Shannon Hebblethwaite
Biographic Data
| ID | 4219033 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Shannon Hebblethwaite |
| GIVEN NAMES | Shannon |
| FAMILY NAME | Hebblethwaite |
| SIGNATURE | HEBBLETHWAITE S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Concordia University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 34 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
A critical examination of neoliberalism and women’s physically active leisure experiences during the transition to motherhood
In this paper, the authors investigate how neoliberalism and the transition to motherhood influence mothers’ engagement in physically active leisure. They use data from their longitudinal study on first-time mothers in two major cities in Canada to better understand women’s experiences of navigating the multiple demands of contemporary mothering. Interviews were conducted with 33 women who were experiencing the transition to motherhood at four in…
‘I can’t say we focus on the mom’
While public leisure services are meant to be inclusive and accessible, few researchers have unpacked what public leisure service providers (PLSPs) perceive as socially inclusive leisure services for pregnant or postpartum women. Therefore, we used this study to explore how PLSPs in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, perceived the needs of pregnant and postpartum women when creating public leisure programs and services. We interviewed 14 PLSPs to gather a…
Policy on the Frontlines
Community nonprofit organizations (CNPOs) are a vital component of the social infrastructure that addresses the needs of older adults aging in place. Despite this, CNPOs are overlooked in political research and relevant policies, such as the age-friendly cities program. This article examines CNPO work during the COVID-19 pandemic in Montréal, Québec. Policy analysis, surveys, and interviews with CNPO staff, local policy actors, and older adults r…
Maternal responsibilization in times of crisis
Negotiating intensive mothering and the gendered politics of active leisure among first time mothers in Canada
In this paper, we investigate the meanings and experiences of active leisure among first time mothers. The connection of first time mothers’ experiences to broader concepts such as intensive mothering, social policy, and neoliberalism are also examined within the context of their well-being. Using narrative analysis, 27 interviews were conducted with nine first time mothers participating in three in-person interviews over three months. Five stori…
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…
The art hive as a ‘frame of belonging’ for older adults
Community leisure spaces play a critical role in supporting belonging, which, in turn, has a buffering effect on loneliness and social isolation for older adults. This study explored the role of art hives in contributing to belonging for older adults. Typically located in storefronts, subsidized housing, libraries, and museums, art hives are community spaces where everyone, particularly individuals prone to exclusion, are welcomed to make art and…
Pandemic Precarity
Social isolation of older adults was identified as a key public health issue prior to the onset of COVID-19. The current crisis raises serious questions about how societies are organized and function in relation to aging populations. Drawing on resources in critical gerontology on "precarious aging" (Butler, 2009; Grenier & Phillipson, 2018) and an intersectional approach (Crenshaw, University of Chicago Legal Forum, 1(8), 139–167, 1989) that rec…
I am more than a mom
The transition to motherhood is a time of tremendous change, during which maternal subjects experience important shifts in their relationships with family, friends, employers, and state. Parental leave policies have potential to mitigate some of these changes, contributing positively to health and economic outcomes. Indeed, such policies have been identified as essential for achieving gender equality, serving to address both recognition and redis…
The (In)Visibility of Grandparents in Family Leisure Research
The continued focus on the individual as a unit of analysis, along with the privileging of the nuclear family over the past two decades of family leisure scholarship, has rendered grandparents virtually invisible in family leisure scholarship. In this commentary, I examine the position of grandparents in leisure research and suggest that the implicit acceptance of the status quo has been detrimental to the state of family leisure research. Drawin…
Negotiating the Complexities and Risks of Interdisciplinary Qualitative Research
This article interrogates the experiences of an interdisciplinary research team that engaged in a qualitative research program for over 5 years, beginning with the grant writing process through to knowledge dissemination. We highlight the challenges of constructing shared understanding and developing research synergies, embracing vulnerability and discomfort to advance knowledge, and negotiating risks of legitimacy and transcending disciplinary b…
Grandparents' Reflections on Family Leisure
Leisure plays an important role in family relations, yet family leisure scholars have paid scant attention to the experiences of grandparents in the family system. The purpose of the current study is to explore the meaning of family leisure for grandparents who have adult grandchildren. Using an inductive, qualitative approach, semi-structured interviews were conducted with 30 Canadian grandparents who had adult grandchildren. Findings are discus…
Commentary
The professionalization of therapeutic recreation (TR) is an important issue in both the USA and Canada. This paper will focuses on key issues identified in one Canadian province (Quebec) that raise concerns for the international application of TR certification standards as mandated by the National Council for Therapeutic Recreation Certification (NCTRC). These issues include: national and provincial variations in Canada; Anglophone and Francopho…
Understanding ambivalence in family leisure among three-generation families
Although family leisure plays a central role in the development of close family bonds, it is not without its challenges and has been found to be both consensual and conflictual. Furthermore, family leisure researchers have neglected the voices of older adults. Building on Shaw's [1997. "Controversies and Contradictions in Family Leisure: An Analysis of Conflicting Paradigms." Journal of Leisure Research 29 (1): 98–112] call for a contradictory th…
Grannie's got to go fishing”
The purpose of this interpretive study was to explore how the sociospatial context in Canada (rural vs. urban) shaped the perspectives, meanings and experiences of family leisure for three-generation families (grandparents, parents and adult grandchildren). Sixteen family triads were interviewed about their experience of family leisure. Specifically, rural and urban families were compared to understand similarities and differences in their experi…
“You don't want to hurt his feelings…”
Family leisure has been found to be both consensual and conflictual. Research on family leisure has focused mainly on heterosexual married couples with young children and has excluded the voices of older adults. Framed by the model of intergenerational ambivalence (Luscher & Pillemer, 1998), this interpretive study developed an understanding of the role of intergenerational ambivalence in the experience of intergenerational family leisure for gra…
Intergenerational Transmission of Values
In this longitudinal study, we compared family stories told by 32 Canadian adolescents at ages 16 and 20 about how parents and grandparents had taught them values. Relations to parents' and children's levels of generativity were also examined. Adolescents' stories of grandparent value teaching were less readily recalled and less interactive in their content compared with stories about parents. Stories of value teaching by more generative parents …
Parents' Stories of Grandparenting Concerns in the Three‐Generational Family
Adults' level of Eriksonian generativity in midlife has been shown to predict variations in parenting, but there has been less research on its relation to inter generational processes in the three‐generational family. As part of a larger study, a sample of 35 Canadian mothers and fathers described a particular, salient child‐rearing problem with grandparents when their first‐born children were 8 years old. Descriptions were rated for severity of …
Understanding ambivalence in family leisure among three-generation families
Although family leisure plays a central role in the development of close family bonds, it is not without its challenges and has been found to be both consensual and conflictual. Furthermore, family leisure researchers have neglected the voices of older adults. Building on Shaw's [1997. "Controversies and Contradictions in Family Leisure: An Analysis of Conflicting Paradigms." Journal of Leisure Research 29 (1): 98–112] call for a contradictory th…
Negotiating the Complexities and Risks of Interdisciplinary Qualitative Research
This article interrogates the experiences of an interdisciplinary research team that engaged in a qualitative research program for over 5 years, beginning with the grant writing process through to knowledge dissemination. We highlight the challenges of constructing shared understanding and developing research synergies, embracing vulnerability and discomfort to advance knowledge, and negotiating risks of legitimacy and transcending disciplinary b…
Grandparents' Reflections on Family Leisure
Leisure plays an important role in family relations, yet family leisure scholars have paid scant attention to the experiences of grandparents in the family system. The purpose of the current study is to explore the meaning of family leisure for grandparents who have adult grandchildren. Using an inductive, qualitative approach, semi-structured interviews were conducted with 30 Canadian grandparents who had adult grandchildren. Findings are discus…
Grannie's got to go fishing”
The purpose of this interpretive study was to explore how the sociospatial context in Canada (rural vs. urban) shaped the perspectives, meanings and experiences of family leisure for three-generation families (grandparents, parents and adult grandchildren). Sixteen family triads were interviewed about their experience of family leisure. Specifically, rural and urban families were compared to understand similarities and differences in their experi…
The (In)Visibility of Grandparents in Family Leisure Research
The continued focus on the individual as a unit of analysis, along with the privileging of the nuclear family over the past two decades of family leisure scholarship, has rendered grandparents virtually invisible in family leisure scholarship. In this commentary, I examine the position of grandparents in leisure research and suggest that the implicit acceptance of the status quo has been detrimental to the state of family leisure research. Drawin…
Pandemic Precarity
Social isolation of older adults was identified as a key public health issue prior to the onset of COVID-19. The current crisis raises serious questions about how societies are organized and function in relation to aging populations. Drawing on resources in critical gerontology on "precarious aging" (Butler, 2009; Grenier & Phillipson, 2018) and an intersectional approach (Crenshaw, University of Chicago Legal Forum, 1(8), 139–167, 1989) that rec…
I am more than a mom
The transition to motherhood is a time of tremendous change, during which maternal subjects experience important shifts in their relationships with family, friends, employers, and state. Parental leave policies have potential to mitigate some of these changes, contributing positively to health and economic outcomes. Indeed, such policies have been identified as essential for achieving gender equality, serving to address both recognition and redis…
Intergenerational Transmission of Values
In this longitudinal study, we compared family stories told by 32 Canadian adolescents at ages 16 and 20 about how parents and grandparents had taught them values. Relations to parents' and children's levels of generativity were also examined. Adolescents' stories of grandparent value teaching were less readily recalled and less interactive in their content compared with stories about parents. Stories of value teaching by more generative parents …
Parents' Stories of Grandparenting Concerns in the Three‐Generational Family
Adults' level of Eriksonian generativity in midlife has been shown to predict variations in parenting, but there has been less research on its relation to inter generational processes in the three‐generational family. As part of a larger study, a sample of 35 Canadian mothers and fathers described a particular, salient child‐rearing problem with grandparents when their first‐born children were 8 years old. Descriptions were rated for severity of …
“You don't want to hurt his feelings…”
Family leisure has been found to be both consensual and conflictual. Research on family leisure has focused mainly on heterosexual married couples with young children and has excluded the voices of older adults. Framed by the model of intergenerational ambivalence (Luscher & Pillemer, 1998), this interpretive study developed an understanding of the role of intergenerational ambivalence in the experience of intergenerational family leisure for gra…
Grannie's got to go fishing”
The purpose of this interpretive study was to explore how the sociospatial context in Canada (rural vs. urban) shaped the perspectives, meanings and experiences of family leisure for three-generation families (grandparents, parents and adult grandchildren). Sixteen family triads were interviewed about their experience of family leisure. Specifically, rural and urban families were compared to understand similarities and differences in their experi…
Commentary
The professionalization of therapeutic recreation (TR) is an important issue in both the USA and Canada. This paper will focuses on key issues identified in one Canadian province (Quebec) that raise concerns for the international application of TR certification standards as mandated by the National Council for Therapeutic Recreation Certification (NCTRC). These issues include: national and provincial variations in Canada; Anglophone and Francopho…
Understanding ambivalence in family leisure among three-generation families
Although family leisure plays a central role in the development of close family bonds, it is not without its challenges and has been found to be both consensual and conflictual. Furthermore, family leisure researchers have neglected the voices of older adults. Building on Shaw's [1997. "Controversies and Contradictions in Family Leisure: An Analysis of Conflicting Paradigms." Journal of Leisure Research 29 (1): 98–112] call for a contradictory th…
Grandparents' Reflections on Family Leisure
Leisure plays an important role in family relations, yet family leisure scholars have paid scant attention to the experiences of grandparents in the family system. The purpose of the current study is to explore the meaning of family leisure for grandparents who have adult grandchildren. Using an inductive, qualitative approach, semi-structured interviews were conducted with 30 Canadian grandparents who had adult grandchildren. Findings are discus…
The (In)Visibility of Grandparents in Family Leisure Research
The continued focus on the individual as a unit of analysis, along with the privileging of the nuclear family over the past two decades of family leisure scholarship, has rendered grandparents virtually invisible in family leisure scholarship. In this commentary, I examine the position of grandparents in leisure research and suggest that the implicit acceptance of the status quo has been detrimental to the state of family leisure research. Drawin…
Negotiating the Complexities and Risks of Interdisciplinary Qualitative Research
This article interrogates the experiences of an interdisciplinary research team that engaged in a qualitative research program for over 5 years, beginning with the grant writing process through to knowledge dissemination. We highlight the challenges of constructing shared understanding and developing research synergies, embracing vulnerability and discomfort to advance knowledge, and negotiating risks of legitimacy and transcending disciplinary b…
I am more than a mom
The transition to motherhood is a time of tremendous change, during which maternal subjects experience important shifts in their relationships with family, friends, employers, and state. Parental leave policies have potential to mitigate some of these changes, contributing positively to health and economic outcomes. Indeed, such policies have been identified as essential for achieving gender equality, serving to address both recognition and redis…
The art hive as a ‘frame of belonging’ for older adults
Community leisure spaces play a critical role in supporting belonging, which, in turn, has a buffering effect on loneliness and social isolation for older adults. This study explored the role of art hives in contributing to belonging for older adults. Typically located in storefronts, subsidized housing, libraries, and museums, art hives are community spaces where everyone, particularly individuals prone to exclusion, are welcomed to make art and…
Pandemic Precarity
Social isolation of older adults was identified as a key public health issue prior to the onset of COVID-19. The current crisis raises serious questions about how societies are organized and function in relation to aging populations. Drawing on resources in critical gerontology on "precarious aging" (Butler, 2009; Grenier & Phillipson, 2018) and an intersectional approach (Crenshaw, University of Chicago Legal Forum, 1(8), 139–167, 1989) that rec…
Negotiating intensive mothering and the gendered politics of active leisure among first time mothers in Canada
In this paper, we investigate the meanings and experiences of active leisure among first time mothers. The connection of first time mothers’ experiences to broader concepts such as intensive mothering, social policy, and neoliberalism are also examined within the context of their well-being. Using narrative analysis, 27 interviews were conducted with nine first time mothers participating in three in-person interviews over three months. Five stori…
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…
A critical examination of neoliberalism and women’s physically active leisure experiences during the transition to motherhood
In this paper, the authors investigate how neoliberalism and the transition to motherhood influence mothers’ engagement in physically active leisure. They use data from their longitudinal study on first-time mothers in two major cities in Canada to better understand women’s experiences of navigating the multiple demands of contemporary mothering. Interviews were conducted with 33 women who were experiencing the transition to motherhood at four in…
‘I can’t say we focus on the mom’
While public leisure services are meant to be inclusive and accessible, few researchers have unpacked what public leisure service providers (PLSPs) perceive as socially inclusive leisure services for pregnant or postpartum women. Therefore, we used this study to explore how PLSPs in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, perceived the needs of pregnant and postpartum women when creating public leisure programs and services. We interviewed 14 PLSPs to gather a…
Policy on the Frontlines
Community nonprofit organizations (CNPOs) are a vital component of the social infrastructure that addresses the needs of older adults aging in place. Despite this, CNPOs are overlooked in political research and relevant policies, such as the age-friendly cities program. This article examines CNPO work during the COVID-19 pandemic in Montréal, Québec. Policy analysis, surveys, and interviews with CNPO staff, local policy actors, and older adults r…
Maternal responsibilization in times of crisis
Sociology (13 works) · Psychology (12 works) · Recreation, Leisure, Wilderness Management (9 works) · Developmental psychology (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Social Psychology (8 works) · Grandparent (7 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Social science (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works)