Michelle E E Bauer
Biographic Data
| ID | 362639 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michelle E E Bauer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michelle E E |
| FAMILY NAME | Bauer |
| SIGNATURE | BAUER M E E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of British Columbia |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3732-0449 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Play as nostalgic reminiscence and escapism during the 2024 war on Lebanon: The meaning of play to internally displaced children through art and memory
Given surges worldwide in displacement occurring in part due to armed conflict, it is imperative to explore the meaning of play for internally displaced children, to identify opportunities for them to be safe, happy, and connected to their communities at times of emotional and physical turmoil. Despite this need, their voices are rarely included in research. To contribute to addressing this gap, we conducted arts-based interviews with 27 children…
Challenges and management of venomous bites and scorpion stings in Lebanon: A qualitative study
Background: Snakebites and scorpion stings are significant public health issues globally, particularly in the Middle East. This qualitative study investigates the management of these incidents in Lebanon by exploring the perceptions of healthcare providers and public health experts. Methods: Thematic analysis, guided by sociocultural theory, examined qualitative data from 17 interviews with healthcare providers, including emergency physicians, pa…
Retheorising 'Risky' Play in a Global Context: Addressing the Safety Needs of Refugee and Displaced Families
A wealth of scholarship demonstrates the developmental benefits of risky play for children. However, this scholarship has overwhelmingly focused on the experiences of children and their caregivers from Euro-Western nations. It is imperative to explore child and caregiver perspectives on child risk, injury and play in communities where children experience a disproportionate burden of injuries resulting from play such as in refugee communities. For…
I’ve Seen What Evil Men Do”: Military Mothering and Children’s Outdoor Risky Play
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…
Researching Leisure in the Aftermath of Trauma: An Auto-Ethnography of Loss, Fear, and Working with Refugee Families
In this auto-ethnographic study, I examine the tensions in conducting leisure research with communities experiencing trauma as a survivor of trauma. I use diary entries taken during times of coping with my mother's illnesses, and during a two-week period working with Syrian refugee families in Lebanon, to explore narratives of leisure as a means to heal and belong. Results from a narrative analysis reflect (1) renegotiating an empathetic research…
Children's Play in Natural Environments and Their Development of Microcultures: "We Were Born in the Wilderness"
Amid a dearth of research exploring children's stories of their play in natural environments, we conducted go-along interviews with 105 children aged 10–13 years in Metro Vancouver, Canada. We used narrative inquiry to explore how natural environments shaped their experiences and influenced their development of microcultures. Our thematic narrative analysis resulted in two themes: (1) children played in natural environments to which they had sent…
“As long as there’s no mortal risk”: The perspectives of members in combat arms occupations on children’s outdoor risky play
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…
Military mothering, responsibility, and children’s outdoor risky play: “I do not want my children to be afraid to try things”
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 …
Militarized masculinities in the home: I'm not your army buddy - I'm your wife
There is a scarcity of scholarly attention to women’s perspectives of militarized masculinities in the home. As a result, we used semi-structured interviews to examine the perspectives of 16 women partnered with members in combat arms occupations in the Canadian Armed Forces on militarized masculinities in the home. We used poststructural feminist theory and feminist methodologies to inform our approach. Through a critical discourse analysis of t…
Where are all the gay fathers: Reflections on recruiting gay fathers as participants in leisure research
There is a dearth of understanding of gay fathers’ perspectives on leisure studies topics. If researchers are to conduct research that better reflects all fathers, it is important to gain insights into recruiting gay fathers, and to ensure that gay fathers know that their perspectives are needed and desired. Thus, in this research note, we highlight two important reflections on the difficulties we encountered when attempting to recruit gay father…
Single, Stay-at-Home, and Gay Fathers’ Perspectives on their 4-12-Year-Old Children’s Outdoor Risky Play Behaviour and ‘Good’ Fathering
In this study, we address the question, ‘What are single, stay-at-home, and gay fathers’ perspectives of their 4– 12-year-old children’s outdoor risky play behaviours and how do they relate to discourses of good fathering?’ Through the use of semi-structured interviews, poststructural feminist theory, and critical discourse analysis, we identified five key discourses: Children’s play is safer now than when the participants were children; fathers …
Negotiating fatherhood: Sport and family practices
Negotiating Fatherhood: Sport and Family Practices by Fletcher (2020) makes a timely contribution to the field of sport, leisure, and family studies. Sport and leisure scholars in particular have f
Risky statement: A critique of the Position Statement on Active Outdoor Play
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…
Exploring Single, Stay-at-Home, and Gay Fathers’ Perspectives of Masculinity and the Influence These Have on Their Understandings of Their 4- to 12-Year-Old Children’s Outdoor Risky Play
Fathers’ perspectives on masculinity can influence their perspectives on their children’s outdoor risky play. This study makes a novel contribution to bridging a gap in knowledge that exists between the fields of sexuality, family dynamics, and child injury prevention by exploring single, stay-at-home, and gay fathers’ perspectives on masculinity and the influence that these have on their perspectives of their 4- to 12-year-old children’s outdoor…
The need for Inuit parents’ perspectives on outdoor risky play
Parents’ perspectives on their children’s outdoor risky play behaviours influence their children’s adoption of safety strategies and their children’s approach to risky and dangerous situations (Brussoni & Olsen, 2011). Over the past decade, researchers have explored many Canadian mothers’ and fathers’ perspectives on this topic; however, to date, there has been a lack of research on Indigenous parents’ perspectives, particularly those of Inuit pa…
Risky statement: A critique of the Position Statement on Active Outdoor Play
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…
Militarized masculinities in the home: I'm not your army buddy - I'm your wife
There is a scarcity of scholarly attention to women’s perspectives of militarized masculinities in the home. As a result, we used semi-structured interviews to examine the perspectives of 16 women partnered with members in combat arms occupations in the Canadian Armed Forces on militarized masculinities in the home. We used poststructural feminist theory and feminist methodologies to inform our approach. Through a critical discourse analysis of t…
Exploring Single, Stay-at-Home, and Gay Fathers’ Perspectives of Masculinity and the Influence These Have on Their Understandings of Their 4- to 12-Year-Old Children’s Outdoor Risky Play
Fathers’ perspectives on masculinity can influence their perspectives on their children’s outdoor risky play. This study makes a novel contribution to bridging a gap in knowledge that exists between the fields of sexuality, family dynamics, and child injury prevention by exploring single, stay-at-home, and gay fathers’ perspectives on masculinity and the influence that these have on their perspectives of their 4- to 12-year-old children’s outdoor…
The need for Inuit parents’ perspectives on outdoor risky play
Parents’ perspectives on their children’s outdoor risky play behaviours influence their children’s adoption of safety strategies and their children’s approach to risky and dangerous situations (Brussoni & Olsen, 2011). Over the past decade, researchers have explored many Canadian mothers’ and fathers’ perspectives on this topic; however, to date, there has been a lack of research on Indigenous parents’ perspectives, particularly those of Inuit pa…
Risky statement: A critique of the Position Statement on Active Outdoor Play
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…
Exploring Single, Stay-at-Home, and Gay Fathers’ Perspectives of Masculinity and the Influence These Have on Their Understandings of Their 4- to 12-Year-Old Children’s Outdoor Risky Play
Fathers’ perspectives on masculinity can influence their perspectives on their children’s outdoor risky play. This study makes a novel contribution to bridging a gap in knowledge that exists between the fields of sexuality, family dynamics, and child injury prevention by exploring single, stay-at-home, and gay fathers’ perspectives on masculinity and the influence that these have on their perspectives of their 4- to 12-year-old children’s outdoor…
The need for Inuit parents’ perspectives on outdoor risky play
Parents’ perspectives on their children’s outdoor risky play behaviours influence their children’s adoption of safety strategies and their children’s approach to risky and dangerous situations (Brussoni & Olsen, 2011). Over the past decade, researchers have explored many Canadian mothers’ and fathers’ perspectives on this topic; however, to date, there has been a lack of research on Indigenous parents’ perspectives, particularly those of Inuit pa…
Single, Stay-at-Home, and Gay Fathers’ Perspectives on their 4-12-Year-Old Children’s Outdoor Risky Play Behaviour and ‘Good’ Fathering
In this study, we address the question, ‘What are single, stay-at-home, and gay fathers’ perspectives of their 4– 12-year-old children’s outdoor risky play behaviours and how do they relate to discourses of good fathering?’ Through the use of semi-structured interviews, poststructural feminist theory, and critical discourse analysis, we identified five key discourses: Children’s play is safer now than when the participants were children; fathers …
Negotiating fatherhood: Sport and family practices
Negotiating Fatherhood: Sport and Family Practices by Fletcher (2020) makes a timely contribution to the field of sport, leisure, and family studies. Sport and leisure scholars in particular have f
Where are all the gay fathers: Reflections on recruiting gay fathers as participants in leisure research
There is a dearth of understanding of gay fathers’ perspectives on leisure studies topics. If researchers are to conduct research that better reflects all fathers, it is important to gain insights into recruiting gay fathers, and to ensure that gay fathers know that their perspectives are needed and desired. Thus, in this research note, we highlight two important reflections on the difficulties we encountered when attempting to recruit gay father…
Children's Play in Natural Environments and Their Development of Microcultures: "We Were Born in the Wilderness"
Amid a dearth of research exploring children's stories of their play in natural environments, we conducted go-along interviews with 105 children aged 10–13 years in Metro Vancouver, Canada. We used narrative inquiry to explore how natural environments shaped their experiences and influenced their development of microcultures. Our thematic narrative analysis resulted in two themes: (1) children played in natural environments to which they had sent…
“As long as there’s no mortal risk”: The perspectives of members in combat arms occupations on children’s outdoor risky play
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…
Military mothering, responsibility, and children’s outdoor risky play: “I do not want my children to be afraid to try things”
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 …
Militarized masculinities in the home: I'm not your army buddy - I'm your wife
There is a scarcity of scholarly attention to women’s perspectives of militarized masculinities in the home. As a result, we used semi-structured interviews to examine the perspectives of 16 women partnered with members in combat arms occupations in the Canadian Armed Forces on militarized masculinities in the home. We used poststructural feminist theory and feminist methodologies to inform our approach. Through a critical discourse analysis of t…
I’ve Seen What Evil Men Do”: Military Mothering and Children’s Outdoor Risky Play
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…
Researching Leisure in the Aftermath of Trauma: An Auto-Ethnography of Loss, Fear, and Working with Refugee Families
In this auto-ethnographic study, I examine the tensions in conducting leisure research with communities experiencing trauma as a survivor of trauma. I use diary entries taken during times of coping with my mother's illnesses, and during a two-week period working with Syrian refugee families in Lebanon, to explore narratives of leisure as a means to heal and belong. Results from a narrative analysis reflect (1) renegotiating an empathetic research…
Challenges and management of venomous bites and scorpion stings in Lebanon: A qualitative study
Background: Snakebites and scorpion stings are significant public health issues globally, particularly in the Middle East. This qualitative study investigates the management of these incidents in Lebanon by exploring the perceptions of healthcare providers and public health experts. Methods: Thematic analysis, guided by sociocultural theory, examined qualitative data from 17 interviews with healthcare providers, including emergency physicians, pa…
Retheorising 'Risky' Play in a Global Context: Addressing the Safety Needs of Refugee and Displaced Families
A wealth of scholarship demonstrates the developmental benefits of risky play for children. However, this scholarship has overwhelmingly focused on the experiences of children and their caregivers from Euro-Western nations. It is imperative to explore child and caregiver perspectives on child risk, injury and play in communities where children experience a disproportionate burden of injuries resulting from play such as in refugee communities. For…
Play as nostalgic reminiscence and escapism during the 2024 war on Lebanon: The meaning of play to internally displaced children through art and memory
Given surges worldwide in displacement occurring in part due to armed conflict, it is imperative to explore the meaning of play for internally displaced children, to identify opportunities for them to be safe, happy, and connected to their communities at times of emotional and physical turmoil. Despite this need, their voices are rarely included in research. To contribute to addressing this gap, we conducted arts-based interviews with 27 children…
Psychology (11 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Political science (7 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Adventure Sports and Sensation Seeking (6 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Injury Epidemiology and Prevention (6 works) · Medicine (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Outdoor and Experiential Education (5 works)