Community Development: Applications for Leisure, Sport & Tourism - Couverture rigide

 
9781939476104: Community Development: Applications for Leisure, Sport & Tourism

À propos des auteurs

Erin Sharpe is an Associate Professor in the Department of Recreation and Leisure Studies at Brock University. Her teaching and research interests center on examining relationships between leisure, community, and development. A leisure sociologist, her work is influenced by socio-spatial, post-structural, and post-colonial perspectives. Most recently, Dr. Sharpe was awarded a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada grant to examine intersections between identity and neighborhood in the sporting lives of young people. Her leisure interests include family canoe trips, rowing, and walking the dog.

Heather Mair is an associate professor in the Department of Recreation and Leisure Studies at the University of Waterloo. She has published research on a variety of topics. She is co-author (with Donald G. Reid and E. Wanda George) of Rural Tourism Development: Localism and Cultural Change.

Felice Yuen is an Associate Professor at Concordia University, Montreal, QC in the Department of Applied Human Sciences. She received her Ph.D. from the Department of Recreation and Leisure Studies at the University of Waterloo, ON. Her research interests include using arts-based methods to understand how leisure can be used as context for community development, healing, advocacy, and empowerment. She enjoys playing guitar, eating, and going on adventures with her children and husband.

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