Surfing, localism, place-based pedagogies and ecological sensibilities in Australia

Olive, Rebecca

doi:10.4324/9781315768465-56

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“…A buoyant community founded on strong social connections was crucial to ensuring a site or intervention would have longevity. In line with previous studies of lifestyle sports, specifically surfing (Beaumont & Brown, 2016;Olive, 2016;Olivier, 2010), mountain bikers develop a sport-space bond and value the opportunity to develop ownership through informal communities of 'locals' (King & Church, 2013). With roles as both users and managers, the respondents in this study recognised the importance of being connected and involved with this this community as part of sports delivery.…”

Section: Delivering Mountain Biking: Users Communities and Spacessupporting

confidence: 70%

“…Locals play a vital role in negotiating these conflicts and are often active in campaigning for access rights. Previous research describes how the actions of locals to protect their sporting environment imbues these participants with a sense of authority (Olive, 2016). Lifestyle sports are grass roots activities and as such permitted access to sporting spaces can often result from the activities of one or two central figures who act to represent the local community on access issues.…”

Section: Delivering Mountain Biking: Users Communities and Spacesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Lifestyle sports delivery and sustainability: clubs, communities and user-managers

King

Church

2017

International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics

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Lifestyle and informal sports have been recognised by policy makers as offering opportunities to increase participation in physical activity, particularly amongst hard to reach groups. Lifestyle sports are, however, double edged in their potential to achieve these goals. Their playful and non-traditional features may attract new participants less interested in traditional sports but the very liquidity of these activities may mean that the engagement of participants is fragmented and not sustained beyond a particular period in their lives. This paper presents the perspective of mountain biking user-managers; those involved in the delivery, clubs and communities of mountain bikers across the UK. Findings suggest that whilst lifestyle sport communities are dependent on the work of formalised clubs to gain access to the funding and resources they need to sustain their activities, core participants will not always want to have to liaise or become involved formally within a club structure. In addition clubs will not succeed in delivering sustained activities in line with sport policy to increase and maintain participation by relying on individual grants and without the support of an active informal user community. Accounts highlight the 2 importance of engaging informal user communities with a sense of ownership such as locals to ensure new participants are integrated and the community is able to replenish.

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Section: Delivering Mountain Biking: Users Communities and Spacessupporting

confidence: 70%

Section: Delivering Mountain Biking: Users Communities and Spacesmentioning

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Lifestyle sports delivery and sustainability: clubs, communities and user-managers

King

Church

2017

International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics

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“…While the COVID-induced lockdown circumstances were exceptional, they help amplify and highlight the deeply affective ‘everyday’ experiences of recreational surfers’ practices and how they influence people’s sense of wellbeing, collective identities, and forms of belonging and exclusion [ 33 , 34 ]. This unusual time-period has emphasised the socio-cultural relationships, experiences, and meanings that surfers bestow on their experiences of oceanic blue spaces, in diverse local and national contexts [ 33 , 34 , 63 ].…”

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Coastal Communities, Leisure and Wellbeing: Advancing a Trans-Disciplinary Agenda for Understanding Ocean-Human Relationships in Aotearoa New Zealand

Wheaton

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Olive

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Commentators are advocating for research to better understand relationships between healthy coastal ecosystems and human wellbeing. Doing so requires inter- and transdisciplinary approaches across humanities, arts, social sciences, and science and technology disciplines. These approaches include culturally diverse knowledge systems, such as indigenous ones, that locate sustainable use of and relationships to marine ecosystems. This paper contributes to this agenda through a case-study of relationships between coastal ecosystems and human wellbeing in Aotearoa New Zealand. This article highlights interconnected cultural and wellbeing benefits of, and socio-ecological relationships between, these coastal ecosystems drawing on a case study of one ocean-based, ‘immersive’ leisure activity, surfing. Further, it examines how these relationships impact human physical, emotional and spiritual wellbeing, and the wellbeing of communities and ecosystems. The research illustrates that surfing creates strong bonds between practitioners and coastal places, linking the health of marine environments and people. We demonstrate the value of a transdisciplinary place-based approach that integrates research across the humanities and social sciences and engages with Indigenous knowledge (Mātauranga Māori). This argument for multicultural co-learning shows the value of Western and Māori vantage points for how we understand coastal blue spaces. Indigenous perspectives, we conclude, deepen appreciation, as well as equity considerations, of how we understand place, wellbeing, and long-term sustainable relationships with marine ecosystems.

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“…Such tensions in place-based identities can be prevalent in coastal areas with high number of visitors, as has been explored in terms of “localism” in surfing. Localism is the contradictory and deleterious side of place-connectedness, whereby “locals” develop, and even enforce, a sense of entitlement and authority over access to places, including histories related to colonization and racism (Beaumont & Brown, 2016; Evers, 2008; Olive, 2015, 2019). Blue spaces therefore impact wellbeing in a range of ways, that are not always beneficial.…”

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“…This focus on the other-than-human has also gained traction across the social science and humanities: eco-feminisms, posthumanisms, postmaterialisms all engage in discussion and critique of the anthropocence and capitalocene (see, for example, Haraway, 2016; Neimanis, 2017). Research from these perspectives has highlighted that through sport and leisure engagements in blue space environments, people may develop an ethic of care and responsibility for water spaces, contributing to its ongoing management and restoration—to its health and wellbeing (Fletcher and Potts, 2007; Humberstone, 2011; Olive, 2015). However, this is not always the case, and many ocean users maintain polluting leisure practices (Evers, 2019; this issue; Wheaton, 2020).…”

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Understanding Blue Spaces: Sport, Bodies, Wellbeing, and the Sea

Olive

Wheaton

2020

Journal of Sport and Social Issues

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This article introduces the special issue on ‘Understanding Blue Spaces’ which examines relationships between blue spaces, sport, physical activity, and wellbeing. The articles progress conversations across humanities, social sciences and inter-disciplinary areas of research on diverse sporting practices, that span local to trans-national contexts. This collection offers new insights into politics, possibilities, and problems of the role of blue spaces in our wellbeing—individually, socially, and ecologically. In addition to outlining the 10 articles in the SI, which include ocean swimming, surfing, sailing/yachting, and waka ama paddling, we contextualize this work, discussing key thematic areas both across these papers, and in the wider interdisciplinary body of work on blue spaces, wellbeing, and sport. Specifically, we outline the role of physical activities and leisure practices in how we access, understand, experience, and develop relationships to seas and oceans, as well as to self, places and communities of human and non-human others. We also discuss the ways in which particular bodies, individuals, and communities (human and more-than-human) are marginalized or excluded, and the need for understanding concepts such as wellbeing, place, and self beyond dominant European traditions. This SI highlights how localised experiences of blue spaces can be, while emphasising the need to recognize diverse cultural, economic, geographic, sociodemographic, and political factors that contribute to a disconnect with, or exclusion from blue spaces, impacting who can use blue spaces, how they can be used, how they can be researched, and how power is reproduced and contested.

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Surfing, localism, place-based pedagogies and ecological sensibilities in Australia

Cited by 26 publications

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Lifestyle sports delivery and sustainability: clubs, communities and user-managers

Lifestyle sports delivery and sustainability: clubs, communities and user-managers

Coastal Communities, Leisure and Wellbeing: Advancing a Trans-Disciplinary Agenda for Understanding Ocean-Human Relationships in Aotearoa New Zealand

Understanding Blue Spaces: Sport, Bodies, Wellbeing, and the Sea

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