Robert E. Rinehart

“Babes” & Boards Opportunities in New Millennium Sport?

The proliferation of action or extreme sports in recent years leads to a reassessment of fundamental, foundational questions regarding the nature of sport. One such question is Does the much-vaunted alternative ethos of action sports lead to a concomitant paradigm shift in fundamental attitudes toward race, class, or gender differences within these new sport forms? In this article, the focus is on advertising in slick, national skating magazines and more particularly on the gendered nature of advertising and how it reflects and promotes gender segmentation in markets. In examining such print advertising, several metathemes emerge: There are images that (a) reify the naturalized maleness of North American sport;(b) objectify girls and woman as a naturalized position; (c) objectify girls and woman in sexualized manners, so that they create misogynist views in their audiences; and (d) attempt to set up the brand advertisers as outlaws, as oppositional to mainstream sport culture.

Alternative sport and affect: non-representational theory examined

This paper is our concerned response to the tendency in critical studies of physical culture and alternative sport to reduce experience to language, discourse, texts or representation. We consider the potential of British social theorist and cultural-geographer Nigel Thrifts ‘non-representational theory’ for shedding new light on the lived, affective and affecting experiences of participants in contemporary sport and physical cultures. In this paper we discuss Thrifts seven tenets of non-representational theory, offering numerous examples from the literature relating to an array of alternative sport cultures. We also introduce the constructs of ‘politics of affect’ and ‘politics of hope’, which combine, amalgamate and extend the seven tenets – and are the essence of Thrifts most recent work. These two politics hold great promise for revealing some of the complexities of the nexus(es) between power, power/knowledge, affect, experience, movement, consumption, representation and new forms of politics, in sport and physical culture, in the early twenty-first century. Here we are particularly interested in the implications of these constructs for understanding the developments of various social justice movements (e.g., health, educational, environmental, anti-violence) that have recently proliferated within alternative sport.

Action Sport NGOs in a Neo-Liberal Context: The Cases of Skateistan and Surf Aid International

Sport nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) have flourished in the contemporary moment, particularly situated within neoliberal global politics. In this article we focus on the relatively recent proliferation of action sport-based social justice advocacy groups. Drawing on extant materials from our ongoing research on two action sport-related social justice movements—Skateistan and SurfAid International (SAI)—we illustrate some of the unique strategies employed by these organizations to survive, and indeed thrive, within a neo-liberally-dominated world. In so doing, we hope to raise new questions for critical scholars interested in studying sport-related NGOs into the 21st century.

Poetic Sensibilities, Humanities, and Wonder: Toward an E/Affective Sociology of Sport

The poet, using the skills that enable compression, packs a world into a tennis ball. The reader, through attentive reading, unpacks that world in a matter of moments. —Anne McCrary Sullivan, 2005, p. 25 We are fascinated by the unit; only a unity seems rational to us. We scorn the senses, because their information reaches us in bursts. We scorn the groupings of the world, and we scorn those of our bodies. —Michel Serres, 1995 [1982], p. 2

1, 2, 3, 4, 5 . . . 43: Justice! Ay! Ay! Ayotzinapa: A Challenge for New Critical Qualitative Inquiry

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Coming Unhinged: A Twice-Told Multivoiced Autoethnography:

This story tells about an accident that occurred at the 2016 International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry. The first author presents her autoethnography of her partner’s fall and her subsequent reaction. Then to complicate and deepen her telling, she crafts a second multivoiced account from the responses of eight people who were part of the event. The participants’ stories are juxtaposed to tell a multivoiced tale and to theorize what happened in an experience-near mode. Twice-told multivoiced autoethnography brings other voices, subjectivities, and interpretations into our autoethnographic accounts, providing a collective consciousness and offering the possibility of initiating conversations about the values of care and empathy connected with the project of autoethnography.

Auto-, duo- and collaborative-ethnographies: “caring” in an audit culture climate

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to make a case for the strength of qualitative work, but more specifically for various kinds of ethnographies. Design/methodology/approach – The authors argue that global neoliberal and audit culture policies have crept into academic research, tertiary education practice, and research culture. Findings – The authors then discuss major tenets of and make the case for the use of auto-, duo-, and collaborative-ethnographies as caring practices and research method(ologies) that may in fact push back against such hegemonic neoliberal practices in the academy. Finally, the authors link these caring types of ethnographies to the papers within this special issue. Originality/value – This is an original look at the concepts of auto-, duo-, and collaborative-ethnographies with relation to caring practices.

Looking back, moving forward? Reflections from early action sport researchers

This chapter acknowledges the significant contributions of early action sport scholars, and their ongoing influence on current thinking about the experiences of women as participants. With their work spanning a number of sports, Becky Beal, Douglas Booth, Jason Laurendeau, Catherine Palmer, Robert Rinehart and Belinda Wheaton, were amongst those who laid the foundations for the field, and have influenced the ideas, directions and approaches of the researchers in this book. This chapter presents a section of their reflections on the influences over their own work, it also highlights the role that author positionalities play in shaping such work, and concludes by offering some thoughts on future research directions and challenges facing action sports researchers interested in gender and women’s experiences.

Sport Performance in Four Acts: Players, Workers, Audience, and Immortality

Using the “voices” of the “creators” of intertextualized sport, this article will demonstrate how sport is inextricably linked with performance. As well, an exegesis of the modernist and postmodernist frameworks of contemporary sport will show how many sports have evolved from grass roots to Goffman’s “framed” responses to the cult of celebrity and attempts to attain immortality and how these various responses to the need for human movement create dense archipelagoes of multifaceted cultural formations.

New Critical Pan-Pacific Qualitative Inquiry: Reciprocal Respect in Aotearoan and Pacifica Research Methodologies

In this piece, I explore two related issues of new critical Indigenous research. First, building on previous work, I recap the similarities and differences—in terms of social justice issues—of several historical cases regarding Indigenous peoples. I then examine the role of respect—especially “reciprocal respect”—in Pan-Pacific Indigenous research and give exemplars from New Zealand, Filipino, Aboriginal, and Samoan contexts as discussion points that ground a larger examination of mutual respect, mutuality, and cooperative behaviour. Finally, I suggest that the historical treatments of various Indigenous peoples to this day impact upon the form and tenor of critical Indigenous research.