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View article: “We exist. Don’t forget or overlook us.”: queering the legacies of the 2023 Women’s FIFA World Cup
“We exist. Don’t forget or overlook us.”: queering the legacies of the 2023 Women’s FIFA World Cup Open
Purpose The FIFA Women’s World Cup (WWC) 2023 was co-hosted by Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand and was the first WWC to require legacy planning to develop women’s football. We examine the relevance of the legacy plans for an important f…
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: The affective pedagogies of horse-human interventions: a more-than-human perspective on equine assisted learning with marginalised young people
The affective pedagogies of horse-human interventions: a more-than-human perspective on equine assisted learning with marginalised young people Open
This article offers a more-than-human perspective on an equine assisted learning programme undertaken by marginalised young people attending a flexi-school in Australia. In contrast with therapist led equine programmes, our research examin…
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: Re-turning to fitness ‘riskscapes’ post lockdown: feminist materialisms, wellbeing and affective respondings in Aotearoa New Zealand
Re-turning to fitness ‘riskscapes’ post lockdown: feminist materialisms, wellbeing and affective respondings in Aotearoa New Zealand Open
A plethora of research has focused on how the pandemic has shifted human relations with space, place and wellbeing. Yet, to date few have focused on how the return to public spaces after extended periods of lockdown is impacting subjective…
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: Advancing feminist innovation in sport studies: A transdisciplinary dialogue on gender, health and wellbeing
Advancing feminist innovation in sport studies: A transdisciplinary dialogue on gender, health and wellbeing Open
Athlete health and wellbeing requires a holistic, multidimensional approach to understanding, supporting, and treating individual athletes. Building more supportive, inclusive, and equitable environments for the health and wellbeing of wom…
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: 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: Body Mapping as a Feminist New Materialist Intra-Vention
Body Mapping as a Feminist New Materialist Intra-Vention Open
This chapter explores an academic-creative collaboration that formed around ‘The Confidence Project’ led by Untold Dance Theatre, Bristol, UK, to evaluate the engagement of women in somatic movement workshops. I discuss how methods of inqu…
View article: Rethinking digital media literacy to address body dissatisfaction in schools: Lessons from feminist new materialisms
Rethinking digital media literacy to address body dissatisfaction in schools: Lessons from feminist new materialisms Open
The increasing prevalence of body dissatisfaction among young people is now well recognised with much of the existing literature making connections between media imagery and body dissatisfaction. Media literacy-based interventions continue…
View article: Urban Habits of Walking in Women’s Recovery from Depression
Urban Habits of Walking in Women’s Recovery from Depression Open
This chapter explores how places, wellbeing and habits of walking are entangled in women’s accounts of moving through depression. It considers how walking can be thought of as a worlding habit that enfolds the human and non-human mind and …
View article: The Horse as a Therapist: Effects of an Equine Program Without “Therapy” on the Attention and Behavior of Youth Disengaged from Traditional School
The Horse as a Therapist: Effects of an Equine Program Without “Therapy” on the Attention and Behavior of Youth Disengaged from Traditional School Open
Background: Equine-assisted therapy may promote positive behavior change in young people "at risk." However, it is not always clear what therapeutic content is involved and if a trained therapist is included. The therapeutic effects of the…
View article: Engaging Disenfranchised Youth through an Equine Assisted Activities Program: Understanding Psychosocial Benefits of Horse-Human Interactions
Engaging Disenfranchised Youth through an Equine Assisted Activities Program: Understanding Psychosocial Benefits of Horse-Human Interactions Open
Evidence suggests equine-assisted activities may provide psychological benefits to young people “at-risk.” Results are presented from an equine program among 14- to 16-year-old children (N = 7), mostly boys (N = 6), attending a non-traditi…
View article: Action research with parkrun UK volunteer organizers to develop inclusive strategies
Action research with parkrun UK volunteer organizers to develop inclusive strategies Open
This article addresses the challenge of promoting physical activity through a focus on equity and engaging physically inactive citizens through the development of inclusive strategies within parkrun UK—a free, volunteer-led, weekly mass co…
View article: Feminist perspectives on third places
Feminist perspectives on third places Open
In this chapter we question the assumption that third places are neutral or inherently ‘good’ spaces in contemporary urban life. Drawing upon different feminist perspectives we explore how third places are conceptualised and practiced in g…
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: A PHYSICAL CULTURAL STUDIES PERSPECTIVE ON PHYSICAL (IN)ACTIVITY AND HEALTH INEQUALITIES: THE BIOPOLITICS OF BODY PRACTICES AND EMBODIED MOVEMENT
A PHYSICAL CULTURAL STUDIES PERSPECTIVE ON PHYSICAL (IN)ACTIVITY AND HEALTH INEQUALITIES: THE BIOPOLITICS OF BODY PRACTICES AND EMBODIED MOVEMENT Open
In this paper I discuss how a Physical Cultural Studies approach offers a different way of understanding the complex experiences of health, emotional wellbeing and (in)active embodiment as social practices. Non-communicable ‘diseases’ (dia…
View article: Beyond Bouncing Back: The ‘Cruel Optimism’ of Resilient Selfhood in Women’s Recovery from Depression
Beyond Bouncing Back: The ‘Cruel Optimism’ of Resilient Selfhood in Women’s Recovery from Depression Open
Academic debates surrounding the notion of resilience still face dissent about definitions, contexts, and managerial implications. By summarizing recent literature on resilience, this paper reveals two dominating paradigms, which I label t…
View article: Lifestyle drift and the phenomenon of ‘citizen shift’ in contemporary <scp>UK</scp> health policy
Lifestyle drift and the phenomenon of ‘citizen shift’ in contemporary <span>UK</span> health policy Open
Despite political change over the past 25 years in Britain there has been an unprecedented national policy focus on the social determinants of health and population‐based approaches to prevent chronic disease. Yet, policy impacts have been…
View article: Digital Ecologies of Youth Mental Health: Apps, Therapeutic Publics and Pedagogy as Affective Arrangements
Digital Ecologies of Youth Mental Health: Apps, Therapeutic Publics and Pedagogy as Affective Arrangements Open
In this paper, we offer a new conceptual approach to analyzing the interrelations between formal and informal pedagogical sites for learning about youth mental (ill) health with a specific focus on digital health technologies. Our approach…