Pub Date : 2021-12-02DOI: 10.1080/2159676X.2021.2002394
K. A. Bailey, Carla M. Rice, Melissa Gualtieri, James Gillett
ABSTRACT Research consistently demonstrates that media depictions of ‘the yogi’ are narrowly represented, erasing bodies of difference, and perpetuating an idealised form of yoga. We analysed 257 Instagram posts from the hashtags #YogaForAll and #YogaForEveryone to explore how these hashtags, which seemingly promote an inclusive yoga, are mobilised. Using reflexive thematic analysis and multimodal discourse analysis, we posed the following questions: 1) What discourses and affects circulate in and across these hashtags, and 2) How do seemingly inclusive hashtag constructions constrain and/or expand possibilities of yoga for a diversity of bodyminds? Drawing from post-structuralist and feminist theorising on biopedagogies, flexible bodies, and affect, we explored how yoga Instagram spaces represent a yoga that is ostensibly intended for ‘all’ and ‘everyone’. Our analysis generated the following themes: Flexible Bodyminds, Yoga as a Commodified Flexible-Aesthetic, Yoga for AbALLe (all-able) Bodies, The Yoga Bod, and Yoga as Promising Happiness. Overall, we confirm that Instagram comprises another medium where biopedagogies, or expert instructions for living, proliferate and come to ‘stick’ to idealised bodyminds through socially desired discourses (e.g. flexibility) and affects (e.g. happiness). Within these posts, neoliberalised gendered imperatives, such as individual responsibilisation and physical-mental-social-economic flexibility – what we call the flexible bodymind – are packaged as the ‘happy yogi’ and reverberate on a powerful sociocultural platform.
{"title":"Is #YogaForEveryone? The idealised flexible bodymind in Instagram yoga posts","authors":"K. A. Bailey, Carla M. Rice, Melissa Gualtieri, James Gillett","doi":"10.1080/2159676X.2021.2002394","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/2159676X.2021.2002394","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Research consistently demonstrates that media depictions of ‘the yogi’ are narrowly represented, erasing bodies of difference, and perpetuating an idealised form of yoga. We analysed 257 Instagram posts from the hashtags #YogaForAll and #YogaForEveryone to explore how these hashtags, which seemingly promote an inclusive yoga, are mobilised. Using reflexive thematic analysis and multimodal discourse analysis, we posed the following questions: 1) What discourses and affects circulate in and across these hashtags, and 2) How do seemingly inclusive hashtag constructions constrain and/or expand possibilities of yoga for a diversity of bodyminds? Drawing from post-structuralist and feminist theorising on biopedagogies, flexible bodies, and affect, we explored how yoga Instagram spaces represent a yoga that is ostensibly intended for ‘all’ and ‘everyone’. Our analysis generated the following themes: Flexible Bodyminds, Yoga as a Commodified Flexible-Aesthetic, Yoga for AbALLe (all-able) Bodies, The Yoga Bod, and Yoga as Promising Happiness. Overall, we confirm that Instagram comprises another medium where biopedagogies, or expert instructions for living, proliferate and come to ‘stick’ to idealised bodyminds through socially desired discourses (e.g. flexibility) and affects (e.g. happiness). Within these posts, neoliberalised gendered imperatives, such as individual responsibilisation and physical-mental-social-economic flexibility – what we call the flexible bodymind – are packaged as the ‘happy yogi’ and reverberate on a powerful sociocultural platform.","PeriodicalId":48542,"journal":{"name":"Qualitative Research in Sport Exercise and Health","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2021-12-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42622019","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-11-28DOI: 10.1080/2159676X.2021.2002395
Martin Camiré
ABSTRACT Life skills, defined as psychosocial skills enabling individuals to successfully meet life demands, have been popular in youth sport research to frame what we learn through sport. In light of recent critiques of life skills, the purpose of the present paper is to propose a move to rethink life skills as assemblages through a postqualitative inquiry, with the work of Deleuze and Guattari, Delanda, and Buchanan informing how the concept of assemblage is advanced. To properly pave the way for rethinking life skills as assemblages, a closer look at sport, learning, positive youth development, and sport skills is undertaken. As assemblages, life skills are no longer positioned to reside within the individual and the notion of transfer is abandoned. Rather, life skills as assemblages are proposed as relationally adaptive know hows, enacted through a coming together of shared agency between human and nonhuman entities intra-acting in an immanent world. Life skills as assemblages are deemed to have certain stable functions but are always expressed differently through evolving relations. Implications for qualitative research are offered, along with suggestions as to how researchers can inquire on life skills moving forward.
{"title":"A move to rethink life skills as assemblages: a call to postqualitative inquiry","authors":"Martin Camiré","doi":"10.1080/2159676X.2021.2002395","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/2159676X.2021.2002395","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Life skills, defined as psychosocial skills enabling individuals to successfully meet life demands, have been popular in youth sport research to frame what we learn through sport. In light of recent critiques of life skills, the purpose of the present paper is to propose a move to rethink life skills as assemblages through a postqualitative inquiry, with the work of Deleuze and Guattari, Delanda, and Buchanan informing how the concept of assemblage is advanced. To properly pave the way for rethinking life skills as assemblages, a closer look at sport, learning, positive youth development, and sport skills is undertaken. As assemblages, life skills are no longer positioned to reside within the individual and the notion of transfer is abandoned. Rather, life skills as assemblages are proposed as relationally adaptive know hows, enacted through a coming together of shared agency between human and nonhuman entities intra-acting in an immanent world. Life skills as assemblages are deemed to have certain stable functions but are always expressed differently through evolving relations. Implications for qualitative research are offered, along with suggestions as to how researchers can inquire on life skills moving forward.","PeriodicalId":48542,"journal":{"name":"Qualitative Research in Sport Exercise and Health","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2021-11-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47017747","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-11-03DOI: 10.1080/2159676X.2021.2001031
T. Williams, L. Lozano-Sufrategui, J. Tomasone
ABSTRACT Sport and exercise students will form the next generation of sport, exercise and health practitioners tasked with supporting disabled people to be physically active. Yet, little is known about what these students imagine about physical activity and disability. This focus is important as university can be a narratively rich environment that offers pedagogical opportunities to understand and disrupt dangerous narratives around disability and amplify alternative narratives. The aim of this study was to explore sport and exercise students’ narrative imagination of physical activity and disability through the novel method of story completion. Ninety Uk-based participants wrote a story in response to one of four story stems. Following a rigorously applied holistic-form structural analysis, three principal narratives were identified across all stories: 1) incapability narrative; 2) supercrip narrative; and 3) social justice in sport narrative. Novel narrative insights highlighted the problematic dominant representations of disabled people in incapability and supercrip stories underpinned by an ableist ideology and emphasised the need to amplify counter-narrative resources to promote acts of social justice. This original empirical knowledge has the capacity to influence university education and expand the narrative resources available to sport and exercise students to talk about disability and improve interactions with disabled people. This article also makes an important methodological contribution by applying an innovative narrative analytical technique to story completion data, as well as advancing practical considerations and challenges guiding story completion design and implementation.
{"title":"Stories of physical activity and disability: exploring sport and exercise students’ narrative imagination through story completion","authors":"T. Williams, L. Lozano-Sufrategui, J. Tomasone","doi":"10.1080/2159676X.2021.2001031","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/2159676X.2021.2001031","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Sport and exercise students will form the next generation of sport, exercise and health practitioners tasked with supporting disabled people to be physically active. Yet, little is known about what these students imagine about physical activity and disability. This focus is important as university can be a narratively rich environment that offers pedagogical opportunities to understand and disrupt dangerous narratives around disability and amplify alternative narratives. The aim of this study was to explore sport and exercise students’ narrative imagination of physical activity and disability through the novel method of story completion. Ninety Uk-based participants wrote a story in response to one of four story stems. Following a rigorously applied holistic-form structural analysis, three principal narratives were identified across all stories: 1) incapability narrative; 2) supercrip narrative; and 3) social justice in sport narrative. Novel narrative insights highlighted the problematic dominant representations of disabled people in incapability and supercrip stories underpinned by an ableist ideology and emphasised the need to amplify counter-narrative resources to promote acts of social justice. This original empirical knowledge has the capacity to influence university education and expand the narrative resources available to sport and exercise students to talk about disability and improve interactions with disabled people. This article also makes an important methodological contribution by applying an innovative narrative analytical technique to story completion data, as well as advancing practical considerations and challenges guiding story completion design and implementation.","PeriodicalId":48542,"journal":{"name":"Qualitative Research in Sport Exercise and Health","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2021-11-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46622071","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-10-27DOI: 10.1080/2159676X.2021.1993974
Holly Bradshaw, Karen Howells, Mathijs F. G. Lucassen
ABSTRACT The post-Olympic period is complex and distressing for many Olympic athletes; preparing for the likely impacts of the Olympic Games amongst returning athletes is fundamental in managing the negative responses articulated as the post-Olympic blues. Mindful of the need for the development of interventions that can support athletes, this study engaged Olympic athletes in: (a) discussing their experiences relating to the Olympic and post-Olympic periods and, (b) informing the researchers on Olympians’ opinions on the management of the post-Olympic blues. Fourteen Olympic athletes from the United Kingdom took part in focus groups which were analysed using Thematic Analysis. The analysis produced six mutually exclusive themes, The Olympic Dream, The Olympic Nightmare, Commodification, Perceptions of Social Support, Limited Preparation, and Managing and Overcoming. Through these themes the Olympians provided suggestions into how the content and potential facilitation of future interventions could better support athletes through their experiences. The findings were clear, Olympic athletes irrespective of whether they had previously competed in an Olympic Games expressed a desire for support in preparing for the post-Olympic experience. They expressed that this should be delivered primarily after the Olympic Games, with several athletes highlighting the value of an awareness raising session beforehand. Athletes proposed a shift away from expert sport psychology delivery of interventions in favour of a programme which was pragmatic in terms of content and delivered by former Olympians.
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Pub Date : 2021-10-27DOI: 10.1080/2159676X.2021.1974929
Shawn D. Forde
ABSTRACT This article outlines an attempt to use drawing and comics as an arts-based research methodology during an ethnographic project relating to sport and social change in South Africa. The use of drawing within fieldnotes has a long history, and more recently the use of comics as a form of research and dissemination has received increased attention. The purpose of this article is to introduce the potential that drawing and comic making provide as unique arts-based methodologies within ethnographic research. Through examples of comic vignettes, comic panels, and drawings, I illustrate how drawing(s) operated as a site of departure and arrival. My drawings and comics began to trace the entanglements that inevitably develop through ethnographic research. As I started to trace the lines of myself and community members moving and playing within soccer spaces, I was drawn into dialogue and relationship with people, places, and histories.
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Pub Date : 2021-10-25DOI: 10.1080/2159676X.2021.1961848
K. Fortnum, S. Reid, C. Elliott, B. Furzer, J. Wong, B. Jackson
ABSTRACT Purpose: Children with mental health disorders have lower physical activity levels compared to their peers; however, minimal research has been conducted to date to understand their unique experiences of physical activity. We sought to better understand these experiences, along with contributing factors, through interviews with children with mental health disorders and their parents/guardians. Methods: Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 20 children (6–12 years, 17 males) and 18 parents/guardians from a metropolitan mental health service, and data were analysed using a thematic analysis approach. Results and conclusions: Children predominantly participated in play-based, unstructured physical activities with their families. Aspects of social connection (or disconnection), children’s movement skill and resilience, and a desire to experience success and enjoyment, were described as influencers of children’s physical activity participation experiences (and levels). Children and parents/guardians also emphasised the importance of emotional and physical support surrounding physical activity participation, and the need for suitably tailored programmes and environments. Recommendations are offered to facilitate physical activity programming that meets the specific needs of children with mental health disorders and their families.
{"title":"Physical activity participation among children diagnosed with mental health disorders: A qualitative analysis of children’s and their guardian’s perspectives","authors":"K. Fortnum, S. Reid, C. Elliott, B. Furzer, J. Wong, B. Jackson","doi":"10.1080/2159676X.2021.1961848","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/2159676X.2021.1961848","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Purpose: Children with mental health disorders have lower physical activity levels compared to their peers; however, minimal research has been conducted to date to understand their unique experiences of physical activity. We sought to better understand these experiences, along with contributing factors, through interviews with children with mental health disorders and their parents/guardians. Methods: Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 20 children (6–12 years, 17 males) and 18 parents/guardians from a metropolitan mental health service, and data were analysed using a thematic analysis approach. Results and conclusions: Children predominantly participated in play-based, unstructured physical activities with their families. Aspects of social connection (or disconnection), children’s movement skill and resilience, and a desire to experience success and enjoyment, were described as influencers of children’s physical activity participation experiences (and levels). Children and parents/guardians also emphasised the importance of emotional and physical support surrounding physical activity participation, and the need for suitably tailored programmes and environments. Recommendations are offered to facilitate physical activity programming that meets the specific needs of children with mental health disorders and their families.","PeriodicalId":48542,"journal":{"name":"Qualitative Research in Sport Exercise and Health","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2021-10-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43372087","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-10-20DOI: 10.1080/2159676X.2021.1989711
Brittany Johnson, Kate Russell, L. Peralta
ABSTRACT The ‘good mother’ discourse is concerned with the sociocultural construction of motherhood and is visible in many social contexts, such as the workplace, sport, family, and in particular, health-related contexts such as weight loss. This paper explores the ‘good mother’ discourse within constructs of weight created in and through engagement in Australian weight loss centres. Of the 108 success stories collected, Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) was applied to eighty-six (n = 86) success stories across three Australian weight loss centres (Weight Watchers, Lite n’ Easy, and Michelle Bridges’ 12 Week Body Transformation). These success stories were published on each of their weight loss centres’ websites and were accessed on Thursday 20 August 2015 for the purpose of analysis. Findings show that there was a dynamic and complex relationship between women losing weight and wanting to maintain the ‘good mother’ status. Mothers felt a strong need to justify losing weight, through benefits for their family rather than for themselves, and were ‘allowed’ (and therefore given ‘permission’) to join and participate in the weight loss centres. The process supporting the development of becoming a ‘better’ mother. Insight into these processes helps us to examine the role weight loss centres play in constructing ideals surrounding gender, motherhood, the body, and in particular for the discursive messages that shape understandings of ‘success’ and being a ‘good mother’.
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Pub Date : 2021-10-11DOI: 10.1080/2159676X.2021.1989020
Lea Hall, P. Rhodes, Anthony Papathomas
ABSTRACT A meta-synthesis was conducted to explore the experiences of ultra-runners who had sustained a running related injury. We identified 10 narrative studies which were synthesised thematically before being re-organised within an Embodiment framework producing 5 taxonomies; The Disciplined Body, Embodied Distress, Corporeal Running Identity, Intersubjectivity of pain and Embodied Coping. Ultra-running is a body centred activity exemplifying Merleau-Ponty’s embodiment. These runners develop a heightened kinaesthetic awareness and embodied sense of space developed through many hours of ‘burning in’ movement pathways. Running as a habituated and pre-reflective action means that when experiencing injury, the entire world of the ultra-runner is disrupted, calling into question their corporeal identity. Ultra-runners who experience pain or injury may have the opportunity to resist dominant pain narratives by adopting an embodied approach to healing. This meta-synthesis has implications for further research, examining the embodied meaning injured ultra-runners make from injury and how this impacts their experiences of their bodies.
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Pub Date : 2021-09-21DOI: 10.1080/2159676X.2021.1979635
T. Budden, J. Dimmock, Brett W. Smith, M. Rosenberg, M. Beauchamp, B. Jackson
ABSTRACT Humour appears to be an important aspect of health-promoting efforts for some men. A better understanding of the role humour plays in men’s health contexts may provide insight into the optimal design of health interventions for men. In this study, we explored the role banter, humour that blurs the line between playfulness and aggression, plays for men in a men’s weight loss context. We applied dialogical narrative analysis to thirty interviews conducted with men involved in a men’s weight-loss program that leverages competition to drive weight loss. Banter served several functions for men in the program, including allowing them to determine their social position during early group formation, feel good, develop camaraderie, experience respite, provide male inter-personal support in a counter-intuitive way, and ‘be themselves’. Men could use banter as a tool to develop resilience for themselves, but could also adapt their approach to use banter as a means of providing support for others. Banter could also cause trouble, through conflict and misunderstandings, primarily understood through a lens of narratives of progressiveness, inclusiveness, and a ‘changing culture’. Banter could do harm, by positioning oneself against certain characteristics, and as a tool to get under people’s skin. However, an approach-orientation to one’s problems may allow misunderstandings that arise due to banter to lead to enhanced group cohesion. Intervention developers ought to explicitly address the potential for banter (and humour more broadly) to have positive and negative effects in men’s health contexts.
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Pub Date : 2021-09-21DOI: 10.1080/2159676X.2021.1974928
Reem AlHashmi, Christopher R. Matthews
ABSTRACT Several scholars have examined the uncertainties faced by sport medicine professionals surrounding their diagnosis, treatment and management of concussion. Yet, recent evidence suggests that combat sport athletes seem to have ‘reasonably good concussion knowledge’. How, then, have athletes gained such an understanding when medical professionals have not? We argue that this logical inconsistency is most likely an artefact of inflexible, ‘snapshot’ methodological procedures rather than a nuanced representation of athletes’ actual understanding and experiences of concussion. We address this issue by employing immersive research strategies to provide epistemological space for complexities, contradictions and incoherencies that lie within fighters’ understanding of such experiences to come to the fore. In so doing, we demonstrate the interdependence between notions of ‘uncertainty’ and ‘certainty’ in fighters’ knowledge about concussion. Further to this, we propose the idea of ‘the expert on the street’ to explain the ways in which fighters gained lay medical certainty and highlight the potential problems that are imbedded within this process. To conclude, we suggest that inflexible, ‘snapshot’ methods will often produce overly reductive answers which do little to support the generation of the solutions which are needed to tackle concussion in sport.
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