Laurendeau, Jason
Faculty
- Phone
- (403) 329-2717
- jason.laurendeau@uleth.ca
About Me
Over the past several years, I have engaged in a process of refocusing my professional activities, a process rooted in the project of "thinking through the term settler as a set of responsibilities and action" (Flowers, 2015, p. 33). This is a personal project, but also a professional one as I seek to respond to the calls of the TRC in my professional practice. In other words, I have taken seriously the opportunities upon which Rachel Flowers expands:
"settlers have an opportunity to listen, learn, and act in relation to colonial difference alongside assertions of Indigenous sovereignty and nationhood… Settler responses to calls for solidarity ought to oppose rather than perpetuate structures of domination and the settler position of privilege, recognizing that those calls offer opportunities and preconditions for ethical engagement based on respect, while keeping in mind that solidarity is not a temporal event but a "long-term commitment to structural change." (Flowers, 2015, pp. 34-35)
My research interests coalesce around settler colonialism, embodiment, gender, risk, and physical culture. In particular, my current research takes up questions of sport/recreation/physical culture as both spaces of colonial violence and of Indigneous resurgence, refusal, and reterritorialization. I employ a number of research methods - including ethnography, interviews, textual analysis and autoethnography - in order to interrogate these issues from a critical perspective.
I am currently accepting graduate students.
"settlers have an opportunity to listen, learn, and act in relation to colonial difference alongside assertions of Indigenous sovereignty and nationhood… Settler responses to calls for solidarity ought to oppose rather than perpetuate structures of domination and the settler position of privilege, recognizing that those calls offer opportunities and preconditions for ethical engagement based on respect, while keeping in mind that solidarity is not a temporal event but a "long-term commitment to structural change." (Flowers, 2015, pp. 34-35)
My research interests coalesce around settler colonialism, embodiment, gender, risk, and physical culture. In particular, my current research takes up questions of sport/recreation/physical culture as both spaces of colonial violence and of Indigneous resurgence, refusal, and reterritorialization. I employ a number of research methods - including ethnography, interviews, textual analysis and autoethnography - in order to interrogate these issues from a critical perspective.
I am currently accepting graduate students.
Publications
Laurendeau, J. (2023). Sport, physical activity, and anti-colonial autoethnography: Stories and ways of being. London: Routledge.
Laurendeau, J. (2023). "Meanwhile, in Canada": Systemic racism, "happy points," and some possibilities and challenges for anti-racism in Lethbridge. Forthcoming In G. Bonifacio & C. Hodes (Eds.), Racism and the City: Intersectional Racisms and Intersectional Failures in Lethbridge, Alberta. Edmonton, AB: Athabasca University Press.
Laurendeau, J., T. Higham and D. Peers. (2021). Mountain Equipment Co-Op, diversity work, and the "inslusive" politics of erasure. Sociology of Sport Journal, 38,2, 110-120.
Laurendeau, J. (2020). "The stories that will make a difference aren't the easy ones": Outdoor recreation, the wilderness ideal, and complicating settler mobility. Sociology of Sport Journal, 37,2, 85-95.
Laurendeau, J., & Peers, D. (2020). Deviance, sport, and physical culture. In J. Scherer & B. Wilson (Eds.), Sport and Physical Culture in Canadian Society (2nd Ed.). Toronto, ON: Pearson Canada.
Couture, J., & Laurendeau, J. (2020). Youth sport and physical culture. In J. Scherer & B. Wilson (Eds.), Sport and Physical Culture in Canadian Society (2nd Ed.). Toronto, ON: Pearson Canada.
Laurendeau, J. (2018) "You don't need any of that stuff": (Re)Stor(y)ing my(nd/)body. Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise & Health, 11,2, 246-257.
Adams, C., & Laurendeau, J. (2018). "Here they come! Look them over! Youth, citizenship, and the emergence of minor hockey in Canada. In J. Ellison (ed.), Hockey: Challenging Canada's Game (pp. 111-124). Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press.
Adams, C., & Laurendeau, J. (2018). Ghostly (Dis)Appearances: Sport, Gender and Feminism in Canada. In G. Bonafacio (ed.), Global Currents in Gender and Feminisms: Canadian and International Perspectives (pp. 253-263). London: Emerald Publishing.
Shields, R., J. Laurendeau and C. Adams. (2017). The logic of memory: "Paroxysms of tears and joy" for the London Olympics and the Bhopal disaster. Memory Studies, 10,2, 193-209.
Laurendeau, J. (2023). "Meanwhile, in Canada": Systemic racism, "happy points," and some possibilities and challenges for anti-racism in Lethbridge. Forthcoming In G. Bonifacio & C. Hodes (Eds.), Racism and the City: Intersectional Racisms and Intersectional Failures in Lethbridge, Alberta. Edmonton, AB: Athabasca University Press.
Laurendeau, J., T. Higham and D. Peers. (2021). Mountain Equipment Co-Op, diversity work, and the "inslusive" politics of erasure. Sociology of Sport Journal, 38,2, 110-120.
Laurendeau, J. (2020). "The stories that will make a difference aren't the easy ones": Outdoor recreation, the wilderness ideal, and complicating settler mobility. Sociology of Sport Journal, 37,2, 85-95.
Laurendeau, J., & Peers, D. (2020). Deviance, sport, and physical culture. In J. Scherer & B. Wilson (Eds.), Sport and Physical Culture in Canadian Society (2nd Ed.). Toronto, ON: Pearson Canada.
Couture, J., & Laurendeau, J. (2020). Youth sport and physical culture. In J. Scherer & B. Wilson (Eds.), Sport and Physical Culture in Canadian Society (2nd Ed.). Toronto, ON: Pearson Canada.
Laurendeau, J. (2018) "You don't need any of that stuff": (Re)Stor(y)ing my(nd/)body. Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise & Health, 11,2, 246-257.
Adams, C., & Laurendeau, J. (2018). "Here they come! Look them over! Youth, citizenship, and the emergence of minor hockey in Canada. In J. Ellison (ed.), Hockey: Challenging Canada's Game (pp. 111-124). Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press.
Adams, C., & Laurendeau, J. (2018). Ghostly (Dis)Appearances: Sport, Gender and Feminism in Canada. In G. Bonafacio (ed.), Global Currents in Gender and Feminisms: Canadian and International Perspectives (pp. 253-263). London: Emerald Publishing.
Shields, R., J. Laurendeau and C. Adams. (2017). The logic of memory: "Paroxysms of tears and joy" for the London Olympics and the Bhopal disaster. Memory Studies, 10,2, 193-209.
Degrees
B.Kin. (Distinction) (Kinesiology); M.A. (Sociology); Ph.D. (Sociology)
Research Interests
Sport; Gender; Settler Colonialism; Risk; Childhood; Disability; Diversity Work
In The Media
https://lethbridgeherald.com/commentary/opinions/2020/06/04/invest-in-rather-than-policing-communities/
https://lethbridgeherald.com/commentary/opinions/2022/06/30/canada-day-should-perhaps-be-a-time-for-reflection/
https://www.pressreader.com/canada/lethbridge-herald/20180407/281565176331748
https://lethbridgeherald.com/commentary/opinions/2020/10/07/harm-reduction-efforts-fill-important-role-too/
https://www.pressreader.com/canada/lethbridge-herald/20220803/281646783899912
https://lethbridgeherald.com/commentary/opinions/2022/06/30/canada-day-should-perhaps-be-a-time-for-reflection/
https://www.pressreader.com/canada/lethbridge-herald/20180407/281565176331748
https://lethbridgeherald.com/commentary/opinions/2020/10/07/harm-reduction-efforts-fill-important-role-too/
https://www.pressreader.com/canada/lethbridge-herald/20220803/281646783899912