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View article: Towards an Intersectional Understanding of Women With Diverse Experiences of Disability: Addressing the Policy Gap in Australian Disability Sport
Towards an Intersectional Understanding of Women With Diverse Experiences of Disability: Addressing the Policy Gap in Australian Disability Sport Open
This article explores how gender and disability inequity is addressed in research, policy and organisational strategies that shape the Australian sporting landscape. By examining the most current annual reports and strategic plans of 31 na…
View article: Feminist new materialist insights for sport management
Feminist new materialist insights for sport management Open
This chapter explores how feminist new materialist theories offer different insights for doing sport management research and practice differently. We explore the onto-ethico-epistemological assumptions that inform material feminist approac…
View article: A feminist embodied ethics of social media use: Corporeal vulnerability and relational care practices
A feminist embodied ethics of social media use: Corporeal vulnerability and relational care practices Open
This article adopts a feminist relational orientation to investigate the care practices that women develop when producing and engaging with body-focussed content online. We propose and argue for an embodied ethics of social media use to un…
View article: The Special Issue as Diffractive Process: A Collaborative Dialogue
The Special Issue as Diffractive Process: A Collaborative Dialogue Open
In this article, we share a curated version of a Zoom meeting in which we come together-apart to articulate our experiences of the diffractive review process. In the later part of the dialogue, we turn toward imagining the possibilities fo…
View article: Diffractive Respondings and Cutting Together-Apart: Toward More-Than-Human Academic Community
Diffractive Respondings and Cutting Together-Apart: Toward More-Than-Human Academic Community Open
In this “paper,” we share our process of exploring the possibilities for the emergence of new ways of knowing-thinking-doing response-able collaboration. In an effort to come “together-apart” as author-collaborators, working from our diffe…
View article: Feminist New Materialist Entanglements With “Kinetic Excess” in Women’s Muay Thai Boxing: Moving With Embodied Discomfort as a Post-Qualitative Coach-Researcher
Feminist New Materialist Entanglements With “Kinetic Excess” in Women’s Muay Thai Boxing: Moving With Embodied Discomfort as a Post-Qualitative Coach-Researcher Open
Feminist engagement with fight sports is often ambivalent given the masculine history of combat and the achievement of “self” transformation at the “expense” of another, exist in tension with the possibilities of women’s empowerment. Ackno…
View article: Shifting Gender Power Relations in the Digitization of Sport
Shifting Gender Power Relations in the Digitization of Sport Open
We explore the shifting gender relations of sport that shape, and are shaped by, various forms of digital mediation (production, consumption, organization, and management). The sport-media industrial complex has evolved through historicall…
View article: Affective design and memetic qualities: Generating affect and political engagement through bushfire TikToks
Affective design and memetic qualities: Generating affect and political engagement through bushfire TikToks Open
This article explores the affective dimensions of social media platform TikTok, and its potential as a novel form of political participation among young people. It draws on data from a sample of 24 TikToks focused on the 2019/20 Australian…
View article: Reconceptualizing Women's Wellbeing During the Pandemic: Sport, Fitness and More-Than-Human Connection
Reconceptualizing Women's Wellbeing During the Pandemic: Sport, Fitness and More-Than-Human Connection Open
This paper explores the gendered, disruptive effects and affective intensities of COVID-19 and the ways that women working in the sport and fitness sector were prompted to establish more-than-human connection through technologies, the envi…
View article: The Sporting Bubble as Gilded Cage
The Sporting Bubble as Gilded Cage Open
Introduction: Bubbles and Sport The ephemeral materiality of bubbles – beautiful, spectacular, and distracting but ultimately fragile – when applied to protect or conserve in the interests of sport-media profit, creates conditions that exa…
View article: Sisterhood and affective politics: The CaiRollers mobilising change through roller derby in Egypt
Sisterhood and affective politics: The CaiRollers mobilising change through roller derby in Egypt Open
This article narrates the affects and experiences of the CaiRollers, the first and only roller derby team in Egypt. Through visual affective discourse analysis of their Instagram account and interviews with team members, the article addres…
View article: Getting students to ‘do’ introductory sociology: Analysis of a blended and flipped interactive workshop model
Getting students to ‘do’ introductory sociology: Analysis of a blended and flipped interactive workshop model Open
Blended learning and flipped classroom models are increasingly encouraged in higher education, where notions of flexibility and technological development inform institutional systems and strategies. This article presents results from an Au…
View article: Shame, pain and fame: sportswomen losing in Australia’s mainstream media reporting
Shame, pain and fame: sportswomen losing in Australia’s mainstream media reporting Open
This article adds to a growing body of literature that engages with failure as a way of knowing and understanding the social. Through a focus on images of sportswomen’s loss or failure in three Australian newspapers during the 2018 Gold Co…
View article: Data selves
Data selves Open
I have written in a journal since I was in my late teens, at someone else’s suggestion. I have filled hundreds, or maybe thousands of pages with personal ‘data’ – thoughts, feelings, lists of food, spending, goals, hopes, dreams, exercise,…
View article: Gender and diversity in sport governance
Gender and diversity in sport governance Open
This chapter draws on information from separate studies on women in the governance of sport to discuss the nuances and challenges in the area of gender and diversity in sport. The study drew information from organisational documents and se…
View article: White Women Smiling? Media Representations of Women at the 2018 Commonwealth Games
White Women Smiling? Media Representations of Women at the 2018 Commonwealth Games Open
In this article we analyze images of sportswomen from four media outlets over the course of the 2018 Gold Coast Commonwealth Games in Australia. Through visual discourse analysis we find that despite structural changes to increase gender e…
View article: The ‘boy scouts’ and ‘bad boys’ of skateboarding: a thematic analysis of <i>the bones brigade</i>
The ‘boy scouts’ and ‘bad boys’ of skateboarding: a thematic analysis of <i>the bones brigade</i> Open
Skateboarding has emerged from an alternative subculture to an influential action sport, boosted by recent inclusion in the Olympic Games. Central to debates in both academic and practice communities are the tensions between skateboarding …
View article: Feminist Knowledges as Interventions in Physical Cultures
Feminist Knowledges as Interventions in Physical Cultures Open
This collection explores how feminist knowledges work as interventions in physical cultures and recognizes the considerable contribution of feminist theories and methodologies in understanding the power relations implicated in embodied mov…
View article: Beach body work: Australian women’s experiences
Beach body work: Australian women’s experiences Open
This article examines Australian women’s complex relationship with the beach through a focus on affect and on what bodies do. Interviews with ten participants of diverse backgrounds and of different ages reveal that women understand the be…
View article: Young people and alcohol abstention: youth cultural practices and being a non-drinker in Finland and Australia
Young people and alcohol abstention: youth cultural practices and being a non-drinker in Finland and Australia Open
Internationally, there has been a significant increase in the numbers of young people choosing not to drink alcohol. This is counter to the weight of opinion that positions young people as irresponsible and as engaging in ‘risky’ behaviour…
View article: Making “space” for women and girls in sport: an agenda for Australian geography
Making “space” for women and girls in sport: an agenda for Australian geography Open
In this article, I argue that there is need to rethink how sport is inherently spatial and political. I outline the importance of doing research on the spatiality of inequality in sport and consider the ways in which ideas about affective …
View article: Sport and feminism in China: On the possibilities of conceiving roller derby as a feminist intervention
Sport and feminism in China: On the possibilities of conceiving roller derby as a feminist intervention Open
The spread of contemporary roller derby presents an opportunity to examine the ways sport can act as a form of feminist intervention. This article draws on a qualitative case study of a roller derby league in China, made up predominantly o…
View article: Collaborative writing as rhizomatic practice: Critical moments of (un)doing doctoral supervision
Collaborative writing as rhizomatic practice: Critical moments of (un)doing doctoral supervision Open
Despite the proliferation of doctoral training courses within universities, little attention is paid to the complexity of supervision as a process of becoming for both students and super-visors. As post-qualitative researchers we explore h…
View article: Gut Feminism
Gut Feminism Open
Gut Feminism is a difficult and provocative book. Yet there is no other way for Elizabeth Wilson to engage directly with biological data and feminist theory. The work is groundbreaking and bordering on dangerous, as she disputes the antibi…
View article: ‘Don’t Be a Douche’: An Introduction to Sex-Integrated Roller Derby
‘Don’t Be a Douche’: An Introduction to Sex-Integrated Roller Derby Open
As a fast, aggressive, contact sport there is the potential for women who play roller derby to challenge gender norms of passive heterosexuality and spectatorship. Played mostly by women, yet officiated mostly by men since its reinvention …