My research is broadly focused on the contexts of oppression, supremacy, and power within social systems and communities, and expressly on how the discourses of masculinity in men’s communities serve to supply philosophies of domination and supremacy with overt and covert support. In outdoor recreation and tourism contexts cultures of male supremacy, social dominance, and gender traditionalism have contributed to conventions of participation that are often homogeneous and do not represent Canadian diversity. These philosophies of domination, supremacy, and control privilege White men’s experience and interpretations of acceptable participation. My research is critical of these dominance discourses and highlights the essential components of male and White supremacism that undergird sexist, racist, ableist, and anti-LGBTQ2S+ worldviews.
PhD
Masculinity in two reddit men’s communities: Feminism is foul, privilege is precarious, and being beta is bad
Supervisor: Dr. Corey W. Johnson - University of Waterloo
External Examiner: Dr. Adrienne Massanari - American University
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Masters
Older Adult Volunteers: Understanding the meaning of volunteering in thetransition to retirement
Supervisor: Dr. Katie Misener - University of Waterloo
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Undergraduate
“Nothing Against Them, but…” Leadership perceptions and attitudes of residential summer camp staff members
Supervisors: Dr. R. Harvey Lemelin (HBOR) & Dr. Jenny Roth (Women's Studies)
Refereed Journal Articles
Cousineau, L. S. (2021). “Entitled to everything responsible for nothing:” Gendered Discourses of Antifeminism, Biological Determinism, and Violence in Two Communities of Reddit’s Manosphere. AG About Gender - International Journal of Gender Studies, 10(19), 131–166. https://doi.org/10.15167/2279-5057/AG2021.10.19.1274
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Cousineau, L.S., Johnson C.W., & Parry D.C.
(2021). ‘What’s my score?’: The complex interactions of straight male
Geo-Social Networking Application use. Leisure
Studies, 40(2), 154–168. doi:
/10.1080/02614367.2020.1810302
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Cousineau,
L.S. (2021). Sailing away on the SS Academe: A discussion of current graduate
student experience in one recreation and leisure program. SCHOLE:
A Journal of Leisure Studies and Recreation Education – Special Issue: The Evolving Experiences of the Contemporary Student, 36(1–2), 11–25. doi: 10.1080/1937156X.2020.1760748
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Carlson, C.R. & Cousineau, L.S. (2020) Are you sure you want to view this community?: Exploring the ethics of Reddit’s quarantine practice. Journal of Digital Ethics, 35(4), 202-213. doi: 10.1080/23736992.2020.1819285
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Cousineau,
L.S. & Misener, K. (2019). Volunteering as meaning-making in the transition
to retirement. Canadian Journal of
Nonprofit and Social Economy Research, 10(1), 61-77.
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Cousineau, L.
S., Mock S. E., & Glover T. D. (2018). Camper Self-Concept Promotes
Environmental Awareness: A Relationship Mediated by Social Inclusion. Journal of Youth Development, 13(1-2),
144-160.
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Cousineau, L.,
& Chambers, L. (2015). How Expectations Do Not Equate with Practice: The
Gendered Reality of the Female Resident Assistant. Journal of College
& University Student Housing, 41(2), 28-43.
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Cousineau, L.,
& Roth, J. (2012). Pervasive patriarchal leadership ideology in seasonal
residential summer camp staff. Leadership, 8(4),
421-440. doi: 10.1177/1742715012444052
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Book Chapters
Cousineau, L.S. (2022). Digital Methods for Social Justice. In Johnson C.W. & Parry, D.C. (Eds) Fostering Social Justice Through Qualitative Inquiry:
A Methodological Guide. (pp. 231-250). Routledge.
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Spencer, C., McKeown, J., &
Cousineau, L.S. (2022). From #Gamergate to #Feminism: Gender &
Leisure. In: Schneider, I.E. & Kivel, B.D. (Eds) Diversity & the
Recreation Profession: Organizational Perspectives, 4th Ed.
Sagamore-Venture.
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Cousineau, L.S. (2021). “A Positive Identity for Men”: Pathways to far-right participation through /r/MensRights and /r/TheRedPill. In Devries, M., Bessant, J. & Watts, R. (Eds.), The Rise of the Far-Right: Technologies of Recruitment & Mobilization (Edited Collection). Rowman & Littlefield International.
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Cousineau, L.S. (2021). Sex, Power, and Controlling
Bodies: The Incels and Pickup Artists. In D.C. Parry & C.W. Johnson (Eds.) Promiscuous
Perspectives: Sex and Leisure. New York: Routledge.
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Parry, D.C., Cousineau, L.S., Johnson, C.W., &
Fullagar, S. (2019). Digital Dilemmas: Transforming gender identities and power
relations in everyday life. In D.C. Parry,
C.W. Johnson, & S. Fullagar (Eds.) Digital Dilemmas: Transforming
gender identities and power relations in everyday life, (pp. 1-19). Basingstoke: Palgrave Press.
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Cousineau, L.S.,
Oakes, H., & Johnson, C.W. (2019). Appnography: Modifying ethnography for app-based culture. In D.C. Parry, C.W. Johnson, & S. Fullagar (Eds.) Digital
Dilemmas: Transforming gender identities and power relations in everyday life, (pp. 95-117). Basingstoke: Palgrave Press.
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Johnson, C.W. &
Cousineau, L.S. (2018). Manning Up
and Manning On: Masculinities, Hegemonic Masculinity, and Leisure Studies.
In D.C. Parry (Ed.), Feminisms in Leisure Studies: Advancing a
Fourth Wave,
pp. 126-148. New York: Routledge.
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Johnson, C.W.,
Cousineau, L.S., & Kivel, B.D. (2018). The history
and methodological tradition(s) of Collective Memory Work. In C.W.
Johnson (Ed.), Collective Memory Work: A methodology for learning with and
from lived experience, pp. 3-26.
New York, NY: Routledge.
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Soucie, S.M.A.,
Parry, D.C., & Cousineau, L.S. (2018). The Fourth Wave: What #MeToo can teach us about Millennial Mobilization,
Intersectionality, and Men’s Accountability. In D.C. Parry (Ed.), Feminisms in
Leisure Studies: Advancing a Fourth Wave, pp. 149-164. New York: Routledge.
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Conference Proceedings
Cousineau,
L.S. (October, 2020). Displaced
discussion: The implications of Reddit quarantine and the movement of
theredpill to self-hosting. Presented at the annual conference of the
Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR). Available at the AoIR Selected Papers of Internet Research
(SPIR).
https://doi.org/10.5210/spir.v2020i0.11195
Cousineau, L. & Misener, K. (2017). Making
Change - Making Meaning: Volunteering at Transition to Retirement. In CCLR15 Book of Proceedings: 15th
Canadian Congress on Leisure Research (pp. 74-75). Waterloo, Ontario,
Canada: University of Waterloo.
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Cousineau, L. & Lemelin, R. H. (2o11). “Nothing
Against Them, but...”: Gender Bias
and Gender Preference for Supervisors in Private, Seasonal Residential Summer
Camp Staff. In Book of abstracts of the
papers presented at the Thirteenth Canadian Congress on Leisure Research
(pp. 59-63). St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada: Brock University.