‘Stand out, not up’: bodyboarders, gendered hierarchies and negotiating the dynamics of pride/shame

Waitt, Gordon R; Clifton, David A.

doi:10.1080/02614367.2012.684397

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“…Derogatory terms label these inferior crafts (e.g. shark biscuits for body boards) reinforcing the idea that bodies that do not stand up on short boards are seen as deficient (see, e.g., Booth, 2008; Waitt and Clifton, 2012).…”

Section: Recreational Surfing Identities and Mobilitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Staying ‘stoked’: Surfing, ageing and post-youth identities

Wheaton

2017

International Review for the Sociology of Sport

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Surfing has consistently been framed as a youth focused, male-dominated sport and culture. Despite surfing’s ageing demographic, neither the ways in which age impacts on surfing identities and mobilities, nor older surfer’s experiences and subjectivities, has been given scholarly attention. In this paper, I discuss research exploring the experiences and identities of middle-aged and older recreational male and female surfers in the south and south-west of England. The research illustrates that participation in surfing as a sport and lifestyle remains highly significant for some men and women through middle-age and into retirement. I consider the cultural barriers and challenges in dealing with a loss in physical performance through ageing, such as adaptations to their equipment, performance, and style, and the implications for how individuals negotiate bodily capital, space and identity. Nonetheless, older surfers also embrace different ways of being a surfer which challenge some of the more exclusionary aspects of surfing identities. Theoretically the paper develops an intersectional approach to sporting identity that explicitly recognises and accounts for the contribution of age to social identity. The research also contributes to the growing literature on physically active ‘post-youth’ leisure lifestyles, illustrating how shifting definitions of ageing have given ‘rise to new expectations, priorities and understandings’ of sporting lifestyles amongst those in middle age, and beyond.

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Section: Recreational Surfing Identities and Mobilitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Staying ‘stoked’: Surfing, ageing and post-youth identities

Wheaton

2017

International Review for the Sociology of Sport

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“…Booth (2009) thinks through the relationship between the biological and sociocultural dimensions of bodily judgements using affect theories. Likewise, feminist scholars who are re-theorising gender in relationship to embodiment are also advocating for approaches which also include the biological and sociocultural components of sports (see Evers, 2009;Waitt & Clifton, 2013;Waitt & Frazer, 2012;Waitt & Warren, 2008).…”

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Winning and losing: the dynamics of pride and shame in the narratives of men who play competitive country football

Waitt

Clifton

2014

Leisure Studies

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Football is an important site in the construction and performance of masculinity. In this paper we focus on rugby league and/or Australian Rules Football in the Bega Valley District, News South Wales, Australia. This paper investigates 17 football life narratives of men who play in the competitive rural sports leagues of the Bega Valley. Drawing on the theoretical work of Elspeth Probyn, a visceral approach is used to critically attend to the ambiguities and tensions surrounding the bodies of men who play football. We argue that the affective and emotional relationships of the dynamics of pride and shame are found within spaces sustained by football. We argue that a feminist geographical perspective of the dynamics of pride and shame open up possibilities to challenge normative understandings of football bodies and spaces.

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“…Despite the seemingly clear and direct relationships between and among sport, space, and gender, sport geography—and in particular feminist sport geography—is still thought of as being in an “establishment” phase. Several scholars have made significant contributions in the field of women's sport (for example, Andrews, ; Tonts, ; Van Ingen, ; Waitt, ; Waitt & Clifton, ; Waitt & Stanes, ). Articles, such as Johnston's piece on female body builders began to interrogate the relationship between space and the body, exploring how the ‘hard core gym … [and the] specific corporality of female body‐builders … [provide] a challenge to the stereotypical constructions of femininity and masculinity’ (Johnston, , p.328).…”

Section: Space For Women and Sport: A Named Sport Geographymentioning

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Making “space” for women and girls in sport: an agenda for Australian geography

Pavlidis

2018

Geographical Research

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In this article, I argue that there is need to rethink how sport is inherently spatial and political. I outline the importance of doing research on the spatiality of inequality in sport and consider the ways in which ideas about affective atmospheres and textures can support nuanced understandings of sport, particularly for girls and women. From change rooms to board rooms, sporting fields to dance halls, sport happens somewhere—it is inherently spatial. Australian geographers continue to make scholarly and practical impacts of social and cultural significance by focusing on spatiality, but the geography of sport has yet to be fully developed in that respect, notwithstanding influential work on sport in rural communities and surfing and sporting events. Despite such contributions, there is still considerable work to be done, particularly in the area of women's and girls' team sport. Sport is an arena where geographers can make broader and, importantly, bolder contributions, and a concern with spatiality gives geographers unique and critical insights into sport and its manifestation across scales from the global to the local.

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‘Stand out, not up’: bodyboarders, gendered hierarchies and negotiating the dynamics of pride/shame

Cited by 24 publications

References 32 publications

Staying ‘stoked’: Surfing, ageing and post-youth identities

Staying ‘stoked’: Surfing, ageing and post-youth identities

Winning and losing: the dynamics of pride and shame in the narratives of men who play competitive country football

Making “space” for women and girls in sport: an agenda for Australian geography

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