Rasul A. Mowatt

Also known as: Rasul

Social Justice, Cultural Studies, Critical Pedagogy, Leisure Behavior

Works (54)

Updated: April 2nd, 2025 16:00

2025 article

A people's history of leisure studies: crimes against leisure in 8 images

A people’s history of leisure studies: crimes against leisure in 8 images. World Leisure Journal.

By: R. Mowatt

author keywords: Social movements; critical leisure studies; urban space; visual semiotics
topics (OpenAlex):
Sources: ORCID, Web Of Science
Added: March 25, 2025

2025 article

Parting Thoughts XXXV: Trauma, Healing, Health, and Leisure

Mowatt, R. A., & Harmon, J. (2025, March 13). LEISURE SCIENCES.

By: R. Mowatt n & J. Harmon*

topics (OpenAlex): Trauma and Emergency Care Studies; Injury Epidemiology and Prevention; Adventure Sports and Sensation Seeking
Sources: ORCID, Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries
Added: March 17, 2025

2024 article

Parting Thoughts XXVI: Leisure, Loss, and Death

Mowatt, R. A., Dunlap, R., & Harmon, J. (2024, February 29). LEISURE SCIENCES, Vol. 2.

By: R. Mowatt n, R. Dunlap* & J. Harmon*

topics (OpenAlex):
Sources: Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries
Added: April 1, 2024

2024 article

Parting Thoughts XXVIII: Leisure and the Anthropocene

Dunlap, R., Mowatt, R. A., & Harmon, J. (2024, August 24). LEISURE SCIENCES, Vol. 8.

By: R. Dunlap*, R. Mowatt n & J. Harmon*

topics (OpenAlex): Geographies of human-animal interactions
Sources: Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries
Added: September 9, 2024

2024 article

Parting Thoughts XXXI: The Fraying of Society

Dunlap, R., Harmon, J., & Mowatt, R. A. (2024, November 4). LEISURE SCIENCES.

By: R. Dunlap*, J. Harmon* & R. Mowatt n

topics (OpenAlex): Political Economy and Marxism
Sources: Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries
Added: November 18, 2024

2024 journal article

Philosophy of science and leisure research: an exploratory analysis of research paradigms

Leisure/Loisir.

By: W. Means* & R. Mowatt n

topics (OpenAlex): Recreation, Leisure, Wilderness Management; Sport and Mega-Event Impacts; Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research
Source: ORCID
Added: January 29, 2024

2024 book

Routledge Handbook of Sport, Leisure, and Social Justice

By: S. Lawrence, J. Hill & R. Mowatt*

topics (OpenAlex):
Source: ORCID
Added: May 1, 2024

2024 chapter

Sport, leisure, and social justice at the neoliberal moment

By: S. Lawrence, J. Hill & R. Mowatt*

topics (OpenAlex): Sport and Mega-Event Impacts; Sports, Gender, and Society
Source: ORCID
Added: May 1, 2024

2023 journal article

A People’s Future of Leisure Studies: Fear City, Cop City and Others Tales, a Call for Police Research

Leisure Sciences.

By: R. Mowatt n

topics (OpenAlex): Adventure Sports and Sensation Seeking; Recreation, Leisure, Wilderness Management; Sport and Mega-Event Impacts
Source: ORCID
Added: January 29, 2024

2023 article

Fear City, Cop City and Others Tales, a Call for Police Research

Mowatt, R. (2023, October 14). LEISURE SCIENCES, Vol. 10.

By: R. Mowatt n

author keywords: Abolition; community control; defund; police; policing; state-sanctioned violence
topics (OpenAlex): Crime Patterns and Interventions; Policing Practices and Perceptions; Crime, Deviance, and Social Control
UN Sustainable Development Goals Color Wheel
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
16. Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions (Web of Science; OpenAlex)
Sources: Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries, ORCID
Added: November 6, 2023

2023 article

Parting Thoughts XVII

Mowatt, R. A. A., Dunlap, R., & Harmon, J. (2023, April 5). LEISURE SCIENCES, Vol. 4.

By: R. Mowatt n, R. Dunlap* & J. Harmon*

topics (OpenAlex): Historical Art and Culture Studies; Historical Influence and Diplomacy; Reformation and Early Modern Christianity
Sources: Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries, ORCID
Added: May 15, 2023

2023 book

Pastimes : the context of contemporary leisure

(8th ed.). Sagamore Publishing.

By: R. Russell & R. Mowatt

Source: NC State University Libraries
Added: November 17, 2024

2022 chapter

A People's History of Leisure Studies: Where the White Nationalists Are

By: R. Mowatt*

topics (OpenAlex): Sport and Mega-Event Impacts; Recreation, Leisure, Wilderness Management; Sports, Gender, and Society
Source: ORCID
Added: February 2, 2023

2022 journal article

A people's history of leisure studies: Colonial pedagogies, touring empires

ANNALS OF TOURISM RESEARCH, 96.

By: R. Mowatt*

author keywords: An ABC for Baby Patriots; Thomas Cook & Son; Colonialism; Decolonization; Post-colonial theory; Imperialism
topics (OpenAlex): Sport and Mega-Event Impacts; Tourism, Volunteerism, and Development; Anthropological Studies and Insights
UN Sustainable Development Goals Color Wheel
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
11. Sustainable Cities and Communities (Web of Science; OpenAlex)
Sources: Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries
Added: September 19, 2022

2022 journal article

Making Monsters

Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning.

By: R. Mowatt n

topics (OpenAlex): Critical Race Theory in Education; Academic Freedom and Politics; Higher Education Research Studies
UN Sustainable Development Goals Color Wheel
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
10. Reduced Inequalities (OpenAlex)
Source: ORCID
Added: February 2, 2023

2022 journal article

Revised notes from a leisure son: expanding an understanding of White supremacy in leisure

Annals of Leisure Research, 25(2), 291–298.

By: R. Mowatt*

author keywords: Whiteness; White privilege; White supremacy; Race; anti-racism
topics (OpenAlex): Sport and Mega-Event Impacts; Recreation, Leisure, Wilderness Management; Sports, Gender, and Society
UN Sustainable Development Goals Color Wheel
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
10. Reduced Inequalities (OpenAlex)
Source: ORCID
Added: February 2, 2023

2021 journal article

A People’s Future of Leisure Studies: Leisure with the Enemy Under COVID-19

Leisure Sciences.

By: R. Mowatt*

author keywords: Class struggle; disposable populations; human rights; intimate terrorism; racecraft; COVID-19
topics (OpenAlex): Recreation, Leisure, Wilderness Management; Adventure Sports and Sensation Seeking; Sport and Mega-Event Impacts
Source: ORCID
Added: February 2, 2023

2021 journal article

A People’s History of Leisure Studies: Where the White Nationalists Are

Leisure Studies, 40(1), 13–30.

By: R. Mowatt*

author keywords: White Nationalism; White Supremacy; the Far Right; White Separatism; The Great Replacement Theory
topics (OpenAlex): Sport and Mega-Event Impacts; Recreation, Leisure, Wilderness Management; Adventure Sports and Sensation Seeking
Source: ORCID
Added: February 2, 2023

2021 journal article

Going the Extra Mile: Building Trust and Collaborative Relationships with Study Participants

Leisure Sciences, 12, 1–18.

By: M. Fernandez*, R. Mowatt*, K. Shinew*, M. Stodolska* & W. Stewart*

author keywords: Ethnicity; race; religion; research process; trust
topics (OpenAlex): Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics; Recreation, Leisure, Wilderness Management; Participatory Visual Research Methods
Source: ORCID
Added: February 2, 2023

2021 journal article

Implicit Attitudes and the Challenge of Becoming a Reflexive Leisure Scholar

Leisure Sciences, 10, 1–17.

By: G. Stone*, B. Harris*, L. Duffy*, B. Terry*, E. Layland*, D. Schmalz*, D. Kivel*, B. Kelly-Pryor*, R. Mowatt*

author keywords: Critical research; implicit association test; implicit bias; positionality
topics (OpenAlex): Sports, Gender, and Society; Recreation, Leisure, Wilderness Management; Sport and Mega-Event Impacts
Source: ORCID
Added: February 2, 2023

2021 journal article

Leisure and the “White-Savior Industrial Complex”

Leisure and the “White-Savior Industrial Complex.” Journal of Leisure Research, 52(5), 531–550.

By: K. Anderson*, E. Knee* & R. Mowatt*

author keywords: White Saviorism; social justice; Whiteness; outdoor recreation; youth development; volunteer tourism
topics (OpenAlex): Tourism, Volunteerism, and Development; Recreation, Leisure, Wilderness Management; Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research
Source: ORCID
Added: February 2, 2023

2021 journal article

Reflections on altruism, action, and “moral imagination” in the context of the White Savior

Journal of Leisure Research, 52(5), 561–563.

By: K. Anderson*, E. Knee* & R. Mowatt*

topics (OpenAlex): Theological Perspectives and Practices; American Constitutional Law and Politics; Religion and Society Interactions
Source: ORCID
Added: February 2, 2023

2021 article

SI21 Making Monsters

Mowatt, R. (2021, December 21). Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, Vol. 21. https://scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/josotl/article/view/32691

By: R. Mowatt

Source: ORCID
Added: February 2, 2023

2021 journal article

The devil finds leisure

Annals of Leisure Research, 9, 1–17.

By: R. Mowatt*

author keywords: The White Gaze; racial imaginations; racial reconciliation fantasies; film theory; James Baldwin; racialisation
topics (OpenAlex): Cinema and Media Studies; Race, History, and American Society; Shakespeare, Adaptation, and Literary Criticism
Source: ORCID
Added: February 2, 2023

2020 journal article

Deepening Diversity: A Collection of Teaching Perspectives and Strategies from Social Justice Advocates

SCHOLE: A Journal of Leisure Studies and Recreation Education, 37(1-2), 26–43.

By: M. Fernandez*, K. Lee n, L. Larson n, C. Johnson*, R. Mowatt*, K. Bush n, J. Robinett*, I. Sharaievska*, W. Stewart*

topics (OpenAlex): Sports, Gender, and Society; Sport and Mega-Event Impacts; LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy
Sources: ORCID, Crossref, NC State University Libraries
Added: July 2, 2020

2019 journal article

A critical discourse analysis of racial violence in South Carolina, U.S.A.: implications for traveling while Black

Current Issues in Tourism, 7, 1–17.

author keywords: Race; violence; critical discourse analysis; Black tourists; South Carolina
topics (OpenAlex): Migration, Refugees, and Integration; Intimate Partner and Family Violence; Gender, Feminism, and Media
Source: ORCID
Added: February 2, 2023

2019 journal article

Twelve Years a Servant: Race and the Student Evaluation of Teaching

SCHOLE: A Journal of Leisure Studies and Recreation Education.

By: R. Mowatt*

topics (OpenAlex): Evaluation of Teaching Practices; Communication in Education and Healthcare; Teacher Education and Leadership Studies
UN Sustainable Development Goals Color Wheel
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
5. Gender Equality (OpenAlex)
Source: ORCID
Added: February 2, 2023

2018 journal article

A People’s History of Leisure Studies: Leisure, the Tool of Racecraft

Leisure Sciences.

Rasul Mowatt

author keywords: racecraft; race; segregated swimming; restrictive covenants; historical
topics (OpenAlex): Recreation, Leisure, Wilderness Management; Sport and Mega-Event Impacts; Adventure Sports and Sensation Seeking
Source: ORCID
Added: February 2, 2023

2018 journal article

Black Lives as Snuff: The Silent Complicity in Viewing Black Death

Biography.

Rasul Mowatt

topics (OpenAlex): Homelessness and Social Issues; Race, History, and American Society; Migration, Refugees, and Integration
Source: ORCID
Added: February 2, 2023

2018 journal article

Black Spaces/White Spaces: Black Lives, Leisure, and Life Politics

Leisure Sciences, 40(4), 267–287.

By: H. Pinckney*, R. Mowatt*, C. Outley*, A. Brown*, M. Floyd n & K. Black*

author keywords: Black Twitter; counter narratives; critical technocultural discourse analysis; race; White space
topics (OpenAlex): Digital Games and Media; Social Media and Politics; Impact of Technology on Adolescents
UN Sustainable Development Goals Color Wheel
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
10. Reduced Inequalities (OpenAlex)
Sources: ORCID, Crossref, NC State University Libraries
Added: June 7, 2019

2018 journal article

Both Sides Now: Transgression and Oppression in African Americans' Historical Relationships with Nature

Leisure Sciences.

Rasul Mowatt

author keywords: identity; nature-based recreation; social justice
topics (OpenAlex): American Environmental and Regional History; Geographies of human-animal interactions; Urban Green Space and Health
UN Sustainable Development Goals Color Wheel
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
10. Reduced Inequalities (OpenAlex)
Source: ORCID
Added: February 2, 2023

2018 journal article

Four Voices for Justice: Reflections on Seeking Relevance in Higher Education

Journal of Park and Recreation Administration.

Rasul Mowatt

author keywords: Parks; politics; race; recreation; religion
topics (OpenAlex): Legal Education and Practice Innovations; Jury Decision Making Processes; Academic Freedom and Politics
UN Sustainable Development Goals Color Wheel
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
16. Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions (OpenAlex)
Source: ORCID
Added: February 2, 2023

2018 journal article

The Case of the 12-Year-Old Boy: Or, The Silence of and Relevance to Leisure Research

Leisure Sciences.

Rasul Mowatt

author keywords: Tamir Rice; Race; social justice; racial threat theory; color-blind racial ideology
topics (OpenAlex): Recreation, Leisure, Wilderness Management; Sport and Mega-Event Impacts; Sports, Gender, and Society
Source: ORCID
Added: February 2, 2023

2018 journal article

Understanding Ifá: inserting knowledge of an African cosmology in leisure studies and nature-based research

Leisure Studies.

Rasul Mowatt

author keywords: Ifa; Orisha; Yoruba'; Nigeria; Santeria; Slave Trade; Caribbean; African Cosmology
topics (OpenAlex): Recreation, Leisure, Wilderness Management; Sport and Mega-Event Impacts; Tourism, Volunteerism, and Development
UN Sustainable Development Goals Color Wheel
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
8. Decent Work and Economic Growth (OpenAlex)
Source: ORCID
Added: February 2, 2023

2017 journal article

A People’s History of Leisure Studies: Old Knowledge, New Knowledge and The Philadelphia Negro as a Foundational Text

International Journal of the Sociology of Leisure, 1(1), 55–73.

By: R. Mowatt*, M. Floyd n & K. Hylton*

topics (OpenAlex): Sport and Mega-Event Impacts; Recreation, Leisure, Wilderness Management; Sports, Gender, and Society
UN Sustainable Development Goals Color Wheel
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
10. Reduced Inequalities (OpenAlex)
Sources: ORCID, Crossref, NC State University Libraries
Added: June 7, 2019

2017 journal article

Tourism and the power of otherness: seductions of difference (tourism and cultural change)

Annals of Leisure Research.

Rasul Mowatt

topics (OpenAlex): Travel Writing and Literature; Urbanism, Landscape, and Tourism Studies; Geography and Education Methods
Source: ORCID
Added: February 2, 2023

2016 journal article

(Sub)urban sexscapes: geographies and regulation of the sex industry

Leisure/Loisir.

Rasul Mowatt

topics (OpenAlex): Sex work and related issues; Gender, Feminism, and Media; Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology
Source: ORCID
Added: February 2, 2023

2016 journal article

“Embarrassingly White”

“Embarrassingly White.” SCHOLE: A Journal of Leisure Studies and Recreation Education, 31(1), 37–55.

By: R. Mowatt*, C. Johnson*, N. Roberts* & B. Kivel*

topics (OpenAlex): Critical Race Theory in Education; Racial and Ethnic Identity Research; Race, History, and American Society
Sources: ORCID, Crossref, NC State University Libraries
Added: February 2, 2023

2015 journal article

Women in tourism: Shifting gender ideology in the DR

Annals of Tourism Research.

Rasul Mowatt

author keywords: Cultural change; Gender ideology; Gender roles; Tourism employment; Dominican Republic
topics (OpenAlex): Sex work and related issues; Tourism, Volunteerism, and Development; Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research
Source: ORCID
Added: February 2, 2023

2014 journal article

Event power: how global events manage and manipulate, by Chris Rojek

Leisure/Loisir.

Rasul Mowatt

topics (OpenAlex): Sport and Mega-Event Impacts
Source: ORCID
Added: February 2, 2023

2014 journal article

The Conspicuous Nature of Power

Journal of Leisure Research.

Rasul Mowatt

topics (OpenAlex): Homelessness and Social Issues; Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies; Community Health and Development
UN Sustainable Development Goals Color Wheel
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
10. Reduced Inequalities (OpenAlex)
Source: ORCID
Added: February 2, 2023

2014 journal article

The Unsettling Nature of Prejudice

Journal of Leisure Research.

Rasul Mowatt

topics (OpenAlex): LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy; Names, Identity, and Discrimination Research; Recreation, Leisure, Wilderness Management
UN Sustainable Development Goals Color Wheel
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
10. Reduced Inequalities (OpenAlex)
Source: ORCID
Added: February 2, 2023

2013 journal article

Components of partnership agreements in municipal parks and recreation

Managing Leisure.

Rasul Mowatt

topics (OpenAlex): Recreation, Leisure, Wilderness Management; Educational, Social, and Political Issues; Economic and Environmental Valuation
Source: ORCID
Added: February 2, 2023

2013 journal article

Heterosexism in Campus Recreational Club Sports: An Exploratory Investigation into Attitudes toward Gay Men and Lesbians

Recreational Sports Journal.

Rasul Mowatt

author keywords: diversity; homophobia; sexual identity; sport participation
topics (OpenAlex): Sports, Gender, and Society; Sport and Mega-Event Impacts; Sports Analytics and Performance
UN Sustainable Development Goals Color Wheel
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
5. Gender Equality (OpenAlex)
Source: ORCID
Added: February 2, 2023

2012 journal article

<I>Machismo–Marianismo</I> and the Involvement of Women in a Community-Based Tourism Project in Ecuador, South America

Tourism Analysis.

Rasul Mowatt

author keywords: Gender ideology; Machismo-marianismo; Community-based tourism planning (CBTP); Ecuador
topics (OpenAlex): Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research; Tourism, Volunteerism, and Development; Rural development and sustainability
Source: ORCID
Added: February 2, 2023

2012 journal article

Lynching as Leisure

American Behavioral Scientist.

Rasul Mowatt

author keywords: lynching; leisure; critical theory; visual methodologies; place meanings; race; social justice
topics (OpenAlex): Recreation, Leisure, Wilderness Management; Sport and Mega-Event Impacts; Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research
Source: ORCID
Added: February 2, 2023

2012 journal article

Multiuse Trails: Benefits and Concerns of Residents and Property Owners

Journal of Urban Planning and Development.

Rasul Mowatt

author keywords: Multiuse trails; Recreational planning and development; Urban and rural infrastructure; Quality of life
topics (OpenAlex): Urban Transport and Accessibility; Recreation, Leisure, Wilderness Management; Economic and Environmental Valuation
UN Sustainable Development Goals Color Wheel
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
11. Sustainable Cities and Communities (OpenAlex)
Source: ORCID
Added: February 2, 2023

2012 journal article

Places of the imagination: media, tourism, culture, by Stijn Reijnders

Leisure/Loisir.

Rasul Mowatt

topics (OpenAlex): Japanese History and Culture
UN Sustainable Development Goals Color Wheel
UN Sustainable Development Goal Categories
8. Decent Work and Economic Growth (OpenAlex)
Source: ORCID
Added: February 2, 2023

2011 journal article

Visiting death and life

Annals of Tourism Research.

Rasul Mowatt

author keywords: race; trans-Atlantic Slavery; transnational identity; heritage tourism; dark tourism
topics (OpenAlex): Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration; Religious Tourism and Spaces; Geographies of human-animal interactions
Source: ORCID
Added: February 2, 2023

2010 journal article

Team-Based Learning

SCHOLE: A Journal of Leisure Studies and Recreation Education.

Rasul Mowatt

topics (OpenAlex): Problem and Project Based Learning; Management and Marketing Education; Reflective Practices in Education
Source: ORCID
Added: February 2, 2023

2010 journal article

To Begin With the End

SCHOLE: A Journal of Leisure Studies and Recreation Education.

Rasul Mowatt

topics (OpenAlex): Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics; Psychology of Social Influence; Qualitative Research Methods and Applications
Source: ORCID
Added: February 2, 2023

2009 journal article

Contesting Identities, Contesting Nation

Policy Futures in Education.

Rasul Mowatt

topics (OpenAlex): Cultural Industries and Urban Development
Source: ORCID
Added: February 2, 2023

2009 journal article

Notes From A Leisure Son: Expanding An Understanding of Whiteness in Leisure

Journal of Leisure Research.

Rasul Mowatt

author keywords: Race; whiteness; social justice; power; identity
topics (OpenAlex): Recreation, Leisure, Wilderness Management; Sport and Mega-Event Impacts; Sports, Gender, and Society
Source: ORCID
Added: February 2, 2023

2009 journal article

The King of the Damned: Reading Lynching as Leisure

Policy Futures in Education.

Rasul Mowatt

topics (OpenAlex): Diversity and Impact of Dance; Social and Cultural Dynamics; Sport and Mega-Event Impacts
Source: ORCID
Added: February 2, 2023

Employment

Updated: December 10th, 2021 16:11

2021 - present

North Carolina State University Raleigh, North Carolina, US
Department Head and Professor Parks, Recreation, and Tourism Management

2006 - 2021

Indiana University Bloomington, US
Professor American Studies & Geography

Education

Updated: June 21st, 2019 14:24

2002 - 2006

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Urbana, IL, US
PhD Recreation, Sport, & Tourism

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