Visual methods in/as leisure research: a visualized essay

Our visualized essay introduces, positions, and responds to the articles contributing to this special issue, Visual Methods in/as Leisure Research. We present a series of our personally selected images alongside a collaboratively produced narrative. By adopting this innovative approach, our aim is to create a thematic visual and written chronicle of four thematic clusters that interlace with the methodological and conceptual threads of the eleven articles in this special issue. The thematic clusters are: seeing leisure otherwise, making visible, digital visualities, and imagining futures. The individual contributions of the articles in this special issue invite us to expand epistemic horizons. By reflecting on and responding to these, in this visualized essay, we conclude that visual inquiry is not merely an illustrative supplement to leisure research. Rather, it is a methodological and epistemological stance which invites new ways of seeing, knowing, and being, with leisure. Furthermore, visual methods in/as leisure are central to rethinking what leisure research can do and who it can include.