Felice Yuen
Biographic Data
| ID | 4076306 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Felice Yuen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Felice |
| FAMILY NAME | Yuen |
| SIGNATURE | YUEN F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Concordia University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8602-9511 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 94 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
‘Working with you all was healing’
Leisure scholars are increasingly resisting pervasive neoliberal pressures throughout the academy. Canadian Congress on Leisure Research (CCLR) 2021 was hosted amid great uncertainty due to the prolonged impacts of the COVID-19 global pandemic and racial reckoning and unrest. In this article, the four CCLR 2021 co-organizers share our reflections on the conference planning process that involved various systemic tensions (e.g. racial unrest within…
Human connections
This article presents a study that focused on employees and their experiences of an intergenerational program with older adult volunteers in a child-care facility. The paper explores the intentional creation of third places and its contribution to the development and maintenance of relationships between child-care staff and volunteers. Findings from this study indicate that building respect, valuing commitment, and gaining enjoyment are vital asp…
Research ethics = You + me + “All our relations”
Increasing awareness of racist and discriminatory structures, such as education and the penal system, is fueling a need for leisure scholars to reconsider their approaches to research. This article encourages readers to consider an alternative approach to doing research; one that is founded upon respect, trust, balance, and fairness. This alternative approach is described by authors as relational ethics. The manuscript discusses reciprocity, flex…
Leisure and trauma-informed practice
Leisure has the potential to contribute to processes of colonization and decolonization. In this paper, we propose using trauma-informed practice as part of a decolonizing process in leisure service provision. While trauma-informed practice continues to have it critiques and limitations from a decolonizing perspective, its recognition of the widespread impact of trauma, the role colonization plays in this trauma, and the value it places on safety…
Engaging struggle
Unraveling the Research Process
This special issue focuses on the behind-the-scenes, often messy, occurrences of leisure research. Leisure scholars’ engagement in reflexive, collaborative, critical, arts-based, participative, and social justice-oriented research, increase the need to explore and examine significant moments that punctuate and undoubtedly shape the research and themselves as individuals. Humanizing research inherently involves humanizing leisure scholars. Authors…
If We’re Lost, we Are Lost Together”
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought on a sense of freedoms lost with the emergence of regulatory practices aimed at reducing the spread of the virus. This loss has likely impacted experiences of leisure, particularly in western societies where the perception of freedom is a significant indicator of leisure. The article explores the significance of relationality and leisure from a decolonizing perspective. Building upon observations of the author’s …
Leisure, Art, and Advocacy
Leisure is increasingly recognized for its role in social justice. Scholars have highlighted specific leisure contexts as sites for social justice, and calls have been made for academics to apply a social justice perspective to their research. The article explores the experiences of women who have been criminalized and their engagement in social justice through a community arts project located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. This article focuses on …
Leisure, cultural continuity, and life promotion
Colonization has left in its wake alarming suicide rates for Indigenous youth. The suicide rate of Indigenous youth in Canada is five to six times higher than their non-Indigenous counterparts. This article presents the findings of a research project that explored and promoted wellness and life promotion with Indigenous youth living on a reserve in Saskatchewan, Canada. Data collection occurred through an arts-based workshop, where youth collecti…
Community Re-Entry
In their journeys to prison and community re-entry, women leaving prison tend to share overarching challenges connected to lives of poverty, trauma, and abuse. Community Re-Entry: Uncertain Futures for Women Leaving Prison provides a rare opportunity to hear directly from women who have spent time in a Canadian federal penitentiary. Based on more than a decade of engagement with women in prison, the authors gathered rich and personal information …
Evocative Words and Ethical Crafting
In recent years, leisure scholars have increasingly used creative analytic practice (CAP). Poetic representation is one form of CAP that allows researchers to synthesize findings and represent the data while highlighting the emotional aspects of the lived experience. Despite the increased use of CAP in leisure research, little has been written about the process of using poetry as a form of representation. This article focuses on the process and e…
Leisure Spaces, Community, and Third Places
After decades of highlighting the decline of social networks, leisure spaces as third places constitute a welcomed approach to mediate this loss. Third places are defined as public gathering places that ultimately contribute to the strength of community. We appreciate the concept and believe that it has and will continue to influence scholars in the field of leisure. For this reason, this research reflection argues Oldenburg's conceptualization o…
Collage
This paper discusses collage as a method of inquiry in a participatory action research project, which examined the meaning of healing with Aboriginal women and the meaning of leisure in their experiences of healing. The discussion highlights how simultaneous analysis, synthesis, and representation led to a rhizomatic process and multivocal understandings. Given that the project was also founded upon Indigenous epistemologies, this artistic means …
Community (Dis)connection Through Leisure for Women in Prison
This article examines incarcerated women's leisure and re-entry into community. Framed in creative analytic practice, two poems reflect two major themes: (1) women's experiences of disconnection from community prior to and deepened by experiences in prison and (2) leisure and community re-entry, which describes complex meanings of leisure for women in prison and implications for return to community. These poems elucidate six often incongruous fac…
Embracing Emotionality
Kicking and Screaming
In this paper, poetry, as a form of creative analytic practice, is used to articulate my transformation from a constructivist to a critical theorist during my research with Aboriginal women in prison. I was first kicking and screaming against the very thought of working so closely with women in prison, and eventually I was kicking and screaming with incarcerated women and for incarcerated women. Creative analytic practice embraces the complexity …
Leisure as a Context for Justice
The purpose of this paper is to examine the leisure experiences of Aboriginal women in a Canadian federal prison as they engaged in traditional ceremony. Conceptualized as leisure, these ceremonies were examined in the context of justice by exploring the women's resistance to oppression and loss of identity rooted in colonization. The findings of the study suggest that through ceremony, Aboriginal women's identities and understanding of being Abo…
Role of Canadian user‐led disability organizations in the non‐profit sector
User‐led disability organizations have emerged as an important force in the non‐profit sector. While much is known about the traditional disability organizations that began to proliferate in the 1950s (e.g. National Institute for the Blind), relatively less is known about the user‐led organizations that emerged in the 1970s. Using a collective case study approach, phase 1 was a policy review and key informant interviews with members of user‐led a…
Building Community and Social Capital through Children's Leisure in the Context of an International Camp
The purpose of the study was to explore the extent to which participation in leisure activities directed towards cooperation and effective communication affected the development of social capital and sense of community in a group of children at an international camp. Methods of data collection included participant observation and focus groups, which included drawings as a part of the focus group procedure. Through an inductive analysis of qualita…
“It was fun…I liked drawing my thoughts”
Little research in leisure studies has involved the use of drawings as a method of data collection with children. When involving children in qualitative research, one of the major challenges is for the adult investigator to capture the experiences and meanings from the children's perspective. This article discusses four contexts in which drawings can contribute to the research process when conducting focus groups with children: 1) to facilitate a…
Play
This paper examines play and its impact on the resistance and reinforcement of gender ideologies. Using a social constructionist perspective, different types of play are considered to have different roles in the reproduction and reinforcement of gendered beliefs. Specifically two types of play are examined-unstructured and structured. Unstructured play tends to be guided by children themselves, whereas structured play, which includes media-relate…
Leisure Spaces, Community, and Third Places
After decades of highlighting the decline of social networks, leisure spaces as third places constitute a welcomed approach to mediate this loss. Third places are defined as public gathering places that ultimately contribute to the strength of community. We appreciate the concept and believe that it has and will continue to influence scholars in the field of leisure. For this reason, this research reflection argues Oldenburg's conceptualization o…
Collage
This paper discusses collage as a method of inquiry in a participatory action research project, which examined the meaning of healing with Aboriginal women and the meaning of leisure in their experiences of healing. The discussion highlights how simultaneous analysis, synthesis, and representation led to a rhizomatic process and multivocal understandings. Given that the project was also founded upon Indigenous epistemologies, this artistic means …
Leisure as a Context for Justice
The purpose of this paper is to examine the leisure experiences of Aboriginal women in a Canadian federal prison as they engaged in traditional ceremony. Conceptualized as leisure, these ceremonies were examined in the context of justice by exploring the women's resistance to oppression and loss of identity rooted in colonization. The findings of the study suggest that through ceremony, Aboriginal women's identities and understanding of being Abo…
Building Community and Social Capital through Children's Leisure in the Context of an International Camp
The purpose of the study was to explore the extent to which participation in leisure activities directed towards cooperation and effective communication affected the development of social capital and sense of community in a group of children at an international camp. Methods of data collection included participant observation and focus groups, which included drawings as a part of the focus group procedure. Through an inductive analysis of qualita…
Community (Dis)connection Through Leisure for Women in Prison
This article examines incarcerated women's leisure and re-entry into community. Framed in creative analytic practice, two poems reflect two major themes: (1) women's experiences of disconnection from community prior to and deepened by experiences in prison and (2) leisure and community re-entry, which describes complex meanings of leisure for women in prison and implications for return to community. These poems elucidate six often incongruous fac…
Embracing Emotionality
Leisure and trauma-informed practice
Leisure has the potential to contribute to processes of colonization and decolonization. In this paper, we propose using trauma-informed practice as part of a decolonizing process in leisure service provision. While trauma-informed practice continues to have it critiques and limitations from a decolonizing perspective, its recognition of the widespread impact of trauma, the role colonization plays in this trauma, and the value it places on safety…
Evocative Words and Ethical Crafting
In recent years, leisure scholars have increasingly used creative analytic practice (CAP). Poetic representation is one form of CAP that allows researchers to synthesize findings and represent the data while highlighting the emotional aspects of the lived experience. Despite the increased use of CAP in leisure research, little has been written about the process of using poetry as a form of representation. This article focuses on the process and e…
Unraveling the Research Process
This special issue focuses on the behind-the-scenes, often messy, occurrences of leisure research. Leisure scholars’ engagement in reflexive, collaborative, critical, arts-based, participative, and social justice-oriented research, increase the need to explore and examine significant moments that punctuate and undoubtedly shape the research and themselves as individuals. Humanizing research inherently involves humanizing leisure scholars. Authors…
Leisure, cultural continuity, and life promotion
Colonization has left in its wake alarming suicide rates for Indigenous youth. The suicide rate of Indigenous youth in Canada is five to six times higher than their non-Indigenous counterparts. This article presents the findings of a research project that explored and promoted wellness and life promotion with Indigenous youth living on a reserve in Saskatchewan, Canada. Data collection occurred through an arts-based workshop, where youth collecti…
Role of Canadian user‐led disability organizations in the non‐profit sector
User‐led disability organizations have emerged as an important force in the non‐profit sector. While much is known about the traditional disability organizations that began to proliferate in the 1950s (e.g. National Institute for the Blind), relatively less is known about the user‐led organizations that emerged in the 1970s. Using a collective case study approach, phase 1 was a policy review and key informant interviews with members of user‐led a…
If We’re Lost, we Are Lost Together”
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought on a sense of freedoms lost with the emergence of regulatory practices aimed at reducing the spread of the virus. This loss has likely impacted experiences of leisure, particularly in western societies where the perception of freedom is a significant indicator of leisure. The article explores the significance of relationality and leisure from a decolonizing perspective. Building upon observations of the author’s …
Leisure, Art, and Advocacy
Leisure is increasingly recognized for its role in social justice. Scholars have highlighted specific leisure contexts as sites for social justice, and calls have been made for academics to apply a social justice perspective to their research. The article explores the experiences of women who have been criminalized and their engagement in social justice through a community arts project located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. This article focuses on …
Play
This paper examines play and its impact on the resistance and reinforcement of gender ideologies. Using a social constructionist perspective, different types of play are considered to have different roles in the reproduction and reinforcement of gendered beliefs. Specifically two types of play are examined-unstructured and structured. Unstructured play tends to be guided by children themselves, whereas structured play, which includes media-relate…
“It was fun…I liked drawing my thoughts”
Little research in leisure studies has involved the use of drawings as a method of data collection with children. When involving children in qualitative research, one of the major challenges is for the adult investigator to capture the experiences and meanings from the children's perspective. This article discusses four contexts in which drawings can contribute to the research process when conducting focus groups with children: 1) to facilitate a…
Building Community and Social Capital through Children's Leisure in the Context of an International Camp
The purpose of the study was to explore the extent to which participation in leisure activities directed towards cooperation and effective communication affected the development of social capital and sense of community in a group of children at an international camp. Methods of data collection included participant observation and focus groups, which included drawings as a part of the focus group procedure. Through an inductive analysis of qualita…
Role of Canadian user‐led disability organizations in the non‐profit sector
User‐led disability organizations have emerged as an important force in the non‐profit sector. While much is known about the traditional disability organizations that began to proliferate in the 1950s (e.g. National Institute for the Blind), relatively less is known about the user‐led organizations that emerged in the 1970s. Using a collective case study approach, phase 1 was a policy review and key informant interviews with members of user‐led a…
Leisure as a Context for Justice
The purpose of this paper is to examine the leisure experiences of Aboriginal women in a Canadian federal prison as they engaged in traditional ceremony. Conceptualized as leisure, these ceremonies were examined in the context of justice by exploring the women's resistance to oppression and loss of identity rooted in colonization. The findings of the study suggest that through ceremony, Aboriginal women's identities and understanding of being Abo…
Kicking and Screaming
In this paper, poetry, as a form of creative analytic practice, is used to articulate my transformation from a constructivist to a critical theorist during my research with Aboriginal women in prison. I was first kicking and screaming against the very thought of working so closely with women in prison, and eventually I was kicking and screaming with incarcerated women and for incarcerated women. Creative analytic practice embraces the complexity …
Embracing Emotionality
Community (Dis)connection Through Leisure for Women in Prison
This article examines incarcerated women's leisure and re-entry into community. Framed in creative analytic practice, two poems reflect two major themes: (1) women's experiences of disconnection from community prior to and deepened by experiences in prison and (2) leisure and community re-entry, which describes complex meanings of leisure for women in prison and implications for return to community. These poems elucidate six often incongruous fac…
Collage
This paper discusses collage as a method of inquiry in a participatory action research project, which examined the meaning of healing with Aboriginal women and the meaning of leisure in their experiences of healing. The discussion highlights how simultaneous analysis, synthesis, and representation led to a rhizomatic process and multivocal understandings. Given that the project was also founded upon Indigenous epistemologies, this artistic means …
Evocative Words and Ethical Crafting
In recent years, leisure scholars have increasingly used creative analytic practice (CAP). Poetic representation is one form of CAP that allows researchers to synthesize findings and represent the data while highlighting the emotional aspects of the lived experience. Despite the increased use of CAP in leisure research, little has been written about the process of using poetry as a form of representation. This article focuses on the process and e…
Leisure Spaces, Community, and Third Places
After decades of highlighting the decline of social networks, leisure spaces as third places constitute a welcomed approach to mediate this loss. Third places are defined as public gathering places that ultimately contribute to the strength of community. We appreciate the concept and believe that it has and will continue to influence scholars in the field of leisure. For this reason, this research reflection argues Oldenburg's conceptualization o…
Community Re-Entry
In their journeys to prison and community re-entry, women leaving prison tend to share overarching challenges connected to lives of poverty, trauma, and abuse. Community Re-Entry: Uncertain Futures for Women Leaving Prison provides a rare opportunity to hear directly from women who have spent time in a Canadian federal penitentiary. Based on more than a decade of engagement with women in prison, the authors gathered rich and personal information …
Leisure, cultural continuity, and life promotion
Colonization has left in its wake alarming suicide rates for Indigenous youth. The suicide rate of Indigenous youth in Canada is five to six times higher than their non-Indigenous counterparts. This article presents the findings of a research project that explored and promoted wellness and life promotion with Indigenous youth living on a reserve in Saskatchewan, Canada. Data collection occurred through an arts-based workshop, where youth collecti…
Leisure, Art, and Advocacy
Leisure is increasingly recognized for its role in social justice. Scholars have highlighted specific leisure contexts as sites for social justice, and calls have been made for academics to apply a social justice perspective to their research. The article explores the experiences of women who have been criminalized and their engagement in social justice through a community arts project located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. This article focuses on …
Unraveling the Research Process
This special issue focuses on the behind-the-scenes, often messy, occurrences of leisure research. Leisure scholars’ engagement in reflexive, collaborative, critical, arts-based, participative, and social justice-oriented research, increase the need to explore and examine significant moments that punctuate and undoubtedly shape the research and themselves as individuals. Humanizing research inherently involves humanizing leisure scholars. Authors…
If We’re Lost, we Are Lost Together”
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought on a sense of freedoms lost with the emergence of regulatory practices aimed at reducing the spread of the virus. This loss has likely impacted experiences of leisure, particularly in western societies where the perception of freedom is a significant indicator of leisure. The article explores the significance of relationality and leisure from a decolonizing perspective. Building upon observations of the author’s …
Engaging struggle
Human connections
This article presents a study that focused on employees and their experiences of an intergenerational program with older adult volunteers in a child-care facility. The paper explores the intentional creation of third places and its contribution to the development and maintenance of relationships between child-care staff and volunteers. Findings from this study indicate that building respect, valuing commitment, and gaining enjoyment are vital asp…
Research ethics = You + me + “All our relations”
Increasing awareness of racist and discriminatory structures, such as education and the penal system, is fueling a need for leisure scholars to reconsider their approaches to research. This article encourages readers to consider an alternative approach to doing research; one that is founded upon respect, trust, balance, and fairness. This alternative approach is described by authors as relational ethics. The manuscript discusses reciprocity, flex…
Leisure and trauma-informed practice
Leisure has the potential to contribute to processes of colonization and decolonization. In this paper, we propose using trauma-informed practice as part of a decolonizing process in leisure service provision. While trauma-informed practice continues to have it critiques and limitations from a decolonizing perspective, its recognition of the widespread impact of trauma, the role colonization plays in this trauma, and the value it places on safety…
‘Working with you all was healing’
Leisure scholars are increasingly resisting pervasive neoliberal pressures throughout the academy. Canadian Congress on Leisure Research (CCLR) 2021 was hosted amid great uncertainty due to the prolonged impacts of the COVID-19 global pandemic and racial reckoning and unrest. In this article, the four CCLR 2021 co-organizers share our reflections on the conference planning process that involved various systemic tensions (e.g. racial unrest within…
Sociology (18 works) · Political science (14 works) · Psychology (12 works) · Recreation, Leisure, Wilderness Management (12 works) · Social Psychology (11 works) · Aesthetics (7 works) · Epistemology (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Social science (7 works)