Pub Date : 2021-10-19DOI: 10.1080/11745398.2021.1993287
Erose Sthapit, Peter Björk, P. Senthil Kumaran
ABSTRACT This study examines the motivation for local food consumption amongst domestic tourists. It integrates the positive psychology concept of savouring by examining the positive emotions savoured by domestic tourists on the basis of broaden-and-build theory, including the savouring processes used when recalling their recent local food experiences. Data were collected only from Indian residents using a self-administered open-ended web-based questionnaire. Empirical findings revealed that out of the 178 respondents, more than half reported tasting local food as one of the main motivations for undertaking their particular trip. The two main motivations for tasting local food were to experience something new and experience the local culture. The most common positive emotion savoured by guests when remembering their local food experiences was joy, followed by love. Taste and socializing with friends and family members were identified as the dominant factors that intensified respondents’ savouring of their recent local food experiences.
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Pub Date : 2021-10-04DOI: 10.1080/11745398.2021.1949734
I. Heijnen, Emma J. Stewart, S. Espiner
ABSTRACT This paper documents and discusses the walking interview method as it was used to explore how outdoor educators' sense of place informed their professional practice in the Port Hills of Christchurch, New Zealand. Eight participants who were working as outdoor educators in the primary, secondary or tertiary education sector in Christchurch, and who spent time in the Port Hills both as part of their teaching practice, as well as in their personal lives, were interviewed. We found walking interviews provided a richer perspective on place and practice than would have been possible using only indoor and stationary interviews. This suggests there is merit in utilizing mobile methods across a range of fields examining the interactions of people and place. In the outdoors, where people and place are often on the move, the walking interview has potential to capture this mobility and better understand its significance in outdoor education practice.
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Pub Date : 2021-09-19DOI: 10.1080/11745398.2021.1974906
S. Taylor, Anna Carr
ABSTRACT As a popular adventure sport worldwide, mountain biking provides a range of challenges and opportunities for participants. This paper aims to understand whether experienced riders actively search for ‘flow experiences’ that can manifest themselves in a range of euphoric feelings, varying from the loss of awareness of time to sub-conscious control over actions. Exploring findings from research undertaken in New Zealand and England, the paper suggests that committed riders do encounter and can describe a range of flow characteristics when riding, although the findings conclude that such experiences are considered to be by-products of participation, rather than motivational factors in their own right.
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Pub Date : 2021-09-17DOI: 10.1080/11745398.2021.1974905
L. Usher
ABSTRACT Reflexivity has become a standard practice in qualitative research to improve the trustworthiness of the results and offer a critical perspective on the researcher’s role in the study. Qualitative researchers typically position themselves in their studies, acknowledging their identity, and the ways it may have influenced the study. I argue that reflexivity should be a part of quantitative survey research as well. The imperfect nature of social science, especially leisure research, makes purely positivist research difficult, despite the emphasis on this tradition and the outward appearance of ‘objectivity’ found in quantitative research in our field. Conducting quantitative survey research with surfers can be especially ‘messy,’ because they have long been thought to have their own antiestablishment, nonconformist culture. My pragmatist-grounded research with this user group provides compelling evidence for the importance of incorporating reflexivity into survey research. The paper concludes with recommendations for quantitative leisure researchers.
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Pub Date : 2021-09-16DOI: 10.1080/11745398.2021.1974904
Debra Lord, Caroline Winter
ABSTRACT This study focuses on three stakeholders in duck shooting in Victoria, Australia: hunters, activists, and a government regulator, each of which competes for the public’s support. The issue is intensely debated, especially considering that the ducks are native animals and are not over-populated. The paper compares statements from each stakeholder’s website, to identify their ethical positions. The hunters demonstrate an instrumental, deontological ethic that requires them to follow a set of detailed rules. They portray themselves as safe and responsible hunters, with expertize that enables them to exact a ‘clean kill’. The management authority supports and regulates hunting, and provides a detailed explanation of ‘ethical hunting’ that includes ‘ethical practise in the field’ and legal compliance. The animal activists hold an animal rights ethic, and directly oppose duck shooting. They demonstrate a teleological, or ends-based approach, that is focused upon the outcomes of shooting on the ducks.
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Pub Date : 2021-08-19DOI: 10.1080/11745398.2021.1964994
Alberto Amore
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Pub Date : 2021-08-19DOI: 10.1080/11745398.2021.1902356
Sarah Frankel, S. Benjamin, Carrie Stephens
ABSTRACT This study explores lived experiences of southeastern American women craft brew professionals with regards to anger and emotional labour within the craft beer industry. Informed by feminist epistemology, semi-structured interviews were conducted to understand the emotional labour of female craft beer professionals resulting in a dynamic and innovative arts-based analysis. Participants discussed their love of the industry and provided insights into unforeseen issues of motherhood, safety, and sexual violence. The motivations behind the leisure pursuits of brewing were complex, which lead to actively engaging in both outward anger and coping strategies resulting in three overarching stanzas, (1) anger as a catalyst, (2) the bridge, and (3) coping mechanisms. Highlighting and giving a platform for women in the craft beer industry to share their narratives, this study creates a dialogue around the complexities and struggles women endure by shedding light on the emotional labour experiences and their ongoing struggles.
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Pub Date : 2021-08-19DOI: 10.1080/11745398.2021.1964992
Yaniv Belhassen
ABSTRACT Regardless of one’s perspective on the relationship between paid work, leisure, and social order, it is widely accepted that paid work is a central activity in light of which one may examine this linkage. There are rare cases in which the freedom associated with leisure choices explicitly challenges the existing social order and the values on which it is founded. Types of leisure that are not in harmony with the core values of society have been discussed under the conceptual category of deviant leisure. Inspired by previous work on leisure and the social order, as well as by some observations on Israeli society during the pandemic, this paper offers some reflections on the possible theoretical contribution of the concept of deviant leisure to the study of the interconnection between work, leisure, and the social order.
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Pub Date : 2021-08-19DOI: 10.1080/11745398.2021.1964993
Justin Harmon, K. Woosnam
ABSTRACT There is a dearth of focus on the conditions that cause people to terminate participation in their formerly meaningful leisure activities. What is missing is an understanding of the psychological process that takes place when a leisure activity becomes less meaningful over time, yet participation is not immediately abandoned. What are the reasons people maintain involvement in an activity when it is no longer enjoyable? One explanation is the sunk cost effect. This critical commentary explores the conceptual application of the sunk cost effect to understanding the potential for decreasing commitment levels to a leisure activity, as demonstrated through the framework of enuring involvement.
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Pub Date : 2021-08-19DOI: 10.1080/11745398.2021.1938156
Jeff Rose
By most accounts in popular press and in academic journals, we are in crisis. Regardless of the geographical scale in question, there are pressing social crises concerning soaring rates of wealth inequality, racial injustices, institutional corruption, educational inequities, displacement of Indigenous peoples, social isolation, and political instability, to name a few examples. Further, by nearly any sober account, we are in the midst of an ecological crisis as well. While climate change is the overarching behemoth that encompasses most of these concerns, there are more specific worries associated with species loss, desertification, overfishing, topsoil despoliation, paradoxical drought and flooding, agricultural monocultures, ocean acidification, and many others. Most assessments are that we have passed a ‘point of no return’ in our warming climate, as we have already exceeded many of the supposed tipping points (polar sea ice loss, melting of Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets, tundra methane release, etc.), accelerating a disastrous feedback loop. In short, assessing our social and environmental world often paints a grim picture. What, then, are we to do? The weight of these contemporary social and environmental concerns are so totalizing that they regularly feel overwhelming, if not paralyzing (Robbins and Moore 2013). We see them, we consider them, and often, we move on, hoping that others undertake the significant work to address them. Because, after all, these problems are just too much to take on. This collective feeling of anxiety and inadequacy in the face of insurmountable problems seems to have gripped our contemporary culture (Remes et al. 2016), and an unevenly experienced global pandemic has only worsened this condition (Salari et al. 2020). In this essay, I make the case that a critical political economy approach can address not only the crises at hand, but also these feelings of inadequacy, paralysis, and complacency that all too often accompany the facing of crises. A critical political economy approach places the structure of the economy and sets of power-laden relationships as primary drivers of these socioenvironmental phenomena that mark our crises. I address these pressing, materialist concerns through a critical philosophy of leisure, of all things. I make that case that our neoliberal political economy masks and obfuscates the social and environmental exploitation at the heart of capitalism, a system that has an explicit goal to ‘rob us of our capacity to recognize that we are in crisis’ (Stewart 2021, 263). Understanding leisure, and a recentering and perhaps a reconceptualization of the good life, is one necessary and materialist confrontation that we can and should make.
根据大众媒体和学术期刊的大多数报道，我们正处于危机之中。无论地理范围如何，都存在一些紧迫的社会危机，如财富不平等加剧、种族不公正、机构腐败、教育不平等、土著人民流离失所、社会孤立和政治不稳定等。此外，从几乎任何清醒的角度来看，我们也处于一场生态危机之中。虽然气候变化是一个包管一切的庞然大物，包含了大多数这些担忧，但还有更多具体的担忧与物种丧失、荒漠化、过度捕捞、表土掠夺、矛盾的干旱和洪水、农业单一栽培、海洋酸化等有关。大多数评估认为，我们已经越过了气候变暖的“不归路”，因为我们已经超过了许多假定的临界点(极地海冰损失、格陵兰岛和南极冰盖融化、冻土带甲烷释放等)，加速了灾难性的反馈循环。简而言之，评估我们的社会和环境世界往往描绘出一幅严峻的画面。那么，我们该怎么办呢?这些当代社会和环境问题的重要性是如此的全面，以至于它们经常让人感到势不可挡，如果不是瘫痪的话(罗宾斯和摩尔，2013)。我们看到它们，我们考虑它们，我们常常继续前进，希望其他人承担重要的工作来解决它们。因为，毕竟，这些问题太多了，无法承担。面对无法克服的问题，这种焦虑和不足的集体感觉似乎已经笼罩了我们的当代文化(Remes et al. 2016)，而一场经历不均匀的全球大流行只会加剧这种情况(Salari et al. 2020)。在这篇文章中，我提出了一种批判性的政治经济学方法，它不仅可以解决手头的危机，还可以解决在面对危机时经常出现的不足感、麻痹感和自满感。一种批判性的政治经济学方法将经济结构和一系列充满权力的关系视为这些社会环境现象的主要驱动力，这些现象标志着我们的危机。我通过对闲暇和所有事物的批判哲学来解决这些紧迫的唯物主义问题。我认为，我们的新自由主义政治经济掩盖和模糊了资本主义核心的社会和环境剥削，这个制度的明确目标是“剥夺我们认识到我们处于危机中的能力”(Stewart 2021, 263)。对休闲的理解，以及对美好生活的重新认识，或许是对美好生活的重新概念化，是一种必要的、唯物主义的对抗，我们可以也应该这样做。
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