Fell Running in Later Life: Irresponsible Intoxication or Existential Capital?

Nettleton, Sarah

doi:10.1007/978-1-137-42932-2_12

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“…This includes the sensorial and haptic aspect of the body in movement. Nettleton's (2015) research on fell runners and Allen-Collinson's ( 2010) auto-phenomenographic analyses of her running are good examples of this, procuring rich and complex experiences generative of alternative understandings of what it is like to be physically active.…”

Section: Physical Activity Careersmentioning

confidence: 99%

Becoming a hillwalker: incorporating history in understandings of physical activity

Tulle

2017

Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health

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This paper challenges dominant explanations of physical activity participation in later life as they tend to prioritise individual motivation at the expense of other explanations. Reference is also made to generational characteristics. What the recourse to generation tends to do is reinforce stereotypes of age, while the more complex and deep-seated processes which affect the development of dispositions to physical movement are not highlighted. Furthermore the conditions in which physical activity can be maintained throughout the lifecourse are occluded. I propose therefore that we should recast physical activity participation within the context of a history of appropriate and normative physicality acting as a weight which infuses whether and how we develop physical activity as a durable practice. In the process I will adopt an eclectic theoretical stance. To bring the complexities of physical activity participation to the fore, I will focus on my own experiences of a particular type of physical activity: hillwalking. I will make the case for a critical autobiographical approach to show how important history has been in the awakening of my physical dispositions and in the long journey of identity formation. I conclude that we can conceive of obstacles to physically active embodiment as manifestations of oppression rather than as a question of individual motivation.

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Section: Physical Activity Careersmentioning

confidence: 99%