Leisure/LoisirPub Date : 2023-10-26DOI: 10.1080/14927713.2023.2271949
Darla Fortune, Brittany Butler
{"title":"Keeping isolation and loneliness at bay: how community centres can support belonging as we age","authors":"Darla Fortune, Brittany Butler","doi":"10.1080/14927713.2023.2271949","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14927713.2023.2271949","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTExperiencing a sense of belonging is helpful for warding off loneliness and social isolation. With social isolation and loneliness among older adults increasingly recognized as a societal concern, it is important to understand the conditions that enhance belonging. The purpose of this paper is to share findings of a study that examined the role of a community centre in contributing to belonging for older adults. Forty-nine community centre members participated in a focus group or individual interview that explored their personal meanings and experiences of belonging. Findings suggest the community centre supports belonging by creating a welcoming environment, offering opportunities for meaningful involvement, and offering leisure programmes and services that meet diverse needs and interests. This paper responds to calls for research highlighting the benefits of community centres for older adults by suggesting their prospective benefit lies in their efforts to become spaces of belonging.RésuméLe sentiment d’appartenance est utile pour lutter contre la solitude et l’isolement social. L’isolement social et la solitude chez les aînés étant de plus en plus reconnus comme un problème de société, il est important de comprendre les conditions qui favorisent le sentiment d’appartenance. L’objectif de cet article est de partager les résultats d’une étude qui a examiné le rôle d’un centre communautaire dans la contribution au sentiment d’appartenance des aînés. Quarante-neuf membres du centre communautaire ont participé à un groupe de discussion ou à un entretien individuel visant à explorer leurs significations et expériences personnelles de l’appartenance. Les résultats suggèrent que le centre communautaire favorise l’appartenance en créant un environnement accueillant, en offrant des possibilités de participation significative et en proposant des programmes et des services de loisirs qui répondent à des besoins et à des intérêts divers. Cet article répond aux appels à la recherche soulignant les avantages des centres communautaires pour les aînés en suggérant que leur avantage potentiel réside dans leurs efforts pour devenir des espaces d’appartenance.KEYWORDS: Agingbelongingcommunity centresleisureMOTS-CLÉS: vieillissement appartenancecentres communautairesloisirsaînéscentres pour personnes âgées AcknowledgmentsWe gratefully acknowledge members of the community centre who took the time to share their insights and experiences with us. It was a pleasure to meet and speak with each of you.Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Additional informationFundingThe work was supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada [892-2018-2041].","PeriodicalId":18056,"journal":{"name":"Leisure/Loisir","volume":"10 2","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136377263","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Leisure/LoisirPub Date : 2023-10-26DOI: 10.1080/14927713.2023.2271924
Francesc Fusté-Forné, Asif Hussain
{"title":"Regenerative leisure and tourism: a pathway for mindful futures","authors":"Francesc Fusté-Forné, Asif Hussain","doi":"10.1080/14927713.2023.2271924","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14927713.2023.2271924","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTThe emergence of regenerative tourism has gained worldwide momentum to raise awareness of the environmental and sociocultural impacts of recreational activities in host environments. The article examines leisure as human behaviour in its past, present and future perspectives to identify the current and future avenues of regeneration in leisure and tourist experiences. Although regenerative practices are much older than the COVID-19 pandemic, the current situation necessitates a focus on regenerative understanding that should be integrated into local systems both in the short and long term. Results suggest that to move beyond sustainability and the confines of capitalism, regeneration must be planned and developed in line with Indigenous values. Its effectiveness in reshaping leisure and tourism practices will depend on a collective commitment to finding innovative solutions that benefit the natural world and the diverse communities that interact with it because regeneration looks holistically at the relationship between humans and nature.RésuméL’émergence du tourisme régénérateur a pris de l’ampleur dans le monde entier pour sensibiliser aux impacts environnementaux et socioculturels des activités de loisirs dans les environnements d’accueil. L’article examine les loisirs en tant que comportement humain dans ses perspectives passées, présentes et futures afin d’identifier les voies actuelles et futures de la régénération dans les loisirs et les expériences touristiques. Bien que les pratiques de régénération soient bien plus anciennes que la pandémie de COVID-19, la situation actuelle nécessite de mettre l’accent sur la compréhension de la régénération qui devrait être intégrée dans les systèmes locaux à court et à long terme. Les résultats suggèrent que pour aller au-delà de la durabilité et des limites du capitalisme, la régénération doit être planifiée et développée en accord avec les valeurs autochtones. Son efficacité dans le remodelage des pratiques de loisirs et de tourisme dépendra de l’engagement collectif à trouver des solutions innovantes qui profitent au monde naturel et à ses diverses communautés, car la régénération envisage de manière holistique la relation entre les humains et la nature.KEYWORDS: Conscious travelleisure experiencesregenerative traveltourism transformationMOTS CLÉS: voyage conscientexpériences de loisirstourisme régénérateurtransformation du tourisme AcknowledgementThis research is made possible thanks to the funding from the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment, New Zealand Government under the Innovation Programme for Tourism Recovery.Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Additional informationNotes on contributorsFrancesc Fusté-FornéFrancesc Fusté-Forné is a lecturer and researcher at the Department of Business, University of Girona. He is undertaking research on culinary and rural heritages from a marketing and travel perspective. Particularly, he","PeriodicalId":18056,"journal":{"name":"Leisure/Loisir","volume":"78 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136377264","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Leisure/LoisirPub Date : 2023-10-23DOI: 10.1080/14927713.2023.2271910
Marie-Claude Rivard, Paule Miquelon, Jean Lemoyne
{"title":"A non-competitive sporting challenge: experience shared by a group of women","authors":"Marie-Claude Rivard, Paule Miquelon, Jean Lemoyne","doi":"10.1080/14927713.2023.2271910","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14927713.2023.2271910","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTGiven that scientific evidence shows that regular physical activity (PA) has physical, psychological, and social benefits, multiple initiatives have been implemented to promote its practice among women. One such initiative is Le Défi des Roses, a non-competitive sporting challenge in Quebec, Canada. A mixed method study consisting of a questionnaire (n = 141) and individual interviews (n = 38) was used among women enrolled in the challenge to: 1) assess participants’ physical, psychological, and social profile at the beginning of their training and 2) describe the physical, psychological, and social impacts of the challenge on participants. Le Défi des Roses had positive impacts physically (e.g. increase in the diversity of PA practice), psychologically (e.g. improvement in body image) and socially (e.g. increased influence over family members). These results could inspire other active leisure organizations designed to promote women’s regular PA, and ultimately, their physical, psychological, and social well-being.RésuméÉtant donné que les preuves scientifiques démontrent que l’activité physique (AP) régulière présente des avantages physiques, psychologiques et sociaux, de nombreuses initiatives ont été mises en œuvre pour promouvoir sa pratique chez les femmes. L’une de ces initiatives est Le Défi des Roses, un défi sportif non compétitif organisé au Québec (Canada). Une étude à méthodologie mixte composée d’un questionnaire (n=141) et d’entretiens individuels (n=38) a été utilisée auprès des femmes inscrites au défi pour : 1) évaluer le profil physique, psychologique et social des participantes au début de leur entraînement et 2) décrire les impacts physiques, psychologiques et sociaux du défi sur les participantes. Le Défi des Roses a eu des impacts positifs sur le plan physique (par exemple, augmentation de la diversité des pratiques d’AP), psychologique (par exemple, amélioration de l’image corporelle) et social (par exemple, augmentation de l’influence sur les membres de la famille). Ces résultats pourraient inspirer d’autres organismes de loisirs actifs visant à promouvoir l’AP régulière des femmes et, à terme, leur bien-être physique, psychologique et social.KEYWORDS: Physical activitywomennon-competitive sporting challengeimpactsMOTS-CLÉS: activité physiquefemmesdéfi sportif non compétitifimpacts AcknowledgmentsThe authors wish to thank Juliette Morin and Claudine Gélinas for their collaboration in collecting and analyzing data, to Christine Cyr for her revision of the references and to Arianne Côté for her help in writing and reviewing the article. The authors would also like to thank the organizers of Le Défi des Roses, Marie-Josée Gervais and Chantal Guimond.Disclosure statementThe authors of the manuscript titled ‘A non-competitive sporting challenge: experience shared by a group of women’ declare they have no conflicts of interest to disclose.Notes1. Because many participants had no children or teenagers, the number of respo","PeriodicalId":18056,"journal":{"name":"Leisure/Loisir","volume":"18 10","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135366664","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Participation sociale des aînés faisant face à des dynamiques de marginalisation et d’exclusion: étude de cas auprès de divers acteurs du milieu communautaire de loisir","authors":"Hélène Carbonneau, Patsy Clapperton, Martin Caouette, Valérie Poulin, Ginette Aubin, Lyson Marcoux, Julie Fortier, Patrik Marier, Pierre-Yves Therriault, Marie Beaulieu, Élodie Lebeau, Katherine Lemay-Crilly, Eugénie Ferdais","doi":"10.1080/14927713.2023.2252822","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14927713.2023.2252822","url":null,"abstract":"RÉSUMÉCertains aînés font face à une stigmatisation qui limite leur participation à des loisirs au sein de la communauté. Les milieux de loisir sont encore trop peu outillés pour soutenir la participation des aînés faisant face à des enjeux liés à des conditions « invisibles » tels que des atteintes neurocognitives, une déficience intellectuelle ou une problématique de santé mentale. Une recherche-action vise à accompagner ces milieux dans la compréhension des dynamiques de marginalisation et d’exclusion liées à cette stigmatisation afin d’être en mesure de les outiller dans la création d’espaces plus favorables à la participation de tous les aînés. Des entrevues et des groupes de discussion ont été menés auprès d’usagers, d’intervenants/bénévoles ou de gestionnaires de divers milieux (n=24). Certains enjeux et des pistes d’action ont été dégagés pour guider le développement d’outils afin de mieux outiller les milieux de loisir pour l’inclusion d’aînés avec une condition invisible.ABSTRACTSome seniors face a stigma that limits their participation in recreation in the community. Recreational settings are still under-equipped to support the participation of seniors facing issues related to “invisible” conditions such as neurocognitive impairments, intellectual disabilities or mental health problems. Action research aims to support these communities in understanding the dynamics of marginalization and exclusion related to this stigmatization in order to be able to equip them to create spaces that are more conducive to the participation of all seniors. Interviews and focus groups were conducted with users, stakeholders/volunteers or managers from various backgrounds (n=24). Some issues and courses of action have been identified to guide the development of tools to better equip recreational settings for the inclusion of seniors with invisible conditions.MOTS CLÉS: Inclusionconditition invisiblepersonnes aînéescommunautéloisirKEYWORDS: Inclusioninvisible conditionseniorscommunityleisure Disclosure statementThe authors have no conflicts of interest to disclose.Additional informationFundingThis work was supported by the FQRSC [295267].","PeriodicalId":18056,"journal":{"name":"Leisure/Loisir","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135666669","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Leisure/LoisirPub Date : 2023-09-25DOI: 10.1080/14927713.2023.2252812
Luc S. Cousineau
{"title":"“Are there any other male friendly subs on here?” - online men’s rights groups as simultaneous communities of care and hate, inclusion and exclusion","authors":"Luc S. Cousineau","doi":"10.1080/14927713.2023.2252812","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14927713.2023.2252812","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACTOnline communities provide spaces and places where (almost) anyone can find like-minded others. This is true of many digital leisure spaces and is especially true for men’s rights and other masculinist groups. In these groups, while they are engaged with acts of misogyny and supremacist discourses, some men meet the fundamental need ‘for meaningful social connection, to be part of a group, and to belong’ as well as to ‘“heal” modern alientation.’ More than simple gatherings, when these groups for men form around a perceived alienation from the mainstream they become spaces ‘to which [people] belong’ and believe that they ‘can act together to create change;’ Southern’s definition of a community of care. This paper establishes these groups as communities of care where care exists under Derridian erasure. This makes them important avenues for anti-feminist and misogynistic ideologies, exclusion, and violence, but through cultures of leisure inclusion and belonging.RÉSUMÉLes communautés en ligne offrent des espaces et des lieux où (presque) tout le monde peut trouver d’autres personnes partageant les mêmes idées. Cela est vrai pour de nombreux espaces de loisirs numériques et particulièrement pour les droits des hommes et d’autres groupes masculinistes. Dans ces groupes, alors qu'ils se livrent à des actes de misogynie et à des discours suprémacistes, certains hommes répondent au besoin fondamental « d'établir un lien social significatif, de faire partie d'un groupe et d'y appartenir » ainsi que de « « guérir » l'aliénation moderne. ” Plus que de simples rassemblements, lorsque ces groupes d'hommes se forment autour d'une aliénation perçue du courant dominant, ils deviennent des espaces ” auxquels [les gens] appartiennent ” et croient qu'ils ” peuvent agir ensemble pour créer le changement”; la définition de Southern d'une communauté de soins. Cet article établit ces groupes comme des communautés de soins où les soins existent sous l'effacement derridien. Cela en fait des voies importantes pour les idéologies antiféministes et misogynes, l’exclusion et la violence, mais à travers des cultures de loisirs, d’inclusion et d’appartenance.KEYWORDS: Communities of caremen’s rightsredditerasureMOTS-CLÉS: communautés d’entraidedroits des hommesRedditeffacement Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIALSupplemental data for this article can be accessed online at https://doi.org/10.1080/14927713.2023.2252812Notes1. Reddit.com uses the designations/u/and/r/to differentiate between individual user pages (for example www.reddit.com/u/Here_Comes_The_King is the page for rapper Snoop Dogg) and communities (www.reddit.com/r/MensRights is the Men’s Rights community page).2. For posts and comments that I quote in this paper (aside from the epigraph) I have excluded author attribution. While this contrasts with my approach in previous expository work on/r/MensRights and other reddit communities (se","PeriodicalId":18056,"journal":{"name":"Leisure/Loisir","volume":"44 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135768447","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Leisure/LoisirPub Date : 2023-09-12DOI: 10.1080/14927713.2023.2253238
Darla Fortune, Karen Gallant
{"title":"Challenging ideas of inclusion to work toward a more just future: introduction to the special issue","authors":"Darla Fortune, Karen Gallant","doi":"10.1080/14927713.2023.2253238","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14927713.2023.2253238","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":18056,"journal":{"name":"Leisure/Loisir","volume":"43 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135878107","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Leisure/LoisirPub Date : 2023-09-10DOI: 10.1080/14927713.2023.2252847
Fenton Litwiller, Stephanie Chesser, Dan Henhawk
{"title":"Justice as inclusion: a critical conversation about inclusion and belonging","authors":"Fenton Litwiller, Stephanie Chesser, Dan Henhawk","doi":"10.1080/14927713.2023.2252847","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14927713.2023.2252847","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Using Kovach’s conversational method and with our epistemological assumptions (knowing through embodiment, lived experience and scholarship) three leisure scholars used conversation and storytelling as method to explore current understandings of inclusion and belonging that perpetuate the violence of colonialism and the heteropatriarchy. For example, inclusion as it is often enacted is a token gesture of an organization but without making any of the structural changes necessary to ensure true belonging. Much like current rhetoric around decolonization, inclusion can become a metaphor that ultimately maintains the notion of settler futurity. Reframing inclusion to ‘justice as inclusion’ insists that practitioners and scholars, for example, de-program essentialist and capitalist notions of what we imagine Indigeneity to be, name systems of oppression and privilege, and centre Indigenous notions of relationality, including emphasizing the experience of connecting over what it means to be human, and establishing and re-establishing a connection to the non-human world.","PeriodicalId":18056,"journal":{"name":"Leisure/Loisir","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136072212","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Leisure/LoisirPub Date : 2023-09-07DOI: 10.1080/14927713.2023.2252820
Alayna Schmidt, C. Schultz, Jeremy Schultz, Brandi Hinnant-Crawford, Maria Baron Palomar
{"title":"Art as counternarratives: a/r/tographic understandings of black youth’s conceptualizations of nature","authors":"Alayna Schmidt, C. Schultz, Jeremy Schultz, Brandi Hinnant-Crawford, Maria Baron Palomar","doi":"10.1080/14927713.2023.2252820","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14927713.2023.2252820","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Like race, ‘nature’ is a social construct with meanings and conceptualizations that shift with time, context, and power. Dominant ideas of nature in the U.S. are often centred around whiteness and white preferences are normalized. To make these ‘invisible’ white preferences opaque, I (Alayna) use nature (with strikethrough) to indicate placing the concept of ‘nature’ under erasure and create openings for alternative meanings. Using a/r/tography, Black Feminist Theory, and Critical Race Theory, I asked Black 1 youth in Asheville, North Carolina to create and share their artful counterstories of nature in our city. In my role of researcher-as-curator, I gathered and organized youth’s art into a public art zine which challenges viewers to consider how racial identities can influence the ways we each conceptualize nature.","PeriodicalId":18056,"journal":{"name":"Leisure/Loisir","volume":"34 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77678562","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Leisure/LoisirPub Date : 2023-09-05DOI: 10.1080/14927713.2023.2252842
K. Aly Bailey, M. Griffin, Serena Habib, Nosaiba Fayyaz, K. Lopez, Ann Fudge Schormans
{"title":"Building community or perpetuating inclusionism? The representation of “inclusion” on fitness facility websites","authors":"K. Aly Bailey, M. Griffin, Serena Habib, Nosaiba Fayyaz, K. Lopez, Ann Fudge Schormans","doi":"10.1080/14927713.2023.2252842","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14927713.2023.2252842","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Despite mandates for inclusion, fitness spaces are often unwelcoming for bodies of difference. The disconnect between the formal rules (e.g. policies) of inclusion and people’s ongoing lived experiences of exclusion is what disability scholars call inclusionism. We used Google Maps to search for ‘inclusive gyms’ in our medium-sized city in Canada and curated a list of 47 facility websites. Using a collaborative reflexive thematic analysis, our objective was to explore how inclusion was mobilized on these websites. In our findings, we discuss the theme of ‘continuum of community building’, whereby we observed ‘community’ ranged from capitalizing on the idea of community to more social justice-leaning commitments. Then we describe our themes of ‘inclusion and accessibility rhetoric’ (e.g. lack of comprehensive accessibility statements) and ‘inclusion as preclusion’ (i.e. consistent omission of disability and fatness). To conclude, we interrogate the ways inclusionism is demonstrated and push for bottom-up approaches to inclusion/access.","PeriodicalId":18056,"journal":{"name":"Leisure/Loisir","volume":"16 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76490536","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Leisure/LoisirPub Date : 2023-09-05DOI: 10.1080/14927713.2023.2252834
Barbora Adolfová, Jennifer P. Agans
{"title":"“There is just more love in it”: a qualitative study of youth voice and relatedness in U.S. youth circus programs","authors":"Barbora Adolfová, Jennifer P. Agans","doi":"10.1080/14927713.2023.2252834","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14927713.2023.2252834","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Recreational youth circus programs are a unique context for positive youth development. Anecdotal evidence suggests that young people feel heard in these programs, and research in other recreation settings shows that participation in decision making helps youth connect with others. The present study therefore examined how youth voice is supported at five youth circus programs across the United States through program observations and qualitative interviews with participants (N = 17, ages 12–18) and staff (N = 13). Thematic analysis revealed that both youth and staff felt their circus programs listen to youth members, although actual options for engagement varied. Furthermore, the love and acceptance of the circus community was omnipresent in the interviews; a feeling of belonging/relatedness even for individuals who felt excluded elsewhere. This study shows that youth circus can foster belonging and inclusion, and raises questions about the differences between perceived and actual opportunities for youth voice in recreation contexts.","PeriodicalId":18056,"journal":{"name":"Leisure/Loisir","volume":"371 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77306594","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}