Families as agents of social change and justice in communities through leisure and sport experiences

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Notes on contributor

Dr. Dawn E. Trussell's research interests focus on leisure and sport culture in the lives of individuals, families, and communities. She seeks to understand diverse social contexts and issues of power and social inclusion, particularly related to constructs of family, children and youth, gender and sexual diversity, and rurality. Her work has a social justice orientation and is funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. She has served as the Vice-President/Treasurer for the Canadian Association for Leisure Studies since 2014.

Notes

1 Palmer, Freeman, and Zabriskie (2007) define a family service expedition as ‘a family participating jointly in a volunteer activity providing aid to other communities, not including their own community, at a domestic or international level for an extended time period’ (442).