“All You Need Is Love”: Considerations for a Social Justice Inquiry in Leisure Studies

Abstract

Under the umbrella of love, this essay proffers five interrelated considerations in the politics of practice regarding social justice research. Consequently, I recommended inquiring more thoroughly into socio-economic class and leisure, unpacking our personal/professional and scholarly/activist binaries, examining our unearned privilege, avoiding the oppression Olympics, and employing and deploying intersectionality and participatory action research, respectively. By attending to these considerations specifically and concretely, I proffer a way to conduct a more socially just research in the field of leisure studies.

Keywords:

• intersectionality
• love
• oppression
• participatory action research
• socio-economic class

Acknowledgments

I am especially grateful to the anonymous reviewers, my peer writing group members Anneliese Singh and Stephanie Jones, and guest editor Bill Stewart for the insightful contributions to my thinking and subsequent revisions to this piece.