‘Representing’ the voices of Fijian women rugby players: Working with power differentials in transformative research

Kanemasu, Yoko; Molnár, Gyõzõ

doi:10.1177/1012690218818991

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“…As part of our data interpretation process, we considered in what ways and to what extent our own positionality may influence our research, following Kanemasu and Molnar (2019). The lead author (G. Thomas) identifies as a White, cisgender, straight male academic and a qualified S&C coach with 9 years of S&C coaching experience.…”

Section: Methodological Rigormentioning

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“It’s Not Particularly P.C., You Know . . .”: Women Coaches’ Performing Gender in Strength and Conditioning

Thomas

Guinan

Molnár

2021

Women in Sport and Physical Activity Journal

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Strength and conditioning (S&C) has become a chief part of athletes’ physiological preparation. Despite S&C’s growing presence across sports, women coaches have been generally marginalized and underrepresented. This study explores female S&C coaches’ experiences and coping mechanisms in a male-dominated industry. Semi-structured interviews with 15 female S&C coaches were conducted. The main themes identified from interview data are organizational politics, impression management, and humor. The findings suggest that women S&C coaches are often in subservient positions and have to adopt some traditional, male-generated subcultural practices to fit in. They carefully manage their coaching front stage to generate an impression that is expected and accepted in the given milieu. In their efforts to fit in, women often find themselves in a multiplicity of power matrices that involve a continuous negotiation of gender identity, internal politics, and sexist banter.

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Section: Methodological Rigormentioning

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“It’s Not Particularly P.C., You Know . . .”: Women Coaches’ Performing Gender in Strength and Conditioning

Thomas

Guinan

Molnár

2021

Women in Sport and Physical Activity Journal

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“…The research also expanded theoretically, employing perspectives beyond basic push and pull theorisation (e.g., Carter 2011, Choi 2018, Elliott and Weedon 2011, Poli 2010, Roderick 2012, van Campenhout and van Sterkenburg 2019). In addition, the methodogical scope of research on sports migration has expanded to increasingly employ micro-sociological designs focusing on specific groups of sports migrants, not least female transnational athletes (Agergaard 2008, Engh and Agergaard 2013, Kanemasu and Molnar 2019) and women migrating as accompanying wives (Onwumechhili and Akpan 2020).…”

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Sport and migration in the age of superdiversity

Agergaard

Darby

Falcous

et al. 2023

International Review for the Sociology of Sport

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Taking Steven Vertovec's concept of Superdiversity as a starting point, this special issue examines the dynamic interaction of diversity variables in the field of sport and migration issues. The articles published this Speical Issue span from studies on sports labor migration ( sports as migration) to consideration of the role sport plays in the everyday lives of disparate groups of migrants ( sport in migration). Considering the contemporary diversification of migration, we argue that it is more relevant than ever to expand the empirical focus of research in sports and migration issues, but also the breadth of theoretical and methodological approaches utilized. To this end, we illustrate the value of postcolonial theory and intersectionality as theoretical frameworks that can focus on multiple axes of differentiation along with structuring conditions that impact sports and migration issues. Further, we call for researchers in the field to consider the value of methodologies that are novel to their work such as participatory action research and approaches that avoid methodological nationalism.

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Neither right nor wrong? Ethics of collaboration in transformative research for sustainable futures

Wittmayer,

Huang,

Bogner

et al. 2024

Humanit Soc Sci Commun

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Transformative research is a broad and loosely connected family of research disciplines and approaches, with the explicit normative ambition to fundamentally question the status quo, change the dominant structures, and support just sustainability transitions by working collaboratively with society. When engaging in such science-practice collaborations for transformative change in society, researchers experience ethical dilemmas. Amongst others, they must decide, what is worthwhile to be researched, whose reality is privileged, and whose knowledge is included. Yet, current institutionalised ethical standards, which largely follow the tradition of medical ethics, are insufficient to guide transformative researchers in navigating such dilemmas. In addressing this vacuum, the research community has started to develop peer guidance on what constitutes morally good behaviour. These formal and informal guidelines offer a repertoire to explain and justify positions and decisions. However, they are only helpful when they have become a part of researchers’ practical knowledge ‘in situ’. By focusing on situated research practices, the article addresses the need to develop an attitude of leaning into the uncertainty around what morally good behaviour constitutes. It also highlights the significance of combining this attitude with a critical reflexive practice both individually and collaboratively for answering questions around ‘how to’ as well as ‘what is the right thing to do’. Using a collaborative autoethnographic approach, the authors of this paper share their own ethical dilemmas in doing transformative research, discuss those, and relate them to a practical heuristic encompassing axiological, ontological, and epistemological considerations. The aim is to support building practical wisdom for the broader research community about how to navigate ethical questions arising in transformative research practice.

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‘Representing’ the voices of Fijian women rugby players: Working with power differentials in transformative research

Cited by 6 publications

References 75 publications

“It’s Not Particularly P.C., You Know . . .”: Women Coaches’ Performing Gender in Strength and Conditioning

“It’s Not Particularly P.C., You Know . . .”: Women Coaches’ Performing Gender in Strength and Conditioning

Sport and migration in the age of superdiversity

Neither right nor wrong? Ethics of collaboration in transformative research for sustainable futures

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