Jaime R Deluca
Biographic Data
| ID | 196499 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jaime R Deluca |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jaime R |
| FAMILY NAME | Deluca |
| SIGNATURE | DELUCA J R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Towson University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9805-0548 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 43 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
When the clothes fit: Exploring the embodied transition to motherhood
Clothing practices can assist women in cultivating a particular body image and, thus, are sutured with details regarding how they manage their identity and appearance. Clothing can also help women cope with corporeal transitions, such as pregnancy. The relationship between clothing and one’s perception of their body shape changes during pregnancy as does how women feel about their clothes as they assume a new maternal identity. However, there is …
Good body, good health, and the good mother habitus
Fit for Motherhood: The Glocalization of Maternal Physical Activity in Mother and Baby Magazine
Exploring Women’s Marathon Participation in the United States, 1980-2019
Over 45 percent of participants in U.S. marathon events identify as women (World’s Largest, n.d.), a noteworthy development considering women comprised just 11% of participants in 1980 (Ryder, 2013). Most U.S. women competing in marathon events also identify as white and middle class, indicating significant racial and socio-economic divisions in this growth in participation. The rise in U.S. women’s marathoning is linked to historical changes in …
Optimistic & Boundaryless: Sport Management Students’ Conceptualization of Career
Drawing on generational theory and the concept of a boundaryless career, this research explored how sport management students conceptualize a career within the field of sport. Using focus groups and interviews, qualitative data was collected from undergraduate sport management students (n = 47) at two American institutions. Data analysis illuminated both student motivations for entering the major and the ways in which they envision their career t…
Working a Third Shift: Physical Activity and Embodied Motherhood
In their conception of the 'third shift,' Dworkin and Wachs argue that working mothers engage in fitness and bodywork in addition to the first shift of professional work and the second shift of household labor and childcare. Within this third shift, the goal for women is to 'erase physical evidence of motherhood' and return to the pre-pregnancy self. The cultivation of a body socially defined as 'good' and 'attractive' thus serves as a visible il…
‘My baby and this mom body’: Examining post-partum bodywork through stroller fitness
This article, based on ethnographic research, discusses the ways in which women exercise their class privilege in order to facilitate their membership in a postpartum stroller fitness class so as to be fit for their new maternal role. Privilege is linked to capital, a powerful social construct and an important resource which governs lifestyle practices and endows individuals with distinction in particular cultural fields. Feminist theory has expl…
Circumstantial intervention: Three perspectives
This article uses our past experiences with ethnography to explore our various interpretations of intervention and/or struggles in conducting interventionist research. By drawing on our personal ex
Like a “fish in water”’: Swim club membership and the construction of the upper-middle-class family habitus
Cultural theorist Pierre Bourdieu’s concept of habitus has been widely operationalised in relation to sport, yet there has been little scholarship considering the notion of family habitus. Through ethnographic methods, this research offers an empirically based analysis delineating the way in which the Valley View Swim and Tennis Club is a constitutive element of members’ upper-middle-class family habitus. Specifically, I argue that swim club memb…
Tales from the Ethnographic Field: Navigating Feelings of Guilt and Privilege in the Research Process
This article explores questions of reflexivity, positionality, identity, and emotion within the process of ethnographic research. We reflect on our feelings of privilege and guilt in and through our ethnographic fieldwork and discuss the ways in which these experiences encouraged reflexive thinking and a crucial interrogation of the place of the self in the research process. Specifically, we construct individual vignettes centered on our differin…
Exercising Privilege: The Cyclical Reproduction of Capital through Swim Club Membership
According to cultural theorist Pierre Bourdieu, social class is defined by the interplay and operation of various forms of capital, within the set of durable and objective relations in which the classed subject is located. Informed by Bourdieu's understanding of social class, this article details the empirical dimensions of upper-middle-class familial involvement at the Valley View Swim and Tennis Club. An institution prefigured on the practice a…
Swim club membership and the reproduction of happy, healthy children
Through ethnographic methods, I examine the ways in which upper middle-class families facilitate the reproduction of their healthy lifestyles through their affiliation with the Valley View Swim and Tennis Club, a semi-private facility located near a major mid-Atlantic city in the USA. Drawing on Sociologist Pierre Bourdieu’s understanding of social class, I argue that club membership operates as future investment in children’s health with the cul…
Submersed in Social Segregation: The (Re)Production of Social Capital Through Swim Club Membership
This article examines the ways in which upper middle class families acquire, transmit, and preserve their social and cultural capitals through membership at the Pine View Swim and Tennis Club, a semiprivate facility located near a major mid-Atlantic city in the United States. Drawing on Cultural theorist Pierre Bourdieu's theorizing on sport participation and social class position, as well as 4 years of ethnographic investigation, I argue that th…
Submersed in Social Segregation: The (Re)Production of Social Capital Through Swim Club Membership
This article examines the ways in which upper middle class families acquire, transmit, and preserve their social and cultural capitals through membership at the Pine View Swim and Tennis Club, a semiprivate facility located near a major mid-Atlantic city in the United States. Drawing on Cultural theorist Pierre Bourdieu's theorizing on sport participation and social class position, as well as 4 years of ethnographic investigation, I argue that th…
Tales from the Ethnographic Field: Navigating Feelings of Guilt and Privilege in the Research Process
This article explores questions of reflexivity, positionality, identity, and emotion within the process of ethnographic research. We reflect on our feelings of privilege and guilt in and through our ethnographic fieldwork and discuss the ways in which these experiences encouraged reflexive thinking and a crucial interrogation of the place of the self in the research process. Specifically, we construct individual vignettes centered on our differin…
Working a Third Shift: Physical Activity and Embodied Motherhood
In their conception of the 'third shift,' Dworkin and Wachs argue that working mothers engage in fitness and bodywork in addition to the first shift of professional work and the second shift of household labor and childcare. Within this third shift, the goal for women is to 'erase physical evidence of motherhood' and return to the pre-pregnancy self. The cultivation of a body socially defined as 'good' and 'attractive' thus serves as a visible il…
Exercising Privilege: The Cyclical Reproduction of Capital through Swim Club Membership
According to cultural theorist Pierre Bourdieu, social class is defined by the interplay and operation of various forms of capital, within the set of durable and objective relations in which the classed subject is located. Informed by Bourdieu's understanding of social class, this article details the empirical dimensions of upper-middle-class familial involvement at the Valley View Swim and Tennis Club. An institution prefigured on the practice a…
Like a “fish in water”’: Swim club membership and the construction of the upper-middle-class family habitus
Cultural theorist Pierre Bourdieu’s concept of habitus has been widely operationalised in relation to sport, yet there has been little scholarship considering the notion of family habitus. Through ethnographic methods, this research offers an empirically based analysis delineating the way in which the Valley View Swim and Tennis Club is a constitutive element of members’ upper-middle-class family habitus. Specifically, I argue that swim club memb…
Circumstantial intervention: Three perspectives
This article uses our past experiences with ethnography to explore our various interpretations of intervention and/or struggles in conducting interventionist research. By drawing on our personal ex
Swim club membership and the reproduction of happy, healthy children
Through ethnographic methods, I examine the ways in which upper middle-class families facilitate the reproduction of their healthy lifestyles through their affiliation with the Valley View Swim and Tennis Club, a semi-private facility located near a major mid-Atlantic city in the USA. Drawing on Sociologist Pierre Bourdieu’s understanding of social class, I argue that club membership operates as future investment in children’s health with the cul…
Submersed in Social Segregation: The (Re)Production of Social Capital Through Swim Club Membership
This article examines the ways in which upper middle class families acquire, transmit, and preserve their social and cultural capitals through membership at the Pine View Swim and Tennis Club, a semiprivate facility located near a major mid-Atlantic city in the United States. Drawing on Cultural theorist Pierre Bourdieu's theorizing on sport participation and social class position, as well as 4 years of ethnographic investigation, I argue that th…
Circumstantial intervention: Three perspectives
This article uses our past experiences with ethnography to explore our various interpretations of intervention and/or struggles in conducting interventionist research. By drawing on our personal ex
Like a “fish in water”’: Swim club membership and the construction of the upper-middle-class family habitus
Cultural theorist Pierre Bourdieu’s concept of habitus has been widely operationalised in relation to sport, yet there has been little scholarship considering the notion of family habitus. Through ethnographic methods, this research offers an empirically based analysis delineating the way in which the Valley View Swim and Tennis Club is a constitutive element of members’ upper-middle-class family habitus. Specifically, I argue that swim club memb…
Tales from the Ethnographic Field: Navigating Feelings of Guilt and Privilege in the Research Process
This article explores questions of reflexivity, positionality, identity, and emotion within the process of ethnographic research. We reflect on our feelings of privilege and guilt in and through our ethnographic fieldwork and discuss the ways in which these experiences encouraged reflexive thinking and a crucial interrogation of the place of the self in the research process. Specifically, we construct individual vignettes centered on our differin…
Exercising Privilege: The Cyclical Reproduction of Capital through Swim Club Membership
According to cultural theorist Pierre Bourdieu, social class is defined by the interplay and operation of various forms of capital, within the set of durable and objective relations in which the classed subject is located. Informed by Bourdieu's understanding of social class, this article details the empirical dimensions of upper-middle-class familial involvement at the Valley View Swim and Tennis Club. An institution prefigured on the practice a…
‘My baby and this mom body’: Examining post-partum bodywork through stroller fitness
This article, based on ethnographic research, discusses the ways in which women exercise their class privilege in order to facilitate their membership in a postpartum stroller fitness class so as to be fit for their new maternal role. Privilege is linked to capital, a powerful social construct and an important resource which governs lifestyle practices and endows individuals with distinction in particular cultural fields. Feminist theory has expl…
Optimistic & Boundaryless: Sport Management Students’ Conceptualization of Career
Drawing on generational theory and the concept of a boundaryless career, this research explored how sport management students conceptualize a career within the field of sport. Using focus groups and interviews, qualitative data was collected from undergraduate sport management students (n = 47) at two American institutions. Data analysis illuminated both student motivations for entering the major and the ways in which they envision their career t…
Working a Third Shift: Physical Activity and Embodied Motherhood
In their conception of the 'third shift,' Dworkin and Wachs argue that working mothers engage in fitness and bodywork in addition to the first shift of professional work and the second shift of household labor and childcare. Within this third shift, the goal for women is to 'erase physical evidence of motherhood' and return to the pre-pregnancy self. The cultivation of a body socially defined as 'good' and 'attractive' thus serves as a visible il…
Exploring Women’s Marathon Participation in the United States, 1980-2019
Over 45 percent of participants in U.S. marathon events identify as women (World’s Largest, n.d.), a noteworthy development considering women comprised just 11% of participants in 1980 (Ryder, 2013). Most U.S. women competing in marathon events also identify as white and middle class, indicating significant racial and socio-economic divisions in this growth in participation. The rise in U.S. women’s marathoning is linked to historical changes in …
When the clothes fit: Exploring the embodied transition to motherhood
Clothing practices can assist women in cultivating a particular body image and, thus, are sutured with details regarding how they manage their identity and appearance. Clothing can also help women cope with corporeal transitions, such as pregnancy. The relationship between clothing and one’s perception of their body shape changes during pregnancy as does how women feel about their clothes as they assume a new maternal identity. However, there is …
Good body, good health, and the good mother habitus
Fit for Motherhood: The Glocalization of Maternal Physical Activity in Mother and Baby Magazine
Sociology (12 works) · Social science (9 works) · Gender Studies (8 works) · Anthropology (6 works) · Epistemology (6 works) · Cultural capital (5 works) · Ethnography (5 works) · Habitus (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Psychology (5 works)