*CFP - AAG Seattle 2011 Paper Session * *Recreation, Sport and Identity *
Recreation and sport are active mediums through which individuals and communities express and establish identities. The way individuals choose to use leisure time reflects active choices of identity building. In fact, group participation in recreational and sport subcultures contribute to various hierarchies of community. Likewise, the parceling out of community space to recreational uses, be it formal or informal, reifies broader cultural identities. While recreational/sport communities may carve out a space for themselves, contesting regulated use, official spaces of recreation/sport can be used in place marketing. Together recreation and sport represent multiple scales of dynamic identity processes, from personal to community. This session seeks to represent a range of theoretical perspectives and case studies to foster conversation on this topic. Possible paper topics could include, but are not limited to: sport/ recreational landscapes, sport/recreation place images, sport/recreational tourism, recreational/sport communities, recreational/sport subcultures, new methodologies/approaches to recreation/sport. If you are interested in participating, please send an abstract and PIN to *Jillian Rickly-Boyd at [email protected].* ---- Sponsored by the Recreation, Tourism and Sport Specialty Group For all of the AAG RTS Sponsored Session, please visit: http://www.geog.nau.edu/rts/sessions/2011.html ------------------------------ *Alan A. Lew* <http://alanlew.com/>*, Ph.D., AICP* Professor and Graduate Program Coordinator Department of Geography, Planning and Recreation <http://nau.edu/gpr> Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona 86011-5016, USA ********************************************* *Publications* * *Tourism Geographies Journal <http://tgjournal.com/>* * *World Geography of Travel and Tourism* <http://worldgtt.com/> * *Understanding & Managing Tourism Impacts*<http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415771337/> * My Open Access articles <http://www.geog.nau.edu/publications/index.html> *********************************************** *IGU Tourism Conferences <http://tinyurl.com/IGUTourConf>* * The Changing World of Coastal, Island & Tropical Tourism<http://www.geog.nau.edu/igust/FWI/>, 27-29 Jan 2011, Martinique, FWI * Tourism People, Places and Environments<http://www.geog.nau.edu/igust/China2011/>, 13-15 July 2011, Zhangjiajie, Hunan, China ********************************************* * Alan A. Lew on Twitter <http://twitter.com/alew> * NAU GPR on Facebook <http://bit.ly/GPR-FB> -- and on Twitter<http://twitter.com/NAUGPR> <http://twitter.com/NAUGPR>* Online GPR Studies <http://nau.edu/gprweb> ********************************************* "Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time." - Thomas Edison "Men will wrangle for religion, write for it, fight for it, die for it, anything but live for it." - Charles Caleb Colton *********************************************
