Sport, Physical Activity, and Anti-Colonial Autoethnography - Stories and Ways of Being

This book offers a brief history of how autoethnography has been employed in studies of sport and physical (in)activity to date and makes an explicit call for anti-colonial approaches - challenging scholars of physical culture to interrogate and write against the colonial assumptions at work in so many physical cultural and academic spaces.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Proem, 1. Writing Sport and Physical Activity Autoethnographically: “The Stories That Will Make a Difference Aren’t the Easy Ones”, 2. Situating the Author, Interrogating Canada: (Un)sett(l)ing the Stage, 3. Anti-Colonial Autoethnography, 4. Outdoor Recreation, the Wilderness Ideal, and Complicating Settler Mobility, 5. Pedagogies of White Settler Masculinity: (Un)Becoming(?) Settlers, 6. O Canada? (Be)longing, (Un)certainty, and White Settler Inheritance, 7. (Autoethnographic) Futures: “Something as Yet Unimagined”

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Jason Laurendeau is Associate Professor with the Department of Sociology at the University of Lethbridge in Alberta, Canada. His research interests include settler colonialism, gender, risk, childhood, research methodology generally, and autoethnography in particular.

Zusammenfassung

This book offers a brief history of how autoethnography has been employed in studies of sport and physical (in)activity to date and makes an explicit call for anti-colonial approaches - challenging scholars of physical culture to interrogate and write against the colonial assumptions at work in so many physical cultural and academic spaces.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Jason Laurendeau, Jason (University of Lethbridge Laurendeau, Laurendeau Jason
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 20.03.2023
• EAN: 9780367672348
• ISBN: 978-0-367-67234-8
• Seiten: 154
• Serie: Qualitative Research in Sport and Physical Activity
• Themen: Naturwissenschaften, Medizin, Informatik, Technik > Naturwissenschaften allgemein; Ratgeber > Sport > Allgemeines, Lexika, Handbücher, Jahrbücher, Geschichte; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Sozialwissenschaften allgemein; Ethnic Studies, SPORTS & RECREATION / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Research, Colonialism & imperialism, Sociology: sport & leisure, history of sport, Sociology: sport and leisure, Colonialism and imperialism, Sport science, physical education, SPORTS & RECREATION / Cultural & Social Aspects, Research methods: general