Browsing Recreation and Leisure Studies by Subject "Foucault"
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Conditioning Community: Power and Decision-Making in Transitioning an Industry-based Community
(University of Waterloo, 2010-08-11)While it is well understood that many resource-based communities are transitioning to tourism to provide a new economic foundation, few studies have probed in-depth the rationale and mechanisms influencing decision-making ... -
Working Together to Put Living First: A Culture Change Process in a Long-Term Care and Retirement Living Organization Guided by Critical Participatory Action Research
(University of Waterloo, 2015-04-29)My research begins with the premise that the dilemmas of long-term care homes are rooted in the dilemmas of modernity. Habermas (1984; 1987) contends that modern societies are comprised of two basic spheres of social life ... -
Young, Wild*, and (somewhat) Free: A Narrative Exploration of Married Second- Generation East Indian Canadian Women and Their Relationship with Leisure
(University of Waterloo, 2019-08-02)Stemming from my personal experiences of a second-generation East Indian (SGEI) woman living in Canada, I explore the complexities of leisure within marriages. I employ postcolonial feminist theorization to contextualize ...