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A18 - Leisure, Inclusion and Social Justice
Seeking Judgement Free Spaces: Poverty, Leisure, and Social Inclusion Dawn Trussell, University of Waterloo (Waterloo, Canada)
Recent signs indicate that there is growing attention to leisure’s potential in helping to address not only private troubles, but public issues. For example, Shinew et al. (2004) investigated the power of social interaction as it can only take place in leisure spaces. Others have outlined the potential for leisure to provide the context for building shared understandings (Arai & Pedlar, 1997; Mair, 2002/03, 2006; Pedlar & Haworth, 2006; Shaw 2000, 2006). This presentation seeks to build on this discussion by presenting the results of qualitative research undertaken with 18 individuals living in poverty in southern Ontario. Results show that a key component to moving towards leisure that helps to address some of our most challenging social ills rests with its power to create judgment free spaces. In particular, participants identified: (1) a need for increased opportunities to become (and remain) connected with the broader community; (2) the significance of vibrant and accepting community centres as spaces where connection, not exposure, are fostered; and (3) the importance of personal home and privates spaces that are both safe and appropriate. We argue that if leisure really is to be ‘a driver’ in the integration and development of communities, we need to hear the thoughts, insights, and advice of individuals often outside the scope of leisure programming and planning.
The Maimonides’ Social Action Club Sondra Goldman, Maimonides Geriatric Centre (Montreal, Canada); Kim Weippert, Therapeutic Recreation Services, Maimonides Geriatric Centre (Montreal, Canada)
Institutionalized residents often feel hopelessness,incompetent, and disconnected from the world. Their social roles, such as mother or volunteer, are underutilized. They are also challenged with emotional, physical, cognitive, existential and ageist limitations. Collectively, these factors lead many to believe that they are marginal members of our society without purpose or place, leading residents into depression, anxiety and isolation. Everyone needs and deserves a place in our community; this is why we the Art Therapist and Therapeutic Recreation Specialist developed the Social Action Club. We give residents volunteer roles and opportunities to engage in meaninful community service. It is built on a Jewish tradition that obligates people to do ‘Mitzvahs’ or good deeds for others. We outreach and do creative exchanges with different age, cultural, and community groups to learn about one another and build community ties. Examples of our programs include: corresponding with seniors in Switzerland; doing art exchanges with children living in a local group home; sending hand-painted get well cards to residents who become ill; launching a recycling program on the floor; and the filling and decorating food baskets for our Meals-on Wheels program in the local community. This program is adapted to the needs and abilities of the people involved to maximize participation. When people create something for the betterment of others, there are intrinsic and extrinsic benefits for all. Our residents have described a deeper sense of community spirit, fulfillment, less isolation and depression as a result of being part of this program. This experiential workshop is designed as a continuation of our exchange program. Members of the Social Action Club have prepared gifts for you, the participants. In exchange you will create something for the benefit of the residents. Afterwards we will debrief the process with a round table discussion. Finally, with a power-point presentation, we will review the structure and tools we use to evaluate our program. Our hope is to enlighten the participants of the great untapped wealth of institutionalized members of society.
Is Activism Leisure? How Older Women Activists Define their Experience. Linda T. Caissie, St. Thomas University (Fredericton,Canada)]
Guided by feminist gerontology the intent of this qualitative study was to explore the involvement of older women in activism. More specifically, I examined one group of women activists, the Raging Grannies. Although, a number of themes emerged from my data, this paper will focus on how the Raging Grannies defined their involvement in activism. Because many of the women were well educated I introduced the concepts of civil leisure (Mair, 2002/2003) and serious leisure (Stebbin, 1992) during the in-depth interviews and contrary to the literature, many of the Grannies did not define their experience as leisure. In addition, many of the women viewed leisure as frivolous, play, entertainment, and non-work. Some of the Raging Grannies were highly critical of the academics’ concepts of civil and serious leisure and was suggested that the fault lies with leisure academics by not making the leisure literature more accessible to the layperson in order to change the stereotype of leisure. The concerns that the Grannies expressed around viewing their activism as leisure suggests that we as researchers, cannot assume our view of reality applies to everyone and to question the need for social scientists to classify and label behaviour.
A18 - Leisure, Inclusion and Social Justice
