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LSA 2010     Diversity and Equality in Leisure, Sport and Tourism

Hosted by Carnegie Faculty of Sport and Education, Leeds Metropolitan University, UK July 6-8, 2010

Conference Organising Committee Chair: Dr. Aarti Ratna  A.Ratna@leedsmet.ac.uk;     LSA 2010 information at www.leedsmet.ac.uk/lsa2010/index.htm

The following have been accepted for inclusion in the LSA 2010 parallel sessions programme as of January 10, 2010.

Dr Ajith Kumar, Professor D Selvaraju and Dr P Veeramani, Annamalai University (India)  . . .  Issues and Challenges of Sustainable Tourism and Leisure Events in Kerala: A Sociological Study

Dr Stephen Bradbury, Loughborough University (UK)  . . .  It's not as Simple as Black and White: Challenging Racism in Professional Football through Locally Grounded Multi-agency Collaboration

Mr James Cherrington, Leeds Metropolitan University (UK)  . . .  You Better Know Your-self': Hybridity, Fluidity and Consumption in Basketball and the Meaning of Contemporary Identity

Dr Jamie Cleland, Staffordshire University (UK)  . . .  Working Together Through Sport? Local Authority Provision for Ethnic Minorities in the United Kingdom

Ms Kathryn Cureton, The University of British Columbia (Canada)  . . .  Insufficient Support for Leisure Access Work: The Consequences of not Listening to Frontline Staff

Ms Katherine Dashper, Leeds Metropolitan University (UK)  . . .  "Dressage is full of Queens!" Giving voice to gay riders within equestrian sport

Dr Sherry Dupuis, Dr Colleen Whyte, Dr Jennifer Carson, Leah Sadler and Dr Lisa Meschino, University of Waterloo (Canada)  . . .  Liberating Leisure from Therapy

Dr Mohammad Ehsani, Tarabiat Modares University (Iran)  . . .  Sport Tourism Potentials in Iran

Dr Jack Fawbert, University of Bedfordshire (UK)  . . .  Social Inclusion and Social Exclusion: Has the process of 'gentrification' of football fandom stalled in the recession?

Dr Beth Fielding-Lloyd and Dr Lindsey Mean, Sheffield Hallam University (UK)  . . .  Gender Problems? Discursive approaches to Equality in Coach Education

Mr Thomas Fletcher, Leeds Metropolitan University (UK)  . . .  Common Culture? Cricket, Globalisation and Colonialism

Ms Karen Gallant, Professor Bryan Smale and Associate Professor Susan Arai , University of Waterloo (Canada)  . . .  Volunteering, Serious Leisure and Obligation: Development of a scale to explore perceptions of obligation to volunteer

Dr Geetha Garib, Tilburg University (Netherlands)  . . .  Diversity Perceptions in leisure Organisations

Associate Professor Dr. Audrey Giles, University of Ottawa (Canada)  . . .  Decolonizing Water Safety: The results of a four year study

Professor Arnold Grossman, John A. Frank and Marty Aaron Cooper , New York University (USA)  . . .  Recreational Sexual Experiences among Sexual Minority and Sexual Non-Minority Youth Entering Services

Dr Ashley Hardwell, Leeds Metropolitan University (UK)  . . .  Mediating Identities: The search a common sub-cultural core in UK rock climbers

Kevin Harris and Oscar Mwaanga , Southampton Solent University (UK)  . . .  Empowering Alternative Voices - a critical insight into student volunteering through communities of practice

Dr Der-Hsiang Huang and Dr Lee-Min Wei , Da-Yeh University (Taiwan)  . . .  Leisure Activities, Leisure Attitudes, Leisure Satisfaction and Physical Fitness of Adolescents in Taiwan

Dr Ruth Jeanes, University of Central Lancashire (UK)  . . .  Examining the Importance of Leadership in Sport and Social Inclusion Initiatives

Dr Niamh Kitching and Ms Ann MacPhail , University of Limerick (Ireland)  . . .  Gentlemen Only Ladies Forbidden? Golf Club Culture and the Experiences of Young Golfers

Ms Annette M La Cour, University of Copenhagen (Denmark)  . . .  How to fit Overweight Children into the Local Sports Associations. The Danish Volunteer Based 3rd Sector Sports Associations and their Potential for Solving Social Problems

Dr Brett Lashua, Leeds Metropolitan University (UK)  . . .  Oral histories of the vanishing social clubs of Liverpool 8: Mapping Black musical experience in Liverpool through collaborative intergenerational documentary filmmaking

Mr Stefan Lawrence, Leeds Metropolitan University (UK)  . . .   . . .  Whiteness, Masculinities and Athletic Bodies: Media re-presentations of 'the powerful' and''the other' in the (British) sports and leisure media

Professor Jonathan Long, Dr Kevin Hylton , Dr Aarti Ratna and Dr Karl Spracklen, Leeds Metropolitan University (UK)  . . .  Space for Inclusion? The construction of sport and leisure spaces as places for migrant communities

Dr Jim Lusted, University of Northampton (UK)  . . .  One Size Fits All? A critical assessment of the sports equity approach in grass-roots sport

Dr Jonathan Magee, University of Central Lancashire (UK) Social Exclusion, Disabled Families and the 'Fear' of Leisure in Northern Ireland

Dr Anna Manzoni, Yale University (USA)  . . .  Is Sport the 'Great Equalizer'? The case of rock climbing

Ms Hazel Maxwell, University of Technology, Sydney (Australia)  . . .  Social Inclusion of Muslim Women in Australia Community Sport: The development of the 'Burqini'

Dr Peter Millward, Leeds Metropolitan University (UK)  . . .  New Social Movements and Glocalisation: English Football fans and 'Foreign' Ownership

Dr Lynn Minnaert, University of Westminster (UK)  . . .  An Olympic legacy for all? A longitudinal scoping review of non-infrastructural social impacts on low-income groups in the host community (Atlanta 1996 - Beijing 2008)

Assistant Professor Samapika Mohapatra, Banasthali University (India)  . . .  Issues Concerning Women's Participation in Sports: An Indian experience

Mr Oscar Mwaanga, Southampton Solent University (UK)  . . .  Re-thinking the way we Research International Sport and Development

Dr Dave O'Brien, Leeds Metropolitan University (UK)  . . .  Leading the European Capital of Culture 2008: Networks, resources and the study of cultural leadership

Dr Aarti Ratna, Leeds Metropolitan University (UK)  . . .  Playing the Feminine 'Exotic' Other? British Asian Females' Experiences of Gender and Sexualities in Women's Football

Ms Gabby Riches, University of Alberta (Canada)  . . .  Keeping the Metal Dance Underground: Metal Music, Backspaces, and Gender Transgression

Ms Georgina Roy, Brighton University (UK)  . . .  The Female Surfer: An icon of equality, or feminism undone?

Dr Nico Schulenkorf, Auckland University of Technology (New Zealand) and Ms Alana Thomson, University of Technology, Sydney (Australia)  . . .  United through Sport - The Management Strategies of Sport-for-Development Projects in Sri Lanka and Australia

Professor Bryan Smale, University of Waterloo (Canada); and Associate Professor Holly Donohoe, University of Ottowa (Canada) , University of Waterloo (Canada)  . . .  The Contribution of Leisure to the Canadian Index of Wellbeing

Dr Karl Spracklen, Leeds Metropolitan University (UK)  . . .  Hybridity, Harmony or Western Hegemony? Understanding the authentic in world music as an expression of unresolved Habermaisian rationalities

Dr Dule Suassuna and Alfredo Feres Neto , Univeridade de Brasilia (Brazil)  . . .  "City's Sport and Leisure Program": (Programa Esporte e Lazer da Cidade) Social impacts from a federal program towards leisure in Brazil

Adjunct Professor AJ Veal, University of Technology, Sydney (Australia)  . . .  Leisure and the Spirit Level

Mr John Walker, University of Sussex (UK)  . . .  Creating Spaces: Facilitating Deaf people's Health and Wellbeing

Mr Richard Wright, Leeds Metropolitan University (UK)  . . .  Objects in the rear-view mirror': A reflexive exploration and autoethnographical evaluation into the multiple reasons why whatever goes on tour will never be able to stay there

 
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