Leisure Studies Graduate Paper Award Winner: Ginger Huang

Ginger Huang:

My paper Embodied Geographies: Knowledge, Authority, and Worldviews in Mandarin-speaking Mountaineering Communities in Japan draws on nine months of ethnographic fieldwork with Mandarin-speaking immigrant mountaineers in Japan to explore how embodied practices in nature-based leisure settings generate and circulate localized knowledge.

Specifically, the paper explores how leisure practices in outdoor environments can become sites of knowledge production, where migrant bodies engage in complex negotiations of authority, belonging, and transnational connection.

Through this, I aim to contribute to conversations on how embodied leisure enables new ways of knowing that are situated, shared, and technologically mediated, and highlighting the political and epistemic dimensions of everyday experience.

More update on her work coming soon.