Simone Fullagar
Biographic Data
| ID | 112641 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Simone Fullagar |
| GIVEN NAMES | Simone |
| FAMILY NAME | Fullagar |
| SIGNATURE | FULLAGAR S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Griffith University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0876-6276 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 68 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 466 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 67 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 13 |
Writing through the affective dynamics of body shaming as emotional abuse in para-sportswomen’s stories: A feminist posthumanist approach
Elite sport has been a site of harm, with issues of sexual, physical and emotional abuse, including a strong culture of body shaming, and consequent heightened incidences of disordered eating. In the context of Paralympic sport, the dominant narrative of empowerment for people with disability has obscured the ambivalence and felt tensions for para-sportswomen where harm is experienced. There has been little research that explores the gendered con…
Listening to the affective dynamics of women’s para-sport coaching experiences in high-performance sport
While research on disability sport coaching has increased in recent years, very little has focused on how athletes experience coaching, particularly in relation to gender equity. We address this gap in coaching knowledge by exploring the experiences of women with disability in para-sport from an intersectional perspective that understands the way that gender and disability co-constitute each other. Drawing on qualitative research, this article co…
Exploring the discomfort of gender difference through feminist theories of affect: Creative Conversations With Coaches About Working With Women Athletes
“We exist. Don’t forget or overlook us.”: Queering the legacies of the 2023 Women’s Fifa World Cup
Purpose The FIFA Women’s World Cup (WWC) 2023 was co-hosted by Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand and was the first WWC to require legacy planning to develop women’s football. We examine the relevance of the legacy plans for an important fan segment within football: LGBTQ+ self-identifying women and non-binary fans. We also sought to explore how a queer perspective might inform the future of football through WWC legacies. Design/methodology/appro…
Mega-sport events, gender equity, and sport legacy planning: Mobilizing performativity for deeper insights
Mega-sporting event legacies have attracted academic interest and examination over the last two decades. The development of legacy plans has become central to sport event bidding, acting as a means of prioritizing outcomes by governing bodies and host governments. Through legacy plans, mega-sport events ‘perform’ as catalysts for change throughout various phases. Drawing on an appraisal of the Brisbane 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games official l…
The affective pedagogies of horse-human interventions: A More-Than-Human Perspective on Equine Assisted Learning With Marginalised Young People
This article offers a more-than-human perspective on an equine assisted learning programme undertaken by marginalised young people attending a flexi-school in Australia. In contrast with therapist led equine programmes, our research examined horse assisted activities as a site of embodied learning. Paying attention to the affective dimension of horse-human relationality we explored how student and teacher narratives articulated learning in terms …
The “Misfitting” Potential of Disability: Navigating Ableism in Swimming
For people with disability to flourish in sport, providers require more complex understandings of how ableist norms are entangled in sporting cultures. This article examines how neoliberal–ableist logics structure everyday sport contexts, focusing on swimming as one of the most popular sports for people with disability in Australia. We report on the quantitative and qualitative data produced through an online survey of disabled swimmers, analyzin…
Towards an Intersectional Understanding of Women With Diverse Experiences of Disability: Addressing the Policy Gap in Australian Disability Sport
This article explores how gender and disability inequity is addressed in research, policy and organisational strategies that shape the Australian sporting landscape. By examining the most current annual reports and strategic plans of 31 national sport organisations, national disabled sport organisations, peak bodies, and government agencies, we identify the implications of siloed thinking that considers gender and disability to be separate forms …
Re-turning to fitness ‘riskscapes’ post lockdown: Feminist materialisms, wellbeing and affective respondings in Aotearoa New Zealand
A plethora of research has focused on how the pandemic has shifted human relations with space, place and wellbeing. Yet, to date few have focused on how the return to public spaces after extended periods of lockdown is impacting subjective wellbeing, particularly amidst a context with fluctuating levels of risk, rapidly changing policy demands and expectations, and different affective responses to such regulations. In this paper we re-turn with t…
Gender Equality and Economic Entanglements in Male-Dominated Sport Organizations: The Disruptive Value of Australian Rules Football Women
Focusing on the Australian Football League and its development of a national competition for women, this article contributes toward broader debates around the inclusion and incorporation of women in professional sport. It traces the particular logics and desires (such as corporate expansion) that drove the Australian Football League to develop a women’s competition in the name of equality. We map the organizational tensions and affects that produ…
Advancing feminist innovation in sport studies: A transdisciplinary dialogue on gender, health and wellbeing
Athlete health and wellbeing requires a holistic, multidimensional approach to understanding, supporting, and treating individual athletes. Building more supportive, inclusive, and equitable environments for the health and wellbeing of women and gender expansive people further requires gender-responsive approaches that promote broader cultural change. Feminist sport and exercise medicine practitioners, sports scientists, and social science resear…
Diffractive Respondings and Cutting Together-Apart: Toward More-Than-Human Academic Community
In this 'paper,' we share our process of exploring the possibilities for the emergence of new ways of knowing-thinking-doing response-able collaboration. In an effort to come 'together-apart' as author-collaborators, working from our different positionings and locations in the world, we shared text and images of the various ways the ideas from individual papers (nodal points) and our diffractive processes were moving (with) us. Sharing these crea…
The Special Issue as Diffractive Process: A Collaborative Dialogue
In this article, we share a curated version of a Zoom meeting in which we come together-apart to articulate our experiences of the diffractive review process. In the later part of the dialogue, we turn toward imagining the possibilities for creatively exploring ways to represent how the ideas from this collaborative process travel with us, into our everyday lives. We discuss the ethical and political response-abilities in such diffractive collabo…
Feminist New Materialist Entanglements With 'Kinetic Excess' in Women's Muay Thai Boxing: Moving With Embodied Discomfort as a Post-Qualitative Coach-Researcher
Feminist engagement with fight sports is often ambivalent given the masculine history of combat and the achievement of 'self' transformation at the 'expense' of another, exist in tension with the possibilities of women's empowerment. Acknowledging the multiplicity of embodied meanings produced through Muay Thai Boxing (Thai Boxing), this feminist post-qualitative project seeks to do 'research differently' through a generative ethos of knowledge p…
Reconceptualizing Women's Wellbeing During the Pandemic: Sport, Fitness and More-Than-Human Connection
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…
We seek those moments of togetherness”: Digital intimacies, virtual touch and becoming community in pandemic times
The COVID-19 pandemic has radically shifted modes of communication and connection. For many, digital technologies have played critical roles in enabling ongoing relationships during extended periods of social isolation. Yet the modes of connection offered through such technologies have prompted new affective relations and digital intimacies. In this article, we draw upon interviews with 17 women working in the sport and fitness sector in Aotearoa…
Women's use of sport as identity-work in managing mental health and trauma
More-than-human Perspectives on Physical Activity, Health and Education
Como Fox e Alldred (2020) consideram, o dualismo Cultura / Natureza forneceu aos filósofos, cientistas e cientistas sociais pós-iluministas uma maneira elegante de estabelecer limites para as respectivas preocupações das ciências sociais e naturais (ver também Barad, 2007; Braidotti, 2013; Fullagar et al., 2019). Este dualismo tem permitido a criação de distinções entre corpos e modos de estar-no-mundo "modernos" (leia-se "civilizados") e "tradic…
Entanglement
The agential realist notion of entanglement reconfigures the nature of causality and particularly the causal relationship between discursive practices and the material world. Materiality always already involves human discursive practices of boundary-making, territorial-ising and categorising the world in its ongoing reconfiguring. Discursive practices do not just stand for human-based practices. Challenging human exceptionalism, a material-discur…
Urban Habits of Walking in Women’s Recovery from Depression
This chapter explores how places, wellbeing and habits of walking are entangled in women’s accounts of moving through depression. It considers how walking can be thought of as a worlding habit that enfolds the human and non-human mind and body into the flow of everyday movement. Exploring women’s accounts of walking habits in a large Australian study, I consider how affective forces, such as sadness and joy, are implicated in ways of moving−feeli…
Embodied Movement as Method: Attuning to Affect as Feminist Experimentation
This article explores qualitative research methods that employ materiality and movement, images and body mapping to access research participant knowledges. We examine a methodologies workshop that we co-facilitated for academics and postgraduates. We position the workshop as a research assemblage, through which we facilitated four different methodological ‘moves’, to borrow from Barad's (2007) notion of ‘cuts’, to invite learning-knowing through …
Rethinking digital media literacy to address body dissatisfaction in schools: Lessons from feminist new materialisms
The increasing prevalence of body dissatisfaction among young people is now well recognised with much of the existing literature making connections between media imagery and body dissatisfaction. Media literacy-based interventions continue to be rolled out in schools across the global north in an attempt to prevent body dissatisfaction. However, the pervasiveness of digital media in young people’s lives has prompted questions about the adequacy o…
Thinking through the Disruptive Effects and Affects of the Coronavirus with Feminist New Materialism
The disruptive biocultural force of the coronavirus highlights the value of more-than-human perspectives for examining the gendered effects and affects on our everyday lives and leisure practices. Pursuing this line of thought our article draws upon the insights of feminist new materialism as intellectual resource for considering what the coronavirus “does” as a gendered phenomenon. We turn to this body of feminist scholarship as it enables us to…
Remaking the post 'human: A Productive Problem for Health Sociology
Engaging Disenfranchised Youth through an Equine Assisted Activities Program: Understanding Psychosocial Benefits of Horse-Human Interactions
Evidence suggests equine-assisted activities may provide psychological benefits to young people “at-risk.” Results are presented from an equine program among 14- to 16-year-old children (N = 7), mostly boys (N = 6), attending a non-traditional flexi-school in Australia. Thematic analyses were undertaken on observations by facilitators, researchers, and a school teacher, and interviews with a school teacher. Key themes suggest that program partici…
Governing the healthy body: Discourses of leisure and lifestyle within Australian health policy
In the past 30 years there have been significant shifts in the way Australian public health policy has problematized the role of leisure, recreation and physical activity in relation to the WHO identification of lifestyle disease risks to individual and social wellbeing. This article offers a cultural analysis of the way discourses of leisure and healthy lifestyles have been produced through the governmental objectives of health policy and promot…
Digital Ecologies of Youth Mental Health: Apps, Therapeutic Publics and Pedagogy as Affective Arrangements
In this paper, we offer a new conceptual approach to analyzing the interrelations between formal and informal pedagogical sites for learning about youth mental (ill) health with a specific focus on digital health technologies. Our approach builds on an understanding of public pedagogy to examine the pedagogical modes of address (Ellsworth 1997) that are (i) produced through 'expert' discourses of mental health literacy for young people; and (ii) …
Leisure Practices as Counter-Depressants: Emotion-Work and Emotion-Play within Women's Recovery from Depression
This paper draws on post-structural feminist theories of emotion to explore the significance of leisure within women's narratives of recovery from depression. I engage with the stories of 48 women in rural and urban Australia to identify the gendered discourses governing depression and recovery. Leisure figured as a site of identity transformation where women enacted creative, embodied, and connected subjectivities. The performance of gender thro…
Narratives of travel: Desire and the Movement of Feminine Subjectivity
This article explores a philosophical question concerned with the nature of the desire that moves one to travel, to engage with and know the world in its difference. Drawing upon French feminist theory I take up the Hegelian tradition of theorizing desire as a social relation that structures the everyday dynamics between self and other, self and world. Desire is also profoundly embodied, affective and unconsciously mediates our travel relations a…
Exploring parkrun as a social context for collective health practices: Running With and Against the Moral Imperatives of Health Responsibilisation
Critiques of public health policies to reduce physical inactivity have led to calls for practice-led research and the need to reduce the individualising effects of health promotion discourse. The purpose of this paper is to examine how parkrun - an increasingly popular, regular, community-based 5 km running event - comes to be understood as a 'health practice' that allows individuals to enact contemporary desires for better health in a collective…
Lifestyle drift and the phenomenon of 'citizen shift' in contemporary UK health policy
Despite political change over the past 25 years in Britain there has been an unprecedented national policy focus on the social determinants of health and population-based approaches to prevent chronic disease. Yet, policy impacts have been modest, inequalities endure and behavioural approaches continue to shape strategies promoting healthy lifestyles. Critical public health scholarship has conceptualised this lack of progress as a problem of 'lif…
The pain and pleasure of roller derby: Thinking through affect and subjectification
Writing about pain in roller derby challenges us to rethink old dichotomies that separate mind and body, ‘real’ and virtual, feminine and masculine. The ‘tough’ roller derby ‘girl’, willing and able to endure pain for the pleasure of the game, has become a powerful figure in contemporary western popular culture. Our analysis of roller derby reveals women’s complex relation to pain and pleasure, as part of a feminist reimagining of sport. Through …
Feminist Leisure Research in the Contemporary Era: Introduction to the Special Issue
Feminist research within leisure studies is at a critical juncture. As formative scholars of feminist leisure research retire, we recognize need to reflect upon their significant conceptual and empirical contributions. At same time we look forward to celebrate vast array of feminist leisure scholarship that continues to chart new directions in an ever-changing field. The purpose of this special issue is to harness energy of current feminist leisu…
Speaking of women's 'nameless misery: The everyday construction of depression in Australian women's magazines
New Kinds of (Ab)normal: Public Pedagogies, Affect, and Youth Mental Health in the Digital Age
Academic, policy, and public concerns are intensifying around how to respond to increasing mental health problems amongst young people in OECD countries such as the UK and Australia. In this paper we make the case that public knowledge about mental health promotion, help-seeking, support and recovery can be understood as an enactment of public pedagogy-as knowledge practices and processes that are produced within and beyond formal spaces of learn…
Becoming roller derby grrrls: Exploring the gendered play of affect in mediated sport cultures
This article explores how the global revival of roller derby as an alternative sport for women has been mobilised through online social networks, league promotion and fan sites that create imagined communities of 'roller grrrls'. In the creation of sport culture we argue that the virtual performance of 'derby' identities is as significant as the embodiment of play. Like other sports, derby sites mobilise affect (passion, pleasure, pain, desire to…
Wasted lives: The social dynamics of shame and youth suicide
Youth suicide is a specific gesture of waste, a throwing away of the gift, and thus it embodies a powerful statement about young people's refusal to live. In this article I suggest that it is a refusal to engage with, and be sustained by, the particular economies of value, morality and meaning that govern identity within contemporary cultural life. From a post-structuralist perspective the metaphors through which suicide comes to be known are exa…
Encountering otherness: Embodied affect in Alphonso Lingis’ travel writing
In the essay ‘Tawantinsuyu’, Alphonso Lingis poses some important questions about the highly mediated nature of our contemporary experience of the world, by juxtaposing them with a post-phenomenological account of his journey through the ruins of Machu Picchu. Not content with knowledge produced through Internet of CD-ROM technology, Lingis desires an embodied encounter with other places. Without lapsing into a notion of unmediated experience, ho…
Reflexive Methodologies: An autoethnography of the gendered performance of sport/management
Autoethnography has emerged as a relatively new methodological approach within the fields of leisure, sport, and tourism studies and more broadly within the social sciences. As a reflexive methodology it offers the beginning and the experienced researcher a means of critically exploring the social forces that have shaped their own involvement in leisure practices and subsequent professional careers. In this paper we discuss the significance of au…
Social recovery and the move beyond deficit models of depression: A feminist analysis of mid-life women's self-care practices
Negotiating the neurochemical self: Anti-Depressant Consumption in Women's Recovery From Depression
Anti-depressant treatment can be viewed as an exercise of biopower that is articulated through policies and practices aimed at the reduction of depression, population healthcare costs and effects on labour force productivity. Drawing upon a feminist governmentality perspective, this article examines the discourses that shaped women's experiences of anti-depressant medication in an Australian qualitative study on recovery from depression. The majo…
Sites of Somatic Subjectivity: E-scaped Mental Health Promotion and the Biopolitics of Depression
Reconceptualizing Women's Wellbeing During the Pandemic: Sport, Fitness and More-Than-Human Connection
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…
Remaking the post 'human: A Productive Problem for Health Sociology
Problematizing the neurochemical subject of anti-depressant treatment: The limits of biomedical responses to women’s emotional distress
In this article we situate empirical research into women’s problematic experiences of anti-depressant medication within broader debates about pharmaceuticalization and the rise of the neurochemical self. We explore how women interpreted and problematized anti-depressant medication as it impeded their recovery in a number of ways. Drawing upon Foucauldian and feminist work we conceptualize anti-depressants as biotechnologies of the self that shape…
Embodied Movement as Method: Attuning to Affect as Feminist Experimentation
This article explores qualitative research methods that employ materiality and movement, images and body mapping to access research participant knowledges. We examine a methodologies workshop that we co-facilitated for academics and postgraduates. We position the workshop as a research assemblage, through which we facilitated four different methodological ‘moves’, to borrow from Barad's (2007) notion of ‘cuts’, to invite learning-knowing through …
Rethinking women's experiences of depression and recovery as emplacement: Spatiality, care and gender relations in rural Australia
Narrating the Multiplicity of ‘Derby Grrrl’: Exploring Intersectionality and the Dynamics of Affect in Roller Derby
Driven by an ethos of self-organization and empowerment women involved in the revived version of roller derby have created an embodied and virtual leisure practice that challenges gender norms and invites different identities. However, tensions exist in the way different women negotiate the space of roller derby and the meaning of playing, belonging, and becoming “derby grrrls.” This article presents findings from a qualitative study of roller de…
We seek those moments of togetherness”: Digital intimacies, virtual touch and becoming community in pandemic times
The COVID-19 pandemic has radically shifted modes of communication and connection. For many, digital technologies have played critical roles in enabling ongoing relationships during extended periods of social isolation. Yet the modes of connection offered through such technologies have prompted new affective relations and digital intimacies. In this article, we draw upon interviews with 17 women working in the sport and fitness sector in Aotearoa…
Thinking through the Disruptive Effects and Affects of the Coronavirus with Feminist New Materialism
The disruptive biocultural force of the coronavirus highlights the value of more-than-human perspectives for examining the gendered effects and affects on our everyday lives and leisure practices. Pursuing this line of thought our article draws upon the insights of feminist new materialism as intellectual resource for considering what the coronavirus “does” as a gendered phenomenon. We turn to this body of feminist scholarship as it enables us to…
Narratives of Leisure: Recreating the self
Utilising insights from narrative theory this paper explores the role of narrative in the everyday leisure experiences of people with a mild intellectual disability. Drawing on our experiences with an Australian leisure service Live it UP! we develop the connection between leisure and storytelling in order to open up an innovative approach to working with individuals. The stories of people's capabilities that we draw on run counter to a dominant …
Encountering otherness: Embodied affect in Alphonso Lingis’ travel writing
In the essay ‘Tawantinsuyu’, Alphonso Lingis poses some important questions about the highly mediated nature of our contemporary experience of the world, by juxtaposing them with a post-phenomenological account of his journey through the ruins of Machu Picchu. Not content with knowledge produced through Internet of CD-ROM technology, Lingis desires an embodied encounter with other places. Without lapsing into a notion of unmediated experience, ho…
Rethinking gender, risk and depression in Australian mental health policy
In this article we draw upon the work of governmentality and cultural risk theorists (Foucault 1991; Rose 1999; Dean 1999; Lupton 1999) and feminist research into women’s experience of depression (Stoppard, 2000) to develop a gendered analysis of recent Australian mental health policies. We explore the power-knowledge relations that shape current policy directions, and hence the thinking that guides health professionals, in relation to women’s ex…
Narratives of travel: Desire and the Movement of Feminine Subjectivity
This article explores a philosophical question concerned with the nature of the desire that moves one to travel, to engage with and know the world in its difference. Drawing upon French feminist theory I take up the Hegelian tradition of theorizing desire as a social relation that structures the everyday dynamics between self and other, self and world. Desire is also profoundly embodied, affective and unconsciously mediates our travel relations a…
Governing the healthy body: Discourses of leisure and lifestyle within Australian health policy
In the past 30 years there have been significant shifts in the way Australian public health policy has problematized the role of leisure, recreation and physical activity in relation to the WHO identification of lifestyle disease risks to individual and social wellbeing. This article offers a cultural analysis of the way discourses of leisure and healthy lifestyles have been produced through the governmental objectives of health policy and promot…
Mental health promotion and young people: Concepts and Practice
(2002). Mental health promotion and young people: concepts and practice. Health Sociology Review: Vol. 11, No. 1-2, pp. 98-100
Governing women's active leisure: The gendered effects of calculative rationalities within Australian health policy
As part of the World Health Organisation's emphasis on increasing physical activity, countries such as Australia have developed new public health campaigns aimed at reducing the prevalence of lifestyle diseases (e.g. obesity, heart disease, diabetes). In response the Australian Federal and State governments implemented the Active Australia campaign (1997-2002) with the objective of increasing men and women's participation in active leisure pursui…
Everyday Temporalities: Leisure, Ethics and Young Women’s Emotional Wellbeing
This article explores the relationship between temporality and young women’s emotional wellbeing in order to consider the implications for leisure and health policy. Time is central to much contemporary social policy. For example, the Active Australia policy urges us to undertake 30 minutes of physical activity per day to maintain physical health. Debates over paid maternity leave implicate work, leisure and family time. Mental health policies al…
Wasted lives: The social dynamics of shame and youth suicide
Youth suicide is a specific gesture of waste, a throwing away of the gift, and thus it embodies a powerful statement about young people's refusal to live. In this article I suggest that it is a refusal to engage with, and be sustained by, the particular economies of value, morality and meaning that govern identity within contemporary cultural life. From a post-structuralist perspective the metaphors through which suicide comes to be known are exa…
Post-structuralist philosophies: Towards an etho-politics of everyday leisure practices
This article draws upon Foucault's (1988; 1990; 1997) later work on ethics and subjectivity to consider Socrate's timeless question ‘how are we to live?’. In this way philosophy and leisure practices can be brought together to problematise and open up different ways of thinking about the nature of everyday freedom. Specifically, a case study of an Australian community garden project (Northey Street City Farm) outlines the transformative potential…
On restlessness and patience: Reading desire in Bruce Chatwin’s narratives of travel
This article develops a post-structuralist analysis of Bruce Chatwin’s famous travel narrative The Songlines (1987). This narrative is compelling because Chatwin positions his narrator as the cosmopolitan traveller moved by a strong desire to know the world in its difference. The desire that informs travel and travel writing is rarely theorized within the sociological literature on tourism, and yet desire is a fundamental social relation that str…
Critical Points Against an Australasian Therapeutic Recreation Association: Towards Community Leisure through Enabling Justice
The purpose of this paper is to articulate arguments against the establishment of a therapeutic recreation association in Australasia. We believe that this is an important debate as the outcomes will place people with disabilities in very different locations within leisure discourse. It is argued that the establishment of a therapeutic recreation association will reinforce medicalised conceptions of disability that disempower individual freedom f…
Speaking of women's 'nameless misery: The everyday construction of depression in Australian women's magazines
Reflexive Methodologies: An autoethnography of the gendered performance of sport/management
Autoethnography has emerged as a relatively new methodological approach within the fields of leisure, sport, and tourism studies and more broadly within the social sciences. As a reflexive methodology it offers the beginning and the experienced researcher a means of critically exploring the social forces that have shaped their own involvement in leisure practices and subsequent professional careers. In this paper we discuss the significance of au…
Sites of Somatic Subjectivity: E-scaped Mental Health Promotion and the Biopolitics of Depression
Leisure Practices as Counter-Depressants: Emotion-Work and Emotion-Play within Women's Recovery from Depression
This paper draws on post-structural feminist theories of emotion to explore the significance of leisure within women's narratives of recovery from depression. I engage with the stories of 48 women in rural and urban Australia to identify the gendered discourses governing depression and recovery. Leisure figured as a site of identity transformation where women enacted creative, embodied, and connected subjectivities. The performance of gender thro…
Negotiating the policy imperative to be healthy: Australian family repertoires of risk, leisure, and healthy lifestyles
This article offers a sociological analysis of how different lowermiddle income families engage with Australian government health policies and promotion campaigns aimed at reducing the risk of lifestyle disease (eat well, be active). Bringing together sociological literature across the domains of leisure, family, health, and risk we identify tensions between the purposes of health promotion and purposive family leisure. Findings are presented fro…
Negotiating the neurochemical self: Anti-Depressant Consumption in Women's Recovery From Depression
Anti-depressant treatment can be viewed as an exercise of biopower that is articulated through policies and practices aimed at the reduction of depression, population healthcare costs and effects on labour force productivity. Drawing upon a feminist governmentality perspective, this article examines the discourses that shaped women's experiences of anti-depressant medication in an Australian qualitative study on recovery from depression. The majo…
Where might the path less travelled lead us
Slow Tourism: Experiences and Mobilities
Slow travel and tourism: Experiences and Mobilities
Immobility, Battles, and the Journey of Feeling Alive: Women’s Metaphors of Self-Transformation Through Depression and Recovery
Australian mental health services have responded to the problem of depression by adopting an early intervention and recovery orientation. Using qualitative research conducted in Australia with 80 women aged 20 to 75 years, we examine how participants invoked particular metaphors to construct meaning about the gendered experience of depression and recovery. We argue that women's stories of recovery provide a rich source of interpretive material to…
Living it up in the ‘new world city’: High-rise development and the promise of liveability
The growth of high-rise developments raises questions about how the emotional and social leisurescape of the city is evoked, produced and represented. In this article, we examine how advertising images and texts promoting new high-rise developments produce notions of ‘liveability’ through the depiction of idealized spatial experiences that typify urban leisure lifestyles. The focus of our analysis is three high-rise developments in Brisbane, a se…
Narrating the Multiplicity of ‘Derby Grrrl’: Exploring Intersectionality and the Dynamics of Affect in Roller Derby
Driven by an ethos of self-organization and empowerment women involved in the revived version of roller derby have created an embodied and virtual leisure practice that challenges gender norms and invites different identities. However, tensions exist in the way different women negotiate the space of roller derby and the meaning of playing, belonging, and becoming “derby grrrls.” This article presents findings from a qualitative study of roller de…
Feminist Leisure Research in the Contemporary Era: Introduction to the Special Issue
Feminist research within leisure studies is at a critical juncture. As formative scholars of feminist leisure research retire, we recognize need to reflect upon their significant conceptual and empirical contributions. At same time we look forward to celebrate vast array of feminist leisure scholarship that continues to chart new directions in an ever-changing field. The purpose of this special issue is to harness energy of current feminist leisu…
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