Full Description
This book illustrates tensions, absences, and unresolved challenges experienced in research - experiences that are so often left out of the conventional, smooth, and linear discussion of research that generally appears in academic publications.
Laying bare the messy details of research is increasingly important because leisure scholars' engagement in reflexive, collaborative, critical, arts-based, participative, and social justice-oriented research heightens the need to explore and examine significant moments that punctuate and undoubtedly shape both research and researchers. The chapters in this book make explicit the negotiations, contradictions, questions, doubts, and uncertainties often underlying research. As loose ends of the research process are unravelled, this book inspires researchers across disciplines to expand the ways we come to know and do research.
The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Leisure Sciences.
Contents
Introduction: Unraveling the Research Process: Humanizing Leisure Scholars 1. Becoming a Researcher: Navigating Messy Researcher Subjectivities 2. Examining Self-other Constructions to Advance the Social Justice Goals of Leisure Research 3. On Methods: "The Situation's in Control" 4. Implicit Attitudes and the Challenge of Becoming a Reflexive Leisure Scholar 5. Ethical Considerations When Negotiating Entry in Community-Based Research 6. Going the Extra Mile: Building Trust and Collaborative Relationships with Study Participants 7. "Are You Trying to Make Them Gay?": Culture Wars, Anxieties about Genderplay, and the Subsequent Impacts on Youth 8. Digging Deeper: Engaging in Reflexivity in Interpretivist-Constructivist and Critical Leisure Research
