Justice in Sport and Leisure: Have the easy questions been answered?

1. Justice in Sport and Leisure: Have the easy questions been answered? Karla A. Henderson North Carolina State University Leisure Studies Association July 17, 2012

2. Premises of my Presentation • Many of the EASY questions have been answered because inequities have been identified • The next set of questions may be more complex because further critique and action are required

3. Organization of this Presentation Share issues raised in North America Use gender justice as an example of the potential for justice research Offer challenges to consider into the future

4. Commonalities of Justice • Social • Environmental • Economic • Socioenvironmental • Ecojustice • Gender • Distributive • Reciprocal • ….. • Fairness and doing what is right • Distribution of resources is equitable • People are physically and psychologically safe and secure • Responsibility toward and with others and for society as a whole • Opportunities and behaviors where people believe they make a difference • Focus on disparity of power historically that must be transformed to assure fairness • Abasis for action

5. New Wine in Old Bottles?

6. May 2012 Salt Lake City, UT Speaking Up and Speaking Out: Working for Social and Environmental Justice through Parks, Recreation, Tourism and Leisure

7. Symposium Themes • Positive and Negative Associations between Social and Environmental Justice • The Inclusion of Previously Un(der)researched Groups • Internal Critiques • Justice and Health

8. Positive and Negative Associations between Social and Environmental Justice • How conservation compromises social justice • Ecofeminism • Tourism and injustice • Ecotourism and justice • Just sustainability • Ecojustice

9. Including Un(der)researched Groups • Growth of multi-racial people • Queering space • Contesting homelessness

10. Internal Critiques of Practice Related to Leisure Color bias of the academy Using experiential education Critical Thinking for Justice (for Students)

11. Justice and Health Green access for health Social justice and social media Slow food movement Spirituality

12. Gender Justice

13. Feminist Phase Theory:stages of Gender/JUSTICE Research? Invisible (Women) Add (Women) and Stir (Sex/Gender) Differences (Women)-only (Gender) Justice Explanations

14. FeminisT Research as Basis for Justice Research a. Serves as a critique of existing research b. Corrects biases that have existed c. Serves as the ground work for the transformation of social science and society (e.g., through future research, policies, and practice).

15. Expanding Feminist Phase Theory to Justice • Intersectionality • Social-cultural Nexus

16. FeMINIST CONTRIBUTIONS TO JUSTICE RESEARCH • Epistemology and Methodology • Breadth of Feminism—Call for Intersectionality • Gender Justice Equity, and Social Change

17. Role of Academics/Keynoters

18. The Difficult Questions… • In what ways can justice research be done? • Is justice central to leisure studies research? If not, why not? Should it be? • How does positionality influence what research is undertaken? How is positionality useful? How might it be a problem?

19. The Difficult Questions… • How can justice research influence a greater understanding of leisure? • How can justice research regarding leisure make life better for people? What might be the implications for policy, practice, and everyday living? • What would research look like if we really wanted to create a just society? • Have the easy questions been answered?

20. Dr. Seuss, The Lorax “Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot,Nothing is going to get better. It's not.”

21. Thank YOU