Tag: Adele Pavlidis
Leisure Sciences, Volume 41, 2019, Issue 1–2: Feminist Knowledges as Interventions in Physical Cultures
Leisure Sciences presents scientific inquiries into the study of leisure, recreation, parks, travel, and tourism from a social science perspective. Articles cover the social and psychological aspects of leisure, planning for leisure environments, leisure gerontology, travel and tourism behavior, leisure economics, and urban leisure delivery systems.
Spänstig bok med uppfriskande ingångar
Kim Toffoletti, Holly Thorpe och Jessica Francombe-Webb är redaktörer för antologin New Sporting Femininities: Embodied Politics in Postfeminist Times (Palgrave Macmillan), som enligt vår recensent Karin Lindelöf lyfter många angelägna frågor utifrån ambitionen att studera postfeminism som analytisk kategori i relation till fysiskt aktiva och idrottande femininiteter av skilda slag.
Annals of Leisure Research, Volume 21, 2018, Issue 1
Annals of Leisure Research publishes refereed articles which promote the development of research and scholarship in leisure studies. Annals is aimed at an international readership and seeks theoretical or applied articles which cover any topic within the broad area of leisure studies.
Stimulating exploration of the complexities of sex-integrated sport
To promote gender equality in sport, is sex integrated sports the way to go? Food for thoughts on this topic is provided in Sex Integration in Sport and Physical Culture: Promises and Pitfalls, edited by Channon, Dashper, Fletcher & Lake (Routledge). Our reviewer is Mark Brooke, whose thinking on the matter was greatly stimulated by the various contributions in this volume.
Med kultur som förstoringsglas: Anglosfäriska texter om kvinnor och ”action”-sport
I antologin Women in Action Sport Cultures: Identity, Politics and Experience diskuterar redaktörerna Holly Thorpe och Rebecca Olive tillsammans med ytterligare 27 bidragsgivare de utmaningar kvinnor står inför i samtidens idrottskulturer. Sveriges ledande actionsportkulturforskare Åsa Bäckström, som ogillar ”action” men gillar ”kultur”, är vår recensent.
Important ethnographic and autoethnographic study of roller derby
In a ground-breaking feminist study of roller derby, authors Adele Pavlidis and Simone Fullagar make full use of the dynamic concept of ’affect’. Greta Bladh has read Sport Gender and Power: The Rise of Roller Derby. Gender, Bodies and Transformation (Ashgate) and she is impressed.
