1st Edition
The Messiness of Leisure Research Explorations of Research Processes
This book illustrates tensions, absences, and unresolved challenges experienced in research – experiences that are so often left out of the conventional, smooth, and linear discussion of research that generally appears in academic publications.
Laying bare the messy details of research is increasingly important because leisure scholars’ engagement in reflexive, collaborative, critical, arts-based, participative, and social justice-oriented research heightens the need to explore and examine significant moments that punctuate and undoubtedly shape both research and researchers. The chapters in this book make explicit the negotiations, contradictions, questions, doubts, and uncertainties often underlying research. As loose ends of the research process are unravelled, this book inspires researchers across disciplines to expand the ways we come to know and do research.
The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Leisure Sciences.
Introduction
Unraveling the Research Process: Humanizing Leisure Scholars
Karen Anne Gallant and Felice Yuen
1. Becoming a Researcher: Navigating Messy Researcher Subjectivities
Mandi Baker
2. Examining Self-Other Constructions to Advance the Social Justice Goals of Leisure Research
Colleen Reid, Ania Landy, Marina Morrow and Maggie Bosse
3. On Methods: "The Situation’s in Control"
Joseph A. Pate and Brian E. Kumm
4. Implicit Attitudes and the Challenge of Becoming a Reflexive Leisure Scholar
Garrett A. Stone, Brandon Harris, Lauren N. Duffy, Billy Terry, Eric Layland, Dorothy L. Schmalz, Dana Kivel, Brandy Kelly-Pryor and Rasul Mowatt
5. Ethical Considerations When Negotiating Entry in Community-Based Research
Michael Dubnewick, Derek Wasyliw and Lee Schaefer
6. Going the Extra Mile: Building Trust and Collaborative Relationships with Study Participants
Mariela Fernandez, Rasul A. Mowatt, Kimberly J. Shinew, Monika Stodolska and William Stewart
7. "Are You Trying to Make Them Gay?": Culture Wars, Anxieties about Genderplay, and the Subsequent Impacts on Youth
KJ Dykstra and Fenton Litwiller
8. Digging Deeper: Engaging in Reflexivity in Interpretivist-Constructivist and Critical Leisure Research
Lauren N. Duffy, Mariela Fernandez and Aby Sène-Harper
Biography
Felice Yuen is Associate Professor in the Department of Applied Human Sciences at Concordia University, Montreal, Canada. Her research focuses on leisure and its impact on individuals and the communities in which they live. More specifically, she is interested in leisure as a context for healing.
Karen Gallant is Assistant Professor in the School of Health and Human Performance, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada. Her research examines and highlights the role of community-based recreation settings and experiences in facilitating social inclusion, and explores the nature and implications of those interactions for well-being.
