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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 April 29, 2010.

Dr Andrew Adams, Southampton Solent University (UK) . . . Epistemic Considerations in Evidencing Strategic Level Approaches to Forming Social Capital through the Medium of Sport in Local Authorities

Dr D J 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

Ms Alison Bambridge, University of Staffordshire (UK) . . . Support for All? A Global Comparison of 'Enabling' Spectatorship in Sports Stadiums

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

Dr Ian Brittain, Coventry University (UK) . . . Disability Sport is going back to its roots: Rehabilitation of military victims of violent conflict in the twenty -first century

Ms Susie Brown, Loughborough University (UK) . . . A Safe Haven: The importance of social comfort in facilitating physical activity among overweight young people

Mr Robert Burton and Ms Rhian Jones, Southampton Solent University (UK) . . . 'Trolls with Poles' vs 'Gays on Trays'; looking beyond the banter to explore the similarities and differences in sub-cultural identity amongst snowboarders and skiers

Ms Rook Campbell, University of Southern California (USA) . . . Global Sport Governance: Regulating Transitional Athletic Labour

Mr Sandro Carnicelli Filho, University of Otago (New Zealand) . . . Equalising Emotions: White Water Rafting Guides in New Zealand

Ms Shirley Chappel and Mr Alick Kay, University of South Australia (Australia) . . . The Invasion Narrative and Leisure: Australia 2005

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

Ms Sheryl Clark, University of London (UK) . . . Health, Ability and Fund: Competing discourses of sporting participation Ms Emily Coates, Buckinghamshire New University (UK) . . . Exploring the Experiences of Parents who Rock Climb

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

Ms Emily Coates, Buckinghamshire New University (UK)  . . . Exploring the Experiences of Parents who Rock Climb

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

Professor Carol Cutler Riddick, Keri Schmidt and Caitlin Mosholder, Gallaudet University (USA) . . . Reliability and Norms of the Leisure Diagnostic Battery (LDB) in a Sample of Undergraduate Recreational Majors who are Deaf or Hard-of-Hearing

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

Mr Matthew David and Professor Chris Rojek, Brunel University (UK)  . . . Cultural Conflicts over Knowledge in Cyberspace

Professor Catherine Di Domenico, University of Abertay (UK) and Dr MariaLaura Di Domenico, Open University Business School (UK) . . . Tourism, Development and Peace Promotion in Sub-Sahara Africa: Case Studies of Nigeria and Rwanda

Dr Carolyn Downs, University of Salford (UK) Leisure in the Margins: The adoption of place to facilitate use of alcohol in the leisure lives of young people

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 Sam Elkington, University of Bedfordshire (UK) . . . "Optimal" Leisure Experience: The pathway to personal growth and subjective well being?

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

Dr Hayley Fitzgerald and Ms Annette Stride, Leeds Metropolitan University (UK) . . . Young People's Narratives of Family, Sport and Disability

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

Mr Clint Godfrey, University of Central Lancashire (UK) . . . Sport for development coaches: evaluating impact 

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 for 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 Hazel Hartley, Leeds Metropolitan University (UK) . . . Speak for the Dead - Protect the Living: Stories from Research Activism, post-disaster Legal Reform and collaboration with Alternative Voices

Mr Alan Hockley, Buckinghamshire New University (UK) . . . Construction and Hybridisation of Landscape - a Peripatetic Perspective

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 Barbara Humberstone, Buckinghamshire New University (UK) . . . Engagements with Nature: Ageing and windsurfing

Ms Katereh Jamaat, Azad University (Iran) and Dr Mohammad Ehsani, Tarbiat Modarres University (Iran)  . . .  The Relationship between Barriers and Sport Participation for Female Students in Iran

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

Ms Shia Ping Kung, Mr Girish Ramchandani and Professor Peter Taylor, Sheffield Hallam University (UK) . . . An Investigation of Customer Satisfaction and Importance of Service Dimensions at Sport Facilities by Different Socio-demographic Groups and Other Parameters

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

Dr Hannah Lewis, Leeds Metropolitan University (UK) . . . Music and Dancing as Freedom and Belonging: Social exclusion, choice and community moments among people seeking asylum in the UK

Iain Lindsey, University of Southampton and Davies Banda, York St John University (UK) . . . Sport and the fight against HIV/AIDS in Zambia: A 'partnership' approach?

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 Jessica Macbeth, University of Central Lancashire (UK) . . . Reflections of a non-disabled researcher inside a disability sports event

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

Dr Louise Mansfield (Canterbury Christ Church University, UK) and Associate Professor Lara Killick (University of the Pacific, USA)  . . .  The Netball Superleague in the UK: Women, Sport and Commercial Potential?

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

Mr. Alex McInch, University of Wales Institute, Cardiff (UK) . . . Embodied Identity Negotiation between Amateur Boxers and University Footballers

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 Steven Mock, University of Waterloo (Canada) . . . The Role of Seasonal Home Recreation and Leisure in the Lives of Sexual Minorities

Ms Caitlin Mosholder, Professor Carol Cutler Riddick and Ms Kerri Schmidt, Gallaudet University (USA) . . . Formative and Summative Evaluations of a Biggest Loser Contest Piloted for a University Incorporating a Meaningful Project for a Research Methods Course

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

Dr Geoff Nichols, Sheffield University (UK) and Mrs. Rita Ralston, Manchester Metropolitan University (UK) . . . Social Inclusion through Volunteering - an unanticipated legacy of the 2002 Commonwealth Games

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

Ms Janine Partington and Mr Mick Totten, Leeds Metropolitan University (UK) . . . Community Sport, Empowerment and Transformation

Dr Kim Polistina, UK . . . Colonisation of Outdoor Leisure into Sport - An unsustainable option?

Ms Zara Rafferty, Dr Sherry Dupuis, and Dr Susan Arai, University of Waterloo (Canada) . . . Everyone can dance the color Pink: Exploring the meanings and experiences of Including Arts programs for practitioners

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

Dr Joel Rookwood, Liverpool Hope University (UK) . . . Playing Football and Building Peace in Liberia: The impact of value-led initiatives

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 Bob Snape and Phil Binks, University of Bolton (UK) . . . Changing Emphasis and Attitudes through a Programme to Build Social Capital, Increase Leisure Based Physical Activity and Promote Healthy Eating amongst British South Asian Women

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 Ina Stan, Buckinghamshire New University (UK) . . . Gender, Body Image, Well-being and the Outdoors

Dr. Carly Stewart, University of Wales Institute (UK) . . . Sporting Autobiographies, Identities and the Narrative Construction of Lives

Dr Alex Stewart, University of Bedfordshire (UK) . . . Social Inclusion and sport in consumer society: A boxer's embodied and somewhat narcissistic reflections

Dr Dulce Suassuna and Dr 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

Dr Holly Thorpe, University of Waikato (New Zealand) & University of Brighton (UK) ... 'Riding High': Theorizing risk and pleasure in contemporary physical youth culture

Mr Stan Timmins, Leeds Metropolitan University (UK) . . . Ethnography in Action: A Black Researcher inside Rugby League

Mick Totten, Leeds Metropolitan University (UK) . . . Freedom through Football: A tale of football, community, activism and resistance

Mr Lee Tucker, Leeds Metropolitan University (UK) . . . Forza Forza Republica: A case study of politics and socialist culture in a Sunday league football club

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

Associate Professor Gordon Waitt, University of Wollongong (Australia) and Dr Chris Stapel (University of Kentucky, USA) . . . "Fornicating on Floats"? The Sydney Mardi Gras Parade beyond the Metropolis

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

Dr Amanda Waring (Loughborough University, UK) . . .  Opening Doors: Promoting Social Inclusion through increased sports opportunities

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

Associate Professor Arzmi Yaacob, Universiti Teknologi Mara (Malaysia) . . . Remedial Actions for The Sad State of Sport in Malaysian Schools

 
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