Re-Indigenising Leisure: Reclaiming Spaces, Practices, and Futures

Call for Papers

Re-Indigenising Leisure: Reclaiming Spaces, Practices, and Futures

Journal: Annals of Leisure Research
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Manuscript Submission Deadline: 25 January 2027

Annals of Leisure Research invites submissions for its Special Issue on Re-Indigenising Leisure: Reclaiming Spaces, Practices, and Futures.

About the Special Issue

This Special Issue seeks to advance Indigenous-led scholarship that reimagines leisure through Indigenous knowledge systems, sovereignty, cultural resurgence, and community wellbeing. Moving beyond Western and individualistic understandings of leisure, it encourages research that foregrounds collective relationships, responsibilities to land and water, intergenerational knowledge, and Indigenous self-determination.

The issue welcomes theoretical, methodological, and empirical contributions exploring how leisure spaces, recreation, sport, arts, festivals, and digital communities can either reinforce colonial structures or support Indigenous resurgence, cultural revitalisation, environmental stewardship, and transformative futures. It also aims to promote decolonising methodologies and provide practical insights for policymakers, practitioners, and leisure organisations.

Topics of Interest

Submissions may include, but are not limited to:

• Decolonising leisure research and ethics

• Indigenous research methodologies

• Community-led and relational research approaches

• Leisure, land, waterscapes, and environmental stewardship

• Place-based recreation and Indigenous practices

• Sport, play, identity, and wellbeing

• Cultural recreation, healing, and belonging

• Indigenous sovereignty and leisure governance

• Parks, recreation systems, museums, and festivals

• Urban, rural, and digital Indigenous leisure

• Indigenous placemaking and online communities

• Coloniality, intersectionality, and political economy of leisure

• Indigenous perspectives on leisure, culture, and society

Preferred Article Types

The journal welcomes:

• Empirical Research Articles

• Theoretical Papers

• Methodological Papers

• Indigenous-led Research

• Critical Reviews

Submission Information

• Abstract Submission Deadline: 12 July 2026

• Manuscript Submission Deadline: 25 January 2027

• Abstracts should be submitted directly to the Guest Editor via email.

• Manuscripts should be no more than 8,000 words, including references.

• All papers will undergo double-anonymous peer review by at least two reviewers.

• Invited authors should select "Special Issue: Re-Indigenising Leisure: Reclaiming Spaces, Practices, and Futures" during online submission.

• All submissions must follow the journal's official Instructions for Authors.

• Manuscripts must be original, unpublished, and not under consideration elsewhere.

Guest Editors

• Farah Palmer, Massey University

• Bevan Erueti, Massey University

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