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When laughter and physical activity opens the door to the kingdom of freedom : Danish seniors on the move towards improved health
No full textIn medieval and early modern times in Europe, popular games were an important element of social life (Elias and Dunning, 1986; Eichberg, 2012, 2013). Popular games had strong social elements of playfulness and laughter as well as violence and disorderliness (Eichberg, 2016), which disappeared with the civilizing process (Elias and Dunning, 1986). Even though the words ‘games’ and ‘play’ are still in use, they have come to represent the rule-based and orderly organization of modern sport – the Olympic Games and ‘playing’ football as the most well-known examples (Eichberg, 2013). Hand in hand with the hygienic turn and its dominant view of physical activity as health enhancement, playfulness became eradicated from physical activity (Eichberg, 2013; Winther, 2014). Research into physical activity to date has not fully considered the importance of the social-bodily processes of joy and laughter. Laughter as a social phenomenon has been exiled, along with the scientific questioning of the social meaning of laughing. Laughter has often been recognized as a causality of humour (Parvulescu, 2010) or in health research as a means to achieve a health goal (Hybholt and Friis Thing, 2019)
Introduction
No full textLeisure and health. Health and leisure. At the most fundamental level it seems obvious that leisure and health are interlinked and interrelated. The perspective that leisure and health are connected can be seen in the way leisure can be viewed as essentially a positive feeling/activity/period of time where we are able to undertake activities we enjoy doing, at a pace we enjoy, in a place we feel comfortable, with those we choose to be with. Good health is commonly associated with physical, social and psychological wellbeing
Physical activity, meaning and migrant women : understanding leisure and health experiences
No full textWithin the relevant research literature, the concept of ‘the healthy migrant effect’ is well documented (Renzaho et al., 2016). This refers to the higher levels of health experienced by migrant groups, compared with the Australian born population (Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, 2018). This pattern is often explained by the rigorous screening procedures associated with the migration process as well as the higher levels of health and wealth among individuals who are physically and financially able to migrate to another country (Kennedy et al., 2014). While health levels are generally higher for immigrants at the time of migration, there is evidence to suggest that health declines over time, and eventually becomes poorer than the Australian born population (Jatrana et al., 2018). This pattern is seen predominantly among migrant groups from non-English speaking backgrounds (Jatrana et al., 2018). A particular area of concern for the health of Australia’s migrant communities is leisure inequity, specifically, physical activity inequity. Over the past 15 years, individuals from non-English speaking countries have reported low physical activity participation rates (Joshi et al., 2017). Within this subgroup, Middle Eastern and North African born women living in Australia report particularly low levels of physical activity (Dassanayake et al., 2011; Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2013). While recent data does not provide information relating to the specific country or region of birth of migrant communities, there is a trend in the evidence that highlights the consistent gap between physical activity participation among women from non-English speaking countries, and all other population subgroups (Gallegos et al., 2020; New South Wales Government, 2020)
A strengths and hope perspective on leisure, health and physical cultural practices of Indigenous women : stories of wellbeing from Canada and Australia
No full textIn this chapter we consider leisure and health in a (w)holistic way in relation to a marginalized population group, Indigenous peoples in colonized/invaded countries, specifically Australia and Canada. Lavallée and Lévesque (2013), in ‘Two-eyed seeing’, argue for the use of the term ‘wholistic’ vs ‘holistic’, since the former spelling ‘emphasize[s] the concept of wholeness when the four areas of health – physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual – are in balance’ (2013, p. 208). We are convinced by their argument and thus will use the concept and spell it in the same way. In particular, we focus on four case studies, two from each country. The first case study from Canada titled ‘Physical Cultural Practices, Reconciliation and Inclusion: Indigenizing the “Whitestream” Approach to Sport’, considers Waneek Horn-Miller, a Mohawk Olympian, broadcaster, activist and role model from a health and wellbeing perspective. She represents a powerful example of how a single Mohawk woman can contribute towards a hope-enhancing environment in Canadian sport
Conclusion : the pandemic and future directions
No full textThe birth of this book project occurred in late 2019 at the Australian New
Zealand Association for Leisure Studies (ANZALS) conference in Queenstown, New Zealand. The editorial team, along with some of the other book chapter authors were all, unknowingly, attending what was to be our last in person, face-to-face international conference for some time. Indeed, as we write this final chapter of the book we are all yet to attend a ‘real’ conference again. The cause of this curtailing of in-person engagements is of course (from the perspective of 2022) the global public health emergency triggered by the emergence of a miniscule but deadly virus, named Covid-19. A phenomenon that in our first planning of this book and its focus was totally unanticipated
Disability and the arts : inclusive practice for health and wellbeing
No full textHadley and McDonald’s statement illuminates the seriousness of enabling and facilitating participation by people with disability (PWD) in all facets of society. Since 1981, the International Year of Disabled People, most western countries have instituted human rights legislation that protects citizenship and ensures the inclusion of PWD in their communities and societies. More recently, 182 countries (out of 193) signed the United Nations’ (UN) Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (United Nations, 2015). These rights included Article 30, the right to a cultural life, which covered leisure and the arts. However, compared to the general population, PWD still participate less than those without a disability in all types of cultural activities. If access to cultural life is restricted then the advantages of participation in leisure activities are not achieved (Liu, 2009). Current social and cultural practices for PWD reflect a history of segregation and persisting issues of exclusion (Aitchison, 2003). Overall, it is widely acknowledged that PWD do not have the same liberties and prospects as non-disabled individuals (Darcy, 2019; Darcy et al., 2020). In this chapter we demonstrate how the inclusion of PWD in the arts produces individual, social and health benefits
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
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