In this conversation I welcome Professor Ricardo Uvinha fromUniversity of Sao Paulo in Brazil and co-editor of the Special Issue https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02614367.2023.2168032 - published by Leisure Studies in 2023Prof. Dr. RICARDO Uvinha is Full Professor and Dean in theSchool of Arts, Sciences and Humanities, University of Sao Paulo (USP) in Brazil. Leader of the Interdisciplinary Group of Leisure Studies and Coordinator of the Brazilian World Leisure Centre of Excellence. Recipient of the University of Sao Paulo Outstanding Teaching Award in 2013 and the George Torkildsen Literary Award in 2023, he is an author from the Global South and published several articles and books about sports, leisure, health promotion and physical activities sciences. Professor Uvinha is a founding member and current Secretary General of The BRICS Council of Exercise and Sports Science.

In this conversation we have: Dr Stefanie Benjamin,Dr Karla Boluk and Dr Kai-Sean Lee who are the authors of the paper:Shit Has to Change, Right? A Call for “Good Trouble” in Tourism published by Journal of Travel Research in October 2024:

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/00472875241276542

This conversation is co- hosted by Prof Sandro Carnicelli and Prof Louise Mansfield. Today we will talk to Dr Nicola de Martini Ugolotti author of the book Music, Forced Migration and Emplacement.

Nicola is senior lecturer in Sport and Physical Culture at Bournemouth University, and member of Associazione Frantz Fanon in Turin, Italy. He completed his PhD in Physical Cultural Studies at the University of Bath, after a MSc in Medical Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam, and several years of professional activity as a clinical psychologist with migrants, refugees and asylum seekers in Italy. His interdisciplinary research focuses on leisure and expressive forms of physicality as lenses to address the reciprocal constitution of bodies, spaces, power and subjectivities in contemporary contexts of (forced) migration, uneven urban changes, and social exclusion. Nicola is also an Associate Editor of both Leisure Sciences and the Leisure Studies journal.

In this Episode we speak to Dr Lisbeth Berbary from the University of Waterloo and authors of the Paper:

Imagining Becoming Coalition: resisting academic ecosystems from within and beyond through coalition building and reversed researchPublished by Leisure/Loisir:

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14927713.2023.2291034#abstract

Welcome to Season 3.

In this episode our guest is Dr Brett Lashua. Well know for his work in leisure, culture, and music, Brett talks about his career and his latest book:

Popular Music in Leeds: Histories, Heritage, People and Places. Edited by Brett Lashua, Karl Spracklen, Kitty Ross and Paul Thompsonhttps://www.intellectbooks.com/popular-music-in-leeds