Christine Dallaire

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Christine Dallaire

Full professor
Vice-Dean, Academics, Faculty of Health Sciences

1999: PhD Canadian Studies, University of Alberta
1994: MA Sports Studies (Sociology), University of Ottawa
1991: Honours Bachelor’s (Physical Education), University of Ottawa

Room

MNT 355

[email protected]

Biography

Christine Dallaire studies sports and physical activity from a sociocultural perspective, with a particular focus on Canadian society, youth and communities. Her current project compares the experiences of young adults (18–25 years old) involved in sports leadership roles, including in the Boys and Girls Club of Ottawa, the Jeux de l’Acadie and the Arctic Winter Games. She has also developed expertise on the role of sports in the discursive construction of francophone and Canadian identities among youth across the country at the Jeux francophones de l’Alberta, the Jeux de la francophonie canadienne and the Jeux du Québec.

Professor Dallaire will not be accepting students for thesis supervision until 2026.

Research interests

Sports and community engagement
Canada and the Francophonie
Youth
Sports and identity/representation

Research

Professor Dallaire is completing a large project titled “Giving Back to the Community,” dealing with youth community engagement as leaders in sports initiatives, funded by SSHRC and the Sport Participation Research Initiative.

She is also the co-lead on an international collaboration (University of Ottawa, France and Denmark) focusing on the Arctic Winter Games, dealing with the themes of youth, culture and the Arctic environment. It is funded by the France Canada Research Fund, the Institut polaire français Paul-Émile Victor and the French Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation.

Selected publications

Na, D. and Dallaire, C. (2024). “Cultivating Korean Youth Volunteers as Global Citizens with Regional Expertise through Sport for International Development” (pp. 318-332), in Billy Graeff, Simona Safarikova, Gerard Akindes and Lin Cherurbai Sambili (Eds), Routledge Handbook of the Global South in Sport for Development and Peace. Routledge.
MacKay, S. & Dallaire, C. (2024, August). "Giving Back to the Community": Young and Established Leaders' Perspectives of Community Engagement in Sports and Recreation Initiatives Serving Children and Youth. Final comparative research report submitted to the Arctic Winter Games International Committee, to the Boys and Girls Club of Ottawa, to the Jeux de l’Acadie, 80 pages.
MacKay, S. & Dallaire, C. (2024, March). ‘Giving Back to the Community”: Young and established leaders’ perspectives of their contributions to the Arctic Winter Games. Research report submitted to the Arctic Winter Games Chefs de mission, 2023 and 2024 Host Society, and Arctic Winter Games International Committee members, 57 p.
Dallaire, C., Fuchs, J., Thomsen, R.C., Gontier, C., Girard, C., Bégin, A., Bertet, E., Alavi, S., MacKay, S. (2024, March). Arctic Winter Games 2023 Youth, Sport, Culture Social and Environmental Sustainability. Report submitted to the Arctic Winter Games International Committee, Arctic Winter Games Chefs de mission, 2023 and 2024 Host Society, 77 p. + Appendices (1005 p.).
Dallaire, C. (2021). Les Jeux de l’Acadie et l’appartenance acadienne. Chapitre invité dans M. Landry, J. Massicotte et D. Pépin-Filion (Dirs), L’État de l’Acadie (pp. 424-427). Montréal : Del Busso éditeur.
Dallaire, C. (2021). Regard sur la délégation du Nouveau-Brunswick aux Jeux de la francophonie canadienne : un renforcement de l’identité francophone des jeunes qui mise sur l’excellence. Journal of New Brunswick Studies/Revue d’étude sur le Nouveau-Brunswick, 13(1), 9-30.
Reid, K. and Dallaire, C. (2020, online March 29). ‘I’d like to think I’m a good referee’: Discourses of ability and the subjectivity of the female soccer referee in Ontario (Canada). Soccer & Society.
Dallaire, C. et MacKay, S. (2019). L’engagement des Skirtboarders : La constitution du « sujet moral » sur Internet. Revue Jeunes et Société, 4(1) : 42-57.
Reid, K. and Dallaire, C. (2019). “Because There Are So Few of Us”: The Marginalization of Female Soccer Referees in Ontario, Canada. Women in Sport and Physical Activity Journal, 27(1), 12-20.
Weninger, D and Dallaire, C. (2019). The gendered barrel racer-horse relationship in Western Canadian rodeo. International Review for the Sociology of Sport, 54(1) 104–124.
Dallaire, C. et MacKay, S. (2019, novembre). « Redonner à la communauté » : L’engagement communautaire de jeunes adultes leaders aux Jeux de l’Acadie. Rapport de recherche soumis au Conseil d’administration de la Société des Jeux de l’Acadie, 51 p.
Dallaire, C. & MacKay, S. (2019, February). “Giving Back to the Community”: Youth Community Engagement as Sport and Recreation Leaders at the Boys and Girls Club of Ottawa. Research report submitted to the BCGO Board of Directors, 29 p.
Forgues, E., Thompson, M., Dallaire, C. et E. M. Doucet (2018). Les Jeux de la francophonie canadienne : épanouissement, identité et engagement de la jeunesse d’expression française au Canada. Rapport de recherche soumis à la Fédération de la jeunesse canadienne française. Moncton-Dieppe, Nouveau Brunswick : L’Institut canadien de recherche sur les minorités linguistiques, 115 p.
Octobre, S. et Dallaire, C. (Dirs.) (2017). Jeunes et cultures : dialogue franco-québécois. Collection Regards sur la jeunesse du monde. Québec : Presses de l’Université Laval. 238 p.
Dallaire, C. (avec la collaboration de G. Couillard et M.F. Houle) (2017) Legs du travail à la FESFO : apprentissage en emploi pour un engagement francophone ultérieur au-delà du réseau jeunesse (pp. 69-96). Contribution invitée dans Gratien Allaire, Peter Dorrington et Mathieu Wade (Dirs.) Résilience, résistance et alliance. Penser la francophonie canadienne différemment. Collection Culture française d’Amérique. Québec : Presses de l'Université Laval.
Dallaire, C. et Harvey, J. (2017). Sports and Language Politics in Canada, (162-173 pp). Invited contribution to Bairner, A., Kelly, J. and Lee, J.W. (Eds.). Handbook of Sport and Politics. London: Routledge.
Dallaire, C., Prévost, P. et Houle, M.F. (2016). La formation et la documentation du savoir à la Fédération de la jeunesse franco-ontarienne (FESFO) : une stratégie gagnante pour renforcer l’engagement des jeunes dans la francophonie minoritaire. Stéphanie Garneau et Nicole Gallant (Dirs.). Les jeunes et l’action politique : Participation, contestation, résistance (pp. 147-165). Québec : Presses de l’Université Laval.
Weninger, D and Dallaire, C. (2016). ‘It’s not how you look; it’s what you do.’ Western Canadian Barrel Racers, Rodeo Legitimacy and Femininity. Special issue of Sport and Society on Extra-Ordinary Women.
Na, D. and Dallaire, C. (2016). Korean sport for international development initiatives: exploring new research avenues. Asia Pacific Journal of Sport and Social Science, 4(3): 251-264.
Dallaire, Christine, Normand, Martin, Houle, Magalie-France et Prévost, Philippe (2015). Le développement et la transmission des savoirs au sein de la Fédération de la jeunesse franco-ontarienne par le moyen de la formation et des cahiers de legs dans Linda Cardinal et Éric Forgues (Dirs.) Innovation et gouvernance francophone au Canada (pp. 247-267). Québec, Presses de l’Université Laval.