Running into trouble: constructions of danger and risk in girls' access to outdoor space and physical activity

Clark, Sheryl

doi:10.1080/13573322.2013.866548

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“…In addition to financial obstacles (equipment, registration fees, transportation, etc.) and family commitments (caring for younger siblings), there were additional gendered restrictions limiting girls’ mobility and opportunity to engage in formal and informal sport and physical activity in comparison to male peers (Clark, 2015). Kelifa, who moved to Canada as a young teen, explains: Back home [in the Sudan] you can’t play sports.…”

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Neighborhood stigma and the sporting lives of young people in public housing

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Sharpe

Lashua

2016

International Review for the Sociology of Sport

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This paper spotlights the sporting lives of young people who live in 'Redcrest', a public housing community in the Niagara region of Canada. We report on data culled from neighborhoodcentric documents (municipal data, planning council reports, media coverage) and ethnographic fieldwork (interviews, community mapping, go-alongs) collected over eight months with 14 young people. This paper also offers a critique of Robert Sampson's work on neighborhood effects and draws on the theoretical insights and urban scholarship of Henri Lefebvre, Loic Wacquant, and the work of postcolonial scholar Frantz Fanon, who further understandings of racism as a spatial relation. At the center of this research are narratives that highlight that public housing projects, negative stigma notwithstanding, can be good places to live. The results highlight the various contradictions and tensions experienced by young people living in Redcrest, specifically their experiences with neighborhood stigma, racism and Islamophobia, and how this impacts their sporting lives.

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Neighborhood stigma and the sporting lives of young people in public housing

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Sharpe

Lashua

2016

International Review for the Sociology of Sport

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“…Cahill (2000, p. 268) adds that youth are active in devising strategies to successfully negotiate public space and understand 'socially mediated directives for behaviour bounded by invisible but implicit social understandings of what is acceptable'. Further, Clark (2013) points out that gendered constructions of safety can have a constraining influence on girls' access to and experience of local spaces.…”

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Physical activity experiences of young people in an area of disadvantage: ‘there's nothing there for big kids, like us’

McEvoy

MacPhail

Enright

2015

Sport, Education and Society

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Through an examination of the experiences of young people in one disadvantaged area, this paper adds to an emerging body of knowledge focused on what place physical activity occupies in the lives of young people in areas of disadvantage. A total of 40 young people (21 males, 19 females) participated in focus group interviews. The research question explored the forces which enable and constrain the participation of youths in physical activity and the interplay between such forces and how they experience and exercise agency. All focus group interviews were transcribed, coded and thematically analysed. The findings remind us that young people can be seen as positioned within multiple social relations conferred by specific social identities (such as child, friend, brother or sister) and each of these identities influence the ability of youth to exercise agency in choosing whether, where and when to participate in physical activity. Institutional structures also influenced the physical activity habits of young people in this study. It was interesting to note that staying out of trouble was one of the most discussed benefits of physical activity. Young people also recorded feelings of disempowerment through the belief that no significance was attributed to their words and shared thoughts. This sense of constrained agency presents a particular difficulty when we consider that it is only through accessing the voices of young people that those attempting to promote physical activity can ensure that the range of opportunities being created are matched to the preferences of youth.

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“…Previous research identifies how PE has been a space to reproduce gendered power relations and how the differing experiences for males and females in educational settings are problematic (Fisette, 2013;Vertinsky, 1992). In addition, while safety is a concern for all youth, young girls are faced with more safety concerns, specifically in relation to their "sexual safety and vulnerability" (Clark, 2015(Clark, , p. 1013. Clark (2015) found that young girls were more confined and supervised in their PA spaces since parents conceptualized their daughters as vulnerable.…”

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“…In addition, while safety is a concern for all youth, young girls are faced with more safety concerns, specifically in relation to their "sexual safety and vulnerability" (Clark, 2015(Clark, , p. 1013. Clark (2015) found that young girls were more confined and supervised in their PA spaces since parents conceptualized their daughters as vulnerable. This ultimately acted as a barrier for girls' PA due to greater restrictions set by their parents.…”

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Stereotypical Views of Beauty and Boys STILL Not Letting Girls Play: A Student-Centered Curriculum for Young Girls Through an After-School Activist Approach

Marttinen

Meza²,

Flory

2021

Journal of Teaching in Physical Education

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Purpose: The purpose of this study was to explore how a student-centered curriculum engaged participants in critical analysis of the “female ideal” and to identify perceived barriers to physical activity. Method: Participants were nine fifth and sixth grade Hispanic/Latina or mixed race girls, and two researchers at an urban elementary school in Southern California. Participants met one to two times per week in an after-school program. Data sources included researcher and participant journals, field notes, and semistructured interviews. Trustworthiness and credibility were established through prolonged engagement, member checks, and peer reviewer. Results: Two themes permeated the data. The first theme involved boys acting as a barrier to physical activity. The second theme involved alignment with the ideal female body. Discussion: This study highlights how boys still act as barriers to girls’ physical activity in many school settings, but also identifies how role models for girls have increased girls’ ability to critically examine media messages.

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Running into trouble: constructions of danger and risk in girls' access to outdoor space and physical activity

Cited by 24 publications

References 26 publications

Neighborhood stigma and the sporting lives of young people in public housing

Neighborhood stigma and the sporting lives of young people in public housing

Physical activity experiences of young people in an area of disadvantage: ‘there's nothing there for big kids, like us’

Stereotypical Views of Beauty and Boys STILL Not Letting Girls Play: A Student-Centered Curriculum for Young Girls Through an After-School Activist Approach

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