Inclusion and Equity in Outdoor Leisure (eBook)

Whose Body Belongs?

Mandi Baker, Neil Carr (Herausgeber)

eBook Download: EPUB

2025
309 Seiten
CAB INTERNATIONAL (Verlag)
978-1-80062-192-3 (ISBN)

Infos

From multiple perspectives, this book explores the benefits that outdoor leisure delivers for wellbeing, learning, development and challenge. It takes on dominant discourses of outdoor leisure, related theory and modes of representation and offers fresh insights and thinking into how leisure in the outdoors can be understood and accessed by all.

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Drawing on a variety of perspectives, personal narratives, geographies and approaches, this book challenges dominant discourses of outdoor leisure, associated theoretical approaches and modes of representation regarding the access, inclusion and social justice of minoritised participants. We consider concepts like privilege, power, and empowerment to present a range of outdoor leisure experiences of people with diverse body shapes, races, physical abilities and health conditions, gender and sexual identities, ages, and beyond-human bodies. It offers fresh insights into how leisure in the outdoors can be understood, used, and accessed in ways in which willing participants of all kinds, and especially those who have not traditionally been included, supported and centred, can access the benefits of wellbeing, learning, development and challenges that outdoor leisure participation is revered for. The book covers a range of outdoor conceptualisations that challenge the reader to think deeply and broadly about the common threads which bind the broad field of outdoor leisure together. The range of participant experiences explored in this book encompasses everything from suburban outdoors to wild places, summer camps to scuba diving, dog walking to mindful reflection, and trail walking to electric bikes.

The book was designed to transition from the merely academic world to the world of activism, offering thoughtfulness and empowerment in personal and professional decision making related to the field. It should appeal to anyone interested in the outdoors from a variety of perspectives (i.e., students, emerging leaders, long-established leaders seeking innovation, thought-leadership and change makers, policymakers, advocates and activists for inclusion and justice) and for a variety of contexts (i.e., recreation, education, tourism, and adventure).

Autor

Mandi Baker (Edited By)
Doctor Mandi Baker's research takes a special interest in organised outdoor experiences, youth, community development, employment and management practices, recreation and leisure. Her work explores the people skills, power relations and emotion work of everyday employment experiences through post-structural theory to offer fresh insights and innovative solutions to employability, leadership and education.

Neil Carr (Edited By)
Professor Neil Carr is part of the Department of Tourism at the University of Otago and a former Editor of Annals of Leisure Research. His research focuses on understanding behaviour within tourism and leisure experiences, with a particular emphasis on children and families, sex, and animals. Since gaining his PhD from the University of Exeter he has worked at the University of Hertfordshire (UK), University of Queensland (Australia), and most recently the University of Otago (New Zealand).

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 17.11.2025
• Verlagsort: Oxford
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft
• Schlagworte: discrimination and outdoor activities • empowerment from outdoor activities • learning from the outdoors • Leisure in the outdoors • outdoor experience • Outdoor Recreation • outdoor wellbeing • personal challenge in outdoor recreation • self-development and the outdoors • wellbeing and outdoor activity
• ISBN-10: 1-80062-192-2 / 1800621922
• ISBN-13: 978-1-80062-192-3 / 9781800621923