Susan Arai
Biographic Data
| ID | 5857586 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Susan Arai |
| GIVEN NAMES | Susan |
| FAMILY NAME | Arai |
| SIGNATURE | ARAI S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Waterloo |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 182 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Community Re-Entry: Uncertain Futures for Women Leaving Prison
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 Experience and Engaged Buddhism: Mindfulness as a Path to Freedom and Justice in Leisure Studies
This chapter explores mindfulness as a path for leisure practices and introduces insight leisure as an approach that brings the possibility for deepened connection with eudaimonia and a freedom cultivated through 13 inter-related attitudes of mindfulness . Buddhism reveals to us a different set of qualities about leisure, which emphasize the mind’s capacity for wisdom, love, and compassion as the conditions for leisure practices, and caring as th…
Measurement of feelings of obligation to volunteer: The Obligation to Volunteer as Commitment (OVC) and Obligation to Volunteer as Duty (OVD) scales
While definitions of volunteering centre on the concepts of freedom and choice, in practice volunteering can be imbued with aspects of obligation. This paper describes the development of measures of feelings of obligation to volunteer. As a foundation for scale development, a literature review of feelings of obligation to volunteer suggested two dimensions of obligation: commitment, related to the devotion of volunteers who engage in serious leis…
Rethinking Community Within the Context of Social Inclusion as Social Justice: Implications for Women After Federal Incarceration
Very little is known about how women’s experiences with inclusion or exclusion shape their entry into community after they have been incarcerated. Thus, the purpose of this study was to examine inclusion from the perspective of women entering community after release from a federal prison in Ontario, Canada. This research project combined feminist participatory action research with anti-oppressive theories. Women who had been incarcerated were ask…
Serious Leisure as an Avenue for Nurturing Community
Using a communitarian framework to explore relationships between individuals and community, survey research was used to examine relationships among volunteers’ personal value orientations of individualism and collectivism, experiences of volunteering as serious leisure, and perceptions of sense of community and social cohesion. Based on survey responses from 300 current volunteers at ten voluntary organizations, findings linked collectivism and i…
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…
Civic Engagement Through Mandatory Community Service: Implications of Serious Leisure
This study explores university students' attitudes of social responsibility and participation in volunteering, examining how these are related to prior experiences of mandatory community service in high school. Students' perceptions of the quality of their mandatory community service experience were found to be powerful predictors of their attitudes towards social responsibility, while ongoing volunteering was found to be influenced more signific…
Critical Race Theory and Social Justice Perspectives on Whiteness, Difference(s) and (Anti)Racism: A Fourth Wave of Race Research in Leisure Studies
This special issue of the Journal of Leisure Research focuses on critical race theory and social justice perspectives on whiteness, difference(s) and (anti)racism in leisure studies. Drawing on Floyd's (2007) previous work articulating waves of race research in leisure studies, we argue this special issue helps to advance a fourth wave. As part of this fourth wave, papers in this issue address the limitations of essentializing race, advance argum…
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…
Volunteering in the Canadian context: Identity, civic participation and the politics of participation in serious leisure.
This paper describes the current nature of volunteering in Canada, and explores the ways that volunteers and the spaces for volunteering are ever changing on the Canadian landscape. It highlights the current economic and social policies in Canada that affect the voluntary sector and the volunteers.
Volunteers Support and Governance: A Matter of Equilibrium
La gouvernance et l’encadrement des bénévoles en loisir: Une question d’équilibre
Moving beyond individualism in leisure theory: A critical analysis of concepts of community and social engagement
In the latter years of the twentieth century, the social relevance of the leisure field diminished as consumption and individualism came to dominate leisure and recreation research and praxis across modern democratic nations. A consequence of this focus in leisure studies has been a neglect of community and the common good. Now, at the commencement of the twenty-first century, three interrelated crises become increasingly apparent - the crisis of…
Typology Of Volunteers For A Changing Sociopolitical Context: The Impact On Social Capital, Citizenship And Civil Society
RésuméCet article présente une théorie sur les bénévoles qui s'appuie sur les conclusions d'une étude qualitative des participants à une initiative de planification sociale. À partir des descriptions faites par les participants de leurs expériences, il est apparu une typologie des bénévoles qui établit une distinction entre citoyens bénévoles, techno-bénévoles et travailleurs bénévoles. Le présent article décrit les thèmes initiaux qui se sont dé…
Building Communities Through Leisure: Citizen Participation in a Healthy Communities Initiative
This paper reports on an in-depth qualitative study of the experience of citizen participation as a leisure pursuit. Participants were involved with a Healthy Communities initiative. Findings indicated citizen participation lead to benefits associated with serious leisure and community building. Five themes reflected benefits citizens identified from their involvement with healthy communities; these were (a) learning and developing new skills, (b…
Moving beyond individualism in leisure theory: A critical analysis of concepts of community and social engagement
In the latter years of the twentieth century, the social relevance of the leisure field diminished as consumption and individualism came to dominate leisure and recreation research and praxis across modern democratic nations. A consequence of this focus in leisure studies has been a neglect of community and the common good. Now, at the commencement of the twenty-first century, three interrelated crises become increasingly apparent - the crisis of…
Critical Race Theory and Social Justice Perspectives on Whiteness, Difference(s) and (Anti)Racism: A Fourth Wave of Race Research in Leisure Studies
This special issue of the Journal of Leisure Research focuses on critical race theory and social justice perspectives on whiteness, difference(s) and (anti)racism in leisure studies. Drawing on Floyd's (2007) previous work articulating waves of race research in leisure studies, we argue this special issue helps to advance a fourth wave. As part of this fourth wave, papers in this issue address the limitations of essentializing race, advance argum…
Building Communities Through Leisure: Citizen Participation in a Healthy Communities Initiative
This paper reports on an in-depth qualitative study of the experience of citizen participation as a leisure pursuit. Participants were involved with a Healthy Communities initiative. Findings indicated citizen participation lead to benefits associated with serious leisure and community building. Five themes reflected benefits citizens identified from their involvement with healthy communities; these were (a) learning and developing new skills, (b…
Typology Of Volunteers For A Changing Sociopolitical Context: The Impact On Social Capital, Citizenship And Civil Society
RésuméCet article présente une théorie sur les bénévoles qui s'appuie sur les conclusions d'une étude qualitative des participants à une initiative de planification sociale. À partir des descriptions faites par les participants de leurs expériences, il est apparu une typologie des bénévoles qui établit une distinction entre citoyens bénévoles, techno-bénévoles et travailleurs bénévoles. Le présent article décrit les thèmes initiaux qui se sont dé…
Civic Engagement Through Mandatory Community Service: Implications of Serious Leisure
This study explores university students' attitudes of social responsibility and participation in volunteering, examining how these are related to prior experiences of mandatory community service in high school. Students' perceptions of the quality of their mandatory community service experience were found to be powerful predictors of their attitudes towards social responsibility, while ongoing volunteering was found to be influenced more signific…
Serious Leisure as an Avenue for Nurturing Community
Using a communitarian framework to explore relationships between individuals and community, survey research was used to examine relationships among volunteers’ personal value orientations of individualism and collectivism, experiences of volunteering as serious leisure, and perceptions of sense of community and social cohesion. Based on survey responses from 300 current volunteers at ten voluntary organizations, findings linked collectivism and i…
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…
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…
Measurement of feelings of obligation to volunteer: The Obligation to Volunteer as Commitment (OVC) and Obligation to Volunteer as Duty (OVD) scales
While definitions of volunteering centre on the concepts of freedom and choice, in practice volunteering can be imbued with aspects of obligation. This paper describes the development of measures of feelings of obligation to volunteer. As a foundation for scale development, a literature review of feelings of obligation to volunteer suggested two dimensions of obligation: commitment, related to the devotion of volunteers who engage in serious leis…
Rethinking Community Within the Context of Social Inclusion as Social Justice: Implications for Women After Federal Incarceration
Very little is known about how women’s experiences with inclusion or exclusion shape their entry into community after they have been incarcerated. Thus, the purpose of this study was to examine inclusion from the perspective of women entering community after release from a federal prison in Ontario, Canada. This research project combined feminist participatory action research with anti-oppressive theories. Women who had been incarcerated were ask…
Building Communities Through Leisure: Citizen Participation in a Healthy Communities Initiative
This paper reports on an in-depth qualitative study of the experience of citizen participation as a leisure pursuit. Participants were involved with a Healthy Communities initiative. Findings indicated citizen participation lead to benefits associated with serious leisure and community building. Five themes reflected benefits citizens identified from their involvement with healthy communities; these were (a) learning and developing new skills, (b…
Typology Of Volunteers For A Changing Sociopolitical Context: The Impact On Social Capital, Citizenship And Civil Society
RésuméCet article présente une théorie sur les bénévoles qui s'appuie sur les conclusions d'une étude qualitative des participants à une initiative de planification sociale. À partir des descriptions faites par les participants de leurs expériences, il est apparu une typologie des bénévoles qui établit une distinction entre citoyens bénévoles, techno-bénévoles et travailleurs bénévoles. Le présent article décrit les thèmes initiaux qui se sont dé…
Volunteers Support and Governance: A Matter of Equilibrium
La gouvernance et l’encadrement des bénévoles en loisir: Une question d’équilibre
Moving beyond individualism in leisure theory: A critical analysis of concepts of community and social engagement
In the latter years of the twentieth century, the social relevance of the leisure field diminished as consumption and individualism came to dominate leisure and recreation research and praxis across modern democratic nations. A consequence of this focus in leisure studies has been a neglect of community and the common good. Now, at the commencement of the twenty-first century, three interrelated crises become increasingly apparent - the crisis of…
Volunteering in the Canadian context: Identity, civic participation and the politics of participation in serious leisure.
This paper describes the current nature of volunteering in Canada, and explores the ways that volunteers and the spaces for volunteering are ever changing on the Canadian landscape. It highlights the current economic and social policies in Canada that affect the voluntary sector and the volunteers.
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…
Critical Race Theory and Social Justice Perspectives on Whiteness, Difference(s) and (Anti)Racism: A Fourth Wave of Race Research in Leisure Studies
This special issue of the Journal of Leisure Research focuses on critical race theory and social justice perspectives on whiteness, difference(s) and (anti)racism in leisure studies. Drawing on Floyd's (2007) previous work articulating waves of race research in leisure studies, we argue this special issue helps to advance a fourth wave. As part of this fourth wave, papers in this issue address the limitations of essentializing race, advance argum…
Civic Engagement Through Mandatory Community Service: Implications of Serious Leisure
This study explores university students' attitudes of social responsibility and participation in volunteering, examining how these are related to prior experiences of mandatory community service in high school. Students' perceptions of the quality of their mandatory community service experience were found to be powerful predictors of their attitudes towards social responsibility, while ongoing volunteering was found to be influenced more signific…
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…
Serious Leisure as an Avenue for Nurturing Community
Using a communitarian framework to explore relationships between individuals and community, survey research was used to examine relationships among volunteers’ personal value orientations of individualism and collectivism, experiences of volunteering as serious leisure, and perceptions of sense of community and social cohesion. Based on survey responses from 300 current volunteers at ten voluntary organizations, findings linked collectivism and i…
Rethinking Community Within the Context of Social Inclusion as Social Justice: Implications for Women After Federal Incarceration
Very little is known about how women’s experiences with inclusion or exclusion shape their entry into community after they have been incarcerated. Thus, the purpose of this study was to examine inclusion from the perspective of women entering community after release from a federal prison in Ontario, Canada. This research project combined feminist participatory action research with anti-oppressive theories. Women who had been incarcerated were ask…
Leisure Experience and Engaged Buddhism: Mindfulness as a Path to Freedom and Justice in Leisure Studies
This chapter explores mindfulness as a path for leisure practices and introduces insight leisure as an approach that brings the possibility for deepened connection with eudaimonia and a freedom cultivated through 13 inter-related attitudes of mindfulness . Buddhism reveals to us a different set of qualities about leisure, which emphasize the mind’s capacity for wisdom, love, and compassion as the conditions for leisure practices, and caring as th…
Measurement of feelings of obligation to volunteer: The Obligation to Volunteer as Commitment (OVC) and Obligation to Volunteer as Duty (OVD) scales
While definitions of volunteering centre on the concepts of freedom and choice, in practice volunteering can be imbued with aspects of obligation. This paper describes the development of measures of feelings of obligation to volunteer. As a foundation for scale development, a literature review of feelings of obligation to volunteer suggested two dimensions of obligation: commitment, related to the devotion of volunteers who engage in serious leis…
Community Re-Entry: Uncertain Futures for Women Leaving Prison
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 …
Political science (13 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Public relations (7 works) · Nonprofit Sector and Volunteering (6 works) · Recreation, Leisure, Wilderness Management (6 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Tourism, Volunteerism, and Development (5 works)