Browsing Recreation and Leisure Studies by Title
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Single and ready to mingle? A feminist exploration of singlehood, dating, and leisure
(University of Waterloo, 2015-06-24)Stemming from my own experiences (and tensions and paradoxes) negotiating the complexity involved in dating as a single, adult woman, this study explores the gendered complexity of singlehood for adult women. To unpack ... -
Ski Operations Managers’ Decision Making Under Uncertainty
(University of Waterloo, 2007-09-20)Abstract This study explores decision making amongst ski area management. In particular, it examined how ski area managers are challenged by the risk and uncertainty as a result of weather and visitor activity patterns. ... -
Slow Food in China: An Exploratory Study
(University of Waterloo, 2015-04-09)The Slow Food movement, since 1985, has been drawing more and more western people’s attention to ‘good, clean, and fair’ food standards and the preservation of local culture and businesses (Slow Food, 2014). The idea has ... -
The Social Structure of a Scientific Community: A Case Study of the Travel and Tourism Research Association
(University of Waterloo, 2007-12-07)The applied tourism research community is characterized by a large and growing group of research producers and users; communications and networking amongst its members can build the capacity of the community and create ... -
Stakeholder Perspectives on how Tourism Development is undertaken in Waterloo Region
(University of Waterloo, 2013-05-02)Serious academic enquiry for the tourism sector may appear inconsequential, but the business of tourism is complex and fragmented. Tourism is a multi-disciplinary phenomenon facilitating research from a number of different ... -
“Stop paddling and see where we are”: A postcolonial mobile deconstruction of environmental discourses (re)produced on summer camp canoe trips through Algonquin Park
(University of Waterloo, 2019-04-30)Residential summer camp canoe trippers are important. They are agents of socialization who amalgamate their campers into socially constructed accepted regimes of truth (Csikszentmihalyi, 1981; Grimwood, Gordon & Stevens, ... -
Strategic Planning for Membership Growth in Nonprofit Community Sport
(University of Waterloo, 2021-08-25)Community sport organizations (CSOs) are membership-based nonprofit associations that offer accessible and affordable pathways for sport participation. As such, CSOs are fundamental to the sport delivery system, particularly ... -
Strategies to support engagement and continuity of activity during mealtimes for families living with dementia; a qualitative study
(BioMed Central, 2015-10-09)Background Mealtimes are an essential part of living and quality of life for everyone, including persons living with dementia. A longitudinal qualitative study provided understanding of the meaning of mealtimes for ... -
Suffering and Storytelling - Exploring Extreme Leisure Through Trails, Trials, and Tales
(University of Waterloo, 2017-01-24)The purpose of this thesis is to better understand the motives and outcomes associated with a punishing yet profound leisure experience. A thru-hike was chosen as a venue through which to explore the motives and outcomes ... -
A Tale of Two Schoolings: A leisure scholar’s autoethnographic exploration of different learning settings
(University of Waterloo, 2015-06-10)What do homeschooling, public school, leisure studies, and factors such as freedom of choice, trust, and competence have in common? I have been asking myself this question for over a decade now. Or, rather, not so much ... -
Tell Me a Story About Your Child: A Narrative Exploration of Disability in Recreation
(University of Waterloo, 2010-04-30)The purpose of this narrative inquiry was to explore how parents understand and experience their child’s involvement and non-involvement in community leisure experiences. The study involved five parents with children between ... -
Tennis spectator loyalty when life gets in the way
(University of Waterloo, 2011-01-17)ABSTRACT The purpose of this study was to understand constraints to tennis spectating and constraints negotiation therein. The primary research questions were related to the changing nature of spectating experience, ... -
Thinkacting through liberatory frames: (re)imagining the academy beyond
(University of Waterloo, 2021-08-12)After being burnt down by the liberal politics of the university, I call for a (re)imagining of its structure that can offer hope for those seeking a home in academia. This thesis asks the question, “how can we thinkact ... -
This Peregrina's Autoethnographic Account of Walking the Camino Via de la Plata: A Feminist Spiritual Inquiry in Human Transformation
(University of Waterloo, 2013-08-30)This is an autoethnographic account of my 1000km journey across The Camino Via de la Plata, framed within transpersonal theory. From my personal account of a peak experience on The Way, this spiritual inquiry attempts to ... -
'This Sacred Land is Our Home: Respectful Visitors Welcome': An Indigenized code of conduct for visitors to the traditional lands of the Lutsel K'e Dene First Nation
(University of Waterloo, 2015-07-30)The purpose of this narrative study is to explore stories told by Lutsel K’e Denesoline that convey their experiences of, and expectations for, respectful visitor behaviour in their vast ancestral territory. Following a ... -
Tourist Motivations: Differences Between Anglophone and Francophone Tourists
(University of Waterloo, 2012-08-10)Culture has been demonstrated in the literature to have an effect on tourism behavior, including the way that tourists perceive their travel experience; different cultures often hold different values (LeBlanc, 2004 & Sussman ... -
Towards a Diverse Vision of Aging: An Exploration of LGBTQ Aging Experiences and Perceptions
(University of Waterloo, 2014-10-14)How do you envision the later years of your life? How do you feel about aging? For many LGBTQ individuals, the later years of their life are a time of isolation, invisibility, harassment, and depression (Butler, 2004). The ... -
Tracking Denesoline Knowledge and Narratives along Ancestral Waters
(University of Waterloo, 2019-06-26)The south slave region of the Great Slave Lake in the Northwest Territories of Canada is the home of the Łutsël K’é Dene First Nation (LKDFN) (Pelly, 1996). Like many Indigenous communities across Canada, the Denesoline ... -
Transformational Tourism: The Example of Backpackers in Tibet
(University of Waterloo, 2014-09-25)Hannam (2009) stated that travel played an important role in helping people, especially young people, to develop their inner self. Experiences, relationships and memories continue to influence ongoing journeys, including ... -
Transitions in Belonging and Sense of Community in a Long-Term Care Home: Explorations in Discourse, Policy and Lived Experience
(University of Waterloo, 2013-04-30)This research examined notions of belonging and sense of community through a set of layered lenses that integrated a social model of aging with phenomenology to gain a better understanding of the lived experiences of ...