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.

Info autore

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.

Riassunto

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.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Jason Laurendeau, Jason (University of Lethbridge Laurendeau, Laurendeau Jason
• Editore: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Contenuto: Libro
• Forma del prodotto: Tascabile
• Data pubblicazione: 09.10.2024
• Categoria: Guide e manuali > Sport > Tematiche generali, enciclopedie, manuali, annuari; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia > Età moderna fino al 1918; Scienze naturali, medicina, informatica, tecnica > Scienze naturali, tematiche generali; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Scienze sociali, tematiche generali
• EAN: 9780367672492
• ISBN: 978-0-367-67249-2
• Numero di pagine: 154
• Serie: Qualitative Research in Sport and Physical Activity
• Categorie: Ethnic Studies, SPORTS & RECREATION / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Research, Colonialism & imperialism, Sociology: sport & leisure, Sports & outdoor recreation, Sociology: sport and leisure, Colonialism and imperialism, SPORTS & RECREATION / Cultural & Social Aspects, Sports and Active outdoor recreation, Settler colonialism, Qualitative inquiry, outdoor recreation research, physical culture studies, decolonising sport research methods, social science ethics, ontology epistemology axiology