Dan Henhawk, PhD

Biography

My research interests revolve around the multiple conceptualizations of leisure and the socio-cultural study of sport and recreation. Specifically, I’m interested in how understandings and meanings of leisure are changing in relation to understandings of work. As well, I’m also interested in Indigenous notions of decolonization, indigenization, sovereignty and self-determination. Overall, the main thread of my research seeks to trouble modern Western conceptualizations of leisure and, by extension, notions of work through a critical Indigenous lens.

In my work, I strive to privilege Indigenous ways of knowing and of being in the world.

Research areas

  • Leisure, Sport and Recreation within Indigenous Contexts
  • Indigenous Land-Based Practices, Ways of Knowing and Being
  • Leisure and Indigenous notions of Sovereignty and Self-determination
  • Conceptualizations and Theories of Western Leisure
  • Leisure, Neo-colonialism and Neo-liberalism
  • Narrative Inquiry and Indigenous Storytelling
  • Narrative Inquiry, Narrative Analysis, and Narrative Theory

Education

  • PhD, Department of Recreation and Leisure Studies, University of Waterloo (2018)
  • M.A., Department of Recreation and Leisure Studies, University of Waterloo (2007)
  • B.A., Department of Recreation and Leisure Studies, University of Waterloo (2004)

I studied sport in the Indigenous context and engaged in auto-ethnographical research related to my experiences as Indigenous person engaged in modern, competitive sport.

Courses

  • Introduction to Outdoor and Land-Based Recreation (REC 2130)
  • History of Physical Activity and Leisure (KPER 2170)

Publications

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