Imagining and Making Material Encounters: Skateboarding, Emplacement, and Spatial Desire

Bäckström, Åsa; Sand, Anne-Lene

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“…Others talked about watching football tricks or dance moves that they then tried to mimic. Also, some of the respondents had left club sport and did for example skateboard and snowboard as self-organised sport [ 52 , 53 ]. Another difference that emerged in the interviews was that the 2007 respondents consumed football as spectators on site.…”

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Learn, Have Fun and Be Healthy! An Interview Study of Swedish Teenagers’ Views of Participation in Club Sport

Jakobsson

Lundvall

2021

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In Sweden, participation in club sport is a vital part of many children’s lives. Despite this, many stop in their teenage years, raising questions concerning if and in what ways club sport can provide health-promoting activities via longer, sustained participation. The aim of this cross-sectional study is to explore and discuss young people’s views of club sport from a health-promoting perspective. The analysis draws on three sets of qualitative data: results from focus groups interviews conducted in 2007 (n = 14) and in 2016 (n = 8) as well as 18 in-depth interviews conducted 2008. Antonovsy’s salutogenic theory and his sense of coherence (SOC) model inspired the analysis. Teenagers want to be a part of club sport because of a sense of enjoyment, learning, belonging and feeling healthy. Teenagers stop when sport becomes too serious, non-flexible, time-consuming and too competitive. The urge for flexibility and possibilities to make individual decisions were emphasised in 2016. The organisation of club sport, it seems, has not adapted to changes in society and a generation of teenagers’ health interests. Club sport has the potential to be a health-promoting arena, but the focus should be on changing the club sport environment, instead of a focus on changing young people.

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“…Furthermore, club sport has to compete with a rapidly growing commercial market of light communities for fitness training. New forms of sporting practices, including both the light communities and the self-organised, have affected the sport practices of the respondents in the SSH 2016 [ 40 , 52 , 53 , 64 ].…”

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Learn, Have Fun and Be Healthy! An Interview Study of Swedish Teenagers’ Views of Participation in Club Sport

Jakobsson

Lundvall

2021

IJERPH

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“…Those who do not match the ideal body type are not welcome. In Åsa Bäckström and Anne-Lene Sand's illustration of skateboarders' emplaced practices, study participants imagined and physically reconstructed urban environments (Bäckström and Sand 2019). Earlier we witnessed how Denise purposefully configured her home.…”

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“…Bodies are attuned to the city just as urban practices are transformed by metropolitan bodies (Bäckström and Sand 2019). Who is empowered to occupy and manipulate certain spaces, and who is excluded (McDowell 1999)?…”

Section: Frank (77 Years Old): Navigating Landscape Privilegementioning

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Intimately Old: From an Embodied to Emplaced Feminist Approach to Aging

Finlay

2021

Hypatia

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Aging transcends and intersects all structured social differences as a fluid complex of positionalities: a temporal situatedness in relation to gender, class, race, and sexuality. Age's operation as an organizing principle of power remains undertheorized in feminist philosophy. This article employs a geographical lens to spatialize feminist thought on old age to enrich understanding of factors underpinning expectations and practices of what particular bodies can and should do in particular spaces. Vignettes from twelve months of ethnographic fieldwork with six older individuals in a midwestern American city demonstrate the utility of advancing not just an embodied feminist philosophy of aging, but one that is emplaced to deepen understanding of the body as situated in time and space. A person's situatedness in dynamic place-events, ranging from daily life at home and engagement in supportive social spaces to experiences of discrimination and even inclement weather, produce distinct ways of being old. Investigating intimate geographies of later life from the micro to macro scale can help destabilize and challenge the objectification, control, and Othering of old people, the majority of whom are female. This article contributes greater “body a-where-ness” to feminist philosophy and stimulates novel investigation into the spatiotemporal situatedness of later life.

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“…We have done so by comparing findings from two focus groups interviews conducted 10 years apart. Further knowledge of mechanisms and relations that constitute the field of leisure-time practices can help to better inform and develop future policies and initiatives (Alanen et al, 2015;Carlman & Augustsson, 2016).…”

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To move on… – a comparative study of Swedish adolescents in a changing sport and leisure-time landscape

Lundvall

Jakobsson

2020

European Journal for Sport and Society

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Societal and technological changes have had a great impact on the overall physical activity and leisure time practices of children and youth, in Sweden and in other countries. The understanding of sports participation is a complex issue as the taste for sport is formed under specific conditions. The aim of this comparative cross-sectional, longitudinal study is to explore how Swedish adolescents view and reason about sport and leisure time practices in relation to everyday life in a changing recreational landscape. Findings from two focus groups interviews conducted almost 10 years apart (2007 and 2016) are compared. The analysis is inspired by Bourdieu's theory of practice and the concept of belonging. Several similarities between the two data sets are found, but also differences. New organisational structures, schoolwork, a tension between experienced lack of time and a need for flexibility, as well as own learning and development play a more central role in 2016. Furthermore, the digitalised leisure time landscape has affected the boundaries of the overall field of recreation, challenging the interrelated dimensions between social agents and structures of organised sport, and future policies and initiatives for the entire community of leisure time practices.

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Imagining and Making Material Encounters: Skateboarding, Emplacement, and Spatial Desire

Cited by 16 publications

References 41 publications

Learn, Have Fun and Be Healthy! An Interview Study of Swedish Teenagers’ Views of Participation in Club Sport

Learn, Have Fun and Be Healthy! An Interview Study of Swedish Teenagers’ Views of Participation in Club Sport

Intimately Old: From an Embodied to Emplaced Feminist Approach to Aging

To move on… – a comparative study of Swedish adolescents in a changing sport and leisure-time landscape

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