research: the changing face of research in sport, leisure and tourism

This paper reviews methodological developments in choice modelling (CM) and the state of CM research in tourism, hospitality and leisure through a review of 43 CM studies. The paper emphasizes the theoretical and methodological advantages of Discrete Choice Analysis based on Random Utility Theory combined with state-of-the-art experimental design procedures for the gathering of Stated Preference data.

What does it mean to be alternative? What is alternativity, and how does it relate to other attempts to make sense of those on the margins? In the first part of this chapter, I will undertake a history and philosophy of alternativity, from deviance through subcultures to neo-tribes. This will focus partly on popular notions of alternativity, and partly on academic attempts to understand it in various disciplines and subject fields. In the second part of the chapter, the author will focus on how alternativity has been explored in two specific subject fields – leisure studies and popular cultural studies – to make the claim that both subject fields have failed through different means to get to groups with the idea of the alternative: leisure studies have failed through a lack of theory, and cultural studies have failed through a lack of empirical research. In the final part of the chapter, I will attempt to reconcile leisure and culture, and I will sketch out a new theory and empirical programme of alternative leisure that returns to the idea of subculture as counterculture.

This textbook puts sport in the spotlight of cultural inquiry for the first time. The authors provide the essential resources for the study of sport within culture and popular culture. Sport is an important part of cultural life, yet until recently it has tended to remain on the margins of academic cultural studies. Beginning by considering sport in relation to the pre-cultural studies tradition of cultural commentary, The Uses of Sport then moves on to a critical engagement with a number of themes relevant to contemporary cultural studies including: community and social capital, cultural populism, cultural materialism, visual culture and film, and postmodernism and citizenship. As sport continues to gain cultural and academic significance, this textbook will become the definitive resource for students and scholars of cultural studies, sociology, and sport and leisure studies.

Tourism is now the largest industry in the world, and as such, it has increasingly become of interest to scholars in a number of academic disciplines, such as anthropology, sociology, psychology, → semiotics, communication and → Marketing. It is also the subject of analyses using interdisciplinary approaches, such as leisure studies, feminist studies (→ Feminist and Gender Studies), and → cultural studies. Tourism studies have moved from being a relatively marginal aspect of the academy to one of considerable importance, and there are now departments devoted to studying tourism and many scholarly journals devoted to the subject.

Newton Arvin and the Police: Contexts for <i>The Scarlet Professor</i>

Few leisure scholars have defined resistance in published research. Those who have defined resistance adopted frameworks which centre norms, discourse, and ideologies rather than human rights or material needs. If the intent of resistance research is to make the world more just, a fuller accounting of the ways we might make a dent in the universe are needed. The present study fills this gap through a description Amilcar Cabral’s perspective on resistance. Cabral’s perspective is shared here because he successfully liberated Guinea and Cape Verde from Portuguese colonialism. We addressed this purpose through a thematic analysis of Cabral’s writings and scholarship about Cabral. In particular, we first share Cabral’s definition of resistance and examples of how he and the PAIGC put that definition into practice. We then explain the differences between Cabral’s perspective and those deployed in prior leisure research and the implications of those differences for future leisure research.

The modernization of the world economy and information systems leads, presumably, to globalization in all areas, including leisure research. To explore this idea, the level of cross-national research published in leading leisure-science journals, including the Journal of Leisure Research , Leisure Sciences , and Leisure Studies was examined. F ollowing the dramatic shift toward globalization in the past 20 years, it was assumed leisure-science research would reflect an increase in cross-national research published. Using content analysis, 1352 published articles were reviewed and just 20 (1.5%) of these were cross-national. Reasons for this pattern are discussed, along with a call for scholars in the leisure sciences to shift toward a more international perspective.