Pub Date : 2022-03-03DOI: 10.1080/11745398.2022.2041449
Sally F. Gregory
ABSTRACT The average age of travelers is rising. Research shows increases in the older tourist segment, which prefers opportunities to participate in adventurous activities. Recent figures from Australia show increases in numbers of over 50's women who are signing on for dive classes and trips, yet few studies have examined this group. Older divers often require specialized services. This autoethnographic study aims to bridge the gap in knowledge of leisure constraints encountered by an older woman diver on a day trip to the Great Barrier Reef and offer insights relating to this growing cohort's needs. The five phases of the leisure experience were applied to the author's diving experience to address the scarcity of studies of this cohort. It presents new perspectives on accessible tourism for older adventurous women, such as the challenges of managing heavy gear and the need for suitable spaces to undress in privacy and comfort.
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Pub Date : 2022-02-22DOI: 10.1080/11745398.2022.2041447
Reni Polus, N. Carr, Trudie Walters
ABSTRACT International volunteering has typically been conceived as a Western sociocultural phenomenon. Within this paper, we aim to apply a non-Western lens to the development of a conceptual framework, through which to consider an alternative perspective on international volunteering. We highlight how, increasingly, non-Western countries are a place that not only hosts international volunteers but also sends volunteers abroad. Using the notions of solidarity, respect and equality, we illustrate the complexities and nuances of what non-Western international volunteering involves. This paper serves as a point of departure for a deeper assessment of the conceptualization of international volunteering from non-Western perspectives that recognize these will be different from Western perspectives, even in an era of globalization partially driven by international volunteering.
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Pub Date : 2022-02-18DOI: 10.1080/11745398.2022.2041448
Statia Elliot, Michael W. Lever
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Pub Date : 2022-02-01DOI: 10.1080/11745398.2022.2027250
J. Ryu, Jinmoo Heo, Hyunmin Yang
ABSTRACT Flow and balance (FAB) is a non-pharmaceutical leisure-time physical activity programme, known as a common health practice for older adults in Korea. It comprises a series of coordinated dance routines, including breathing, balancing, and tapping motions performed on Korean folk music. This study explored a range of experiential characteristics associated with exercising FAB. We used in-depth interviews with older adults (n = 9) from a local community centre in a southern state of the USA who had attended a FAB programme for eight months. The data were coded and analyzed using constant comparison method. The following three themes emerged as a result of the analyses, that is, the uniqueness of the programme; its benefits for physical/mental health and social connectedness; and its role in later-life learning. We suggest that FAB is a practical and broadly applicable leisure-time physical activity for a community setting.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-28DOI: 10.1080/11745398.2022.2029511
Jaesung An, L. Payne, T. Liechty
ABSTRACT There is currently no consensus on the definition of healthy aging and healthy aging can mean different things in different contexts. Therefore, this study explored the meaning of healthy aging and leisure to generate insights about the role of leisure in the process of healthy aging among older adults with chronic conditions. Taking a qualitative approach, in-depth interviews were conducted with 11 older adults from three locations in a medium-sized Midwestern U.S. city. Five themes emerged that described how participants defined healthy aging in the context of leisure: avoiding boredom, keeping mind and body active, meaningful social connections, sense of purpose, and enjoyment and satisfaction. Although participants described benefits of leisure as an important part of their lives across the life course, it was noticeable that older adults’ leisure pursuits changed in later life when they sought activities with more social and cognitive value than physical benefits.
{"title":"Exploring the role and meaning of leisure in healthy aging among older adults with chronic conditions","authors":"Jaesung An, L. Payne, T. Liechty","doi":"10.1080/11745398.2022.2029511","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/11745398.2022.2029511","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT There is currently no consensus on the definition of healthy aging and healthy aging can mean different things in different contexts. Therefore, this study explored the meaning of healthy aging and leisure to generate insights about the role of leisure in the process of healthy aging among older adults with chronic conditions. Taking a qualitative approach, in-depth interviews were conducted with 11 older adults from three locations in a medium-sized Midwestern U.S. city. Five themes emerged that described how participants defined healthy aging in the context of leisure: avoiding boredom, keeping mind and body active, meaningful social connections, sense of purpose, and enjoyment and satisfaction. Although participants described benefits of leisure as an important part of their lives across the life course, it was noticeable that older adults’ leisure pursuits changed in later life when they sought activities with more social and cognitive value than physical benefits.","PeriodicalId":47015,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Leisure Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2022-01-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44525501","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}
Pub Date : 2022-01-24DOI: 10.1080/11745398.2022.2027252
Ben Assiter
COVID-19 physical distancing measures have had especially radical impacts on cultures and economies with conviviality at their core. In the UK, the pandemic forced the unpre-cedented closure of a wide range of shared social spaces, with music venues and nightclubs amongst the most prolongedly a ff ected. Many of these spaces remained closed eighteen months after lockdown measures were fi rst announced, with few of them – or their employees – eligible for su ffi cient state support (All Party Parliamentary Group for the Night Time Economy 2021). In this short article, I o ff er some re fl ections on the reinvention strategies London nightclubs were forced to implement during this period, arguing that they constitute an acceleration of longer-term tendencies toward temporary urbanism and the interrelated gentri fi cation of the city ’ s nightlife spaces.
{"title":"From dancefloors to tables: socially distanced clubbing, temporary urbanism, and the gentrification of London’s nightlife","authors":"Ben Assiter","doi":"10.1080/11745398.2022.2027252","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/11745398.2022.2027252","url":null,"abstract":"COVID-19 physical distancing measures have had especially radical impacts on cultures and economies with conviviality at their core. In the UK, the pandemic forced the unpre-cedented closure of a wide range of shared social spaces, with music venues and nightclubs amongst the most prolongedly a ff ected. Many of these spaces remained closed eighteen months after lockdown measures were fi rst announced, with few of them – or their employees – eligible for su ffi cient state support (All Party Parliamentary Group for the Night Time Economy 2021). In this short article, I o ff er some re fl ections on the reinvention strategies London nightclubs were forced to implement during this period, arguing that they constitute an acceleration of longer-term tendencies toward temporary urbanism and the interrelated gentri fi cation of the city ’ s nightlife spaces.","PeriodicalId":47015,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Leisure Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2022-01-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46190220","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}
Pub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.1080/11745398.2022.2027251
D. McGillivray, M. Duignan
This special issue seeks to critically examine the relationship between events, urban spaces and mobility. Speci fi cally, it seeks to explore how and why events enable and/or produce new spatial (re)con fi gurations when staged and how these changes in fl uence mobility, exploration, consumption across host environments – regional, city level.
{"title":"Events, urban spaces and mobility","authors":"D. McGillivray, M. Duignan","doi":"10.1080/11745398.2022.2027251","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/11745398.2022.2027251","url":null,"abstract":"This special issue seeks to critically examine the relationship between events, urban spaces and mobility. Speci fi cally, it seeks to explore how and why events enable and/or produce new spatial (re)con fi gurations when staged and how these changes in fl uence mobility, exploration, consumption across host environments – regional, city level.","PeriodicalId":47015,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Leisure Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49027259","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}
Pub Date : 2021-12-27DOI: 10.1080/11745398.2021.2019594
Kade Booth, A. Pavlidis
ABSTRACT The launch of the Australian Football League Women’s (AFLW) combined with the introduction of grassroots women’s Australian football across the country have challenged the landscape of Australian sport and sport media in recent years. Many young women and gender diverse people have had the opportunity to participate in contact sports such as Australian football for the first time. With this, has come exposure to off-field spaces and cultures that they have previously been excluded from, such as post-sport pub culture and locker rooms. Through qualitative interviews with grassroots players in the Hunter Region, this paper explores how spaces can encourage and provide the opportunity for women to challenge binary expectations through comradery and acceptance of masculine bodily displays in conjunction with the normalization of non-heterosexuality. We conceptualize the ‘sport-sexuality-assemblage’ as a way of accounting for the relations of desire for women and gender diverse people in a range of sport spaces.
{"title":"Clubhouses and locker rooms: sexuality, gender and the growing participation of women and gender diverse people in Australian football","authors":"Kade Booth, A. Pavlidis","doi":"10.1080/11745398.2021.2019594","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/11745398.2021.2019594","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The launch of the Australian Football League Women’s (AFLW) combined with the introduction of grassroots women’s Australian football across the country have challenged the landscape of Australian sport and sport media in recent years. Many young women and gender diverse people have had the opportunity to participate in contact sports such as Australian football for the first time. With this, has come exposure to off-field spaces and cultures that they have previously been excluded from, such as post-sport pub culture and locker rooms. Through qualitative interviews with grassroots players in the Hunter Region, this paper explores how spaces can encourage and provide the opportunity for women to challenge binary expectations through comradery and acceptance of masculine bodily displays in conjunction with the normalization of non-heterosexuality. We conceptualize the ‘sport-sexuality-assemblage’ as a way of accounting for the relations of desire for women and gender diverse people in a range of sport spaces.","PeriodicalId":47015,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Leisure Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2021-12-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43043878","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}
Pub Date : 2021-12-22DOI: 10.1080/11745398.2021.2010224
Mitchell Kunnen, R. Dionigi, Chelsea Litchfield, Ashleigh T. Moreland
ABSTRACT The aim of this qualitative study was to understand the psychological barriers that athletes returning to soccer (football) following anterior cruciate ligament knee reconstruction surgery faced and how they negotiated these barriers. Thematic analysis was used analyse online, open-ended survey data within the framework of self-determination theory. Two themes of ‘Fear of Re-injury' and ‘Self-Help’ respectively represented what barriers athletes faced when returning to soccer and how they were reportedly managed. Novel findings included identifying connections between athlete demographics, individual circumstances, perceived psychological barriers and needs, and their self-derived mental strategy. It also highlighted the need for athletes, coaches, and sports personnel to be educated and trained on the benefits of sports psychology during the return to sport phase, particularly when injuries occur at the local, recreational, non-professional levels of soccer.
{"title":"Psychological barriers negotiated by athletes returning to soccer (football) after anterior cruciate ligament reconstructive surgery","authors":"Mitchell Kunnen, R. Dionigi, Chelsea Litchfield, Ashleigh T. Moreland","doi":"10.1080/11745398.2021.2010224","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/11745398.2021.2010224","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The aim of this qualitative study was to understand the psychological barriers that athletes returning to soccer (football) following anterior cruciate ligament knee reconstruction surgery faced and how they negotiated these barriers. Thematic analysis was used analyse online, open-ended survey data within the framework of self-determination theory. Two themes of ‘Fear of Re-injury' and ‘Self-Help’ respectively represented what barriers athletes faced when returning to soccer and how they were reportedly managed. Novel findings included identifying connections between athlete demographics, individual circumstances, perceived psychological barriers and needs, and their self-derived mental strategy. It also highlighted the need for athletes, coaches, and sports personnel to be educated and trained on the benefits of sports psychology during the return to sport phase, particularly when injuries occur at the local, recreational, non-professional levels of soccer.","PeriodicalId":47015,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Leisure Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2021-12-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59815714","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}
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