A5088744266- Sports, Gender, and Society
- Obesity and Health Practices
- Management and Organizational Studies
- Sport and Mega-Event Impacts
- Diversity and Impact of Dance
- Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics
- Participatory Visual Research Methods
- Gender, Feminism, and Media
- Physical Education and Pedagogy
- Posthumanist Ethics and Activism
- Sports Analytics and Performance
- Inclusion and Disability in Education and Sport
- Dutch Social and Cultural Studies
- Architecture, Design, and Social History
- Disability Education and Employment
- Sexual Assault and Victimization Studies
- Higher Education Governance and Development
- Adventure Sports and Sensation Seeking
- Emotional Labor in Professions
- Crafts, Textile, and Design
- Doping in Sports
- Gender Diversity and Inequality
- Education in Diverse Contexts
- Schopenhauer and Stefan Zweig
- Teacher Education and Leadership Studies
Utrecht University
2014-2025
University of Applied Sciences Utrecht
2021-2022
Footscray Hospital
2020
Victoria University
2020
Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences
2020
This article aims to claim ‘body size’ as an increasingly important axis of signification. It draws on research from various disciplines present exploratory overview the different ways in which body size categorizations – being (considered) fat or slender intersect with other axes, such gender, race, sexuality, social class and age. The argues that intersectional perspective adds our understanding layeredness complexity power differentials, normativities identity formations co-produce...
In this paper, I present an autoethnographic story about my experiences of expressing breast milk at a Dutch university department. My illustrates how interrelated and conflicting discourses gender, motherhood, breastfeeding, embodiment professionalism raised issues (in)visibility, embodied control, spatiality discipline body shaped experience as newly maternal employee. This paper thus aims to include bodies in organization studies highlights the need consider important topic research....
The spread of COVID‐19 acutely challenges and affects not just economic markets, demographic statistics healthcare systems, but indeed also the politics organizing becoming in a new everyday life academia emerging our homes. Through collage stories, snapshots, vignettes, photos other reflections life, this collective contribution is catching glimpse corona‐life its micro‐politics multiple, often contradicting claims on practices as many us live, work care at home. It embodies concerns,...
Abstract Using examples from an ethnographic study of aircraft cleaning, we discuss and illustrate how “writing differently” can be performed throughout the research process—in literature review, data collection, analysis, writing up. We argue that differently is ongoing methodological tool in order to rethink/refeel practices ways generate affective, embodied caring accounts empirical organizational contexts, particularly when marginalization key such as cleaning work. turn poetry better...
This paper uses Leder’s work on dys-appearance to explore qualitative data from interviews with 50 menopausal cis women working in the UK and Netherlands. We focus viscerality of experiences, how these disrupt women’s lives they respond accordingly. propose a threefold framework misrecognition this basis, inspired by Leder. suggest our respondents misrecognize their bodies because appear be malfunctioning, no longer acting as “should.” The second modality is themselves, cannot hard or fast...
This article explores how Dutch physical education (PE) teachers discursively construct body differences between students related to gender, (dis)ability and health. Our results show disciplinary technologies of categorisation normalisation are embedded in two distinct discourses that our participants used: the discourse naturalness for explaining managing gender ability transformation Both these produced norms PE as male, abled slender. However, managed deviance normalcy varies per...
This paper focuses on the experiences of self-identified fat women employees. Combining works Karen Barad and Sara Ahmed, we offer a feminist new materialist analysis production difference in organizations related to size as an entanglement bodies, discourses, organizational materials affect. We show how our participants predominantly became shameful ‘bad fit’ within their jobs through intra-action large bodies with obesity discourse such chairs workwear. Yet also illustrate some...
Earlier research has shown how football media use specific racial/ethnic stereotypes, thereby reinforcing certain hierarchies along the lines of race and ethnicity. We a cultural studies perspective to explore discourses surrounding ethnicity in among Dutch multiethnic audiences when they talk about football. have interviewed 30 participants five focus groups collect our data. Our analysis shows that everyday mainly reproduces stereotypes racisms, intersect with other markers difference like...
Abstract In this paper, we offer a collective, multi‐vocal reflection on using poetry for research purposes. These were reflections an online sub‐plenary session organized as workshop, which was held at the European Group Organization Studies conference in 2021. During first three authors presented step‐by‐step method doing poetic inquiry and invited participants to apply it their own empirical data or praxis. The created response marginalization of affect embodiment mainstream organization...
In this paper, we explore how physically disabled youth who participate in mainstream education discursively construct and position themselves relation to dominant discourses about sport physicality that mark their bodies as 'abnormal' 'deviant'. We employ a feminist poststructuralist perspective analyze the narratives sport, physical (PE), body self of four Dutch youngsters. Our results indicate although societal deviant, vulnerable lacking 'abnormal', these constructed 'normal'. However,...
This paper engages with the question of how fat female employees manage weight-related stigma at work. We use poetic inquiry to show reader it feels for our participants be stigmatized based on their size. interviewed 22 women who self-identify as full-figured, fat, overweight, or obese. The results consist six poems, five which were written by us, researchers. These 'tri-voiced poems' (Leavy 2010b) illustrate spectrum affective responses and management strategies that talked about, ranging...
Bodies are always present in organizations, yet they frequently remain unacknowledged or invisible including sport organizations and management research. We therefore argue for an embodied turn The purpose of this article is to possible reasons why scholars have rarely paid attention bodies organizations; offer arguments should do so; give suggestions what scholarship on embodiment might look like using various theoretical frameworks. Using the topic diversity as example, we explore insights...
In this article we explore body norms Dutch youth create in their discursive constructions of athletic and (non-)athletic bodies how these are enforced by the Panopticon Synopticon. Our methodology consisted auto-driven photo elicitation group interviews with 42 secondary school students. The results indicate complexity that use. We created seven visual metaphors to illustrate various narratives emerged from data: Male Soccer Player; Field Hockey Girl; Female Boxer; Dancer; Fatty; Sumo...
CrossFit is a relatively new fitness movement/sport, where women and men train together in the same space, performing athletic movements gender equality celebrated marketing, promoting equal opportunities for women. This paper explores how much emphasized gender-equality narrative unfolds performativity Dutch gym. To this end, we draw from an ethnographic case study through which examine gendered narratives bodily gestures of CrossFitters. Using Butler’s heterosexual matrix, found that...
This paper offers a reflexive ethnographic account to problematize conventional approaches academic teaching that focus purely on rational, disembodied, and linear production consumption of knowledge, in neoliberal, metric-driven environments. Interweaving diary notes dialogical exchanges with images arts-based teaching, we discuss how might engage both students teachers embodied relational forms learning knowing grounded experiences unknowing unlearning. We the potentials exposing classroom...
Abstract In this paper I present a reading of poetry on the silences that surround experiences sexual violence. The took place at an academic conference in 2022 stream topic vulnerability. offer these poems, based my personal experiences, spirit connection and solidarity, as feminist strategy reclamation resistance. posit collective conversations about violence social phenomenon are necessary to change status quo explore difficulty speak of/through pain relation particular subjectivity...
In this article, we use the notion of "biopedagogical practices" to explore how Dutch youth respond health messages that focus on body weight. Previous studies suggest such encourage dissatisfaction in youth. Few studies, however, local/cultural specificity youth's responses these biopedagogical practices. address questions about re-interpretation and resistance engage can be understood their local context. The data were drawn from two previously conducted which a total 64 teenagers (aged...