Rudy Dunlap
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 4446899 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Rudy Dunlap |
| PRENOMES | Rudy |
| SOBRENOME | Dunlap |
| ASSINATURA | DUNLAP R |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Middle Tennessee State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2588-5613 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 35 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 83 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 35 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2009 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Parting Thoughts XLVIII
Making, Unmaking and Remaking Masculinity Through Leisure
‘I am not the only one fighting demons’
Social functioning influences the success or failure of the military to civilian transition. While federal programs designed to guide this transition do not always emphasize social functioning, non-profit and community-based programs serving military service members and veterans (MSMV) often emphasize social outcomes of leisure activities or community-based settings. These settings have been shown to enhance social skills relevant to community re…
Hotel innovation and novelty
This study examines the impact of novelty and hedonic value on perceived value and intentions to revisit, using Disney's Galactic Starcruiser as a case study. Surveying past customers, participants provided responses measuring novelty, hedonism, perceived value, and revisit intentions. Obtaining permission from three Starcruiser-specific Facebook groups, 290 responses were collected in March 2023 before its closure. Using SPSS 27, incomplete surv…
The Gig Economy, Alienation, and Leisure
The absence of leisure and the negation of leisure
There are areas of leisure that remain underexplored in the literature, namely the decisions, behaviours, and outcomes of leisure that are less than positive, if not outright negative. Specifically, we explore in critical fashion the “absence ‘negation of leisure’ in this think-piece. To do so, we apply observational and historical reflections from participation in concert events as a vehicle for conceptual exploration. We hope this critical comm…
Parting Thoughts XXVI
Parting Thoughts XXVIII
Blossoming
The passing of a spouse is a difficult life event that many older women face. This study focuses on the transition period and the implications for the life left to live. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 13 older widowed women regarding their thoughts, feelings, and adjustments after the loss of their spouses and understand how their routines and lifestyle have changed over time. Overcoming challenges and finding new interests, often…
Parting Thoughts XXXI
Charisma and Leisure
Parting Thoughts XVII
Man in decline
There are few studies that have explored music as an interpretive framework, or as a moderator of emotions, both positive and negative, for late-life individuals outside of dementia-related depression. Further understanding of negative emotions that may arise during the aging process, be those emotions self-imposed or because of one’s social environment, is warranted, particularly if those negative emotions can be dealt with constructively throug…
Characterizing style of participation among Texas inshore recreational fishing guides
Beyond the literal
Using fictional expression, this special issue provokes visions of leisure that are not immediately accessible to empirical analysis, but which nevertheless compel the exercise of our moral imagination. Echoing Pinker's (2012) arguments, we contend that fictional expression opens our imagination to previously inaccessible spaces, and allows our speculative faculties to extend empirical knowledge to situations that lie beyond personal experience a…
Experiences of urban cycling
This study explores the experiences and associated contexts of individuals who use a bicycle as their primary means of transportation in a metropolitan city in the United States. Using a qualitative approach, researchers employed semi-structured interviews to explore participants‘ narratives related to adopting cycling as a means of moving through the urban landscape and as a leisure experience. Findings revealed an evolutionary process whereby p…
Parting Thoughts IV
Parting Thoughts III
The 1970s Canadian rock group Five Man Electrical Band is best known for its 1971 hit “Signs.” The easy-to-sing-along-to song is all about speaking truth to power and standing up to “The Man,” and
Parting Thoughts II
Kim Beck’s (2013) temporary art installation of a clustering of signs in designed natural landscapes are meant to juxtapose the serenity of nature preservation and the nonsensical obstruction of si
Parting Thoughts I
A new editorial team, a new tradition. With each issue, we wish to invoke thoughts and discussion with the use of an image. What are the meanings that are embedded in the image? What meanings could
Leisure seen differently
Most scholars in academia, and certainly those in the field of leisure studies, consider themselves to be empiricists: what we know is derived from what we see firsthand, whether it be through obse
Gonzo Autoethnography
The present study explores the norms of community that are re/produced in the liminal leisure space of a formerly fan-organized music festival. Guided by the concept of communitas, we examined the manner in which fans attempted to exercise their agency in the construction of the weekend against the structure imposed by the promoters. To do this, we developed a creative analytic practice we call gonzo autoethnography, which draws inspiration from …
Widowhood and leisure
The loss of a spouse is a significantly stressful life event that can negatively affect social connections, life satisfaction, and mental health. This study looked at leisure’s role in helping study participants move forward and establish what life looks like as a widow. In-depth interviews were conducted with 13 widowed women regarding their leisure activities and the potential benefits to their coping process. Findings indicated that participan…
Cultivating self-reliance
Using ethnographic methods, the present study explored volunteer participation in an urban farm in Austin, Texas, USA. Researchers spent three years documenting the activities of participants via participant observation and interviewing. Guided by the concept of civil leisure, researchers analyzed voluntary participation in the farm as a form of leisure practice that was oriented towards civic issues. Analysis indicated that participation was und…
Finding fear and loathing in Las Vegas
Casinos serve as the proverbial devil on the shoulder to strengthen the convictions – and addictions – of those who have succumbed to the controlling mechanisms of casino culture, and the tangential addictions that often accompany gambling disorders. Acknowledging that millions of people gamble on a daily basis without negative outcomes, the present project seeks to draw attention to the fact that little scholarly attention is given to ‘leisure i…
The Temporal Phases of Leisure Experience
While there have been studies whereby the methodology relied on evaluations of pre-, during, and postparticipation experiences, it is far more common that research on leisure does not consider the temporal phases of a leisure experience. Further, many of the studies that have attempted to encompass the multiple temporal phases of experiential leisure involvement have not focused on participants who had established significant leisure careers or l…
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…
Becoming Political
This article explores the intersection of politics and leisure, pointing to the fact that power has always been present in leisure activities, settings, practices, and institutions. In noting some of the past contributions of leisure scholarship, it also highlights a need for increasingly political leisure research, where knowledge production, epistemologies, and methodologies help unpack multiple critical leisures. Using engagements with Foucaul…
The Implication of Bourdieu's Theory of Practice for Leisure Studies
The purpose of this article is to illustrate the effectiveness of Pierre Bourdieu's sociological theory and encourage more holistic use of his concepts of habitus, capital, field, and symbolic violence in leisure research. We briefly review the manner in which leisure researchers have utilized Bourdieu's work. Second, we apply Bourdieu's notions of habitus, capital, field, and symbolic violence to understand inequitable participation in hunting a…
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…
Widowhood and leisure
The loss of a spouse is a significantly stressful life event that can negatively affect social connections, life satisfaction, and mental health. This study looked at leisure’s role in helping study participants move forward and establish what life looks like as a widow. In-depth interviews were conducted with 13 widowed women regarding their leisure activities and the potential benefits to their coping process. Findings indicated that participan…
Cultivating self-reliance
Using ethnographic methods, the present study explored volunteer participation in an urban farm in Austin, Texas, USA. Researchers spent three years documenting the activities of participants via participant observation and interviewing. Guided by the concept of civil leisure, researchers analyzed voluntary participation in the farm as a form of leisure practice that was oriented towards civic issues. Analysis indicated that participation was und…
Recreating culture
Though seemingly concerned only with food and agriculture, Slow Food ought to also be understood as a movement that addresses crises in societies' use of leisure. Specifically, mealtime is examined as a site of conflict between gastronomic cultural traditions and the efficiency, standardisation, and profit-imperative of the global food infrastructure. Drawing on recent reconstructions of scholé, this paper examines Slow Food as an organisation th…
Playin’ farmer
The study applies situated learning and communities of practice concepts to an ethnographic study of volunteer farm work. In contrast to a traditional conceptualization of education for leisure, participation in farm work activities is understood as a form of education taking place in a leisure context. Analysis reveals that participation in volunteer farm labor may also be understood as participation in a craft-based community of practice. The F…
Korean American Males’ Serious Leisure Experiences and Their Perceptions of Different Play Styles
This study examined Koreans Americans’ serious leisure experience with different racial groups. Interviews were conducted with 15 Korean male basketball and soccer players. A key finding was that participants recognized different styles of play between Korean Americans and other racial groups. While some participants cared little about other players’ race/ethnicity, other participants played exclusively with Korean Americans and preserved or prom…
Taking Aunt Kathy to Dinner
An ethnographic methodology is used to describe the intersection of leisure practices and the lived experience of community within the context of a communal farm, known as the Farm. This manuscript focuses specifically on a leisure practice known as Family Dinner where members of the extended Farm community gathered for a weekly potluck-style meal. When conviviality is understood as a proxy for leisure, Family Dinner is seen as a type of informal…
Experiences of urban cycling
This study explores the experiences and associated contexts of individuals who use a bicycle as their primary means of transportation in a metropolitan city in the United States. Using a qualitative approach, researchers employed semi-structured interviews to explore participants‘ narratives related to adopting cycling as a means of moving through the urban landscape and as a leisure experience. Findings revealed an evolutionary process whereby p…
What Would Veblen Wear
Veblen's Theory of the Leisure Class is largely based on his explication of emulation whereby individuals of lower status imitate people of higher status. The proliferation of identity categories and the democratization of consumer credit complicate the application of emulation to contemporary consumer behavior. Veblen is ill-equipped to describe consumption related to social categories such as race, ethnicity, gender, and sexual identity. The ph…
Beyond the literal
Using fictional expression, this special issue provokes visions of leisure that are not immediately accessible to empirical analysis, but which nevertheless compel the exercise of our moral imagination. Echoing Pinker's (2012) arguments, we contend that fictional expression opens our imagination to previously inaccessible spaces, and allows our speculative faculties to extend empirical knowledge to situations that lie beyond personal experience a…
Leisure seen differently
Most scholars in academia, and certainly those in the field of leisure studies, consider themselves to be empiricists: what we know is derived from what we see firsthand, whether it be through obse
Gonzo Autoethnography
The present study explores the norms of community that are re/produced in the liminal leisure space of a formerly fan-organized music festival. Guided by the concept of communitas, we examined the manner in which fans attempted to exercise their agency in the construction of the weekend against the structure imposed by the promoters. To do this, we developed a creative analytic practice we call gonzo autoethnography, which draws inspiration from …
Making, Unmaking and Remaking Masculinity Through Leisure
Blossoming
The passing of a spouse is a difficult life event that many older women face. This study focuses on the transition period and the implications for the life left to live. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 13 older widowed women regarding their thoughts, feelings, and adjustments after the loss of their spouses and understand how their routines and lifestyle have changed over time. Overcoming challenges and finding new interests, often…
Finding fear and loathing in Las Vegas
Casinos serve as the proverbial devil on the shoulder to strengthen the convictions – and addictions – of those who have succumbed to the controlling mechanisms of casino culture, and the tangential addictions that often accompany gambling disorders. Acknowledging that millions of people gamble on a daily basis without negative outcomes, the present project seeks to draw attention to the fact that little scholarly attention is given to ‘leisure i…
Taking Aunt Kathy to Dinner
An ethnographic methodology is used to describe the intersection of leisure practices and the lived experience of community within the context of a communal farm, known as the Farm. This manuscript focuses specifically on a leisure practice known as Family Dinner where members of the extended Farm community gathered for a weekly potluck-style meal. When conviviality is understood as a proxy for leisure, Family Dinner is seen as a type of informal…
What Would Veblen Wear
Veblen's Theory of the Leisure Class is largely based on his explication of emulation whereby individuals of lower status imitate people of higher status. The proliferation of identity categories and the democratization of consumer credit complicate the application of emulation to contemporary consumer behavior. Veblen is ill-equipped to describe consumption related to social categories such as race, ethnicity, gender, and sexual identity. The ph…
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…
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…
Playin’ farmer
The study applies situated learning and communities of practice concepts to an ethnographic study of volunteer farm work. In contrast to a traditional conceptualization of education for leisure, participation in farm work activities is understood as a form of education taking place in a leisure context. Analysis reveals that participation in volunteer farm labor may also be understood as participation in a craft-based community of practice. The F…
Korean American Males’ Serious Leisure Experiences and Their Perceptions of Different Play Styles
This study examined Koreans Americans’ serious leisure experience with different racial groups. Interviews were conducted with 15 Korean male basketball and soccer players. A key finding was that participants recognized different styles of play between Korean Americans and other racial groups. While some participants cared little about other players’ race/ethnicity, other participants played exclusively with Korean Americans and preserved or prom…
Recreating culture
Though seemingly concerned only with food and agriculture, Slow Food ought to also be understood as a movement that addresses crises in societies' use of leisure. Specifically, mealtime is examined as a site of conflict between gastronomic cultural traditions and the efficiency, standardisation, and profit-imperative of the global food infrastructure. Drawing on recent reconstructions of scholé, this paper examines Slow Food as an organisation th…
The Implication of Bourdieu's Theory of Practice for Leisure Studies
The purpose of this article is to illustrate the effectiveness of Pierre Bourdieu's sociological theory and encourage more holistic use of his concepts of habitus, capital, field, and symbolic violence in leisure research. We briefly review the manner in which leisure researchers have utilized Bourdieu's work. Second, we apply Bourdieu's notions of habitus, capital, field, and symbolic violence to understand inequitable participation in hunting a…
The Temporal Phases of Leisure Experience
While there have been studies whereby the methodology relied on evaluations of pre-, during, and postparticipation experiences, it is far more common that research on leisure does not consider the temporal phases of a leisure experience. Further, many of the studies that have attempted to encompass the multiple temporal phases of experiential leisure involvement have not focused on participants who had established significant leisure careers or l…
Becoming Political
This article explores the intersection of politics and leisure, pointing to the fact that power has always been present in leisure activities, settings, practices, and institutions. In noting some of the past contributions of leisure scholarship, it also highlights a need for increasingly political leisure research, where knowledge production, epistemologies, and methodologies help unpack multiple critical leisures. Using engagements with Foucaul…
Cultivating self-reliance
Using ethnographic methods, the present study explored volunteer participation in an urban farm in Austin, Texas, USA. Researchers spent three years documenting the activities of participants via participant observation and interviewing. Guided by the concept of civil leisure, researchers analyzed voluntary participation in the farm as a form of leisure practice that was oriented towards civic issues. Analysis indicated that participation was und…
Finding fear and loathing in Las Vegas
Casinos serve as the proverbial devil on the shoulder to strengthen the convictions – and addictions – of those who have succumbed to the controlling mechanisms of casino culture, and the tangential addictions that often accompany gambling disorders. Acknowledging that millions of people gamble on a daily basis without negative outcomes, the present project seeks to draw attention to the fact that little scholarly attention is given to ‘leisure i…
Leisure seen differently
Most scholars in academia, and certainly those in the field of leisure studies, consider themselves to be empiricists: what we know is derived from what we see firsthand, whether it be through obse
Gonzo Autoethnography
The present study explores the norms of community that are re/produced in the liminal leisure space of a formerly fan-organized music festival. Guided by the concept of communitas, we examined the manner in which fans attempted to exercise their agency in the construction of the weekend against the structure imposed by the promoters. To do this, we developed a creative analytic practice we call gonzo autoethnography, which draws inspiration from …
Widowhood and leisure
The loss of a spouse is a significantly stressful life event that can negatively affect social connections, life satisfaction, and mental health. This study looked at leisure’s role in helping study participants move forward and establish what life looks like as a widow. In-depth interviews were conducted with 13 widowed women regarding their leisure activities and the potential benefits to their coping process. Findings indicated that participan…
Beyond the literal
Using fictional expression, this special issue provokes visions of leisure that are not immediately accessible to empirical analysis, but which nevertheless compel the exercise of our moral imagination. Echoing Pinker's (2012) arguments, we contend that fictional expression opens our imagination to previously inaccessible spaces, and allows our speculative faculties to extend empirical knowledge to situations that lie beyond personal experience a…
Experiences of urban cycling
This study explores the experiences and associated contexts of individuals who use a bicycle as their primary means of transportation in a metropolitan city in the United States. Using a qualitative approach, researchers employed semi-structured interviews to explore participants‘ narratives related to adopting cycling as a means of moving through the urban landscape and as a leisure experience. Findings revealed an evolutionary process whereby p…
Parting Thoughts IV
Parting Thoughts III
The 1970s Canadian rock group Five Man Electrical Band is best known for its 1971 hit “Signs.” The easy-to-sing-along-to song is all about speaking truth to power and standing up to “The Man,” and
Parting Thoughts II
Kim Beck’s (2013) temporary art installation of a clustering of signs in designed natural landscapes are meant to juxtapose the serenity of nature preservation and the nonsensical obstruction of si
Parting Thoughts I
A new editorial team, a new tradition. With each issue, we wish to invoke thoughts and discussion with the use of an image. What are the meanings that are embedded in the image? What meanings could
Man in decline
There are few studies that have explored music as an interpretive framework, or as a moderator of emotions, both positive and negative, for late-life individuals outside of dementia-related depression. Further understanding of negative emotions that may arise during the aging process, be those emotions self-imposed or because of one’s social environment, is warranted, particularly if those negative emotions can be dealt with constructively throug…
Characterizing style of participation among Texas inshore recreational fishing guides
Charisma and Leisure
Parting Thoughts XVII
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