Karen M Fox
Biographic Data
| ID | 643630 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Karen M Fox |
| GIVEN NAMES | Karen M |
| FAMILY NAME | Fox |
| SIGNATURE | FOX K M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Alberta |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0724-3737 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 70 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Where Is Leisure When Death Is Present
For many, the COVID-19 pandemic is the overwhelming, ever-present reality of dying—of loved ones, close family members, dear friends, colleagues, or patients. Fear, avoidance of or lack of time for essential conversations, physical separation during final moments, and lack of rituals for these contingencies leave individuals alone with loss, mourning, and grieving. How is leisure relevant during such realities? Historically, leisure has been pres…
Leisure shows up for a wake
Using fiction, the story introduces the essential role of leisure to bridge the realities of life and death. Facing death of a friend or your own engenders questions about the purpose of one’s life, addressing unresolved relationships, and how to live well while dying. Josef Pieper’s conceptualization of leisure as contemplating one’s place in the universe and celebrating or affirming one’s place in the cosmos is relevant to understanding this in…
The Kumulipo, Native Hawaiians, and well-being: How the past speaks to the present and lays the foundation for the future
A traditional Native Hawaiian text, the Kumulipo, provides the basis for re-thinking well-being in the Hawaiian context and the relationship between Native Hawaiian cultural practices and Western leisure practices. Grounding the analysis in Indigenous and subaltern scholarship, we describe alternative paths for developing relationships within a pluriverse that opens opportunities to re-think Western leisure
A‘ohe pau ke ‘ike ka hālau ho‘okahi [All knowledge is not taught in the same school] Welcoming Kānaka Hawai‘i Waves of Knowing and Revisiting Leisure
As we reflect on the leisure science canon, we use this occasion to ponder how our scholarship has engaged with communities with alternative worldviews compared with the Euro-North American worldview dominant in leisure scholarship. While some Indigenous cultural practices may, at first glance, seem similar to behaviors found in Euro-North American leisure space-time, such a comparison is often problematic when an Indigenous language has no equiv…
Mana, māna, ā mānā paha? Hōʻailona ā Hōʻike paha? (Mana, māna, or mānā? Sign, portent, revelation, knowing, or seeing?) What is this experience? Who gets to speak
Mana, māna, and mānā are words that potentially refer to the forces, relationships, metaphors, and embodied kaona held within the ontological and epistemological nets of Kanaka ʻŌiwi. Specifically, I examine these terms through Hawaiian language (ʻōSpec Hawaiʻi) archival resources overlooked since the 1800s and Native Hawaiian (Kanaka Maoli) scholarship. Since so much of what is ‘known’ about ‘Native Hawaiians’ has been framed by Euro-North Ameri…
Listening to Nineteenth-Century Kanaka ‘Ōiwi Voices; Re-imagining the Possibilities for Leisure
In the Hawaiian Kingdom of the nineteenth century, Mōʻī David Kalākaua employed social and cultural policies and “spectacles of display” to sustain the sovereignty of the lāhui. At first glance, these policies suggest that Hawaiian social and cultural practices easily cohere with Western leisure theoretical concepts. Drawing on Jonathan Z. Smith’s comparative approach, we present strategies for maieutic listening to Kanaka ʻŌiwi scholarship and v…
Intersecting Rhythms: The Spatial Production of Local Canadian Heavy Metal and Urban Aboriginal Hip Hop in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Hip hop and heavy metal are two music cultures that resonate with young people worldwide (Higgins, 2009; Hill and Spracklen, 2010). The complex and paradoxical flows of globalized and technological music have sustained and inspired local communities while exposing them to social, economic, and competitive pressures. The focus on globalizing flows and local-global intersections often leaves invisible the specific and material everyday lives of loc…
Intersecting Rhythms
Rethinking leisure and self: Three theorists for understanding computer and video game leisures
Computer and video games present a powerful challenge to assumptions held in leisure literature about the value and quality of leisures. Although typically viewed as negative, computer-based leisures are one of the fastest growing segments in terms of participation and revenue-generation. Where disciplines like game studies and cultural studies have embraced the possibilities for self-development in computer and video gaming, leisure studies has …
Defining the Groove: From Remix to Research in The Beat of Boyle Street
This paper represents musical remixing practices as a means of conducting leisure research. Our research engaged urban Aboriginal-Canadian youth through The Beat of Boyle Street, a music technology program used to teach young people how to produce their own remixes. Through this program we developed a “research remix” of narrative, Indigenous and arts-based ethnographic methods attuned to processes of making sense through making music. We examine…
Leisure and Indigenous Peoples
Listening for a Leisure Remix
The traditional historical meta-narratives around leisure have focused on one Greek concept, ΣXOΛH, translated as schole and connected to the Latin (licentia) and English words. Direct lines were drawn from an interpretation of this Greek word in particular contexts to the current privileged leisure ideal first in Europe and the United Kingdom and then in North America. The complex history of the ancient Mediterranean world and the continuing his…
Remixing, Performing, and Producing Studies of Leisures
Similar to hearing a new, challenging, or different music or “noise,” we were intrigued, bewildered, and grateful for the responses. Our ideas and narratives for this rejoinder coalesced around rem
Rec Needs a New Rhythm Cuz Rap Is Where We're Livin
This research presents an autoethnographic strategy for self-reflection by sharing stories consistent with Indigenous methodologies and establishing a frame for re-mixing leisure theory. As an autoethnographic study, we reflect on how we have been engaged, changed, and challenged to rethink understandings of leisure and ourselves as leisure scholar-practitioners as a result of listening to rap music, especially composed by Aboriginal young people…
Reconsidering the relationship between flow and feminist ethics: A response
Although we agree with the direction of Mason's (1999) analysis, we struggle with the rationale in support of the linkage between leisure, flow, and feminist ethics. First, the interconnection of flow theory and feminist ethics is highly problematic, because flow does not easily exemplify leisure and is often based on theories many feminists critique. Second, the description of feminism as a homogeneous whole without regard to the paradoxical and…
"Response to "The One-Way Mirror
Echoes of Leisure: Questions, Challenges, and Potentials
Gregorian calendars, love of linear and progressive forms, Christian beliefs, and fascination with beginnings all intermix to form the concept of millenium. Calendars emerging from Tibetan, Islamic, Hawaiian, Mayan, and other traditions mark no day of celebration or sorrow for January 1, 2000 (and whether this is the first day of the new millenium is still contested). Without conscious attention to the plurality of calendars, concepts of time, hi…
Negotiating in a World of Change: Ecofeminist Guideposts for Leisure Scholarship
The changing global society indicates that issues such as relationships between humans and between humans and nature, socio-economic conditions, resistance, and justice are relevant to the philosophy and praxis of leisure and recreation. This paper applies the definitional concepts and eight minimal conditions of an ecofeminist philosophy developed by Warren (1990) to explore current leisure scholarship and open new directions to respond to today…
Choreographing Differences in the Dance of Leisure: The Potential of Feminist Thought
The variations of feminist critique and thought address fundamental epistemological and methodological issues of leisure science. This paper discusses the structure of the current discourse on feminism and leisure science, the complexity of feminist thought, and the current developments in feminist theory in-process. Finally, current feminist philosophical explorations provide a model of scholarship that supports inclusion of multiple perspective…
Rec Needs a New Rhythm Cuz Rap Is Where We're Livin
This research presents an autoethnographic strategy for self-reflection by sharing stories consistent with Indigenous methodologies and establishing a frame for re-mixing leisure theory. As an autoethnographic study, we reflect on how we have been engaged, changed, and challenged to rethink understandings of leisure and ourselves as leisure scholar-practitioners as a result of listening to rap music, especially composed by Aboriginal young people…
Leisure and Indigenous Peoples
Listening for a Leisure Remix
The traditional historical meta-narratives around leisure have focused on one Greek concept, ΣXOΛH, translated as schole and connected to the Latin (licentia) and English words. Direct lines were drawn from an interpretation of this Greek word in particular contexts to the current privileged leisure ideal first in Europe and the United Kingdom and then in North America. The complex history of the ancient Mediterranean world and the continuing his…
Echoes of Leisure: Questions, Challenges, and Potentials
Gregorian calendars, love of linear and progressive forms, Christian beliefs, and fascination with beginnings all intermix to form the concept of millenium. Calendars emerging from Tibetan, Islamic, Hawaiian, Mayan, and other traditions mark no day of celebration or sorrow for January 1, 2000 (and whether this is the first day of the new millenium is still contested). Without conscious attention to the plurality of calendars, concepts of time, hi…
Where Is Leisure When Death Is Present
For many, the COVID-19 pandemic is the overwhelming, ever-present reality of dying—of loved ones, close family members, dear friends, colleagues, or patients. Fear, avoidance of or lack of time for essential conversations, physical separation during final moments, and lack of rituals for these contingencies leave individuals alone with loss, mourning, and grieving. How is leisure relevant during such realities? Historically, leisure has been pres…
Defining the Groove: From Remix to Research in The Beat of Boyle Street
This paper represents musical remixing practices as a means of conducting leisure research. Our research engaged urban Aboriginal-Canadian youth through The Beat of Boyle Street, a music technology program used to teach young people how to produce their own remixes. Through this program we developed a “research remix” of narrative, Indigenous and arts-based ethnographic methods attuned to processes of making sense through making music. We examine…
Negotiating in a World of Change: Ecofeminist Guideposts for Leisure Scholarship
The changing global society indicates that issues such as relationships between humans and between humans and nature, socio-economic conditions, resistance, and justice are relevant to the philosophy and praxis of leisure and recreation. This paper applies the definitional concepts and eight minimal conditions of an ecofeminist philosophy developed by Warren (1990) to explore current leisure scholarship and open new directions to respond to today…
A‘ohe pau ke ‘ike ka hālau ho‘okahi [All knowledge is not taught in the same school] Welcoming Kānaka Hawai‘i Waves of Knowing and Revisiting Leisure
As we reflect on the leisure science canon, we use this occasion to ponder how our scholarship has engaged with communities with alternative worldviews compared with the Euro-North American worldview dominant in leisure scholarship. While some Indigenous cultural practices may, at first glance, seem similar to behaviors found in Euro-North American leisure space-time, such a comparison is often problematic when an Indigenous language has no equiv…
Rethinking leisure and self: Three theorists for understanding computer and video game leisures
Computer and video games present a powerful challenge to assumptions held in leisure literature about the value and quality of leisures. Although typically viewed as negative, computer-based leisures are one of the fastest growing segments in terms of participation and revenue-generation. Where disciplines like game studies and cultural studies have embraced the possibilities for self-development in computer and video gaming, leisure studies has …
The Kumulipo, Native Hawaiians, and well-being: How the past speaks to the present and lays the foundation for the future
A traditional Native Hawaiian text, the Kumulipo, provides the basis for re-thinking well-being in the Hawaiian context and the relationship between Native Hawaiian cultural practices and Western leisure practices. Grounding the analysis in Indigenous and subaltern scholarship, we describe alternative paths for developing relationships within a pluriverse that opens opportunities to re-think Western leisure
Choreographing Differences in the Dance of Leisure: The Potential of Feminist Thought
The variations of feminist critique and thought address fundamental epistemological and methodological issues of leisure science. This paper discusses the structure of the current discourse on feminism and leisure science, the complexity of feminist thought, and the current developments in feminist theory in-process. Finally, current feminist philosophical explorations provide a model of scholarship that supports inclusion of multiple perspective…
Leisure shows up for a wake
Using fiction, the story introduces the essential role of leisure to bridge the realities of life and death. Facing death of a friend or your own engenders questions about the purpose of one’s life, addressing unresolved relationships, and how to live well while dying. Josef Pieper’s conceptualization of leisure as contemplating one’s place in the universe and celebrating or affirming one’s place in the cosmos is relevant to understanding this in…
Remixing, Performing, and Producing Studies of Leisures
Similar to hearing a new, challenging, or different music or “noise,” we were intrigued, bewildered, and grateful for the responses. Our ideas and narratives for this rejoinder coalesced around rem
Reconsidering the relationship between flow and feminist ethics: A response
Although we agree with the direction of Mason's (1999) analysis, we struggle with the rationale in support of the linkage between leisure, flow, and feminist ethics. First, the interconnection of flow theory and feminist ethics is highly problematic, because flow does not easily exemplify leisure and is often based on theories many feminists critique. Second, the description of feminism as a homogeneous whole without regard to the paradoxical and…
Choreographing Differences in the Dance of Leisure: The Potential of Feminist Thought
The variations of feminist critique and thought address fundamental epistemological and methodological issues of leisure science. This paper discusses the structure of the current discourse on feminism and leisure science, the complexity of feminist thought, and the current developments in feminist theory in-process. Finally, current feminist philosophical explorations provide a model of scholarship that supports inclusion of multiple perspective…
Negotiating in a World of Change: Ecofeminist Guideposts for Leisure Scholarship
The changing global society indicates that issues such as relationships between humans and between humans and nature, socio-economic conditions, resistance, and justice are relevant to the philosophy and praxis of leisure and recreation. This paper applies the definitional concepts and eight minimal conditions of an ecofeminist philosophy developed by Warren (1990) to explore current leisure scholarship and open new directions to respond to today…
"Response to "The One-Way Mirror
Echoes of Leisure: Questions, Challenges, and Potentials
Gregorian calendars, love of linear and progressive forms, Christian beliefs, and fascination with beginnings all intermix to form the concept of millenium. Calendars emerging from Tibetan, Islamic, Hawaiian, Mayan, and other traditions mark no day of celebration or sorrow for January 1, 2000 (and whether this is the first day of the new millenium is still contested). Without conscious attention to the plurality of calendars, concepts of time, hi…
Reconsidering the relationship between flow and feminist ethics: A response
Although we agree with the direction of Mason's (1999) analysis, we struggle with the rationale in support of the linkage between leisure, flow, and feminist ethics. First, the interconnection of flow theory and feminist ethics is highly problematic, because flow does not easily exemplify leisure and is often based on theories many feminists critique. Second, the description of feminism as a homogeneous whole without regard to the paradoxical and…
Leisure and Indigenous Peoples
Listening for a Leisure Remix
The traditional historical meta-narratives around leisure have focused on one Greek concept, ΣXOΛH, translated as schole and connected to the Latin (licentia) and English words. Direct lines were drawn from an interpretation of this Greek word in particular contexts to the current privileged leisure ideal first in Europe and the United Kingdom and then in North America. The complex history of the ancient Mediterranean world and the continuing his…
Remixing, Performing, and Producing Studies of Leisures
Similar to hearing a new, challenging, or different music or “noise,” we were intrigued, bewildered, and grateful for the responses. Our ideas and narratives for this rejoinder coalesced around rem
Rec Needs a New Rhythm Cuz Rap Is Where We're Livin
This research presents an autoethnographic strategy for self-reflection by sharing stories consistent with Indigenous methodologies and establishing a frame for re-mixing leisure theory. As an autoethnographic study, we reflect on how we have been engaged, changed, and challenged to rethink understandings of leisure and ourselves as leisure scholar-practitioners as a result of listening to rap music, especially composed by Aboriginal young people…
Defining the Groove: From Remix to Research in The Beat of Boyle Street
This paper represents musical remixing practices as a means of conducting leisure research. Our research engaged urban Aboriginal-Canadian youth through The Beat of Boyle Street, a music technology program used to teach young people how to produce their own remixes. Through this program we developed a “research remix” of narrative, Indigenous and arts-based ethnographic methods attuned to processes of making sense through making music. We examine…
Rethinking leisure and self: Three theorists for understanding computer and video game leisures
Computer and video games present a powerful challenge to assumptions held in leisure literature about the value and quality of leisures. Although typically viewed as negative, computer-based leisures are one of the fastest growing segments in terms of participation and revenue-generation. Where disciplines like game studies and cultural studies have embraced the possibilities for self-development in computer and video gaming, leisure studies has …
Intersecting Rhythms: The Spatial Production of Local Canadian Heavy Metal and Urban Aboriginal Hip Hop in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Hip hop and heavy metal are two music cultures that resonate with young people worldwide (Higgins, 2009; Hill and Spracklen, 2010). The complex and paradoxical flows of globalized and technological music have sustained and inspired local communities while exposing them to social, economic, and competitive pressures. The focus on globalizing flows and local-global intersections often leaves invisible the specific and material everyday lives of loc…
Intersecting Rhythms
Listening to Nineteenth-Century Kanaka ‘Ōiwi Voices; Re-imagining the Possibilities for Leisure
In the Hawaiian Kingdom of the nineteenth century, Mōʻī David Kalākaua employed social and cultural policies and “spectacles of display” to sustain the sovereignty of the lāhui. At first glance, these policies suggest that Hawaiian social and cultural practices easily cohere with Western leisure theoretical concepts. Drawing on Jonathan Z. Smith’s comparative approach, we present strategies for maieutic listening to Kanaka ʻŌiwi scholarship and v…
Mana, māna, ā mānā paha? Hōʻailona ā Hōʻike paha? (Mana, māna, or mānā? Sign, portent, revelation, knowing, or seeing?) What is this experience? Who gets to speak
Mana, māna, and mānā are words that potentially refer to the forces, relationships, metaphors, and embodied kaona held within the ontological and epistemological nets of Kanaka ʻŌiwi. Specifically, I examine these terms through Hawaiian language (ʻōSpec Hawaiʻi) archival resources overlooked since the 1800s and Native Hawaiian (Kanaka Maoli) scholarship. Since so much of what is ‘known’ about ‘Native Hawaiians’ has been framed by Euro-North Ameri…
A‘ohe pau ke ‘ike ka hālau ho‘okahi [All knowledge is not taught in the same school] Welcoming Kānaka Hawai‘i Waves of Knowing and Revisiting Leisure
As we reflect on the leisure science canon, we use this occasion to ponder how our scholarship has engaged with communities with alternative worldviews compared with the Euro-North American worldview dominant in leisure scholarship. While some Indigenous cultural practices may, at first glance, seem similar to behaviors found in Euro-North American leisure space-time, such a comparison is often problematic when an Indigenous language has no equiv…
Leisure shows up for a wake
Using fiction, the story introduces the essential role of leisure to bridge the realities of life and death. Facing death of a friend or your own engenders questions about the purpose of one’s life, addressing unresolved relationships, and how to live well while dying. Josef Pieper’s conceptualization of leisure as contemplating one’s place in the universe and celebrating or affirming one’s place in the cosmos is relevant to understanding this in…
The Kumulipo, Native Hawaiians, and well-being: How the past speaks to the present and lays the foundation for the future
A traditional Native Hawaiian text, the Kumulipo, provides the basis for re-thinking well-being in the Hawaiian context and the relationship between Native Hawaiian cultural practices and Western leisure practices. Grounding the analysis in Indigenous and subaltern scholarship, we describe alternative paths for developing relationships within a pluriverse that opens opportunities to re-think Western leisure
Where Is Leisure When Death Is Present
For many, the COVID-19 pandemic is the overwhelming, ever-present reality of dying—of loved ones, close family members, dear friends, colleagues, or patients. Fear, avoidance of or lack of time for essential conversations, physical separation during final moments, and lack of rituals for these contingencies leave individuals alone with loss, mourning, and grieving. How is leisure relevant during such realities? Historically, leisure has been pres…
Sociology (16 works) · Recreation, Leisure, Wilderness Management (11 works) · Political science (10 works) · Aesthetics (9 works) · Gender Studies (9 works) · Gender Studies (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts (8 works) · Art (7 works) · Psychology (7 works)