In press: Audrey R. Giles, Britta Peterson, Meredith Wing, Emilia Fera, Dan Henhawk, Daniel Brisebois, ‘A critical discourse analysis of the representation of Indigenous Peoples in Leisure/Loisir’s first 49 volumes’, Leisure/Loisir, 2026 | settler colonial studies blog

In press: Audrey R. Giles, Britta Peterson, Meredith Wing, Emilia Fera, Dan Henhawk, Daniel Brisebois, ‘A critical discourse analysis of the representation of Indigenous Peoples in Leisure/Loisir’s first 49 volumes’, Leisure/Loisir, 2026

17May26

Abstract: Perhaps one of the biggest changes that has occurred in the settler state presently known as Canada over the past 55 years has been relations between settlers and Indigenous Peoples. But how have these changes been reflected in scholarship published in Leisure/Loisir? To address this question, the authors engaged with settler colonial theory and critical discourse analysis to examine the ways in which understandings of Indigenous Peoples have been produced over the past 49 volumes. Their findings demonstrate that, for many decades, authors mainly centred the perspectives of recreation professionals, academics and government officials, thereby reinforcing the authority and expertise of those who produced knowledge about Indigenous Peoples. More recently, there has been an increase in the production of and importance placed on research with and by Indigenous Peoples, concomitant with critiques of settler colonialism. However, despite these discursive shifts, important silences remain, particularly pertaining to Métis Peoples and Inuit.

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