School of Health and Human Performance

Faculty of Health

Luc Cousineau, PhD

Recreation Management Director, Instructor & Internship Supervisor

LucCousineau

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Founder & Co-Director of Research -

School of Health and Human Performance

Email: luc.cousineau@dal.ca
Phone: 902-431-9533
Mailing Address: 
School of Health and Human Performance Dentistry Building, Room 4210H 5981 University Avenue, PO Box 15000 Halifax, NS B3H 4R2
 
Research Topics:
  • Men’s Rights Groups
  • Far-Right Extremism
  • Digital Leisure
  • Online Community
  • Summer camp
  • Workplace & Leisure Surveillance
  • Gender & Leadership

Education:

  • Ph.D. (2022) Recreation and Leisure Studies, University of Waterloo
  • Certificate of University Teaching (2019), University of Waterloo
  • M.A. (2016) Recreation and Leisure Studies, University of Waterloo
  • HBA (Women's Studies), Lakehead University, 2010
  • HBOR (Honours Bachelors of Outdoor Recreation), Lakehead University, 2010
  • BSc, Lakehead University, 2010

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  • The Fundamentals of OCAPÂź
  • Certificate of Project Management
  • Instructional Skills Workshop
  • Associate Certificate in Local Governance

Knowledge Mobilization:

Selected Publications:

  • Sandau, E.L.,* & and Cousineau, L.S. (2025). ‘Trying to talk white male teenagers off the alt-right ledge’ and other impacts of masculinist influencers on teachers. Gender and Education, 37(5), 595–610.
  • Cousineau, L.S. (2025 – In Press). Leisure as ideological infrastructure: four nodes of far-right and new-right mobilization. In Lashua, B., Spracklen, K., & Yuen, F. (eds). Research Handbook on the Sociology of Leisure. Edward Elgar Publishing.
  • Cousineau, L.S. (2024). Navigating a feminist ethics of care, ethnographic methods, and academic activism in researching men’s rights and the far right: a researcher’s struggles. In: Vaughan, A., Braune, J., Tinsley, M., & Mondon, A. (Eds.) The Ethics of Researching the Far & Extreme Right. Manchester University Press.
  • Cousineau, L.S., Ollier-Malaterre, A. & Parent-Rocheleau, X. (2023). Employee Surveillance Technologies: Prevalence, Classification, and Invasiveness. Surveillance & Society, 21(4), 447-468.
  • Cousineau, L.S. (2023). “Are there any other male friendly subs on here?” - Online men's rights groups as simultaneous communities of care and entrees into soft misogyny, supremacist discourses, and pipelines to radicalization. Leisure/Loisirs: special issue on Leisure, Inclusion and Belonging, 47(4), 681-702.
  • Cousineau, L.S. (2022). Digital Research for Social Justice. In Johnson, C.W. & Parry, D.C. (Eds.) Fostering Social Justice through Qualitative Inquiry: A Methodological Guide, 2nd Edition, (pp. 231-250). Routledge.
  • 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.), Rise of the Far-Right: Technologies of Recruitment & Mobilization (Edited Collection), (pp/ 127-146). Rowman & Littlefield International.
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