Audrey R Giles
Biographic Data
| ID | 179753 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Audrey R Giles |
| GIVEN NAMES | Audrey R |
| FAMILY NAME | Giles |
| SIGNATURE | GILES A R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Ottawa |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1396-0628 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 88 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 182 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 87 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Unintentional Home Injuries
Pouring Asphalt on Ancestral and Unceded Land
Pump tracks are among the fastest-growing recreation infrastructure in North America. Within the leisure community, pump tracks are increasingly framed as inclusive public spaces for all ages, skill levels, and all wheeled equipment. However, inclusion in urban leisure spaces in what is now known as Canada must be understood within the context of the country’s colonial history, which has typically erased Indigenous Peoples. In this paper, the aut…
Since when was being hopeful a bad thing? Resistance and Utopian thinking in leisure studies
In this paper, five current graduate students in leisure studies with our supervisor collectively reflect our shared processes of becoming as leisure scholars and people. Bringing our experiences into conversation with Paulo Freire’s work on progressive education, hope and the imagination of utopia, we aim to (re)think how we as leisure scholars exist in a fraying leisure society and can generate possibilities for a liberated future. First, we in…
Rendering the invisible visible
Numerous scholars have argued that sport is a vessel through which to enforce settler-colonial domination; however, sport can also represent a domain in which to support Indigenous-settler reconciliation. Nevertheless, differing understandings of reconciliation, particularly within diverse global contexts, can lead to ambiguity in its definition and application. Therefore, as part of a broader project on sport for reconciliation (SFR), we conduct…
A critical discourse analysis of the representation of Indigenous Peoples in Leisure/Loisir ’s first 49 volumes
Perhaps one of the biggest changes that has occurred in the settler state presently known as Canada over the past 55 years has been relations between settlers and Indigenous Peoples. But how have these changes been reflected in scholarship published in Leisure/Loisir? To address this question, the authors engaged with settler colonial theory and critical discourse analysis to examine the ways in which understandings of Indigenous Peoples have bee…
Fish out of water
The aquatics sector in Canada continues to lack diversity, shaping inequitable workplace cultures for lifeguards who identify as members of equity-owed groups. In this paper, we explore the experiences of 14 equity-owed lifeguards with a multitude of identities at a variety of aquatic leisure workplaces in southern and eastern Ontario, Canada. Using semi-structured interviews, intersection theory, and reflexive thematic analysis, we produced thre…
Nonnormative Bodies in Sport
Few theoretical connections have been drawn between the policing and exclusion of transgender and nonbinary athletes and pregnant and mothering athletes in sport, leading to siloed understandings of how dominant gendered discourses oppress “nonnormative” bodies in sport. In this commentary, we outline how dominant gender discourses (re)produce the discourse “nonnormative bodies disrupt gender binaries” to justify how transgender, nonbinary, pregn…
Introduction to Special Issue. ‘A half century of Canadian leisure research
2025 marks the 50th anniversary of the first Canadian Congress on Leisure Research (CCLR). This special issue contains papers presented at CCLR17, the most recent CCLR which was held at the University of Ottawa in May, 2023. The theme of CCLR17 was ‘A half century of Canadian leisure research: Towards a more inclusive future’. Reflective of CCLR17’s theme that focused on inclusion, unlike previous CCLR special issues that were published in only o…
Shared space, (un)equitable place? Exploring inclusion at the Steve Smith Bike Park pump tracks
A half century of Canadian leisure research
I’ve Seen What Evil Men Do”
The restrictions on children's outdoor risky play is emerging as a pressing public health concern. To the best of our knowledge, no research has examined military mothers' perspectives on outdoor risky play. Military mothers have unique knowledge of war and combat and potential threats to children's safety due to their communications with their partners in combat arms occupations. Their perspectives on outdoor risky play are important to consider…
Sport for Reconciliation
In settler-colonial contexts, the use of sport for reconciliation (SFR) has received increasing attention from national governments and their sporting agencies, though researchers have yet to track the development of SFR across settler colonial contexts. In this study, we examined how government sport policies in Australia, Canada, and Aotearoa/New Zealand frame understandings of reconciliation. Through the application of both policy and frame an…
I keep forgetting them
In Canada, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) released its list of Calls to Action (CTA) in 2015, and five Calls were directly related to reconciliation and sport. Within these five sport-related CTA, there was no specific reference to gender. Lacrosse, as an Indigenous cultural practice that has been culturally appropriated by white settlers, is a complex site to investigate how the TRC's CTA is (or are not) being implemented and the …
Christian summer camps for Indigenous youth in Canada
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada’s Final Report and Calls to Action highlighted the need for the truth about Indian residential schools to be known and the responsibility of churches and religious groups to take action to enact reconciliation with Indigenous peoples. Summer camps for Indigenous youth run by Christian organizations in Canada are sites that have not yet been given scholarly attention. Within this context, ‘What is …
Making moves
The relationship between physical activity and fatherhood in communities in which people experience marginalisation is not well understood in qualitative research. This is particularly the case in the Downtown Eastside (DTES) of Vancouver, Canada, where there are few services to meet the unique needs of fathers. To address these gaps, we developed Make a Move (MaM): A six-week family walking group pilot program for mothers, fathers, and their chi…
Road safety, health equity, and the built environment
For professionals working in urban Canadian transport and injury prevention sectors HE concerns influenced their perspectives of the BE and BE change. These results illustrate a growing need for HE to guide BE change work and consultation processes. Further, these results contribute to ongoing efforts in the Canadian urban context to ensure that HE is at the forefront of BE policy change and decision-making, while promoting existing strategies to…
Fatherhood and Elite Athletics
This study contributes to a growing body of scholarly discussions around the many aspects and challenges of combining parenthood with elite-level sport, with a particular focus on the experiences of male elite athletes who are fathers. We used a caring masculinities theoretical framework, community-based participatory research, and semi-structured interviews to explore the experiences of 10 elite/international and world-class athletes ( n = 9 fat…
Pregnancy, Parenthood, and Elite Athletics
Several female athletes have recently challenged the long-standing assumption that pregnancy/parenthood (particularly motherhood) and participation in elite-level sport are mutually exclusive. These women’s actions have elicited change across the elite athletics industry and have sparked a need for further research to understand how elite athlete-parents perceive these shifts. We used feminist poststructuralist theory, feminist participatory acti…
Exploring the stress of olympic postponement due to Covid-19 on elite/international and world-class parenting and pregnant runners
The primary objective of this community-based participatory research is to explore the impacts of COVID-19 and the delayed Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games on world-class and elite/international-class parenting and pregnant athletes. Participants in this study include 11 female and 10 male parenting and/or pregnant middle and distance runners. Combined, the participants have competed at 26 Olympic Games and 31 World Championships. Drawing on the general …
Required Elements for Success and Benefits of Participation in Camps of an On-The-Land Program in the Inuvialuit Settlement Region
We report on a partnership between the Inuvialuit Regional Corporation (IRC) and the University of Ottawa to determine whether/how on-the-land programming offered culturally safe experiences to meet the self-identified needs of the residents of the Inuvialuit Settlement Region. This study draws upon the experiences of participants in the IRC's land-based healing program, Project Jewel. We used postcolonial theory supported by a decolonization fra…
“As long as there’s no mortal risk”
Parents’ experiences with risk can influence their perspectives on their children’s outdoor risky play. Parents in combat arms occupations in the Canadian Armed Forces have unique experiences with risk, as their occupations regularly include encountering and successfully navigating risky environments in military operations. In this study, we conducted seven semi-structured interviews with parents in combat arms occupations and used risk and socio…
Selling vs. Supporting Motherhood
Recently, motherhood and pregnancy in elite sport have received increased attention in sport media. Through a comprehensive news media search across Factiva as well as a gray literature search using Google search engine, we analyzed 115 articles using feminist framing analysis. We developed two primary frames: 1) empowerment versus exploitation, and 2) proactivity versus reactivity. Our results show that many pregnant and parenting athletes frame…
Extractives Companies’ Social Media Portrayals of Their Funding of Sport for Development in Indigenous Communities in Canada and Australia
The extractives industry (mining, quarrying, oil, and gas) engages in corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities to reinforce its organizational legitimacy and enhance its public image. One such approach to CSR that is popular in the industry is through funding sport initiatives aimed at improving the lives of Indigenous peoples, known as sport for development (SFD). Through the adoption of a settler colonial studies lens, and using netnogr…
Indigenous Youth (Non)Participation in Euro-Canadian Sport
Much of the research on Indigenous youth’s sport has focused on the barriers that they experience in accessing opportunities for participation. What remains underexplored is the idea that nonparticipation might actually reflect Indigenous youth’s deliberate refusal of Euro-Canadian sport. In making this argument, first, we connect Indigenous theories of refusal to Indigenous youth sport participation in Canada. Second, we examine the researcher’s…
Military mothering, responsibility, and children’s outdoor risky play
Mothers more than fathers are discursively produced as responsible for children’s safety. Wives of members in combat arms occupations in the military may have feelings of responsibility for their children’s safety that are shaped through their involvement in military culture. In this research, we examined the feelings of responsibility mothers partnered with members in combat arms occupations have for their children’s safety during outdoor risky …
Perpetuating the 'lack of evidence' discourse in sport for development
Through an examination of the power relations embedded in the international movement of sport for development, we consider the dominant 'lack of evidence' discourse, which calls for more rigorous, scientific proof to validate the sport for development field. We argue that the lack of co-creation of knowledges, the politics of partnerships, and donor-driven priorities have subjugated sport for development practitioners' knowledge, and therefore fu…
Biopedagogies and Indigenous knowledge
This paper uses transnational postcolonial feminist participatory action research (TPFPAR) to examine two sport for development and peace (SDP) initiatives that focus on Indigenous young women residing in urban areas, one in Vancouver, Canada, and one in Perth, Australia. We examine how SDP programs that target urban Indigenous young women and girls reproduce the hegemony of neoliberalism by deploying biopedagogies of neoliberalism to ‘teach’ Ind…
Anishinaabekweg Dibaajimowinan (Stories) of Decolonization Through Running
Indigenous women’s perspectives on physical activity and the ways in which it fosters decolonization have yet to be considered from an Indigenous feminist perspective. Therefore, in this paper, we present four Anishinaabekweg (that is, Anishinaabeg women’s) dibaajimowinan (personal stories) of physical activity, specifically running, and their views on its contribution to decolonization. This study used an Anishinaabeg research paradigm, storytel…
Private and Moral Authority, Self-Determination, and the Domestic Transfer Objective
Sport for development and peace (SDP) is a contemporary term for practices that have a long history, particularly in Canada’s provincial and territorial north, and especially with Aboriginal peoples for whom the region is home. Using a postcolonial international relations feminist approach, theories of global governance and private authority, and by exploring recent literature on self-determination in the context of Aboriginal peoples, we investi…
Sport for Sustainability? The Extractives Industry, Sport, and Sustainable Development
This article investigates the intersection of three interrelated trends: first, the positioning of sport as a contributor to sustainable development, particularly in regard to the increasing corporatization of sport for development (SFD); second, the trend toward sustainable development in the extractives industry, as taken up within a corporate social responsibility (CSR) approach; and third, the intersection of SFD and CSR when mobilized in pur…
Examining Whiteness and Eurocanadian Discourses in the Canadian Red Cross’ Swim Program
Each year, over 1 million Canadians participate in the Canadian Red Cross’ (CRC) Swim Program. Despite the increasing importance of cultural diversity in Canadian society, the CRC has yet to incorporate diversity training for this program’s Water Safety Instructors (WSIs). Through the use of critical Whiteness theory and critical discourse analysis, in this article, we examine the program’s content to assess the ways in which, if at all, it refle…
A rural school’s closure
In this study, we employed social ecological theory and socialist feminist theory to explore a rural school closure𒀙s impacts on residents of Limerick, SK. Our findings from participant observation, focus groups, and semi-structured interviews indicate that prior to the school𒀙s closure, male and female volunteers within both the school and broader community contexts largely displayed traditional gender roles; however, the school𒀙s closure cau…
Canadian multicultural citizenship
The proliferation of empirical research on immigrants' leisure constraints as restrictive and negative, which is implicitly based on discourses that present particular leisure forms and practices as positive and desirable, has provided scholars with a limited understanding of constraints. In contrast, Foucault's understanding of constraints as necessary for any social practice suggests that power acts as a constraint on action in a way that is ne…
Examining the child’s impacts on single mothers’ leisure
With the majority of research on the experiences of single mothers focusing on motherhood as an inhibiting constraint to leisure, it is important to examine the ways in which motherhood might also enable the obtainment of a satisfactory leisure lifestyle. Our study employed a Foucauldian approach to understand constraints to leisure, in that we view constraints as always both inhibiting and enabling action. The purpose of this study was to explor…
Selling vs. Supporting Motherhood
Recently, motherhood and pregnancy in elite sport have received increased attention in sport media. Through a comprehensive news media search across Factiva as well as a gray literature search using Google search engine, we analyzed 115 articles using feminist framing analysis. We developed two primary frames: 1) empowerment versus exploitation, and 2) proactivity versus reactivity. Our results show that many pregnant and parenting athletes frame…
Health/Service Providers' Perspectives on Barriers to Healthy Weight Gain and Physical Activity in Pregnant, Urban First Nations Women
The purpose of this article is to examine health/service providers' perspectives of barriers to healthy weight gain and physical activity for urban, pregnant First Nations women in Ottawa, Canada. Through the use of semi-structured interviews, we explored 15 health/service providers' perspectives on the complex barriers their clients face. By using a postcolonial feminist lens and a social determinants of health framework, we identified three soc…
We listen to our Elders. You live longer that way”
Pregnancy, Parenthood, and Elite Athletics
Several female athletes have recently challenged the long-standing assumption that pregnancy/parenthood (particularly motherhood) and participation in elite-level sport are mutually exclusive. These women’s actions have elicited change across the elite athletics industry and have sparked a need for further research to understand how elite athlete-parents perceive these shifts. We used feminist poststructuralist theory, feminist participatory acti…
Single Women’s Leisure during the Coronavirus Pandemic
The novel coronavirus has resulted in self-isolation and physical distancing for millions of people. In this critical commentary, we analyze the effects of these practices on our leisure as two single, professional, childless women who live alone. Women face societal expectations that they will play large roles in caregiving. We argue that in the current pandemic, women who are not responsible for the provision of care may face amplified resentme…
Community-level factors that contribute to First Nations and Inuit older adults feeling supported to age well in a Canadian city
Portrayals of Women Golfers in the 2008 Issues of Golf Digest
This research note examines Golf Digest’s depictions of gender through the publication’s portrayals of women in its 2008 issues. Through the use of intersectional theory and critical discourse analysis of the contents within Golf Digest , we found that despite its emerging use of women columnists and content concerning women in articles or advertisements, the magazine mainly reproduced dominant images about white, wealthy, heterosexual women athl…
Fatherhood and Elite Athletics
This study contributes to a growing body of scholarly discussions around the many aspects and challenges of combining parenthood with elite-level sport, with a particular focus on the experiences of male elite athletes who are fathers. We used a caring masculinities theoretical framework, community-based participatory research, and semi-structured interviews to explore the experiences of 10 elite/international and world-class athletes ( n = 9 fat…
Risky statement
Now more than ever, scholars argue that Canadians live in a risk-adverse society. The preoccupation with children’s safety has restricted where and how Canadian children play, with fewer children playing in playgrounds and streets and instead playing closer to home. Fewer children are thus engaging in active, independent, free, and risky outdoor play. In response to this, the 2015 release of the Position Statement on Active Outdoor Play urges par…
Culturally Relevant Physical Activity through Elders in Motion
The need for culturally safe physical activity promotion and programs
An Analysis of the Evacuation Policy for Pregnant First Nations Women in Canada
A Canadian policy requires the routine evacuation of pregnant First Nations women who live on-reserve in rural and remote regions to larger centres to gain access to perinatal services. Despite this access, First Nations women's health remains poor and the First Nations infant mortality rate remains high. In this paper, we employ First Nations feminist theory to understand why the evacuation policy does not result in good health, especially for F…
Railway Accidents and NineteenthCentury Legislation
ocusing on railway company accidents, consideration is given to the rationale behind the judicial doctrine of 'common employment', and the defences of 'assumption of risk' and 'contributory negligence', used to bar victims from receiving legal reparation. Evidence suggests that it was not until 1897 when the Workmen's Compensation Act abandoned the 'fault' principle that the majority of accident victims were able to claim compensation. This artic…
Don't be scared, you don't have to wear your lifejacket’
Water related activities result in a large number of fatalities annually throughout Canada, especially in the Canadian north, where drowning rates are up to ten times the national average. This study used participant observation, semi-structured interviews, and archival research to understand why residents of Tuktoyaktuk, Northwest Territories (NWT) rarely wear lifejackets. Three themes emerged. Firstly residents largely perceive lifejackets to b…
Are we afraid of our selves? Self-narrative research in leisure studies
During the past decade, leisure scholars have started becoming more comfortable with applying to their work newer approaches to knowledge and research methodologies, many of which are being utilized in other social sciences. Self-narrative research, or autoethnography, is a form of inquiry that raises questions regarding separations and interactions of personal and professional identities. While personal narrative research has been in use since t…
Kevlar®, Crisco®, and Menstruation
Using data collected from 4 months of ethnographic research that was conducted during the summer of 2002, this article examines the complexity inherent in anthropological investigations of “tradition,” and also the multiplicity of ways that traditions are looked at by residents of Sambaa K’e and Dene Games organizers in the Northwest Territories. By exploring different interpretations of traditional Dene Games, the role of women in such games, an…
Kevlar®, Crisco®, and Menstruation
Using data collected from 4 months of ethnographic research that was conducted during the summer of 2002, this article examines the complexity inherent in anthropological investigations of “tradition,” and also the multiplicity of ways that traditions are looked at by residents of Sambaa K’e and Dene Games organizers in the Northwest Territories. By exploring different interpretations of traditional Dene Games, the role of women in such games, an…
A Foucaultian Approach to Menstrual Practices in the Dehcho Region, Northwest Territories, Canada
In this paper, I explore the benefits of using a Foucaultian approach to examine research questions related to Dene women, menstrual traditions, and physical practices (the term physical practices is here used to encompass the contested terms sport, recreation, traditional games, and physical activity) in the Dehcho region of the Northwest Territories, Canada. While it is clear that Indigenous research frameworks have been marginalized in past re…
Are we afraid of our selves? Self-narrative research in leisure studies
During the past decade, leisure scholars have started becoming more comfortable with applying to their work newer approaches to knowledge and research methodologies, many of which are being utilized in other social sciences. Self-narrative research, or autoethnography, is a form of inquiry that raises questions regarding separations and interactions of personal and professional identities. While personal narrative research has been in use since t…
Pedagogy of the Front Float
We examine the first author’s experiences with aquatics programming in Nunavut through a Freirian lens, arguing that one can use Paulo Freire’s ideals of dialogue and collaboration to recognize recreation as a mode of social oppression and to offer ways to disrupt this oppression. Though Freire’s work is almost 40 years old, his theoretical contributions have not yet been fully realized within the recent post-colonial context surrounding physical…
We listen to our Elders. You live longer that way”
Don't be scared, you don't have to wear your lifejacket’
Water related activities result in a large number of fatalities annually throughout Canada, especially in the Canadian north, where drowning rates are up to ten times the national average. This study used participant observation, semi-structured interviews, and archival research to understand why residents of Tuktoyaktuk, Northwest Territories (NWT) rarely wear lifejackets. Three themes emerged. Firstly residents largely perceive lifejackets to b…
Canadian multicultural citizenship
The proliferation of empirical research on immigrants' leisure constraints as restrictive and negative, which is implicitly based on discourses that present particular leisure forms and practices as positive and desirable, has provided scholars with a limited understanding of constraints. In contrast, Foucault's understanding of constraints as necessary for any social practice suggests that power acts as a constraint on action in a way that is ne…
Railway Accidents and NineteenthCentury Legislation
ocusing on railway company accidents, consideration is given to the rationale behind the judicial doctrine of 'common employment', and the defences of 'assumption of risk' and 'contributory negligence', used to bar victims from receiving legal reparation. Evidence suggests that it was not until 1897 when the Workmen's Compensation Act abandoned the 'fault' principle that the majority of accident victims were able to claim compensation. This artic…
Portrayals of Women Golfers in the 2008 Issues of Golf Digest
This research note examines Golf Digest’s depictions of gender through the publication’s portrayals of women in its 2008 issues. Through the use of intersectional theory and critical discourse analysis of the contents within Golf Digest , we found that despite its emerging use of women columnists and content concerning women in articles or advertisements, the magazine mainly reproduced dominant images about white, wealthy, heterosexual women athl…
Examining the child’s impacts on single mothers’ leisure
With the majority of research on the experiences of single mothers focusing on motherhood as an inhibiting constraint to leisure, it is important to examine the ways in which motherhood might also enable the obtainment of a satisfactory leisure lifestyle. Our study employed a Foucauldian approach to understand constraints to leisure, in that we view constraints as always both inhibiting and enabling action. The purpose of this study was to explor…
Perpetuating the 'lack of evidence' discourse in sport for development
Through an examination of the power relations embedded in the international movement of sport for development, we consider the dominant 'lack of evidence' discourse, which calls for more rigorous, scientific proof to validate the sport for development field. We argue that the lack of co-creation of knowledges, the politics of partnerships, and donor-driven priorities have subjugated sport for development practitioners' knowledge, and therefore fu…
Aboriginal Peoples and Sport in Canada
Aboriginal Peoples and Sport in Canada uses sport as a lens through which to examine Aboriginal peoples' issues of individual and community health, gender and race relations, culture and colonialism, and self-determination and agency. In this ground-breaking volume, leading scholars offer a multidisciplinary perspective on issues such as the clashing cultural imperatives that discourage Aboriginal athletes from participating at the national level…
Hunting for empire
Leadership, power and racism
Using a Foucauldian and postcolonial lens, this case study examines the ways in which leadership styles used by lifeguards and supported by the structure, rules and regulations at a northern Canadian swimming pool influenced Aboriginal people’s experience of the facility. Participant observation, semi-structured interviews and a focus group were used to identify the ways in which Eurocentric lifeguard training, exercises of power, institutional r…
An Analysis of the Evacuation Policy for Pregnant First Nations Women in Canada
A Canadian policy requires the routine evacuation of pregnant First Nations women who live on-reserve in rural and remote regions to larger centres to gain access to perinatal services. Despite this access, First Nations women's health remains poor and the First Nations infant mortality rate remains high. In this paper, we employ First Nations feminist theory to understand why the evacuation policy does not result in good health, especially for F…
Cultural Safety
Current approaches for non-Aboriginal family medicine practitioners encountering Aboriginal patients are based in cultural sensitivity, which is an inadequate model to satisfy the obligation of family medicine residents and physicians to Aboriginal health in Canada. In this paper, we advocate for the adoption of a cultural safety approach as a superior method for training family medicine residents in interactions with Aboriginal patients. Family …
Challenging and transforming power relations within community-based participatory research
Community-based participatory research (CBPR) advocates claim that by engaging community members to participate as equal partners in research that addresses issues relevant to the community, participatory methodologies can contribute to decreasing local health inequities and help build capacity for social change. There are, however, considerable concerns about the under-theorisation of power within CBPR approaches and the possibility of the margi…
Policy (Mis)Alignment
In this article, we employ Bacchi’s (1999) What’s the Problem approach to policy analysis to examine Health Canada’s Aboriginal Diabetes Initiative (ADI) and the ways in which it articulates with existing federal policies that relate to three Aboriginal social determinants of health: colonialism, education, and health care. Focusing our analysis on the Aboriginal population with the highest prevalence of type 2 diabetes, First Nations, we argue t…
Adaptation to Aquatic Risks due to Climate Change in Pangnirtung, Nunavut
We use a vulnerability framework to examine how residents of Pangnirtung, Nunavut, perceive the risks of aquatic activities in the context of adaptation to a changing climate. Our findings suggest that community members identify climate change as increasing the risk of many aquatic activities and have adapted some practices accordingly. However, further adaptation to these changing risks is impeded by three main barriers: (1) financial constraint…
Let Them Eat Organic Cake
Sustainable food initiatives have increased over the past decade; however, they remain a fringe lifestyle and have failed to become part of the dominant North American food culture. In this article, through an examination of several popular texts that aim to educate the public about sustainable eating, we argue that a main cause of this failure is the lack of a critical examination of the underlying relations of power that inform discourses about…
A rural school’s closure
In this study, we employed social ecological theory and socialist feminist theory to explore a rural school closure𒀙s impacts on residents of Limerick, SK. Our findings from participant observation, focus groups, and semi-structured interviews indicate that prior to the school𒀙s closure, male and female volunteers within both the school and broader community contexts largely displayed traditional gender roles; however, the school𒀙s closure cau…
A Rural School’s Closure
Private and Moral Authority, Self-Determination, and the Domestic Transfer Objective
Sport for development and peace (SDP) is a contemporary term for practices that have a long history, particularly in Canada’s provincial and territorial north, and especially with Aboriginal peoples for whom the region is home. Using a postcolonial international relations feminist approach, theories of global governance and private authority, and by exploring recent literature on self-determination in the context of Aboriginal peoples, we investi…
The need for culturally safe physical activity promotion and programs
Examining Whiteness and Eurocanadian Discourses in the Canadian Red Cross’ Swim Program
Each year, over 1 million Canadians participate in the Canadian Red Cross’ (CRC) Swim Program. Despite the increasing importance of cultural diversity in Canadian society, the CRC has yet to incorporate diversity training for this program’s Water Safety Instructors (WSIs). Through the use of critical Whiteness theory and critical discourse analysis, in this article, we examine the program’s content to assess the ways in which, if at all, it refle…
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