Stephanie Merchant
Biographic Data
| ID | 162814 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stephanie Merchant |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stephanie |
| FAMILY NAME | Merchant |
| SIGNATURE | MERCHANT S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bath |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8330-2789 |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 99 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Surfing symphonies
Remembering learning to play
In this article, we explore young women’s memories of their experiences with sport, physical activity, and play during their childhood. Through collective memory work – sharing, discussing, writing, and analysing sporting memories/histories – we examine (re)constructions of young women’s experiences of gendered relations of power, bodily awareness, and regulation within movement-based practices. The approach taken explores relationships between t…
The promise of creative/participatory mapping practices for sport and leisure research
This paper provides an introduction to the concept of creative participatory mapping of human–environment relations. It is identified that within human geography, artistic practice and urban design, biomapping and similar community mapping tools and methodologies are increasingly being embraced. However, within sports and leisure research the concept has yet to gain academic attention. Consequently, this paper provides a basis for thinking about …
(Re)constructing the tourist experience? Editing experience and mediating memories of learning to dive
Through an analysis of the mediative techniques involved in the production of videographic tourist memorabilia (specifically souvenir DVDs of learning to SCUBA dive), in this paper I seek to render visible the often unconsidered aspects of visual media production that result in not only visual images themselves, but also by extension, the construction of alternate realities of leisure space and tourist performance. A connectionist approach to the…
On the Transgressive Possibilities of Physical Pedagogic Practices
Within this article, we critically reflect on the production and reproduction of knowledge(s) within the academic study of sport-a field dominated (to its detriment) by self-destructive versions of reductionist science that (subconsciously) act as insidious components of the social and economic condition that privileges "state" science and fail to do justice to the potentialities of "the physical" in overcoming social, political, and health inequ…
Negotiating Underwater Space
The desire to escape from land-based bodily constraints, to become enchanted by the spectacle of technicolour reefs, sunken ships and otherworldly creatures, is growing in popularity despite the expense and training required to explore the ocean depths. This dense water world, where a person’s resistance to gravitational pull results in differing feelings of weightlessness, where sound travels about five times faster yet more unevenly than in air…
The Body and the Senses
Drawing on methodological approaches used by visual anthropologists, film theorists and debates prevalent in the cultural studies literature, this paper is interdisciplinary in approach and attempts to tackle the challenge of collecting and analyzing embodied, sensuous and pre-reflective 'data' by advocating the value of integrating videography into research methodologies. The paper is illustrated with an examination of underwater videography foo…
The Body and the Senses
Drawing on methodological approaches used by visual anthropologists, film theorists and debates prevalent in the cultural studies literature, this paper is interdisciplinary in approach and attempts to tackle the challenge of collecting and analyzing embodied, sensuous and pre-reflective 'data' by advocating the value of integrating videography into research methodologies. The paper is illustrated with an examination of underwater videography foo…
Negotiating Underwater Space
The desire to escape from land-based bodily constraints, to become enchanted by the spectacle of technicolour reefs, sunken ships and otherworldly creatures, is growing in popularity despite the expense and training required to explore the ocean depths. This dense water world, where a person’s resistance to gravitational pull results in differing feelings of weightlessness, where sound travels about five times faster yet more unevenly than in air…
On the Transgressive Possibilities of Physical Pedagogic Practices
Within this article, we critically reflect on the production and reproduction of knowledge(s) within the academic study of sport-a field dominated (to its detriment) by self-destructive versions of reductionist science that (subconsciously) act as insidious components of the social and economic condition that privileges "state" science and fail to do justice to the potentialities of "the physical" in overcoming social, political, and health inequ…
The promise of creative/participatory mapping practices for sport and leisure research
This paper provides an introduction to the concept of creative participatory mapping of human–environment relations. It is identified that within human geography, artistic practice and urban design, biomapping and similar community mapping tools and methodologies are increasingly being embraced. However, within sports and leisure research the concept has yet to gain academic attention. Consequently, this paper provides a basis for thinking about …
(Re)constructing the tourist experience? Editing experience and mediating memories of learning to dive
Through an analysis of the mediative techniques involved in the production of videographic tourist memorabilia (specifically souvenir DVDs of learning to SCUBA dive), in this paper I seek to render visible the often unconsidered aspects of visual media production that result in not only visual images themselves, but also by extension, the construction of alternate realities of leisure space and tourist performance. A connectionist approach to the…
Negotiating Underwater Space
The desire to escape from land-based bodily constraints, to become enchanted by the spectacle of technicolour reefs, sunken ships and otherworldly creatures, is growing in popularity despite the expense and training required to explore the ocean depths. This dense water world, where a person’s resistance to gravitational pull results in differing feelings of weightlessness, where sound travels about five times faster yet more unevenly than in air…
The Body and the Senses
Drawing on methodological approaches used by visual anthropologists, film theorists and debates prevalent in the cultural studies literature, this paper is interdisciplinary in approach and attempts to tackle the challenge of collecting and analyzing embodied, sensuous and pre-reflective 'data' by advocating the value of integrating videography into research methodologies. The paper is illustrated with an examination of underwater videography foo…
On the Transgressive Possibilities of Physical Pedagogic Practices
Within this article, we critically reflect on the production and reproduction of knowledge(s) within the academic study of sport-a field dominated (to its detriment) by self-destructive versions of reductionist science that (subconsciously) act as insidious components of the social and economic condition that privileges "state" science and fail to do justice to the potentialities of "the physical" in overcoming social, political, and health inequ…
(Re)constructing the tourist experience? Editing experience and mediating memories of learning to dive
Through an analysis of the mediative techniques involved in the production of videographic tourist memorabilia (specifically souvenir DVDs of learning to SCUBA dive), in this paper I seek to render visible the often unconsidered aspects of visual media production that result in not only visual images themselves, but also by extension, the construction of alternate realities of leisure space and tourist performance. A connectionist approach to the…
The promise of creative/participatory mapping practices for sport and leisure research
This paper provides an introduction to the concept of creative participatory mapping of human–environment relations. It is identified that within human geography, artistic practice and urban design, biomapping and similar community mapping tools and methodologies are increasingly being embraced. However, within sports and leisure research the concept has yet to gain academic attention. Consequently, this paper provides a basis for thinking about …
Remembering learning to play
In this article, we explore young women’s memories of their experiences with sport, physical activity, and play during their childhood. Through collective memory work – sharing, discussing, writing, and analysing sporting memories/histories – we examine (re)constructions of young women’s experiences of gendered relations of power, bodily awareness, and regulation within movement-based practices. The approach taken explores relationships between t…
Surfing symphonies
Sociology (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Physical Education and Pedagogy (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts (3 works) · Sports, Gender, and Society (3 works)