Recreation Reviews
The Influence of Barriers and Motivations to Recreation and Physical Activity in Traditional and Non-traditional College Students on a Commuter Campus
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session Jacob Eubank
Barriers to recreational activities continue to exist for many individuals, and they have a significant impact on emotional and physical health. At the college level specifically, students struggle with the change in lifestyle they experience. Traditional and non-traditional students experience this struggle in various ways. To assist in the transition, colleges offer opportunities for involvement beyond the classroom, such as participation in recreational and physical activities. A review of the literature indicated that various motivations and barriers to recreation and physical activity exist among college students by age, sex, and gender. However, the perceived motivating factors and barriers that influence the participation in activities vary based on the individual. Understanding the varying motivational factors of traditional and non-traditional college students can help college administrators and community practitioners implement practices that influence engagement in activities to address poor academic performance, stress, and barriers to socialization.
The Organisers of Outdoor Creative Recreation: Who Utilises Urban Recreational Space and Why?
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session Aleksandra Mroczek Żulicka
The concept of creative recreation is taking on a completely new meaning nowadays. In order to extend and deepen the understanding of creative recreation, psycho-pedagogical theories have been applied in the present research. Creative recreation is more broadly explored in an urban space. Urban space is also used as a place to perform workshops in which participants try to create space and experience, crossing the lines of conventional thinking about a spatial form or create urban space. Similar actions have inspired discussions on creative spaces. It then seems essential to spatially analyse the occurrence of creative recreation in an urban space. A city needs to be looked at in more detail, and more environmental concepts, which can make us closer to actual locations of creative actions, need to be found. The main question of the research is: who organises outdoor creative recreation in Łódź`s recreational space and why? In the first part of paper, the author introduces the analysis of distribution of the outdoor creative recreational space in Łódź in 2019, selected by the type of organisers. Secondly, the result of a qualitative outdoor study--casual interviews with organisers--i presented. In the conclusions, the author underlines the role of recreational space in the account of action taken by participants in the urban recreational space, the reconstruction of experience, and interpretation of the above mentioned actions among respondents, and the perception for the recreational space in Łódź.
Uncanny Tourism in Sleepy Hollow, NY
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session Sarah Kennedy
This rhetorical analysis project examines manifestations of the uncanny at tourist sites and events in Sleepy Hollow, NY, a village building a year-round tourism industry themed around “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.” In Sleepy Hollow, Washington Irving’s 1819 tale of Ichabod Crane and the Headless Horseman forms the basis for a Halloween season tourism industry. Placemakers from the village’s government and local historical societies are in the midst of an eighteen-month bicentennial celebration around Irving’s “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” to encourage year-round tourism. These efforts continue to evolve throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. The bicentennial and associated infrastructure developments in and around the village mark an opportunity for the village’s major institutions to reinforce but also re-situate the legacies of Irving and his “legend” for the current political and cultural climate and the needs of today’s Sleepy Hollow community and visitors. Through a combination of rhetorical analysis, ethnographic fieldwork, and affect theory literature, this project develops the concept of uncanny tourism as a practical placemaking strategy. Affects experienced through the body hold rhetorical power, particularly in the themed spaces of tourism. This means that both embodiment and affect are vital considerations for those who design, manage, and study tourist spaces. In Sleepy Hollow, uncanny affect, which recurs in Irving’s text and the area’s tourist sites, functions rhetorically to further certain views of death, familiarity or homeliness, and the supernatural, as well as reinforces the town’s authority to reproduce the uncanny.
