Abstract

This special issue focuses on the behind-the-scenes, often messy, occurrences of leisure research. Leisure scholars’ engagement in reflexive, collaborative, critical, arts-based, participative, and social justice-oriented research, increase the need to explore and examine significant moments that punctuate and undoubtedly shape the research and themselves as individuals. Humanizing research inherently involves humanizing leisure scholars. Authors in this issue illustrate tensions, absences, and unresolved challenges experienced in research— experiences that are typically left out of the conventional, smooth, and linear discussion of research that generally appears in academic publications. As loose ends of the research process are unraveled, this special issue inspires us to expand the ways we come to know and do research.

摘要

本期特刊关注休闲研究的幕后，往往是混乱的。休闲学者参与反思性、协作性、批判性、艺术性、参与性和社会正义导向的研究，增加了探索和审查重要时刻的需求，这些时刻打断并无疑塑造了研究和他们自己作为个人。人性化研究本质上涉及人性化休闲学者。本期作者阐述了研究中遇到的紧张、缺席和未解决的挑战——这些经历通常被排除在学术出版物中通常出现的传统、流畅和线性的研究讨论之外。随着研究过程的松散部分被解开，这个特刊激励我们扩展我们了解和进行研究的方式。