Ageing, agers and outdoor re-creation: being old and active outdoors in the time of COVID: an autoethnographic tale of different wor(l)ds. ‘I’m not vulnerable?’

Humberstone, Barbara

doi:10.1080/11745398.2021.1878380

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“…What are the chances of dolphins making a return?'" Such comments reflect the literature showing New Zealander's strong identification with the natural environment and its protection (Hughey, Kerr, and Cullen, 2016): on the West Coast of NZ watching the sun. Feeling the arms of safety take over......…”

Section: Human-more Than Human Relationships: Ocean Wellbeingsupporting

confidence: 58%

“…Even in many urban areas there is a relative lack of dense housing and green space availability making urban living qualitatively different to many cities across the world. Alongside this, Kiwis are proud of their majestic, clean and green environment; positive attitudes to the natural environment create a sense of pride and belonging (Hughey et al 2016). Popular greenspace recreation activities include hiking/ tramping, hunting, camping, and mountain biking (Active NZ 2017).…”

Section: Adventure In Aotearoa New Zealandmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Adventure sports, risk, and human-more than human wellbeing: local responses to the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic

Wheaton

2022

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The impact of, and responses to COVID-19 has dominated discussion in every area of life, and fields of academic activity. In this paper I consider some of the impacts and considerations in relation to activities that have been conceptualised as adventure sports. My intention is not to show how adventure is being done differently, rather to use the exceptional circumstances of lockdown to highlighted the multifaceted, meaningful and affective ‘everyday’ experiences of those who engage in adventure sport as part of their everyday practices. My focus is empirical research conducted in Aotearoa New Zealand during lockdowns (2020-21) focusing on coastal communities and surfing specifically. This ‘journey through lockdown’ illustrates the ways in which coastal spaces are experienced as therapeutic landscapes that can foster physical and emotional health and wellbeing from those on the shore, to full-immersion activities such as surfing, influencing people’s sense of wellbeing, collective identities, and forms of belonging. However, in the same ways that COVID has exacerbated many health inequities, it is important to be attentive to the ways in which the wellbeing benefits of coastal spaces are not available and extended to all. A range of cultural, economic, socio-demographic, and political factors contribute to a dis-connect with, or exclusion from various bluespaces. Diverse subjects and bodies access and experience bluespaces in different and unequal ways, impacting who can use blue spaces, and how it can be used. Lastly, the lockdown situation was also informing in understanding the often-romanticised nature of adventure sport participants relationship with the natural world, and more widely how this translates, or not, to broader responses to our climate emergency.

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Section: Human-more Than Human Relationships: Ocean Wellbeingsupporting

confidence: 58%

Section: Adventure In Aotearoa New Zealandmentioning

confidence: 99%

Adventure sports, risk, and human-more than human wellbeing: local responses to the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic

Wheaton

2022

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“…Building upon and extending the emergent scholarship on the sociology of COVID-19 ( Lupton & Willis, 2021 ; Matthewman & Huppatz, 2020 ) and the impact of COVID-19 on sport and physical activity ( Evans et al, 2020 ; Pedersen et al, 2020; Rowe, 2020 ), a few scholars are theoretically, methodologically and representationally exploring embodied experience in terms of COVID-sport-body assemblages. As Newman and Thorpe (2021) write, “the pandemic has forced us to rethink the relatedness of the body—to other bodies, to vulnerable bodies, to the population as a whole, to particulate matter, to the state and its medical-industrial-complexes.…”

Section: Rethinking Wellbeing Pandemic and The Moving Body With New M...mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Yet access is far from equitable, with age, race, class, disability, and location (i.e., housing density, poor urban communities) impacting opportunities to safely participate in and connect with the natural environment. In particular, researchers have examined the inequities of accessing urban blue and green spaces during the pandemic, and the health and wellbeing consequences of such uneven access (Astell-Burt & Feng, 2021;Humberstone, 2021;Spotswood et al, 2021).…”

Section: Environmentsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Human geographers, environmental humanities scholars and feminist theorists have also been exploring complex understandings of the relationships between humans and the environment, and how relationships with nature (i.e., greenspaces, bluespaces) influence human perceptions of wellbeing (e.g., Walter, 2020;Wheaton et al, 2021), including sport and leisure during the pandemic (see Humberstone, 2021;Wheaton, 2021). Some are also leaning into the ethico-onto-epistemological turn towards posthuman, more-than-human, and new materialisms to rethink sustainability (Alaimo, 2012;Smith, 2019), pollution (Evers, 2021), climate emergency (Neimanis & Walker, 2014) and environmental politics (Alaimo, 2016).…”

Section: Environmentsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Reconceptualizing Women's Wellbeing During the Pandemic: Sport, Fitness and More-Than-Human Connection

Thorpe

Jeffrey

Fullagar

et al. 2022

Journal of Sport and Social Issues

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This paper explores the gendered, disruptive effects and affective intensities of COVID-19 and the ways that women working in the sport and fitness sector were prompted to establish more-than-human connection through technologies, the environment, and objects. Bringing together theoretical and embodied insights from object interviews with 17 women sport and fitness professionals (i.e., athletes, coaches, instructors) in Aotearoa New Zealand, this paper advances a relational understanding of the multiple human and nonhuman forces that shape and transform women's wellbeing during pandemic. Drawing upon particular feminist materialisms (i.e., Barad, Braidotti, Bennett), we reconceptualize wellbeing to move beyond biomedical formulations of health or illness. Through our analysis and discussion, we trace embodied ways of knowing that produce wellbeing as a more-than-human entanglement, a gendered phenomenon that can be understood as an ongoing negotiation of affective, material, cultural, technological and environmental forces during a period of disruption and uncertainty.

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Is Academia a Site of Struggle? A Critical Analysis of Resistance Scholarship in Leisure Studies

Theriault,

Mowatt

2024

Int J Sociol Leis

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Scholars have long recognized that injustice pervades recreation and leisure. Some scholars have framed leisure activities or research as a meaningful response to injustice, a body of research we term resistance studies. However, this body of research has grown without a corresponding rise in analyses of unjust social structures. Given that injustice is rooted in the social structure, critical analysis of the resistance studies literature is needed to determine. if the field is tackling the oppression and domination of people. We address this gap through a systematic review of the resistance studies literature in leisure journals. The review was guided by the following questions: (a) what theoretical or conceptual frameworks have authors used to guide their investigations of resistance, (b) what are the targets of resistance (i.e., that which is being resisted), and (c) what acts are presented as resistance. We argue that many of the articles reviewed did not ground resistance historically or conceptually. Without such conceptual grounding, it was difficult for us to see how leisure activities or research could be an effective counter to injustice. We encourage future scholars to ground their work in non-Western thinkers who mapped social structures and worked for material change. The relevance of leisure activities to material change remains to be seen.

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Ageing, agers and outdoor re-creation: being old and active outdoors in the time of COVID: an autoethnographic tale of different wor(l)ds. ‘I’m not vulnerable?’

Cited by 15 publications

References 38 publications

Adventure sports, risk, and human-more than human wellbeing: local responses to the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic

Adventure sports, risk, and human-more than human wellbeing: local responses to the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic

Reconceptualizing Women's Wellbeing During the Pandemic: Sport, Fitness and More-Than-Human Connection

Is Academia a Site of Struggle? A Critical Analysis of Resistance Scholarship in Leisure Studies

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