Club Life: Third Place and Shared Leisure in Rural Canada

Mair, Heather

doi:10.1080/01490400903199740

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“…One positive externality of tourism is its role in helping to maintain the local "third place"-a place other than home and work-where locals can have leisure experiences (Mair, 2009). Tourism makes a number of obvious contributions locally, such as increasing the supply of services, with all interviewees acknowledging the fact that "we have five restaurants and two rather big grocery stores and two hotels as well as a number of coffee shops in a municipality of 5,000" (institution 1).…”

Section: Tourism Contributes To the Local Leisure Spacementioning

confidence: 99%

Creative Outposts: Tourism's Place in Rural Innovation

Brouder¹

2012

Tourism Planning & Development

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The aim of this paper is to investigate the dynamics of local tourism innovation in order to see how tourism development benefits tourism stakeholders including the local community. The paper is concerned with the social impacts of tourism and contends that there is a latent positive social capital in rural communities. Some "creative outposts" manage not just to survive but to thrive, and tourism often acts as a catalyst for innovative local development. Examples of tourism innovation can be new and better interactions among tourism stakeholders as well as changes in institutional arrangements. Entrepreneurs and institutional stakeholders are interviewed to investigate the dynamics of local tourism innovation. The social dimension in which tourism stakeholders operate is poorly understood and this paper presents a case study of Jokkmokk village with results showing tourism has a subtle yet palpable positive social role in the community. Themes emerging from the interviews are: the tourist office and tourism firms coevolve over time, tourism networks are loose and project-based, tourism is a desirable diversifier, and tourism contributes to the local leisure space. Particular focus is given to the fact that this is an Arctic rural community, and the research provides a basis for understanding tourism innovation systems in this context. Tourism development is found to be complementary to rural coping strategies in "creative outposts".

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Section: Tourism Contributes To the Local Leisure Spacementioning

confidence: 99%

Creative Outposts: Tourism's Place in Rural Innovation

Brouder¹

2012

Tourism Planning & Development

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“…Of particular relevance to this article are Mair's (2009) and Palmer's (2009Palmer's ( , 2010 research on sport drinking cultures. Mair's (2009) story describes a typical day during a curling bonspiel and the evening celebration.…”

Section: Ethnographies Of Drinking Culturesmentioning

confidence: 98%

“…Indeed, these social situations are especially deserving of analysis due to their critical importance as third places, where people relax and form relationships outside of home and work (Oldenburg, 1999). As Mair (2009) andPalmer (2009) discovered, the most valuable aspects of sporting events often have little to do with sport. As third places, sport events provide participants opportunities to dance, converse, tell stories and create support networks -all while drinking alcohol.…”

Section: Holding Drinks and Circumscribing Notesmentioning

confidence: 98%

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Reflections on ethnography, ethics and inebriation

Joseph

Donnelly

2012

Leisure/Loisir

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Due to the persistent influence of positivism in leisure research and a belief that researchers, even participant observers, should be sober data collectors to produce legitimate and rigorous research findings, few researchers detail their experiences of drinking during fieldwork. However, rigorous ethnographic research must engage in the lived experiences of the participants and also provide a clear account of the research process. Therefore, this article provides a reflexive account of ethnographic research with a cricket and social club for whom drinking (to excess) is normative. While alcohol consumption was a critical component of developing rapport, it also, at times, compromised data collection, researcher and participant safety and raised ethical concerns about informed consent. The strategies used to respond to methodological challenges and ethical quandaries associated with alcohol consumption with and by participants are described.En raison de l'influence persistante du positivisme dans la recherche de loisirs et la conviction que les chercheurs, les observateurs et même les participants doivent être des sobres collecteurs afin de reproduire des résultats de recherche légitimes et rigoureux, peut de chercheurs on décrit leurs expériences de consommation d'alcool durant leurs recherches. Toutefois, plusieurs recherches ethnographiques rigoureuses ont dû s'engager dans les expériences vécues des participants tous en fournissant un compte rendu du processus de recherche. Cet article fournit un compte réflexif de la recherche ethnographique avec un club de cricket pour lesquels la consommation d'alcool est typique. Alors que la consommation d'alcool était un élément essentiel des relations sociales, elle peut aussi, à certains moments surligner des préoccupations éthiques concernant le consentement éclairé. Des stratégies utilisées pour répondre aux défis méthodologiques et les dilemmes éthiques liés à la consommation d'alcool sont décrits.

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“…Leisure researchers have long been interested in the sociality of third places within and beyond the city, as Yuen and Johnson (2017 p. 296) suggest, '[L]eisure settings, such as curling clubs, farmers' markets, and support groups involving workshops and social activities, have been examined as third places in the leisure literature' (Glover and Parry 2009;Glover et al 2012;Johnson 2013;Mair 2009). Such places are often presented as gathering spaces where individuals can informally connect with family, friends, or community members.…”

Section: The Value Of Leisure Practices: Gendered Social Relationshipsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Feminist perspectives on third places

Fullagar¹

2019

Rethinking Third Places

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Club Life: Third Place and Shared Leisure in Rural Canada

Cited by 57 publications

References 24 publications

Creative Outposts: Tourism's Place in Rural Innovation

Creative Outposts: Tourism's Place in Rural Innovation

Reflections on ethnography, ethics and inebriation

Feminist perspectives on third places

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