Epistemologies of Professional Leisure Sociology: The Canadian Context of Western European Domination

The category of 'Leisure' as an object of academic pursuit has historically been derivative of Western European epistemologies dominating the literature, providing the reason and intellectual spaces that scholars must somehow shoehorn their ideas into and making a feedback loop into policy circles that make concrete differences to how we live. This paper explores the domain of thinking about leisure and makes a call and argument about extension of epistemological breadth to handle the range of cultural truths constituent of professionalism in sociological pursuits and showing an unequal balance of voices from ways of living. The literature extant from Canadian scholarship provides a viable launch point for the main thesis about epistemological diversity and inequality given the nation's commitment to multiculturalism, encompassing Aboriginal, Asian and Caucasian cultures under its umbrellas.