Negotiating the ‘F-Word’ in the Field: Doing Feminist Ethnography in Action Sport Cultures

Olive, Rebecca; Thorpe, Holly

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“…But, working within the post-structural paradigm, I recognize the value of reflexive and embodied research (e.g. Olive & Thorpe, 2011), and thus will continue to reflect on how my own bodily experiences inform my research practices and politics. Rather than having a negative effect on my research*compromising my 'objectivity'*I argue that my experiences, if engaged reflexively, have the potential to inform this project by helping me identify key issues and develop rapport with participants.…”

Section: Moving Bodies Beyond the Social/biological Divide 671mentioning

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Moving bodies beyond the social/biological divide: toward theoretical and transdisciplinary adventures

Thorpe

2012

Sport, Education and Society

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In this paper I call for 'new forms of thinking and new ways of theorizing' the complex relations between the biological and social in sport and physical culture. I illustrate the inseparability of our biological and social bodies in sport and physical culture via the case of exercise and female reproductive hormones. Inspired by feminist biologists and philosophers of science such as Lynda Birke and Elizabeth Grosz, I describe my current research project in which I am seeking to create space for female exercisers' (as distinct from female athletes) voices about their embodied experiences of exercise-associated amenorrhea. I offer reflections from my ongoing study and reveal a number of dilemmas that emerge as I consider how we might bring biology*and particularly hormones*back into conversations about women's moving bodies in non-reductionist and nondeterminist terms. I conclude by advocating the need for more transdisciplinary approaches to help us move toward more multidimensional understandings of the body in sport and physical culture.

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Section: Moving Bodies Beyond the Social/biological Divide 671mentioning

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Moving bodies beyond the social/biological divide: toward theoretical and transdisciplinary adventures

Thorpe

2012

Sport, Education and Society

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“…The researcher occupied multiple and dynamic positions in the field, which affects the research (Olive and Thorpe, 2011). Entering the field, the position as an academic in sport with extended movement knowledge was thought to be a way to connect with the breakers, but it soon became clear that this position provided no influence in the milieu.…”

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Identity constructions among breakdancers

Langnes

Fasting

2014

International Review for the Sociology of Sport

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Dette er siste tekst-versjon av artikkelen, og den kan inneholde små forskjeller fra forlagets pdf-versjon. Forlagets pdf-versjon finner du på www.sage.com: http://dx.doi. org/10.1177/1012690214526402 This is the final text version of the article, and it may contain minor differences from the journal's pdf version. The original publication is available at www.sage.com: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1012690214526402 Identity constructions among breakdancers Tonje F LangnesNorwegian School of Sport Sciences, Norway Kari FastingNorwegian School of Sport Sciences, Norway AbstractThe hip-hop culture has evolved from the ghettos of The Bronx, New York in the 1970s, into a global phenomenon. Despite such prominence there is an absence of academic research on the hip-hop culture element: breakdance. Through eight months of participant observations and 17 qualitative interviews, this study investigates the identity construction process among breakdancers with diverse ethnic backgrounds in Norway. The aim is to provide an insight into the lives of young people and their impression management in constructing a breaker identity. The analysis highlights the complex and contested nature of breakdance as it is experienced and viewed by young people performing breakdance in Norway. Through deliberate impression management the breakdancers construct an alternative identity detached from other social categories. As a result, breakdance seems to counter social oppression and to have an empowering and liberating potential different from the common stigmatization and stereotypical prejudices regarding gender and ethnicity that many have experienced. Keywords ethnicity, gender, impression management, subculture, youthThe performance of breaking, better known as breakdance, is for many young people an activity that involves identity construction and a sense of belonging. As one of the elements in the hip-hop culture (Pabon, 2012), breaking has evolved into one of the most prominent youth cultures of today. However, despite this global popularity, relatively modest social research has been conducted on the element of breaking. The aim of this study is therefore to contribute to better knowledge about youth and breaking. As a global phenomenon, breaking seems to offer an identity to youth all over the world and the purpose of this paper is to discuss the identity construction process among young breakers (persons who perform breaking) in Oslo, Norway. Before continuing to the theoretical framework, methodology, results and discussion, a brief overview of the historical context and earlier research of breaking will be presented.

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“…Other literatures of F-words are related to feminism, such as the work of Fairman (2007), Olive & Thorpe (2011), Jaworska & Krishnamurthy (2012, and Harding et al (2013). Busthomi (2010) studies how F-word is used as an intimate marker.…”

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Automatic Retrieval and the Formalization of Multi Words Expressions With F-Words in the Corpus of Contemporary American English

Prihantoro

2016

Jur, Hum

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Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengungkapkan 1) peran leksikogrammar dalam menentukan kutub polaritas Kata-F dan 2) bagaimana cara formalisasinya untuk menunjang pengolahan korpus. Data diperoleh dari Contemporary American English Corpus (COCA). Setelah dibandingkan dengan korpus bahasa Inggris lain korpus ini memiliki frekwensi kata-F tertinggi. Penulis mengaplikasikan metode analisis korpus dengan mengirimkan query untuk menelusuri data kata-F pada antarmuka COCA. Hasil penelusuran menunjukan bentuk lingual frasa dan klausa yang mendampingi F-word dapat menunjukan polaritas kata-F, yang sebetulnya tidak selalu negatif. Penulis juga mendesain computational resource yang bisa digunakan secara off-line untuk menelusuri teks digital yang dapat dikumpulkan secara mandiri, sehingga tidak harus menggunakan korpus yang hanya bisa diakses online. Kata kunci: kata-F, korpus, penelusuran informasi, Bahasa Inggris Amerika, polaritas ABSTRACTThe research problems in this research are 1) how lexicogrammar takes role in determining polarity of F-Word 1 and 2) how to formalize it for corpus processing. The data is obtained from the Contemporary American English Corpus (COCA). In this corpus, F-word is proven to be highest in frequency as compared to its distribution across corpora. Corpus methodology is applied by sending queries to retrieve F-Words to COCA interface. Tokens combination surrounding F-words resulted in the phrase and clause unit accompanying F-words, which are significant cues to determine F-word polarity. The polarity is later proven to be not necessarily negative. I also designed a computational resource to allow the retrieval of F-words offline so that users might apply it to any digital text collections.

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Negotiating the ‘F-Word’ in the Field: Doing Feminist Ethnography in Action Sport Cultures

Cited by 58 publications

References 65 publications

Moving bodies beyond the social/biological divide: toward theoretical and transdisciplinary adventures

Moving bodies beyond the social/biological divide: toward theoretical and transdisciplinary adventures

Identity constructions among breakdancers

Automatic Retrieval and the Formalization of Multi Words Expressions With F-Words in the Corpus of Contemporary American English

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