Alternative sport and affect: non-representational theory examined

Thorpe, Holly; Rinehart, Robert E.

doi:10.1080/17430431003780278

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“…We can see the material evidence of some of these movements such as SurfAid International, a non-profit humanitarian organisation dedicated to 'improving the health and well-being of people living in isolated regions connected to us through surfing' (Thorpe & Rinehart, 2010: 1280. Taylor (2007) talks of the development of environmentalism in the surfing communities of North America and Wheaton (2007) discusses the environmental activism of the Surfers Against Sewage organisation which emerged from surfers' and windsurfers' concern for sea pollution in UK 3 .…”

Section: Kinetic Empathy and Environmental Justicementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Drawing upon Thrift's conceptualisations, they examine the implications of the concepts 'politics of hope' and 'politics of affect' for making sense of 'social justice movements (e.g., health, educational, environmental, anti-violence)' that they evidence are flourishing within what they term 'alternative sport' cultures. Evidence suggests that social and environmental justice movements, movements which build upon environmental awareness, are frequently spawned by people's involvement in nature-based adventure sport (see Thorpe & Rinehart, 2010;Humberstone, 2011;Taylor & Wheaton, 2007).…”

Section: Kinetic Empathy and Environmental Justicementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Kinetic empathy, Thrift (2008) argues, may stimulate and engender the cultural turn to the affective and sensuous. Thorpe andRinehart (2010: 1268) interrogate cultural geographer Thrift's social theory with the intention of checking its potentiality 'for shedding new light on the lived, affective and affecting experiences of participants in contemporary sport and physical cultures.' Drawing upon Thrift's conceptualisations, they examine the implications of the concepts 'politics of hope' and 'politics of affect' for making sense of 'social justice movements (e.g., health, educational, environmental, anti-violence)' that they evidence are flourishing within what they term 'alternative sport' cultures.…”

Section: Kinetic Empathy and Environmental Justicementioning

confidence: 99%

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Adventurous activities, embodiment and nature: spiritual, sensual and sustainable? Embodying environmental justice

Humberstone

2013

Motriz: rev. educ. fis.

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Abstract-This paper examines research on adventurous physical activities in nature from the perspective of the sentient body. Drawing upon ethnographic and autoethnographic research, I examine what has been termed 'peak' happenings or 'flow' which many who practise adventurous activities claim to experience through their whole body when in the 'zone'. I consider the concept of 'edgework', voluntary risk-taking, and insightful mobile and social understanding of the relationships between body, emotions and the elements, where the adventurous activity is experienced and interpreted as oneness with nature or expressed as 'spiritual' not only in high but also low risk nature-based sport. I then consider if and in what ways these knowledges may bring about greater understanding and action in relation to social and environmental justice. I argue that adventurous activities/nature-based sport may provide processes and practices that are alternative or complementary to traditional sporting 'body techniques' or 'body pedagogics'. I suggest that modern embodied adventurous practices in nature challenge dominant narratives of body/mind separation and potentially provide a pedagogic process fostering kinetic empathy. Finally I draw attention to the paradox of (re)-presenting sensorial experiences of sport in nature and ask for consideration on how we interconnect with the environment when we participate in adventureous nature-based sports. Keywords: nature, environmental justice, sentient bodyResumo-"Atividades de aventura, incorporação e natureza: espiritual, sensual e sustentável? Incorporando justiça ambiental." Este artigo analisa pesquisas sobre atividades físicas de aventura na natureza a partir da perspectiva do corpo sensível. Com base em pesquisa etnográfica e auto-etnografia, examino o que tem sido chamado de acontecimentos "pico" ou "fluxo," que muitos dos que afirmam praticar atividades de aventura experimentam através de todo o seu corpo, quando na "zona." Eu considero os conceitos 'edgework ,' tomada voluntá-ria de risco, e compreensão perspicaz móvel e social das relações entre corpo, emoções e os elementos, onde a atividade de aventura é vivida e interpretada como unidade com a natureza ou expressa como 'espiritual' não apenas durante esporte na natureza de alto risco, mas também no de baixo risco. Eu, então, considero se e de que maneira esses conhecimentos podem trazer uma maior compreensão e ação em matéria de justiça social e ambiental. Defendo que atividades de aventura/esporte baseado na natureza podem fornecer processos e práticas que são alternativas ou complementares às 'técnicas corporais' do esporte tradicional ou 'pedagogia do corpo.' Eu sugiro que as práticas modernas aventureiras incorporadas na natureza desafiam narrativas dominantes da separação do corpo/mente e potencialmente fornecer um processo pedagógico promovendo empatia cinética. Finalmente, chamo a atenção para o paradoxo de (re) apresentar experiências sensoriais do desporto na natureza e invoco a reflexão sobre como podemos interliga...

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Section: Kinetic Empathy and Environmental Justicementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Kinetic Empathy and Environmental Justicementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Kinetic Empathy and Environmental Justicementioning

confidence: 99%

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Adventurous activities, embodiment and nature: spiritual, sensual and sustainable? Embodying environmental justice

Humberstone

2013

Motriz: rev. educ. fis.

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“…Commonplace in other sports, the allure and mobilisation of affect is a crucial contemporary strategy (Kennedy et al, 2006;Thorpe and Rinehart, 2010). Hence, in a similar vein to Formula One's projection of a "glamorous and high-tech global spectacle of speed" (Sturm, 2014), the televised BBL relies upon a series of "dazzling" perspectives and "seductive" images to convert perceivably "smash and bash" cricket into a potentially enthralling spectacle.…”

Section: Television Technologies Spectacle and Affectmentioning

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Smash and Bash Cricket? Affective Technological Innovations in the Big Bash

Sturm¹

2015

Media International Australia

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With an explicit focus on the Australia's KFC T20 Big Bash League, my article explores how cricket is packaged as an affective televisual spectacle. The Big Bash's technological innovations and refinements blur the lines of information, entertainment and commodification, while allowing a traditional broadcast media form to be re-presented in non-traditional ways. That is, cameras and other technologies operate in fluid and highlymobile ways, encroach upon or are embedded within the field of play, and more frequently are placed on players and officials during live sporting contests. In turn, these contrasting technologies and multiple perspectives simultaneously provide affective layers for viewer engagement, merging analytical tools for sporting knowledge, sites for commodification and through mediated athletic replication. These technologies and techniques arguably afford an affective televisual "smash and bash" spectacle for both ephemeral and invested viewers. Sport as Media? Television, Technological Innovation and the Mediatisation of SportBrett Hutchins and David Rowe (2012) have observed a substantial shift in traditional broadcast models of scarcity to forms of digital plenitude, with contemporary sport mediation being radically transformed by these associated accelerated practices. Indeed, a myriad of sophisticated digital tools, techniques and devices are capturing, supplementing, shaping and disseminating sports content. As such, Hutchins and Rowe (2012: 10) assert that the sport and media binary should be re-thought as 'sport as media' given the intensification of these technologies, their enhanced interactive capacities and their increased hybridity, fluidity and materiality. Moreover, continual remediation cyclically impinges upon constructions of the spectacle, "real" sporting practices and advancements to technology, while increased global and commercial pressures further complicate the entangled web of sport mediatisation

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“…Specifically, within our curricula, we aim to provide a space for stripping back our understandings of how physical cultures and societies develop and operate, back to the level of 'raw' human experience; increasingly the domain of sociologists within the prestige hierarchies of both our discipline and indeed the corporatized University. Explorations that draw on phenomenological (Allen-Collinson & Hockey, 2011;Merchant, 2011), Deleuzian (affectual) (Pavlidis & Fullagar, 2012), more-than-human (interrelational/cyborgian), non-representational (Thorpe & Rinehart, 2010), Bourdieuian (Spencer, 2009) based literature are often pioneering in scope, yet are either limited or underexplored in practice. It is commonly remarked upon that our methodological tools for social inquiry have failed to keep up with the plethora of ways in which we conceptualize the world and classify our perceptions of it (Latham, 2003;Lorimer, 2005).…”

Section: Transgressive Physical Pedagogic Practicesmentioning

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On the Transgressive Possibilities of Physical Pedagogic Practices

Silk

Francombe-Webb

Rich

et al. 2015

Qualitative Inquiry

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Within this article, we critically reflect on the production and reproduction of knowledge(s) within the academic study of sport—a field dominated (to its detriment) by self-destructive versions of reductionist science that (subconsciously) act as insidious components of the social and economic condition that privileges “state” science and fail to do justice to the potentialities of “the physical” in overcoming social, political, and health inequalities. To counter such regressive orthodoxies, we focus on a corporeal/technoslow approach to the curriculum/pedagogy in an effort to initiate dialogue about a more progressive and democratic social science of sport, leisure, and physical cultures—a transgressive pedagogy that can encourage transformation and the political potentialities of “the physical.”

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Alternative sport and affect: non-representational theory examined

Cited by 76 publications

References 41 publications

Adventurous activities, embodiment and nature: spiritual, sensual and sustainable? Embodying environmental justice

Adventurous activities, embodiment and nature: spiritual, sensual and sustainable? Embodying environmental justice

Smash and Bash Cricket? Affective Technological Innovations in the Big Bash

On the Transgressive Possibilities of Physical Pedagogic Practices

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