Girls and Young Women Negotiate Wellbeing during COVID-19 in Quebec

Thompson, Jennifer; Fraser, Sarah; Perez, Rocio Macabena; Paquette, C.; Frohlich, Katherine L.

doi:10.3167/ghs.2020.130305

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“…These caveats notwithstanding, this essay is a small contribution to the growing body of insights into others’ experiences in both Australia and other countries. This literature has begun to show how everyday experiences during the continuing COVID crisis were suffused with multisensory and affective feelings as human bodies came together with other humans, things, place and space and rhythms of time, and embodiment and habit were subjected to constant disruption (Lupton and Lewis, 2022; Sigley, 2020; Elswit, 2021; Thorpe et al, 2021; Mosteanu, 2021; Clark and Lupton, 2021; Thompson et al, 2020; Young, 2021; Moretti and Maturo, 2021).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Visual methods such as photovoice have been employed in several published studies exploring the mundane affective materialities of COVID lives. For example, Jennifer Thompson and colleagues (2020) invited girls living in the Canadian city of Montreal to take photos and make short films using their mobile phones to document their lives during the pandemic. The girls narrated their images, describing their feelings and multisensory engagements during periods of stay-at-home orders, commenting on how the images they had recorded encapsulated these phenomena.…”

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Socio-spatialities and affective atmospheres of COVID-19: A visual essay

Lupton

2022

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The COVID-19 crisis has generated an intensity of feeling globally, as people’s everyday spatial and embodied practices have been continually disrupted and fraught with anxiety and uncertainty. In this visual essay, I present and engage with smartphone photographs of public spaces in the Australian cities of Canberra and Sydney that I have accumulated as a ‘COVID Life’ archive. The photographs record my everyday experiences in and through spaces I inhabited and through which I moved. I have selected some of the images and provide a reflective analysis that draws on the concept of affective atmospheres to consider the sociomaterialities and spatialities evident in the images. I describe how the assemblages of people, things, place and space featured in these images generated a range of thoughts and feelings: both in the moment of capturing the images and in reviewing them at a later time as part of an archive of COVID memorialisation.

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Socio-spatialities and affective atmospheres of COVID-19: A visual essay

Lupton

2022

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“…All the young women in our sample spoke to the changing role of social media and digital technologies in their lives through the pandemic [53]. Reflecting international research findings on adult populations [34,54,55], our participants described how their social media engagement inspired and supported their physical activity practices during lockdowns.…”

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“If You Didn’t Exercise during Lockdown, What Were You Even Doing?”: Young Women, Sport, and Fitness in Pandemic Times

Thorpe

O’Leary

Ahmad³

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Sports and physical activity organizations around the world have expressed concern that the COVID-19 pandemic has significantly impacted girls and young women’s participation, with relatively fewer young women returning to sport post-lockdowns than their male counterparts. The purpose of this research is to understand how young women’s experiences of sport and physical activity were impacted by extended and repeated lockdowns, considerable social disruption, and ongoing risks of contagion. Our research draws upon interviews and focus groups with 44 young women (16–24 years) living in Aotearoa New Zealand during the pandemic. Recognizing that young women’s opportunities and experiences of sport and fitness (before, during and after the pandemic) vary considerably based on a range of socio-cultural factors, our sample was intentionally diverse, inviting young women from different ethnic and religious backgrounds, from rural and urban settings, and with a range of pre-pandemic sport and fitness experiences. Engaging an intersectional and affective sensibility, we reveal the complex ways that the pandemic impacted the young women’s embodied, relational and affective experiences of sport and fitness. Contrary to recent concerns about young women dropping out from sport and physical activity, our research reveals the varied ways the pandemic shifted young women’s relations with their own and others’ moving bodies, transforming their relationships with sport and fitness, with renewed understandings of the importance of physical activity for joy, connection, and wellbeing.

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“…We facilitated group sessions with participants in French on Zoom in Spring 2020. Prior to the first meeting, we produced and emailed participants video tutorials to provide step-by-step instructions as well as cellphilm techniques (such as a “no faces” approach) for addressing ethical issues related to confidentiality and anonymity (Thompson et al, 2020a , b ). In the first meeting, participants had the opportunity to meet each other and the facilitators, to learn about photovoice and cellphilming, and collectively brainstorm possible topics for their creations.…”

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“It reflects the society in which we live, except now everything is accentuated”: youth, social inequities, and the COVID-19 pandemic

Frohlich

Thompson

Fraser

et al. 2022

Can J Public Health

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Objectives The COVID-19 pandemic has been an extraordinary moment of uncertainty and rapid transformation. The effects lockdowns had on youths’ mental and physical health, as well as the challenges they posed for young peoples’ learning, were of great concern. It quickly became clear that government responses to COVID-19, in particular regarding the social determinants of health, were not equally experienced across all social groups. This paper adopts an interdisciplinary lens at the intersection of health and education and uses Max Weber’s lifestyle theory to analyze the inequitable experience of the COVID-19 pandemic. We examine most directly social inequities in education during the first wave of COVID-19 and explore long-term effects on youths’ educational opportunities, health, and well-being. Methods We use focus group materials collected from our Spring 2020 study. This study explored how youth were differentially experiencing the pandemic. Participants included 18 youth between the ages of 13 and 18 (11 girls, 7 boys). Participants were stratified by private and public secondary schools and we ran focus groups in which experiences of the pandemic were discussed. Results Our results show (1) clear differences in early access to education for youth who attended public and private institutions in Quebec during the COVID-19 pandemic; (2) access to the internet and computers offset learning opportunities for students across Quebec throughout the COVID-19 pandemic; and (3) few of the differences experienced during the pandemic were based on youth’s behaviours, or life choices, but rather stemmed from differences in material and structural opportunities, based largely, but not solely, on what type of school the youth attended (public or private). Conclusion The way in which the COVID-19 pandemic was handled by the Quebec education system deepened existing social inequities in education between private and public school attendees. Given the importance of education as one of the main determinants of health, particularly during transition periods such as adolescence, we must ensure that future policies do not repeat past mistakes.

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Girls and Young Women Negotiate Wellbeing during COVID-19 in Quebec

Cited by 13 publications

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Socio-spatialities and affective atmospheres of COVID-19: A visual essay

Socio-spatialities and affective atmospheres of COVID-19: A visual essay

“If You Didn’t Exercise during Lockdown, What Were You Even Doing?”: Young Women, Sport, and Fitness in Pandemic Times

“It reflects the society in which we live, except now everything is accentuated”: youth, social inequities, and the COVID-19 pandemic

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