A5082903020- Diversity and Impact of Dance
- Participatory Visual Research Methods
- Sport and Mega-Event Impacts
- Sports, Gender, and Society
- Posthumanist Ethics and Activism
- COVID-19 and Mental Health
- Gender, Feminism, and Media
- Adventure Sports and Sensation Seeking
- Physical Education and Pedagogy
- Geographies of human-animal interactions
- Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions
- Digital Innovation in Industries
- Digital Games and Media
- Vietnamese History and Culture Studies
- Art Therapy and Mental Health
- Obesity and Health Practices
- Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics
- Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction
- Economic Theory and Institutions
- Oral History, Memory, Narrative Analysis
- Asian American and Pacific Histories
- Sport Psychology and Performance
- Gender Roles and Identity Studies
- Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies
- Theatre and Performance Studies
Cape Breton University
2022-2023
University of Waikato
2019-2023
University of Alberta
2022-2023
University of East London
2016
In this article, we draw upon the ethico-onto-epistemology of feminist new materialisms to reflect on our experiences as feminists doing research women’s embodied sport, fitness, and well-being during COVID-19 pandemic. For qualitative researchers around world, presented a radically changed environment. many, shift digital interviews required navigation unfamiliar technologies experimenting with different strategies for establishing connections through computer screens. As scholars, working...
This paper explores the gendered, disruptive effects and affective intensities of COVID-19 ways that women working in sport fitness sector were prompted to establish more-than-human connection through technologies, environment, objects. Bringing together theoretical embodied insights from object interviews with 17 professionals (i.e., athletes, coaches, instructors) Aotearoa New Zealand, this advances a relational understanding multiple human nonhuman forces shape transform women's wellbeing...
The COVID-19 pandemic has radically shifted modes of communication and connection. For many, digital technologies have played critical roles in enabling ongoing relationships during extended periods social isolation. Yet the connection offered through such prompted new affective relations intimacies. In this article, we draw upon interviews with 17 women working sport fitness sector Aotearoa New Zealand to explore their engagement times. Each responded nationwide lockdown by offering...
A plethora of research has focused on how the pandemic shifted human relations with space, place and wellbeing. Yet, to date few have return public spaces after extended periods lockdown is impacting subjective wellbeing, particularly amidst a context fluctuating levels risk, rapidly changing policy demands expectations, different affective responses such regulations. In this paper we re-turn voices 17 women who were living in Aotearoa New Zealand during early stages working sport or fitness...
This article engages Rosi Braidotti’s writing on COVID-19 and affirmative ethics to expand understandings of the purpose leisure physical activity in women’s lives during pandemic. Utilizing a feminist methodology informed by an affirmation, care, creativity, authors share insights from in-depth interviews with five dedicated Yoga practitioners living Aotearoa New Zealand. Herein, they reveal how Yoga’s physical, mental, ethical practices supported women as navigated numerous challenges The...
Over the past two years, our global dance community has faced many challenges while coming to terms with a health crisis that drastically altered home and working lives. In this article, we focus on how scholars can work collaboratively during extended periods of isolation. We begin by overviewing environment education pandemic, then direct ways we, as scholars, were also adjusting practices sustain research collaborations provide support for colleagues isolation physical distancing....
Engaging a feminist ethnographic methodology, this article offers discussion of women’s embodied experiences wellbeing in intergenerational somatic dance classes. Somatic classes aim to develop awareness, support ease and freedom movement, offer opportunities for creativity, agency reflection. Drawing on in-depth interviews, observation autoethnographic vignettes, three themes emerged from the empirical material that expand understandings as fluid dynamic experience, reveal value women...
In this article, we draw upon the work of leading new materialist Karen Barad to explore possibilities for knowing women's yoga bodies differently. Engaging insights gathered from an embodied ethnography on contemporary Yoga in dialogue with Barad's concept entanglement, contemplate complexity a lived experience body. voices and movement experiences 19 committed women practitioners, explain ‘Yogic union’ as states absorption facilitating awareness existence that is complex, interconnected...
In this article, we draw upon the experiences of mature recreational dancers who participated in classes facilitated by a professional ballet company and catered to older adults. Moving with 11 women through 10-week course, immersing ourselves empirical material, recognized opportunities for broadening our analysis aging dancing bodies. Inspired Latourian understanding bodies recent new materialist turn humanities social sciences, became curious about ways that were being affected their...