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Politics of Leisure and Recreation

Politics of Leisure and Recreation. March 13, 2008. Research Paper Topics. See sheet. Research. A lot of research begins with a “mental itch that only one researcher feels the need to scratch” (Booth et al 40) Why do cats rub their faces against us?

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Politics of Leisure and Recreation

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  1. Politics of Leisure and Recreation March 13, 2008

  2. Research Paper Topics • See sheet

  3. Research • A lot of research begins with a “mental itch that only one researcher feels the need to scratch” (Booth et al 40) • Why do cats rub their faces against us? • Why do the big nuts end up at the top of the can?

  4. Building a Pathway of Research from a Research Topic • Divide into groups and pick a topic/question from the bag • How will you “Motivate” your question? • How will you engage with the work of others?

  5. Turn the topic into a motivated question • Name a topic: “I’m researching the pursuit of social dance by Japanese men in their 60s” • Add a question: “I’m researching the above because I want to find out how retired men construct their social identities after other sources of masculine identity recede in importance”

  6. Motivate your question: “I’m doing this in order to help my readers understand the gendered dimensions of senior leisure practices in contemporary Japan” • AND “I’m doing this because previous research on this topic has overlooked the centrality of gendered desires to senior leisure practices”

  7. Goal of scholarly research: • Enter into a community of researchers; engage in an ongoing conversation between writers and readers • Show how your topic is part of a larger system of knowledge (academic and other)

  8. Exercise: Building a Stairway to Paradise (or Pathway of Research) • 1. “Motivate” your question • 2. Lay out research steps you will take to explore this question • 3. Discuss how you will build on/depart from the work of others

  9. Reporting Back • Handout from Sue Gilroy

  10. Movie Sunday Night Super Size Me

  11. For next week: • Analyze your research topic and questions. Run a search to find a list of ten secondary sources you will use, and if relevant, a list of primary sources as well. Submit this sheet on Thursday in class (1-2 pages) • Response paper questions on Slow Food will be posted on website. Reading: Leitch’s “Slow Food and the Politics of Pork Fat.” Due Wed 9pm.

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