Leadership, power and racism: lifeguards' influences on Aboriginal people's experiences at a Northern Canadian aquatic facility

• Autor: Rousell, Davina D. ; Giles, Audrey R.
• Assuntos: Aboriginal ; Crosscultural Differences ; culture ; Cultures and civilizations ; Decolonization ; Ethnic relations. Racism ; Foucault, Michel ; Leadership ; Policy Implementation ; Power ; Racism ; recreation ; Regulation ; Sociology ; Sociology of knowledge and sociology of culture ; Sociology of leisure and mass culture ; Sociology of professions ; Sociology of work ; Sociology of work and sociology of organizations ; Training
• É parte de: Leisure studies, 2012-10, Vol.31 (4), p.409-428
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• Descrição: Using a Foucauldian and postcolonial lens, this case study examines the ways in which leadership styles used by lifeguards and supported by the structure, rules and regulations at a northern Canadian swimming pool influenced Aboriginal people's experience of the facility. Participant observation, semi-structured interviews and a focus group were used to identify the ways in which Eurocentric lifeguard training, exercises of power, institutional racism and an absence of cultural competency can intersect to influence Aboriginal people's use of a local pool and their considerations of lifeguarding as a potential employment opportunity. On the basis of these findings, the study suggests that the development and implementation of anti-discriminatory policies and procedures for swimming pools and the inclusion of cultural competency teachings in lifeguard training are necessary measures to enhance Aboriginal people's experiences at northern swimming pools, to foster opportunities to become lifeguards and to augment Euro-Canadian lifeguards' capacity to maintain a safe and welcoming aquatic environment in a cross-cultural context.
  
• Editor: Colchester: Routledge
  
• Idioma: Inglês