Erin Sharpe
Associate Professor
Recreation and Leisure Studies
Brock University
Canada
Biography
Erin Sharpe is an Associate Professor in the Department of Recreation and Leisure Studies. Her teaching and research interests focus on the relationships between leisure and sport, community, and development. Currently, she is conducting a SSHRC-funded study examining intersections between identity and neighbourhood in the sport and leisure lives of young people. She has recently co-edited two books: Leisure and Community Development: Applications for Sport, Recreation and Tourism (Sagamore/Venture) and Handbook of Leisure Theory (Palgrave). A leisure sociologist, her work is influenced by socio-spatial, post-structural, and post-colonial perspectives.
Research Interest
Leisure; Sport; Community; Community development
Publications
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Sharpe, E.K., & Dear, S. (2013). Points of discomfort: Reflections on power and partnerships in international service learning. Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning, 19(2), 85-91.
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Sharpe, E.K. (2013). Leisure and community politics. In T. Blackshaw (Ed.), Routledge International Handbook of Leisure Studies (pp. 521-529). New York: Routledge.
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Sharpe, E.K. (2013). Targeted neighbourhood social policy: A critical analysis. Journal of Policy Research in Leisure, Tourism and Events, 5(2), 158-171.
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Sharpe, E.K. (2015). Colonialist tendencies in education abroad. International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, 27(2), 68-80.
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Gallant, K., & Sharpe, E. (2016). Citizen Power. In E. Sharpe, H. Mair, & F. Yuen (Eds.), Community development: Applications to Leisure, Sport and Tourism. Urbana, IL: Sagamore/Venture Publishing.
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"Whyte, C., & Sharpe, E. (2016). Fostering belonging. In E. Sharpe, H. Mair, & F. Yuen (Eds.), Community development: Applications to Leisure, Sport and Tourism. Urbana, IL: Sagamore/Venture Publishing."
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van Ingen, C., Sharpe, E., & Lashua, B. (2016). Neighborhood stigma and the sporting lives of young people in public housing. International Review for the Sociology of Sport. Prepublished online: April 22, 2016.
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Sharpe, E. (2017). Against limits: A post-structural theorizing of resistance in leisure. In K. Spracklen et al. (Eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of Leisure Theory (pp. 911-926). London: Palgrave Macmillan UK.
