Charles Wm Johnson
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 769862 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Charles Wm Johnson |
| NOMBRES | Charles Wm |
| APELLIDO | Johnson |
| FIRMA | JOHNSON C W |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Waterloo |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6918-3787 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 60 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 813 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 60 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1971 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 12 |
Encoding fat stigma
Previous research demonstrates a modest but consistent relationship between use of networked media, such as social networking sites and dating apps, body image disturbance, and disordered body-related behaviors. However, most studies approach these technologies either as repositories of social comparison stimuli or channels for appearance feedback, effectively reducing them to passive intermediaries of interpersonal influence and overlooking the …
Learning Through Tragedy
In this manuscript we examine relevant literature and resources related to crisis communication and responses to student deaths. More importantly, we explore the personal experiences of two faculty members from a small academic unit as they navigated three student deaths in rapid succession. There was no road map or crisis response plan for faculty when it came to these instances of student deaths. Nor was there a plan for how to communicate to a…
Divinity and unsettling tourism memories
In this article, we examine intersections of tourism, settler colonialism, and Christianity through a collaborative, unsettling approach. Framed by settler colonial theory and postcolonial theology, and drawing on collective memory work involving Settler-Christian graduate students in Canada, we illuminate how religious travel experiences are constructed in relation to settler colonialism. More specifically, our article interrogates Settler-Chris…
Survivors’ experiences of technology-facilitated sexual violence
Trauma-informed approaches (TIA) in qualitative research are vital for minimizing participant re-traumatization and addressing physical and emotional risks faced by social science researchers, especially when studying sensitive topics. Though widely used across social sciences, TIA have yet to be applied to technology-facilitated sexual violence (TFSV), which ranges from unsolicited explicit images to physical violence and sexual assault. Regardl…
Risk, swipe, repair, repeat
This paper situates leisure as a critical site for advancing digital justice. In the wake of Elon Musk’s 2022 acquisition of Twitter/X and its broader implications for digital governance, we examine how infrastructures of data and design reproduce colonial, racialized, gendered, and heteronormative hierarchies. Bridging leisure studies, digital platforming, and social justice scholarship, we advance three interrelated interventions: algorithmic h…
Parting Thoughts XLVIII
Making, Unmaking and Remaking Masculinity Through Leisure
Exploring Appification
This panel offers a reflection on the evolution and transformations of apps and app studies over the past decade, emphasizing how apps have seamlessly integrated into our daily routines and shaped our cultural and economic landscape. This process, known as ‘appification’, involves integrating various aspects of daily life and activities into mobile applications, fundamentally altering how we communicate, access information, make payments, and use…
They aren’t all named Karen
Thriving on Campus
Collecting Loose Change
With the rise of the acceptance, normalization, and increasing sophistication of qualitative research across the social sciences, there is a proliferation of paradigmatic approaches, methodologies, data generation methods, analytical techniques, and forms of representation. As qualitative methods continue to develop, expand, and hybridize, there is a need to conceptually clarify some of the "loose change" that has come with the rise of its legiti…
Transforming Trauma Through Leisure Entanglements
A Thousand Catcalls
There is growing academic interest in the leisure spaces of online dating as a specific avenue of technology-facilitated sexual violence (TFSV). Yet, limited attention is paid to survivors' experiences and understandings of sexual violence intermediated by dating apps. Using feminist standpoint theory and an intersectional lens, in-depth interviews were conducted with 15 current and former dating app (e.g. Tinder, Grindr) users of diverse identit…
Algorithmic heteronormativity
We propose the concept of algorithmic heteronormativity to describe the ways in which dating apps’ digital architectures are informed by and perpetuate normative sexual ideologies. Situating our intervention within digital affordance theories and grounding our analysis in walkthroughs of several popular dating apps’ (e.g., Tinder, Bumble, and Hinge) interfaces, promotional materials, and ancillary media, we identify four normative sexual ideologi…
Methodology in Motion
This article reflects upon and provides updates to appnography as a methodology for the study of dating digital app culture. Based on empirical fieldwork and in-depth nterviews with members of the research team, we re-assess and re-map appnography’s original five methodological considerations—digital versus “real,” profiles, space, place, and community, contextualization, and temporality—along two axes: design considerations and user consideratio…
“They’re All Honky Bros…”
Young, Wild and (Somewhat) Free
Deepening Diversity
Contemporary population trends impact leisure experiences and service delivery, requiring recreation and leisure departments to prepare students to meet the needs of an increasingly diverse clientele. However, with little formal training on how to teach content concerning diverse populations, this can be a daunting task. The panel session Preparing Students to Serve Diverse Populations was featured at the 2018 The Academy of Leisure Sciences (TAL…
Shades of digital deception
In recent years, location-based real-time dating apps like Grindr and Tinder have assumed an increasingly pivotal role in brokering socio-sexual relations between men seeking men and have proven to be fertile ground for the study of identity negotiation and impression management. However, current research has given insufficient consideration to how various contextual elements of technology use interact with one another to shape self-presentation …
Unicorns on the Digital Range
Geo-social networking applications (GSNAs) like Tinder and Grindr are popular tools for connecting with people for romance, sex, and other purposes, particularly among sexual minorities. This paper draws on narrative interviews with 13 bisexual persons (5 cisgender men, 6 cisgender women, 2 trans/nonbinary persons) to explore their GSNA use, including motives and gratifications, relational dynamics, and implications for individual identities and …
What’s my score?’
Millions of people around the world use Geo-Social Networking Applications (GSNAs) to connect with new people and potential sexual partners. Using data from a broad study of GSNA users, this paper explores GSNA use by straight men and the implications on their positionality, masculinity, and for their leisure. Straight men showed that although they speak out against traditional masculine norms in their offline lives, on GSNAs they enact and embra…
Leisure in the Time of Coronavirus
As the world grapples with the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, on almost every news website, across social media, and also in its (many) absences, leisure has taken on new significance in both managing and negotiating a global crisis. Amidst the disruption, inconvenience, illness, fear, uncertainty, tragedy and loss from this disease, there are also opportunities for leisure scholars to generate discussions and to learn, to engage with wider deb…
Quit While You’re Ahead
Well, it’s here, the end to our tenure as coeditors of Leisure Sciences. The past five years have provided a meaningful role of service and have greatly influenced our growth as scholars. Corey eve
Collective memory work as an unsettling methodology in tourism
Research has exposed how colonial power relations operate in and through various domains of tourism. As byproducts of Western academia, tourism research and education are significant sites where the structures, systems, and narratives of Settler colonialism can become further entrenched and legitimized. What research methodologies can challenge the colonial complexion of tourism research and enable tourism students and scholars to confront how th…
Traditions in (re)Negotiation
Interventions on rethinking 'the border' in border studies
Contextualizing reliability and validity in qualitative research
Issues of trustworthiness in qualitative leisure research, often demonstrated through particular techniques of reliability and/or validity, is often either nonexistent, unsubstantial, or unexplained. Rather than prescribing what reliability and/or validity should look like, researchers should attend to the overall trustworthiness of qualitative research by more directly addressing issues associated with reliability and/or validity, as aligned wit…
Contextualizing Leisure Research to Encompass Complexity in Lived Leisure Experience
Many qualitative manuscripts published on the phenomenon of leisure remain post positivist privileging the traditional scientific method as the way of conducting and representing research. Such traditional approaches to research lead to debates about whether interpretative accounts can accurately, adequately, directly, or completely capture, depict, describe, or portray social life. In response to this crisis of representation, many leisure schol…
Interventions on the state of sovereignty at the border
(Re)Theorizing Leisure, Experience and Race
Leisure scholars have attempted to examine experience through a social-psychological lens that locates the individual and her/his interpretation of leisure experiences at the center of discussions about leisure, leisure experience and identity. However, this primarily social-psychological perspective lacks an accompanying discussion about the ideologies and discourses that structure those experiences. The purpose of this paper is to examine how "…
Leisure Research for Social Justice
Leisure research based on critical theories is an effective path to social justice for groups and communities that are marginalized or oppressed by those in power. In response to Henderson (2011), who frames our work as postpositivist, we argue critical theories are a more appropriate research paradigm to reflect our philosophical positions. Our inquiry into leisure is informed by an emancipatory vision for social change that aims to enact social…
Rocky Mountain National Park
This investigation examined experiences of the African-American population living in the Denver area about their visitation to Rocky Mountain National Park. Using qualitative semi-structured interviews with 36 participants, and archival techniques, the authors identify the historical and cultural factors that resulted in low use of the park by African-Americans. Consequently, the authors suggest the use of Bourdieu's "cultural capital" and "habit…
The Night They Took Over”
Informed by feminism and theories of masculinity and space, this ethnography explores how gay men negotiate hegemonic masculinity in response to Lesbian Night, a regular Thursday night occurrence when women outnumber men at a country-western gay bar. Findings are examined to reveal the misogynistic assumptions inherent in gay men's reaction to Lesbian Night. Gay men's attempt to define the bar as a gay male space highlights their allegiance to a …
Consuming Media, Making Men
Parents, educators, researchers and policymakers have sought to identify the root causes of male youth violence by looking at media's influence on young people. Grounded in social constructionism, this study uses collective memory work to explore that relationship. The findings are presented in terms of two levels of analysis: individual/micro messages and societal/macro messages and revealed that through media consumption, men actively construct…
Don't Call Him A Cowboy”
Informed by feminism and theories of masculinity and space, this ethnography explores how gay men negotiate hegemonic masculinity in a country-western gay bar, focusing specifically on how the bar's clientele use dress as a marker of hegemonic masculinity and how bar patrons change their dress (and consequently their masculinity) as they migrate to other bars in the city. By examining social practices and cultural descriptions, the author is able…
Collective memory work as an unsettling methodology in tourism
Research has exposed how colonial power relations operate in and through various domains of tourism. As byproducts of Western academia, tourism research and education are significant sites where the structures, systems, and narratives of Settler colonialism can become further entrenched and legitimized. What research methodologies can challenge the colonial complexion of tourism research and enable tourism students and scholars to confront how th…
Leisure in the Time of Coronavirus
As the world grapples with the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, on almost every news website, across social media, and also in its (many) absences, leisure has taken on new significance in both managing and negotiating a global crisis. Amidst the disruption, inconvenience, illness, fear, uncertainty, tragedy and loss from this disease, there are also opportunities for leisure scholars to generate discussions and to learn, to engage with wider deb…
Placing the Border in Everyday Life
This chapter explores that unique border negotiation, namely prisoner employment as the cornerstone of successful rehabilitation, and examines the implications of this type of boundary interaction upon prisoner identities. It attends to the hybridity of ex-offender constructions of 'home'. The chapter illustrates the strong ties to prison and its problematic relationship with the high levels of recidivism that Britain is currently experiencing. I…
It's Complicated
Using the qualitative participatory action methodology, collective memory work, this study explored how transgender, queer, and questioning (TQQ) youth make meaning of their sexual orientation and gender identity through high school experiences. Researchers identified three major conceptual but overlapping themes from the data generated in the transgender, queer, and questioning youth focus group: a need for resilience, you should be able to be s…
The first step is the two‐step’
Gay men are often rendered feminized males according to masculine, heterosexual ideologies. This research demonstrates that gay men are actually more creative and active agents in their gender performance, simultaneously resisting and reinforcing dominant ideologies around gender and sexuality. One context where the creative agency of gay men is readily prevalent is in their leisure. Leisure contexts, used to shift the goalposts of cultural domin…
They were not drag queens, they were playboy models and bodybuilders’
Using collective memory work, this study explored the development of masculinities and sexual identity through the media memories and experiences of gay men. Six gay men wrote about, discussed, and analyzed positive and negative memories of masculinities and gay male identity as portrayed in media. Their collective analysis revealed two major themes. The first theme, media as a means for opening the closet door, included escaping isolation, asses…
Homelessness, nature, and health
Engaging with feminist political ecology and leveraging experiences from a 16-month critical ethnography, this research explores ways in which masculinities served as both a rationale and an outcome of men facing homelessness living in the margins of an urban municipal public park – a space known as ‘the Hillside.’ Ethnographic narratives point to Hillside residents making their home in nature, connecting experiences in nature with various mascul…
All You Need Is Love”
Under the umbrella of love, this essay proffers five interrelated considerations in the politics of practice regarding social justice research. Consequently, I recommended inquiring more thoroughly into socio-economic class and leisure, unpacking our personal/professional and scholarly/activist binaries, examining our unearned privilege, avoiding the oppression Olympics, and employing and deploying intersectionality and participatory action resea…
Writing Ourselves at Risk
I have recently been thinking of how to be “virtuous” as I engage in doing qualitative research for social justice. In this essay, I explore the complexities and risks involved in representing the researcher-self amidst competing (and perhaps false) dichotomies of the personal/professional life and the scholar/activist. To do so, I deconstruct places in my scholarship where I was willing (consciously and unconsciously) to take risks, where I took…
It's a Race War
The purpose of this research study was to use critical race theory to guide the exploration of leisure experiences of men in prison. Ten men reflected upon the time they spent in various California State Prisons, in specific reference to their perceptions of race and power behind bars. The analysis revealed that every decision in prison is made with survival in mind and race is central to determining survival strategies and who has access to powe…
Euro-politics of scale
We Are All Royalty
Drag performances have been studied time and time again as important visible leisure spaces of gender transgression. Few studies, however, have sought to understand the ways in which drag performers—kings and queens—relate to and shape queer communities. Using gen-derqueer as a theoretical lens and narrative inquiry as a methodological strategy, in this article we construct a conversation between a drag queen and king to demonstrate the ways in w…
A Splintered Heartland
Much has been made about a revival of Mackinderian geopolitics in Eurasia, largely centred on struggles over access to energy resources and rooted in a territorial understanding of space. This paper proposes that the conceptual political cartography of Eurasia is indeed largely being rewritten, but conventional understandings of space, territory, and resources are insufficient in providing insight into a changing geopolitics. We interrogate the g…
Creating Community at the Farm
This ethnography explores the competing concepts of community that are deployed within the context of a communal farm. Residents of the Farm articulate oppositional concepts of community that are based on familial and instrumental relationships. The concepts of Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft are utilized to better understand the manner in which these discourses manifest themselves in the lived experiences of Farm residents. The contradictory natur…
En/Activist Drag
In recent years, media attention to drag performers has increased transforming the once-hidden leisure activity of gay men and lesbians into a publicly recognized phenomenon. Many of these representations of drag have fallen short in offering reflective illustrations of the connections among gender identity, performance, misogyny, patriarchy, and activism. In response, we find ourselves studying the gendered life experiences of drag kings to illu…
Guide pour l'établissement de centres nationaux de documentation en sciences sociales dans les pays en voie de développement
Society of Lesbian and Gay Anthropologists
In other words
This essay emerged from the authors’ presentation at an invited session of the 15th Annual Conference on Interdisciplinary Qualitative Studies (QUIG) at the University of Georgia, Athens, 3–5 January 2002. They presented on the conference theme, ‘Vision, Voice & Virtuality: (Re)Conceptualizing Qualitative Representation.’ Their work here encompasses their response to the conference organizers’ invitation to grapple with (re)conceptualizing qualit…
The first step is the two‐step’
Gay men are often rendered feminized males according to masculine, heterosexual ideologies. This research demonstrates that gay men are actually more creative and active agents in their gender performance, simultaneously resisting and reinforcing dominant ideologies around gender and sexuality. One context where the creative agency of gay men is readily prevalent is in their leisure. Leisure contexts, used to shift the goalposts of cultural domin…
The Night They Took Over”
Informed by feminism and theories of masculinity and space, this ethnography explores how gay men negotiate hegemonic masculinity in response to Lesbian Night, a regular Thursday night occurrence when women outnumber men at a country-western gay bar. Findings are examined to reveal the misogynistic assumptions inherent in gay men's reaction to Lesbian Night. Gay men's attempt to define the bar as a gay male space highlights their allegiance to a …
Contextualizing Leisure Research to Encompass Complexity in Lived Leisure Experience
Many qualitative manuscripts published on the phenomenon of leisure remain post positivist privileging the traditional scientific method as the way of conducting and representing research. Such traditional approaches to research lead to debates about whether interpretative accounts can accurately, adequately, directly, or completely capture, depict, describe, or portray social life. In response to this crisis of representation, many leisure schol…
Euro-politics of scale
Don't Call Him A Cowboy”
Informed by feminism and theories of masculinity and space, this ethnography explores how gay men negotiate hegemonic masculinity in a country-western gay bar, focusing specifically on how the bar's clientele use dress as a marker of hegemonic masculinity and how bar patrons change their dress (and consequently their masculinity) as they migrate to other bars in the city. By examining social practices and cultural descriptions, the author is able…
Writing Ourselves at Risk
I have recently been thinking of how to be “virtuous” as I engage in doing qualitative research for social justice. In this essay, I explore the complexities and risks involved in representing the researcher-self amidst competing (and perhaps false) dichotomies of the personal/professional life and the scholar/activist. To do so, I deconstruct places in my scholarship where I was willing (consciously and unconsciously) to take risks, where I took…
Consuming Media, Making Men
Parents, educators, researchers and policymakers have sought to identify the root causes of male youth violence by looking at media's influence on young people. Grounded in social constructionism, this study uses collective memory work to explore that relationship. The findings are presented in terms of two levels of analysis: individual/micro messages and societal/macro messages and revealed that through media consumption, men actively construct…
It's a Race War
The purpose of this research study was to use critical race theory to guide the exploration of leisure experiences of men in prison. Ten men reflected upon the time they spent in various California State Prisons, in specific reference to their perceptions of race and power behind bars. The analysis revealed that every decision in prison is made with survival in mind and race is central to determining survival strategies and who has access to powe…
Rocky Mountain National Park
This investigation examined experiences of the African-American population living in the Denver area about their visitation to Rocky Mountain National Park. Using qualitative semi-structured interviews with 36 participants, and archival techniques, the authors identify the historical and cultural factors that resulted in low use of the park by African-Americans. Consequently, the authors suggest the use of Bourdieu's "cultural capital" and "habit…
(Re)Theorizing Leisure, Experience and Race
Leisure scholars have attempted to examine experience through a social-psychological lens that locates the individual and her/his interpretation of leisure experiences at the center of discussions about leisure, leisure experience and identity. However, this primarily social-psychological perspective lacks an accompanying discussion about the ideologies and discourses that structure those experiences. The purpose of this paper is to examine how "…
Creating Community at the Farm
This ethnography explores the competing concepts of community that are deployed within the context of a communal farm. Residents of the Farm articulate oppositional concepts of community that are based on familial and instrumental relationships. The concepts of Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft are utilized to better understand the manner in which these discourses manifest themselves in the lived experiences of Farm residents. The contradictory natur…
Mezzogiorno without the mafia
Practices of spatial representation can be revealing indicators of particular brands of nationalized discourse. In this article, the prevalent use of a comparison between eastern Germany and the Italian Mezzogiorno by a specific set of German elites is examined. Anxieties about Germany's place in the European and global economies are accompanied by a spatial vocabulary that uploads these anxieties onto the ongoing project of German unification. E…
They were not drag queens, they were playboy models and bodybuilders’
Using collective memory work, this study explored the development of masculinities and sexual identity through the media memories and experiences of gay men. Six gay men wrote about, discussed, and analyzed positive and negative memories of masculinities and gay male identity as portrayed in media. Their collective analysis revealed two major themes. The first theme, media as a means for opening the closet door, included escaping isolation, asses…
Interventions on rethinking 'the border' in border studies
Leisure Research for Social Justice
Leisure research based on critical theories is an effective path to social justice for groups and communities that are marginalized or oppressed by those in power. In response to Henderson (2011), who frames our work as postpositivist, we argue critical theories are a more appropriate research paradigm to reflect our philosophical positions. Our inquiry into leisure is informed by an emancipatory vision for social change that aims to enact social…
A Splintered Heartland
Much has been made about a revival of Mackinderian geopolitics in Eurasia, largely centred on struggles over access to energy resources and rooted in a territorial understanding of space. This paper proposes that the conceptual political cartography of Eurasia is indeed largely being rewritten, but conventional understandings of space, territory, and resources are insufficient in providing insight into a changing geopolitics. We interrogate the g…
Sympathetic chords
Informed by a larger post-intentional phenomenology on those who self-disclose deep and significant experiences of connection with and through music listening, this work highlights glimpses and manifestations of the listening act. Interviews with one participant from a larger study afford insights into experiences of a music listener. Philip described moments of resonating and reverberating connection expressed through the manifestations of embod…
We Are All Royalty
Drag performances have been studied time and time again as important visible leisure spaces of gender transgression. Few studies, however, have sought to understand the ways in which drag performers—kings and queens—relate to and shape queer communities. Using gen-derqueer as a theoretical lens and narrative inquiry as a methodological strategy, in this article we construct a conversation between a drag queen and king to demonstrate the ways in w…
All You Need Is Love”
Under the umbrella of love, this essay proffers five interrelated considerations in the politics of practice regarding social justice research. Consequently, I recommended inquiring more thoroughly into socio-economic class and leisure, unpacking our personal/professional and scholarly/activist binaries, examining our unearned privilege, avoiding the oppression Olympics, and employing and deploying intersectionality and participatory action resea…
It's Complicated
Using the qualitative participatory action methodology, collective memory work, this study explored how transgender, queer, and questioning (TQQ) youth make meaning of their sexual orientation and gender identity through high school experiences. Researchers identified three major conceptual but overlapping themes from the data generated in the transgender, queer, and questioning youth focus group: a need for resilience, you should be able to be s…
Placing the Border in Everyday Life
This chapter explores that unique border negotiation, namely prisoner employment as the cornerstone of successful rehabilitation, and examines the implications of this type of boundary interaction upon prisoner identities. It attends to the hybridity of ex-offender constructions of 'home'. The chapter illustrates the strong ties to prison and its problematic relationship with the high levels of recidivism that Britain is currently experiencing. I…
Homelessness, nature, and health
Engaging with feminist political ecology and leveraging experiences from a 16-month critical ethnography, this research explores ways in which masculinities served as both a rationale and an outcome of men facing homelessness living in the margins of an urban municipal public park – a space known as ‘the Hillside.’ Ethnographic narratives point to Hillside residents making their home in nature, connecting experiences in nature with various mascul…
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