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Papers by Leanne McRae
Terror, Leisure and Consumption: Spaces for Harm in a Post-Crash Era, 2018
Activating Cultural and Social Change, 2021
Leisure has many competing definitions as its practices and composition have evolved over time. C... more Leisure has many competing definitions as its practices and composition have evolved over time. Conventional renderings of leisure place it as '"residual time" left over outside of working hours' (Tucker, 1993, p. 16). However, as working hours have changed, definitions of leisure are in flux. The rise of a 'leisure industry' interfacing with contemporary notions of 'lifestyle' intersects popular culture, consumption and capital, to commodify time and space, interest and enthusiasm. During industrialism leisure was fought for as a space for self-determination, first encoded as personal time to pursue intimate or local interests and then later, to enable workers to enter into the consumer landscape of the middle class by indulging in public and semi-private pastimes that increasingly engaged cultures of exchange. The commodification of leisure has stimulated conspicuous consumption in the pursuit of pleasure and sensation, as shopping, purchase and exchange whether in tourism, serious leisure pursuits, listening to music or any other of the expanding myriad of
Terror, Leisure and Consumption: Spaces for Harm in a Post-Crash Era, 2018
Terror, Leisure and Consumption: Spaces for Harm in a Post-Crash Era, 2018
Terror, Leisure and Consumption: Spaces for Harm in a Post-Crash Era, 2018
Digital Culture & Education, 2015
Ubiquitous computing describes the current conditions of our interactive, screenbased habitats wh... more Ubiquitous computing describes the current conditions of our interactive, screenbased habitats where movement between screens has become a defining trope of everyday life. As students and teachers increasingly deploy screen-literacies within the education process where laptops, tablets and mobile phones become the mechanisms by which education is accessed and activated, new ways of thinking about and through attention, learning, and scholarship need to be deployed. The possibilities of a decelerated curriculum offers opportunities to re-encode the structures and styles of learning students engage with to enable them time to absorb, ponder and problematize the processes of their learning. By asking students to slow their interaction with texts, interfaces, digital and analogue environments teachers are able to engage with digital technologies and ubiquitous screens in meaningful and challenging ways via course content and assessment strategies that enable new technologies a critical ...
Terror, Leisure and Consumption: Spaces for Harm in a Post-Crash Era, 2018
This book uses a series of case studies from the 'wave of terror across Europe' to rethin... more This book uses a series of case studies from the 'wave of terror across Europe' to rethink the relationships between harm, crime, deviance, leisure and capitalism.
M/C Journal, 2001
Men in crisis Confused by society's mixed messages about what's expected of them as boys,... more Men in crisis Confused by society's mixed messages about what's expected of them as boys, and later as men, many feel a sadness and disconnection they cannot even name. (Pollack 1) The recent 'crisis in masculinity' has been punctuated by a plethora of material devoted to reclaiming men's 'lost' power within a society. Triggered by the recognition that their roles within our society are changing, this emerging cannon often fails to recognise men as part of a social continuum that subjectifies individuals within discursive frameworks. Rather it mourns this process as the emasculation of male identity within our culture. However, this self-help rhetoric masks a wider project of renegotiating men's power within our society. David Buchbinder for example, calls for an interrogation of "how men and various masculinities are represented" (7). As a consequence, male subjectivities are being called into question. There is now examination of the manne...
Human Geographies - Journal of Studies and Research in Human Geography, Nov 30, 2017
This article aligns theories of city imaging and physical cultural studies to probe the city of N... more This article aligns theories of city imaging and physical cultural studies to probe the city of Newport. This 'new' city shares many cultural and economic characteristics with the rest of Wales, but also reveals some signicant differences. We focus on and probe the movement policies and cultures in the city, understanding the relationship between bodies and economics, cities and health. Through this discussion, we weave analyses of resilience through the paper, recognising that regeneration focuses on constructing and renovating buildings. We investigate how regeneration and resilience disconnect, with particular consequences for health. Part of this challenge emerges because of the inability to align sport and event tourism with the promotion of walking programmes for residents. Regeneration and resilience disconnect once more. Creating movement cultures is difcult. The ambivalent success of Newport's policies and initiatives offers both insights and warnings to other small cities.
Terror, Leisure and Consumption: Spaces for Harm in a Post-Crash Era, 2018
HUMAN GEOGRAPHIES – Journal of Studies and Research in Human Geography, 2015
This article explores how small cities use cycling for both residential transportation and active... more This article explores how small cities use cycling for both residential transportation and active tourism. While cycling may be child's play, and indeed a part of childhood socialization, the 'pushbike' has a role in regional development. Our work investigates cycling and cycling policy. We then focus on one small city at the southern tip of Western Australia. Albany is attempting to transform itself into a cycling city and an international capital of cycling. This article engages trans-local cultural modelling and evaluates Albany's goal in terms of health, sustainability and economic development. The synergetic and accidental commitment to cycling in Albany provides a model and opportunities for other small cities to consider, apply and improve.
Terror, Leisure and Consumption: Spaces for Harm in a Post-Crash Era, 2018
Activating Cultural and Social Change, 2021
Leisure has many competing definitions as its practices and composition have evolved over time. C... more Leisure has many competing definitions as its practices and composition have evolved over time. Conventional renderings of leisure place it as '"residual time" left over outside of working hours' (Tucker, 1993, p. 16). However, as working hours have changed, definitions of leisure are in flux. The rise of a 'leisure industry' interfacing with contemporary notions of 'lifestyle' intersects popular culture, consumption and capital, to commodify time and space, interest and enthusiasm. During industrialism leisure was fought for as a space for self-determination, first encoded as personal time to pursue intimate or local interests and then later, to enable workers to enter into the consumer landscape of the middle class by indulging in public and semi-private pastimes that increasingly engaged cultures of exchange. The commodification of leisure has stimulated conspicuous consumption in the pursuit of pleasure and sensation, as shopping, purchase and exchange whether in tourism, serious leisure pursuits, listening to music or any other of the expanding myriad of
Terror, Leisure and Consumption: Spaces for Harm in a Post-Crash Era, 2018
Terror, Leisure and Consumption: Spaces for Harm in a Post-Crash Era, 2018
Terror, Leisure and Consumption: Spaces for Harm in a Post-Crash Era, 2018
Digital Culture & Education, 2015
Ubiquitous computing describes the current conditions of our interactive, screenbased habitats wh... more Ubiquitous computing describes the current conditions of our interactive, screenbased habitats where movement between screens has become a defining trope of everyday life. As students and teachers increasingly deploy screen-literacies within the education process where laptops, tablets and mobile phones become the mechanisms by which education is accessed and activated, new ways of thinking about and through attention, learning, and scholarship need to be deployed. The possibilities of a decelerated curriculum offers opportunities to re-encode the structures and styles of learning students engage with to enable them time to absorb, ponder and problematize the processes of their learning. By asking students to slow their interaction with texts, interfaces, digital and analogue environments teachers are able to engage with digital technologies and ubiquitous screens in meaningful and challenging ways via course content and assessment strategies that enable new technologies a critical ...
Terror, Leisure and Consumption: Spaces for Harm in a Post-Crash Era, 2018
This book uses a series of case studies from the 'wave of terror across Europe' to rethin... more This book uses a series of case studies from the 'wave of terror across Europe' to rethink the relationships between harm, crime, deviance, leisure and capitalism.
M/C Journal, 2001
Men in crisis Confused by society's mixed messages about what's expected of them as boys,... more Men in crisis Confused by society's mixed messages about what's expected of them as boys, and later as men, many feel a sadness and disconnection they cannot even name. (Pollack 1) The recent 'crisis in masculinity' has been punctuated by a plethora of material devoted to reclaiming men's 'lost' power within a society. Triggered by the recognition that their roles within our society are changing, this emerging cannon often fails to recognise men as part of a social continuum that subjectifies individuals within discursive frameworks. Rather it mourns this process as the emasculation of male identity within our culture. However, this self-help rhetoric masks a wider project of renegotiating men's power within our society. David Buchbinder for example, calls for an interrogation of "how men and various masculinities are represented" (7). As a consequence, male subjectivities are being called into question. There is now examination of the manne...
Human Geographies - Journal of Studies and Research in Human Geography, Nov 30, 2017
This article aligns theories of city imaging and physical cultural studies to probe the city of N... more This article aligns theories of city imaging and physical cultural studies to probe the city of Newport. This 'new' city shares many cultural and economic characteristics with the rest of Wales, but also reveals some signicant differences. We focus on and probe the movement policies and cultures in the city, understanding the relationship between bodies and economics, cities and health. Through this discussion, we weave analyses of resilience through the paper, recognising that regeneration focuses on constructing and renovating buildings. We investigate how regeneration and resilience disconnect, with particular consequences for health. Part of this challenge emerges because of the inability to align sport and event tourism with the promotion of walking programmes for residents. Regeneration and resilience disconnect once more. Creating movement cultures is difcult. The ambivalent success of Newport's policies and initiatives offers both insights and warnings to other small cities.
Terror, Leisure and Consumption: Spaces for Harm in a Post-Crash Era, 2018
HUMAN GEOGRAPHIES – Journal of Studies and Research in Human Geography, 2015
This article explores how small cities use cycling for both residential transportation and active... more This article explores how small cities use cycling for both residential transportation and active tourism. While cycling may be child's play, and indeed a part of childhood socialization, the 'pushbike' has a role in regional development. Our work investigates cycling and cycling policy. We then focus on one small city at the southern tip of Western Australia. Albany is attempting to transform itself into a cycling city and an international capital of cycling. This article engages trans-local cultural modelling and evaluates Albany's goal in terms of health, sustainability and economic development. The synergetic and accidental commitment to cycling in Albany provides a model and opportunities for other small cities to consider, apply and improve.
Leanne McRae interviews Tara about her career in universities, and beyond. Leanne is interested ... more Leanne McRae interviews Tara about her career in universities, and beyond. Leanne is interested in the past, present and future of cultural studies and her questions probe the effectiveness of this paradigm in a tough era for higher education.
This article explores how small cities use cycling for both residential transportation and active... more This article explores how small cities use cycling for both residential transportation and active tourism. While cycling may be child’s play, and indeed a part of childhood socialization, the ‘pushbike’ has a role in regional development. Our work investigates cycling and cycling policy. We then focus on one small city at the southern tip of Western Australia. Albany is attempting to transform itself into a cycling city and an international capital of cycling. This article engages trans-local cultural modelling and evaluates Albany’s goal in terms of health, sustainability and economic development. The synergetic and accidental commitment to cycling in Albany provides a model and opportunities for other small cities to consider, apply and improve.
Audio description, a vital accessibility feature for Australians with vision impairment, is not a... more Audio description, a vital accessibility feature for Australians with vision impairment, is not available on broadcast television in this country. Despite this, video on demand provider Netflix and some online and pay TV providers do offer audio description. While a clear demand exists for this service, many Australians are unaware of how to access the limited services available.
Drawing on focus groups with potential audio description consumers and modelled on international examples of best practice, this project has created an online resource to raise the profile of audio description in Australia explaining what it is and where to access it.
This report explores the way Vision Australia clients are using smartphone technology ... more This report explores the way Vision Australia clients are using smartphone technology in their everyday lives. It details findings of the research project Smartphones and equal access for people who are blind or have low vision conducted in collaboration with Vision Australia. The research centred on a survey conducted during February and March 2020 that aimed to explore the usage patterns and experience of using a smartphone for people with low vision or blindness. It aimed to discover how important the smartphone is for this cohort, what they use their device for, what limitations or obstacles they face, and what might make the smartphone more useful and accessible for them.