Alexandra Arellano

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Alexandra Arellano

Full professor
Director, School of Human Kinetics
Affiliated to the Institute of Canadian and Aboriginal studies

2003-2005: Postdoctorate, Urban and tourism studies, Université du Québec à Montréal
2003: PhD, Sociology, Lancaster University
1998: MA, Sociology, Université Laval
1995: BA, Sociology, Université Laval

Room

MNT 419

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Biography

Alexandra Arellano holds a PhD in Sociology from Lancaster University in the United Kingdom and completed postdoctoral studies in urban and tourism studies at the Université du Québec à Montréal. Guided by decolonial approaches, her research is developed in collaboration with Indigenous communities in the Global North and South.

Professor Arellano is accepting new students for thesis supervision.

Research interests

Sociocultural studies of leisure, sport and community development
Indigenous studies and resurgence
Decolonial regenerative tourism
Social inclusion

Research

Professor Arellano's research is grounded in critical and decolonial approaches, at the intersection of leisure studies, community development, regenerative tourism and heritage. She has collaborated with Cree and Anicinape communities, as well as Andean communities and communities in northern Peru, on projects focused on Indigenous epistemologies, decolonial research methodologies and Indigenous resurgence.

Her work focuses in particular on programs rooted in relationships with the land and intended for Indigenous youth. More recently, she has been exploring the connections between regenerative tourism, environmental justice and Indigenous knowledge as part of a project on the heritagization of ancestral fishing, oceanic epistemologies and the millennia-old tradition of surfing along the Peruvian coast.

Publications

(*Publication with a student)

*Ndukauba, P., & Arellano, A. (2026). A Critical Analysis of Visitors' Online Reviews of the Africville Museum: A Netnography Study, in Mowatt, Rasul A., Ashutosh, Ishan and Basile, Patricia. De Gruyter Handbook of the Geographies of Race: A Multidisciplinary Global Perspective.
Arellano, A, et Espinoza, C. (2024). Courir les vagues: Tourism de surf à Huanchaco, Pérou et la sauvegarde d’une tradition millénaire, Téoros, 43-2.
Arellano, A. (2024). Le tourisme à l’ère de la décolonisation, Téoros, 42-2.
Greey, A. D., & Arellano, A. (2023). Beyond reconciliation: Calling for land-based analyses in the sociology of sport. Sociology of Sport Journal, 40(4), 432-440.
*Essa, M., Arellano, A., Stuart, S., & Sheps, S. (2022). Sport for Indigenous resurgence: Toward a critical settler-colonial reflection. International Review for the Sociology of Sport, 57(2), 292-312.
*Friis, J., Arellano, A. (2021). La réconciliation à travers les séjours d’immersion à Kitcisakik: Vers la centralité de la lutte territorial, Cahiers du Centre interuniversitaire d’études et de recherches autochtones (CIÉRA), Édition spéciale “Pour une réelle réconciliation”, (19), 43-66.
Arellano, A., *Friis, J., et *Samhat, H. (2021). « Le concept de plein air à travers le savoir autochtone », Plein air: Manuel réflexif et pratique, éditions Raynald Goulet,  p. 373-382.
Arellano, A. & Shoosh Nasab, *P. (2020). Eaux troubles : Les paquebots géants au temps de la COVID-19, Téoros, Vol 39 (3).
Arellano, A., & Downey, A. (2019). Sport-for-development and the failure of aboriginal subjecthood: re-imagining lacrosse as resurgence in indigenous communities. Settler Colonial Studies, 9(4), 457-478.
Arellano, A., Friis, *J., & Stuart, S. A. (2019). Pathways to Reconciliation: the Kitcisakik Land-Based Education Initiative. Leisure/Loisir, 43(3), 389-417.
Arellano, A., Friis, *J., & Stuart, S. (2019). Indigenous Tourism and Reconciliation: The Case of Kitcisakik cultural Immersion, Innovative and promising practices in sustainable tourism, Vol 1 VIU Press, pp. 7-22.
Arellano, A. & *Vaillancourt, A. (2019). « Le sport autochtone au Canada », dans Sport et Société: Perspectives conceptuelles et enjeux d'action aux échelles québécoise, canadienne et international, Presses de l’UQTR, p. 219-232
Arellano, A., Halsall, *T., Forneris, T., & Gaudet, *C. (2018). Results of a utilization-focused evaluation of a Right To Play program for Indigenous youth. Evaluation and Program Planning, 66, 156-164.
*Kope, J., & Arellano, A. (2016). Resurgence and Critical Youth Empowerment in Whitefish River First Nation, Leisure/Loisir, Vol. 40, No. 4, pp. 395–421.
Figueroa, J, Arellano, A., & Tello, S. (2015). Développement touristique ou reproduction sociale de la pauvreté : Les leçons de Cuzco, Pérou, Téoros, 33(2).
MacIntosh, E., Arellano, A., & Forneris, T. (2015). Shoot to Score: Hockey as a Tool for Development?, European Sport Management Quarterly, 16(1), 38-57.
Arellano, A. (2014). Tourisme et lutte contre la pauvreté, l’expérience du sud andin rural au Pérou, in Etudes Caribéennes, Vol. 24-25, pp. 2-17.
Arellano, A. (2011). The Power of the Historic Festival: The Quebec ‘New France’ Brand, in Event Management, Vol. 15, No. 1, pp. 1-12.
Arellano, A. (2011). Tourism in Poor Regions and social Inclusion? The Porters of the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu, in World Leisure Journal, Issue 2, Vol 53, Issue 2, pp.104-118.
Arellano, A. (2008). The Inca Heritage Revival: Indigenismo in Cuzco, 1905-1945, Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change, Vol. 6, No. 1, pp. 39-56.