{"title":"‘What it was in my eyes’: picturing youths' embodiment in ‘real’ spaces","authors":"Laura Azzarito, Jennifer J. Sterling","doi":"10.1080/19398441.2010.488029","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19398441.2010.488029","url":null,"abstract":"Readers should also refer to the journal's website at http://www.informaworld.com/rqrs and check volume 2, issue 2 to view the visual material in colour. Current global educational trends towards homogenisation and deterritorialisation have resulted in limited attention to the multiple and contradictory ways youths frame, construct and view their physicalities. The purpose of this research was to explore the ways in which young people of different ethnicities in two urban schools engaged with physical culture in their everyday lives. To investigate youths' embodiments, researchers employed a qualitative visual methodology with secondary school students. By giving the participants digital cameras, the researchers explored the ways young people pictured and created their body‐selves in ‘real spaces’. Data was collected from multiple sources: field notes, interviews and visual Moving in My World diaries, which participants created to represent their emplaced body experiences. Findings shed light on the multiple ways young people engaged in visual and verbal meaning‐making about their physicalities based on the range of resources, opportunities, and/or constraints existing in the material contexts available to them. While students envisioned themselves as physically active and as creative of their body‐selves, most girls' visual diaries pictured recreational bodies in gender‐segregated, shielded spaces, whereas most boys' visual diaries presented sporting bodies in public performances. Our discussion raises critical questions about ‘real’ opportunities for young people's moving bodies in the localities of their everyday lives.","PeriodicalId":92578,"journal":{"name":"Qualitative research in sport and exercise","volume":"36 1","pages":"209 - 228"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78399404","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Shooting a diary, not just a hoop: using video diaries to explore the embodied everyday contexts of a university basketball team","authors":"J. Cherrington, Beccy Watson","doi":"10.1080/19398441.2010.488036","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19398441.2010.488036","url":null,"abstract":"Readers should also refer to the journal's website at http://www.informaworld.com/rqrs and check volume 2, issue 2 to view the accompanying video clips. This will appear as ‘Supplementary Content’ to this article. This paper examines video diaries as creative, visual methods and considers their value as a complementary and innovative method in qualitative, social science based, research on sport. Data are presented from a university basketball team and live links to video diaries are incorporated to contextualise and illustrate three key themes of the everyday, identity and the body. Evidence suggests that the players embody varying levels of ‘visual capital’ that inform their understanding and ‘production’ of these visual, ethnographic representations. Video diaries are assessed as a potential response to a crisis of representation facing researchers, demonstrating how this form of narrative data, in the context of visual methodology, is an interesting development for qualitative research in sport.","PeriodicalId":92578,"journal":{"name":"Qualitative research in sport and exercise","volume":"3 1","pages":"267 - 281"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82719384","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Setting the scene: hailing women into a running identity","authors":"M. Griffin","doi":"10.1080/19398441.2010.488024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19398441.2010.488024","url":null,"abstract":"Readers should also refer to the journal's website at http://www.informaworld.com/rqrs and check volume 2, issue 2 to view the visual material in colour. With the ethos of providing ‘all women whatever their age, size or ability the opportunity to run together’, the Women’s Running Network (WRN) emphasises its accessibility to the ‘true beginner’. The network provides a social and physical space in and through which (often) previously inactive, non‐elite, non‐competitive women of all ages learn to experience and perceive their bodies in a different way. The literature exploring all‐female leisure settings has highlighted the importance of these environments for promoting physical and psychological empowerment, enhancement of body image, and improved perceptions of women and the female body. However, within this social field, the specific ways in which women learn to live with and through their bodies – and indeed are taught to do so – have received limited attention. In this paper, I focus upon the role of the visual and material culture of the WRN to examine how women are told and shown particular gendered and embodied identities. I suggest that, via narrative text and images, the WRN hail women of a specific social location to seek out and embody the ethos of the network. Using the concepts of gendered identity performance and commercialised feminism, I highlight how the visual culture of the WRN can be interpreted as constructing a moral, gendered obligation for sport/exercise participation through midlife and beyond. I conclude by discussing how the visual and material culture of the WRN has implications for framing and facilitating would‐be participant’s potential identity performance, socialisation experiences, embodiment and physicality within this women’s‐only context.","PeriodicalId":92578,"journal":{"name":"Qualitative research in sport and exercise","volume":"1963 1","pages":"153 - 174"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91322143","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
J. Sims-Gould, L. Hurd Clarke, M. Ashe, J. Naslund, T. Liu-Ambrose
{"title":"Renewal, strength and commitment to self and others: older women’s reflections of the benefits of exercise using Photovoice","authors":"J. Sims-Gould, L. Hurd Clarke, M. Ashe, J. Naslund, T. Liu-Ambrose","doi":"10.1080/19398441.2010.488032","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19398441.2010.488032","url":null,"abstract":"Readers should also refer to the journal's website at http://www.informaworld.com/rqrs and check volume 2, issue 2 to view the visual material in colour. This study used Photovoice to examine how 38 older women (aged 65–75) perceived and visualised their physical health and the benefits of engaging in an exercise programme. Recruited from an exercise programme designed to examine the influence of exercise on executive function (cognition), the women were given disposable cameras and asked to photodocument how they experienced health and physical activity. Over a two‐month time period the participants collectively took over 700 photographs and each participated in a face‐to‐face interview. The photographs and interview transcripts were organised and analysed using a process designed by the researchers based on other Photovoice research. The analysis revealed that the women perceived exercise to be a means of renewing the self, a way to regain physical and social strength and an essential tool that would enable them to maintain their commitments to themselves and to others. We discuss our findings in light of the research and theorising concerning ageism and physical activity in later life.","PeriodicalId":92578,"journal":{"name":"Qualitative research in sport and exercise","volume":"7 1","pages":"250 - 266"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78524766","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Embodying understanding: drawing as research in sport and exercise","authors":"Hannah Gravestock","doi":"10.1080/19398441.2010.488028","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19398441.2010.488028","url":null,"abstract":"Readers should also refer to the journal's website at http://www.informaworld.com/rqrs and check volume 2, issue 2 to view the visual material in colour. As researchers in the arts embrace drawing as a means to facilitate new encounters with the external world in order to reveal and create new embodied knowledge, drawing as a research approach in sport and exercise science has yet to be examined. Using an ethnographic case study conducted in art and design and the sport of figure skating, I introduce drawing as an interdisciplinary research method that could enhance research in this field. Focusing on drawings of the performing body, I discuss the external visualisation of an internal thought process through mark‐making. I outline the strengths and weaknesses of using this approach and contextualise this dialogue using Lecoq's understanding of the relationship between the physicality of mark‐making and performance training practices. I conclude by suggesting how, through the provision of training in drawing as research, both the sports researcher and participant can further understand the complexities of human lives.","PeriodicalId":92578,"journal":{"name":"Qualitative research in sport and exercise","volume":"22 1","pages":"196 - 208"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72814303","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Seeing is believing: telling the ‘inside’ story of a beginning masters athlete through film","authors":"Mary Ann Kluge, B. Grant, L. Friend, L. Glick","doi":"10.1080/19398441.2010.488038","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19398441.2010.488038","url":null,"abstract":"Readers should also refer to the journal's website at http://www.informaworld.com/rqrs and check volume 2, issue 2 to view the accompanying video clips. This will appear as ‘Supplementary Content’ to this article. This paper is about how a previously inactive woman with little or no experience of playing sports became a masters athlete at 65 years of age. The authors explore how visual methods as a different way of knowing can be used to enhance our current theories and practical knowledge about older adults’ experiences with sport and exercise. How data were gathered and analysed through film and how film was used to represent experience are described. Additionally, the authors offer their perspective on some challenges and/or ethical issues researchers may face when visual methods are used.","PeriodicalId":92578,"journal":{"name":"Qualitative research in sport and exercise","volume":"110 1","pages":"282 - 292"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79263110","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Talking T‐shirts: a visual exploration of youth material culture","authors":"Clive C. Pope","doi":"10.1080/19398441.2010.488023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19398441.2010.488023","url":null,"abstract":"Readers should also refer to the journal's website at http://www.informaworld.com/rqrs and check volume 2, issue 2 to view the visual material in colour. The author completed a visual ethnography, first to explore the sport experiences of high school students taking part in New Zealand’s major rowing competition, the Maadi Cup. Additionally, the project set out to explore the process and potential of using photographs as representations of such experiences. The core of this research project was based on spending 10 days and nights at the regatta site, living the everyday life of rowers and rowing. The compressed time frame required the convenience of digital photography and video. In addition to the obvious artefacts of rowing, there is a notable influence of material culture. Part of the rowers’ everyday practice included this cultural production represented through the wearing and trading of T‐shirts. Despite its highly competitive nature, this regatta is important to young people as an opportunity to socialise and explore individual identities. For many of these students, Maadi is both grueling and gregarious. True, it is important for them to participate as competitors, but these objects of material culture (e.g. T‐shirts) help us understand how these young people communicate the wider meanings of being rowers.","PeriodicalId":92578,"journal":{"name":"Qualitative research in sport and exercise","volume":"184 ","pages":"133 - 152"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/19398441.2010.488023","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72444307","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A. Blodgett, R. Schinke, Duke Peltier, M. Wabano, Leslee A. Fisher, M. Eys, S. Ritchie, Danielle Recollet‐Saikkonen, Chris Pheasant, Patricia W. Pickard
{"title":"‘Naadmaadmi’: reflections of Aboriginal community members engaged in sport psychology co‐researching activities with mainstream academics","authors":"A. Blodgett, R. Schinke, Duke Peltier, M. Wabano, Leslee A. Fisher, M. Eys, S. Ritchie, Danielle Recollet‐Saikkonen, Chris Pheasant, Patricia W. Pickard","doi":"10.1080/19398440903510160","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19398440903510160","url":null,"abstract":"When attempting to work with people from Indigenous cultures, mainstream researchers often encounter cultural differences, mistrust and a general resistance to community research. These challenges have emerged within the sport psychology domain as a consequence of mono‐cultural, Eurocentric research paradigms, which have marginalised Indigenous populations and disconnected community members from their traditional teachings and values. The current project was developed out of a partnership among mainstream academics and Aboriginal community members in northern Ontario, Canada, who have been engaged in sport psychology co‐researching activities for six years. The purpose of the current study was to elicit Aboriginal community members’ reflections of engaging in research with mainstream academics, based on past experiences as well as more recent efforts among the current bicultural team. The overarching intent was to encourage mainstream researchers interested in working within the Aboriginal community to adopt culturally reflexive practices that are meaningful from the local standpoint and to resist traditional mono‐cultural approaches. Conversational interviews were employed with nine Aboriginal community members who were also engaged as co‐researchers throughout the project. The community co‐researchers delineated negative and positive research experiences and outlined the specific strategies that contributed to each. A community composite vignette was developed as a narrative supplement to the data and reflects a unique and culturally relevant process within the study.","PeriodicalId":92578,"journal":{"name":"Qualitative research in sport and exercise","volume":"41 1","pages":"56 - 76"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-02-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79698512","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The meaning of the mountain: exploring breast cancer survivors' lived experiences of subjective well‐being during a climb on Mt. Kilimanjaro","authors":"Shaunna M. Burke, C. Sabiston","doi":"10.1080/19398440903510137","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19398440903510137","url":null,"abstract":"This study adopted a phenomenological approach to examine experiences of subjective well‐being (SWB) of a group (N = 6) of breast cancer survivors during an attempt to scale Mt. Kilimanjaro. Data were collected via participant observation and interviews. Each data source was analysed using strategies grounded in a phenomenological approach. Results uncovered the meaning of climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro from the breast cancer survivors' points of view by identifying how participation in this activity supported their lived experiences of SWB. Participation in the climb on the mountain provided an opportunity for the women to (1) embrace life, (2) gain personal strength, (3) gain a sense of closure, (4) feel personally challenged, and (5) experience personal control. Further research should explore how participation in a climb on Mt. Kilimanjaro could inform other physical activity contexts for this population.","PeriodicalId":92578,"journal":{"name":"Qualitative research in sport and exercise","volume":"32 1","pages":"1 - 16"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-02-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84295449","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Parental stressors in professional youth football academies: a qualitative investigation of specialising stage parents","authors":"C. Harwood, A. Drew, Camilla J. Knight","doi":"10.1080/19398440903510152","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19398440903510152","url":null,"abstract":"In order to improve our understanding of parental experiences in elite youth sport, the present study investigated parental stressors within the context of professional football (i.e. soccer) academies in Great Britain. Focusing upon the specialising stage of athlete development, a total of 41 parents attended six focus groups exploring their experiences of stressors during the early and later phases of the specialising stage. A hierarchical thematic content analysis led to four dimensions of parental stressor: academy processes and quality of communication, match‐related factors, sport‐family role conflict and school support and education issues. Parents across the entire specialising phase identified uncertainty of their son's retention in the academy and quality of communication with staff as significant ongoing stressors. Unfamiliar coaching and match practices emerged as stressors for early stage parents, whereas the management of school and academy demands was most prominent for later stage parents. Their experiences suggested that the management of parents' expectations for their child in an academy and the ability for a professional club to communicate its ‘developmental’ and ‘non‐developmental’ practices might be central to parental support and well‐being. Strategic implications for practitioners, coaches and organisations are presented with these findings in mind.","PeriodicalId":92578,"journal":{"name":"Qualitative research in sport and exercise","volume":"52 1","pages":"39 - 55"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-02-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82608140","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}