To whom does this place belong? Whiteness and diversity in outdoor recreation and education
Abstrak
ABSTRACT Dominant Western cultural narratives of the outdoors imbue ‘natural’ places as sites of recreation, adventure, and respite from an otherwise fast-paced ‘unnatural’ world. This paper explores the seeming lack of racial and ethnic diversity among advocates of outdoor leisure and education in Canada, a characteristic that may reflect the preponderance of white, middle-class constituents in mainstream environmental movements in the West. Through critical discourse analysis, and inquiry into lived experiences, the authors, two immigrant settlers from Taiwan, question the ways that environmental movements project and inscribe white experience by examining the presumed historical and cultural positions which install ‘place’ as an axis for outdoor recreation and education. The authors offer a Taiwanese concept of place, 鄉土 (Xiang-Tu), that engenders both the social and ecological, in hope to broaden the theoretical scope of outdoor leisure studies while mitigating the risk of reinforcing colonialism via privileged perspectives.
Topik & Kata Kunci
Penulis (2)
Yi Chien Jade Ho
David Chang
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- 2021
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- en
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- DOI
- 10.1080/11745398.2020.1859389
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