Lisbeth A Berbary
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 657644 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Lisbeth A Berbary |
| NOMBRES | Lisbeth A |
| APELLIDO | Berbary |
| FIRMA | BERBARY L A |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Waterloo |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4129-9470 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 26 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 158 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 26 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2011 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Imagining Becoming Coalition
This research note introduces the dreamings of Becoming Coalition, a nascent formation of subversive scholars at the University of Waterloo working in coalition with overlapping political commitments to transforming our academic worlds towards more equitable existences. We outline our desires for reimagining academic relations and researchFootnote1 potentials, encouraging others to take what they will from our writings towards engaging in similar…
On the blood of others
In much interdisciplinary scholarship, when health and well-being are conceptualized, they are often contextualized in white supremacist, racist, and capitalist frames. To reframe scholarship towards more useful possibilities, we first must confront the historical and ongoing violence brought forth by our reliance on notions of health that often come directly from colonization and slavery and have failed to provide possibilities of health for rac…
Poetry as Gift to Articulate Oppression Across Transdisciplinary Health Scholarship
Relational mentorship for justice-oriented scholarship
We see relational mentorship as a move towards shared vulnerability, but also a relationship that is reciprocal, non-competitive, and non-authoritarian. We reflect on growth-spurring (and often uncomfortable) conversations about privilege, race, inaction, among other topics amidst social unrest and personal tensions with/in the systems in which we continue to be complicit. Through returning to cultural protocols, love, thinkacting, theorypractici…
Musings on becoming the ghost in the machine
In I, Robot the phrase ‘ghosts in the machine’ referred to the unexpected possibility of artificial intelligence evolving past its original intended purpose. In this paper, we use the metaphor to conjure the possibility of us all evolving past those originally intended purposes, uses, and limitations set for us within colonialist academic institutions imbued with white supremacist logics. We call on each other to exceed those limitations, ignitin…
Longing as Method
Together we found ourselves discussing current moments of racialized formations, pandemic practices, academic policing, equity projects (equity, diversity, and inclusion [EDI] initiatives), and our use, among it all. Like Adrienne Maree Brown, we were “formulating [our] critique of the ways that social justice movements have felt, and where [our] longing for something else was strongest” (2017, p. 44). This article, therefore, used longing as met…
Placemaking as Unmaking
Leisure scholarship that operates within traditional frames celebrates placemaking as an inherently good, participatory, and emancipatory process. In doing so, the bulk of leisure scholarship fails to account for the ways that placemaking is complicit in the historic and pervasive violences of systemic racism, settler colonialism, gentrification, and socioeconomic elitism. Working through the case of Goudies Lane, a recently place-made space in s…
Theorypracticing Differently
Using a pluralism of critical and deconstructive social theories I explore how we might begin to think differently about the public and health in ways that demand us to also thinkact differently within social inquiries in our transdisciplinary fields. Bringing together multiple concerns for the human, our environments, and the sustainability of our futurities with more-than-human beings, I explore the potentials of thinking through social theorie…
Creative Analytic Practices
▪
For Those to Come
As the introduction to the special issue of Leisure Sciences dedicated to interdisciplinary theorizations and practices productively informed by our posthuman predicament and currents within posthumanist thought, this article sets the stage, tone, and itinerary for a series of articles examining the various potentials posthumanism affords. As such, we attempt to connect multiple ways posthumanism may be taken up with key concepts, linguistic iden…
The Gendered Natures of Polar Bear Tourism
This article offers a critique of nature-based Arctic tourism through a gender-aware analysis of representations associated with polar bear tourism in Churchill, Manitoba, Canada. The guiding purpose of our study was to analyze how "nature" is gendered in its construction and presentation through tourism, and to what effect. Our study focused on revealing dominant gendered expectations and understandings (re)produced in the Churchill polar bear t…
Narratives of Negotiation and Transformation
Those within the fitness industry claim that gyms provide accessible space for women (of certain economic status) to engage in activities that will increase their health. As such, gyms are marketed as safe, inclusive, and empowering spaces. Yet when viewing gym spaces through a feminist-informed lens, it becomes clear that gyms are not always innocuous spaces. They often reflect and perpetuate gendered power relations and highly prescribed cultur…
Onto-Epistemological and Theoretical Engagements Through Praxis and Beyond
In 2014, Berbary and Boles challenged our field to think critically about onto-epistemological and macro theoretical underpinnings of leisure research. In particular, the call was made to understand how researchers position themselves, their participants, and their research processes within particular frames or paradigms that attend differently to notions such as truth, power, subjectivity, rationality, language, and representation. Recognizing o…
Questions for Postqualitative Inquiry
The past 40 years of leisure sciences affirms not only the urgency of diversely informed investigations of leisure phenomena but also the field's commitment to forward contributions of social relevance, methodological innovation, and insightful critique. This legacy owes a considerable debt to qualitative researchers who reimagined the paradigmatic purview and methodological possibilities for leisure scholarship. At the threshold of the next 40 y…
We Exist
As the voices of lesbian, gay, and transgender (LGT) individuals gain inclusion in academic spheres, bisexual experiences continue to be silenced and excluded from the discussion. In particular, systems of biphobia, monosexism, and erasure often coordinate to limit bisexual visibility and activism. This bisexual erasure translates into negative social experiences for bisexual individuals who must face a constant struggle to find belonging and acc…
Illuminating the Interconnections of Sexuality, Aging, and Spirituality in the Lives of Older Lesbian, Bisexual, and Queer Women in the Southern Bible Belt
Although a recent surge in the literature has begun to address the existence and needs of the growing population of lesbian, bisexual, and queer (LBQ) older women, there is little established research that has examined their contextualized lived experiences. This absence of information about what aging is like for LBQ women in the current socioreligious climate can lead to misperceptions being perpetuated about the possible interconnections/disco…
Thinking Through Post-structuralism in Leisure Studies
Similar to any paradigm of thought, humanism has its limitations and should be met with suspicion (St. Pierre, Int J Qual Stud Educ 13(5):477–515, 2000). Scholars in our field have already taken up this call to question humanism by showing its limits and making space for more critical humanist theories (Parry et al., Leisure Sci 35(1):81–87, 2013). However, such critiques tend to remain with/in critical theory, feminism(s), and critical race theo…
En/Activist Drag
In recent years, media attention to drag performers has increased transforming the once-hidden leisure activity of gay men and lesbians into a publicly recognized phenomenon. Many of these representations of drag have fallen short in offering reflective illustrations of the connections among gender identity, performance, misogyny, patriarchy, and activism. In response, we find ourselves studying the gendered life experiences of drag kings to illu…
Exploring experiences of the food environment among immigrants living in the Region of Waterloo, Ontario
Eight Points for Reflection
Grounded in current shifts toward postqualitative conversations, we provide methodological scaffolding for qualitative scholars and students based on our use of improvisational inquiry. We have attempted to balance the fine line between postpositivist expectations for overdetermined structure and improvisational, postqualitative expectations for fluidity by creating a scaffolding sous rature, that is, a scaffolding that simultaneously provides su…
Even the Good Girls Have Their Moments
Director's Comments: In 2008, I undertook an ethnographic study to better understand how women negotiated competing discourses of femininity within Southern sorority spaces-women-centered, member-only social societies that promote friendship and philanthropy in American colleges and universities. This final manuscript of three, exposes the small post-structural resistances of discursive discipline that sorority women negotiated both overtly and "…
Legacy of Our Grandmothers
What is a legacy? Is it the conferral of monetary goods, physical artifacts, or memories? Or is legacy an extension of the self, complicated and crystallized, as it is refracted through the stories of those left behind? Using the improvisational methodology of collaborative narrative refraction, we sought to deconstruct the concept of legacy as we have experienced it through the loss of our grandmothers in this performative piece. As we spoke abo…
Too good at fitting in
When embarking on ethnographic fieldwork, a researcher must carefully consider how to present oneself when entering the field. Presentations of self become particularly important when the culture under study maintains narrowly defined expectations for personal appearance and behavior. The more defined the expectations, the more important it is for the researcher to “read” those expectations and make deliberate choices concerning her appearance, b…
Don't Be a Whore, That's Not Ladylike
While multiple and competing understandings of sororities exist in popular culture, academic research on sororities tends to homogenize the experience of sorority women, simplifying their existence to a quantitative understanding of specific behaviors such as those associated with binge drinking, eating disorders, and heterosexuality. Specifically, it ignores processes of discursive discipline that converge to disseminate social expectations, mai…
The dangerous deconstruction of gender
The leisure pastime of children's reading transmits important cultural messages about gender and identity. The messages relayed through the guise of innocent characters, settings, and plots many times reinforce dominant discourses and expectations of cultural appropriateness. In order to highlight the ways that reading can become a mechanism for the dissemination of heteronormative notions of gender, we explored the popular children's book The da…
Poststructural Writerly Representation
Based on the need to expand literature on sorority women and explore all women's negotiations of gendered discourses, I conducted an ethnographic study of a southern sorority grounded in a priori notions of discourse, discipline, subjectivity, and performativity as theorized by Michel Foucault and Judith Butler. The findings of this study were represented through a creative analytic screenplay that illuminated the ways sorority women learned gend…
Don't Be a Whore, That's Not Ladylike
While multiple and competing understandings of sororities exist in popular culture, academic research on sororities tends to homogenize the experience of sorority women, simplifying their existence to a quantitative understanding of specific behaviors such as those associated with binge drinking, eating disorders, and heterosexuality. Specifically, it ignores processes of discursive discipline that converge to disseminate social expectations, mai…
Questions for Postqualitative Inquiry
The past 40 years of leisure sciences affirms not only the urgency of diversely informed investigations of leisure phenomena but also the field's commitment to forward contributions of social relevance, methodological innovation, and insightful critique. This legacy owes a considerable debt to qualitative researchers who reimagined the paradigmatic purview and methodological possibilities for leisure scholarship. At the threshold of the next 40 y…
Eight Points for Reflection
Grounded in current shifts toward postqualitative conversations, we provide methodological scaffolding for qualitative scholars and students based on our use of improvisational inquiry. We have attempted to balance the fine line between postpositivist expectations for overdetermined structure and improvisational, postqualitative expectations for fluidity by creating a scaffolding sous rature, that is, a scaffolding that simultaneously provides su…
Placemaking as Unmaking
Leisure scholarship that operates within traditional frames celebrates placemaking as an inherently good, participatory, and emancipatory process. In doing so, the bulk of leisure scholarship fails to account for the ways that placemaking is complicit in the historic and pervasive violences of systemic racism, settler colonialism, gentrification, and socioeconomic elitism. Working through the case of Goudies Lane, a recently place-made space in s…
Too good at fitting in
When embarking on ethnographic fieldwork, a researcher must carefully consider how to present oneself when entering the field. Presentations of self become particularly important when the culture under study maintains narrowly defined expectations for personal appearance and behavior. The more defined the expectations, the more important it is for the researcher to “read” those expectations and make deliberate choices concerning her appearance, b…
Creative Analytic Practices
▪
For Those to Come
As the introduction to the special issue of Leisure Sciences dedicated to interdisciplinary theorizations and practices productively informed by our posthuman predicament and currents within posthumanist thought, this article sets the stage, tone, and itinerary for a series of articles examining the various potentials posthumanism affords. As such, we attempt to connect multiple ways posthumanism may be taken up with key concepts, linguistic iden…
Theorypracticing Differently
Using a pluralism of critical and deconstructive social theories I explore how we might begin to think differently about the public and health in ways that demand us to also thinkact differently within social inquiries in our transdisciplinary fields. Bringing together multiple concerns for the human, our environments, and the sustainability of our futurities with more-than-human beings, I explore the potentials of thinking through social theorie…
Narratives of Negotiation and Transformation
Those within the fitness industry claim that gyms provide accessible space for women (of certain economic status) to engage in activities that will increase their health. As such, gyms are marketed as safe, inclusive, and empowering spaces. Yet when viewing gym spaces through a feminist-informed lens, it becomes clear that gyms are not always innocuous spaces. They often reflect and perpetuate gendered power relations and highly prescribed cultur…
We Exist
As the voices of lesbian, gay, and transgender (LGT) individuals gain inclusion in academic spheres, bisexual experiences continue to be silenced and excluded from the discussion. In particular, systems of biphobia, monosexism, and erasure often coordinate to limit bisexual visibility and activism. This bisexual erasure translates into negative social experiences for bisexual individuals who must face a constant struggle to find belonging and acc…
En/Activist Drag
In recent years, media attention to drag performers has increased transforming the once-hidden leisure activity of gay men and lesbians into a publicly recognized phenomenon. Many of these representations of drag have fallen short in offering reflective illustrations of the connections among gender identity, performance, misogyny, patriarchy, and activism. In response, we find ourselves studying the gendered life experiences of drag kings to illu…
Exploring experiences of the food environment among immigrants living in the Region of Waterloo, Ontario
The dangerous deconstruction of gender
The leisure pastime of children's reading transmits important cultural messages about gender and identity. The messages relayed through the guise of innocent characters, settings, and plots many times reinforce dominant discourses and expectations of cultural appropriateness. In order to highlight the ways that reading can become a mechanism for the dissemination of heteronormative notions of gender, we explored the popular children's book The da…
Onto-Epistemological and Theoretical Engagements Through Praxis and Beyond
In 2014, Berbary and Boles challenged our field to think critically about onto-epistemological and macro theoretical underpinnings of leisure research. In particular, the call was made to understand how researchers position themselves, their participants, and their research processes within particular frames or paradigms that attend differently to notions such as truth, power, subjectivity, rationality, language, and representation. Recognizing o…
Illuminating the Interconnections of Sexuality, Aging, and Spirituality in the Lives of Older Lesbian, Bisexual, and Queer Women in the Southern Bible Belt
Although a recent surge in the literature has begun to address the existence and needs of the growing population of lesbian, bisexual, and queer (LBQ) older women, there is little established research that has examined their contextualized lived experiences. This absence of information about what aging is like for LBQ women in the current socioreligious climate can lead to misperceptions being perpetuated about the possible interconnections/disco…
Even the Good Girls Have Their Moments
Director's Comments: In 2008, I undertook an ethnographic study to better understand how women negotiated competing discourses of femininity within Southern sorority spaces-women-centered, member-only social societies that promote friendship and philanthropy in American colleges and universities. This final manuscript of three, exposes the small post-structural resistances of discursive discipline that sorority women negotiated both overtly and "…
Legacy of Our Grandmothers
What is a legacy? Is it the conferral of monetary goods, physical artifacts, or memories? Or is legacy an extension of the self, complicated and crystallized, as it is refracted through the stories of those left behind? Using the improvisational methodology of collaborative narrative refraction, we sought to deconstruct the concept of legacy as we have experienced it through the loss of our grandmothers in this performative piece. As we spoke abo…
The dangerous deconstruction of gender
The leisure pastime of children's reading transmits important cultural messages about gender and identity. The messages relayed through the guise of innocent characters, settings, and plots many times reinforce dominant discourses and expectations of cultural appropriateness. In order to highlight the ways that reading can become a mechanism for the dissemination of heteronormative notions of gender, we explored the popular children's book The da…
Poststructural Writerly Representation
Based on the need to expand literature on sorority women and explore all women's negotiations of gendered discourses, I conducted an ethnographic study of a southern sorority grounded in a priori notions of discourse, discipline, subjectivity, and performativity as theorized by Michel Foucault and Judith Butler. The findings of this study were represented through a creative analytic screenplay that illuminated the ways sorority women learned gend…
Don't Be a Whore, That's Not Ladylike
While multiple and competing understandings of sororities exist in popular culture, academic research on sororities tends to homogenize the experience of sorority women, simplifying their existence to a quantitative understanding of specific behaviors such as those associated with binge drinking, eating disorders, and heterosexuality. Specifically, it ignores processes of discursive discipline that converge to disseminate social expectations, mai…
Too good at fitting in
When embarking on ethnographic fieldwork, a researcher must carefully consider how to present oneself when entering the field. Presentations of self become particularly important when the culture under study maintains narrowly defined expectations for personal appearance and behavior. The more defined the expectations, the more important it is for the researcher to “read” those expectations and make deliberate choices concerning her appearance, b…
Eight Points for Reflection
Grounded in current shifts toward postqualitative conversations, we provide methodological scaffolding for qualitative scholars and students based on our use of improvisational inquiry. We have attempted to balance the fine line between postpositivist expectations for overdetermined structure and improvisational, postqualitative expectations for fluidity by creating a scaffolding sous rature, that is, a scaffolding that simultaneously provides su…
Even the Good Girls Have Their Moments
Director's Comments: In 2008, I undertook an ethnographic study to better understand how women negotiated competing discourses of femininity within Southern sorority spaces-women-centered, member-only social societies that promote friendship and philanthropy in American colleges and universities. This final manuscript of three, exposes the small post-structural resistances of discursive discipline that sorority women negotiated both overtly and "…
Legacy of Our Grandmothers
What is a legacy? Is it the conferral of monetary goods, physical artifacts, or memories? Or is legacy an extension of the self, complicated and crystallized, as it is refracted through the stories of those left behind? Using the improvisational methodology of collaborative narrative refraction, we sought to deconstruct the concept of legacy as we have experienced it through the loss of our grandmothers in this performative piece. As we spoke abo…
Exploring experiences of the food environment among immigrants living in the Region of Waterloo, Ontario
Thinking Through Post-structuralism in Leisure Studies
Similar to any paradigm of thought, humanism has its limitations and should be met with suspicion (St. Pierre, Int J Qual Stud Educ 13(5):477–515, 2000). Scholars in our field have already taken up this call to question humanism by showing its limits and making space for more critical humanist theories (Parry et al., Leisure Sci 35(1):81–87, 2013). However, such critiques tend to remain with/in critical theory, feminism(s), and critical race theo…
En/Activist Drag
In recent years, media attention to drag performers has increased transforming the once-hidden leisure activity of gay men and lesbians into a publicly recognized phenomenon. Many of these representations of drag have fallen short in offering reflective illustrations of the connections among gender identity, performance, misogyny, patriarchy, and activism. In response, we find ourselves studying the gendered life experiences of drag kings to illu…
The Gendered Natures of Polar Bear Tourism
This article offers a critique of nature-based Arctic tourism through a gender-aware analysis of representations associated with polar bear tourism in Churchill, Manitoba, Canada. The guiding purpose of our study was to analyze how "nature" is gendered in its construction and presentation through tourism, and to what effect. Our study focused on revealing dominant gendered expectations and understandings (re)produced in the Churchill polar bear t…
Narratives of Negotiation and Transformation
Those within the fitness industry claim that gyms provide accessible space for women (of certain economic status) to engage in activities that will increase their health. As such, gyms are marketed as safe, inclusive, and empowering spaces. Yet when viewing gym spaces through a feminist-informed lens, it becomes clear that gyms are not always innocuous spaces. They often reflect and perpetuate gendered power relations and highly prescribed cultur…
Onto-Epistemological and Theoretical Engagements Through Praxis and Beyond
In 2014, Berbary and Boles challenged our field to think critically about onto-epistemological and macro theoretical underpinnings of leisure research. In particular, the call was made to understand how researchers position themselves, their participants, and their research processes within particular frames or paradigms that attend differently to notions such as truth, power, subjectivity, rationality, language, and representation. Recognizing o…
Questions for Postqualitative Inquiry
The past 40 years of leisure sciences affirms not only the urgency of diversely informed investigations of leisure phenomena but also the field's commitment to forward contributions of social relevance, methodological innovation, and insightful critique. This legacy owes a considerable debt to qualitative researchers who reimagined the paradigmatic purview and methodological possibilities for leisure scholarship. At the threshold of the next 40 y…
We Exist
As the voices of lesbian, gay, and transgender (LGT) individuals gain inclusion in academic spheres, bisexual experiences continue to be silenced and excluded from the discussion. In particular, systems of biphobia, monosexism, and erasure often coordinate to limit bisexual visibility and activism. This bisexual erasure translates into negative social experiences for bisexual individuals who must face a constant struggle to find belonging and acc…
Illuminating the Interconnections of Sexuality, Aging, and Spirituality in the Lives of Older Lesbian, Bisexual, and Queer Women in the Southern Bible Belt
Although a recent surge in the literature has begun to address the existence and needs of the growing population of lesbian, bisexual, and queer (LBQ) older women, there is little established research that has examined their contextualized lived experiences. This absence of information about what aging is like for LBQ women in the current socioreligious climate can lead to misperceptions being perpetuated about the possible interconnections/disco…
Creative Analytic Practices
▪
For Those to Come
As the introduction to the special issue of Leisure Sciences dedicated to interdisciplinary theorizations and practices productively informed by our posthuman predicament and currents within posthumanist thought, this article sets the stage, tone, and itinerary for a series of articles examining the various potentials posthumanism affords. As such, we attempt to connect multiple ways posthumanism may be taken up with key concepts, linguistic iden…
Theorypracticing Differently
Using a pluralism of critical and deconstructive social theories I explore how we might begin to think differently about the public and health in ways that demand us to also thinkact differently within social inquiries in our transdisciplinary fields. Bringing together multiple concerns for the human, our environments, and the sustainability of our futurities with more-than-human beings, I explore the potentials of thinking through social theorie…
Placemaking as Unmaking
Leisure scholarship that operates within traditional frames celebrates placemaking as an inherently good, participatory, and emancipatory process. In doing so, the bulk of leisure scholarship fails to account for the ways that placemaking is complicit in the historic and pervasive violences of systemic racism, settler colonialism, gentrification, and socioeconomic elitism. Working through the case of Goudies Lane, a recently place-made space in s…
Relational mentorship for justice-oriented scholarship
We see relational mentorship as a move towards shared vulnerability, but also a relationship that is reciprocal, non-competitive, and non-authoritarian. We reflect on growth-spurring (and often uncomfortable) conversations about privilege, race, inaction, among other topics amidst social unrest and personal tensions with/in the systems in which we continue to be complicit. Through returning to cultural protocols, love, thinkacting, theorypractici…
Musings on becoming the ghost in the machine
In I, Robot the phrase ‘ghosts in the machine’ referred to the unexpected possibility of artificial intelligence evolving past its original intended purpose. In this paper, we use the metaphor to conjure the possibility of us all evolving past those originally intended purposes, uses, and limitations set for us within colonialist academic institutions imbued with white supremacist logics. We call on each other to exceed those limitations, ignitin…
Longing as Method
Together we found ourselves discussing current moments of racialized formations, pandemic practices, academic policing, equity projects (equity, diversity, and inclusion [EDI] initiatives), and our use, among it all. Like Adrienne Maree Brown, we were “formulating [our] critique of the ways that social justice movements have felt, and where [our] longing for something else was strongest” (2017, p. 44). This article, therefore, used longing as met…
Imagining Becoming Coalition
This research note introduces the dreamings of Becoming Coalition, a nascent formation of subversive scholars at the University of Waterloo working in coalition with overlapping political commitments to transforming our academic worlds towards more equitable existences. We outline our desires for reimagining academic relations and researchFootnote1 potentials, encouraging others to take what they will from our writings towards engaging in similar…
On the blood of others
In much interdisciplinary scholarship, when health and well-being are conceptualized, they are often contextualized in white supremacist, racist, and capitalist frames. To reframe scholarship towards more useful possibilities, we first must confront the historical and ongoing violence brought forth by our reliance on notions of health that often come directly from colonization and slavery and have failed to provide possibilities of health for rac…
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