Emmanuelle Tulle
Biographic Data
| ID | 265982 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Emmanuelle Tulle |
| GIVEN NAMES | Emmanuelle |
| FAMILY NAME | Tulle |
| SIGNATURE | TULLE E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Glasgow Caledonian University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9225-4256 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 127 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Rising to the Gender Challenge in Scotland: Women's Embodiment of the Disposition to be Mountaineers
Mountains have long been dominated by men and hypermasculine practices. Women have worked hard to find a legitimate space in them. This paper is drawn from a qualitative study which explores the experiences of 10 women, based in Scotland, who have dedicated part of their lives to mountains. It adds to existing insights on women who have made inroads into mountaineering. Conceptualising mountaineering as a social field structured by masculine domi…
Engaging participants in qualitative research: Methodological reflections on studying active older lives in Scotland and Australia
Deliberations on methodology in qualitative research have typically offered guidance for increasing involvement by subjects or focus on the reasons why people choose not to take part in the research. This paper provides a different contribution to advancing knowledge and practice in qualitative methodologies. It examines the reasons why people choose to participate in qualitative research. Drawing together our reflections on three research projec…
(Re)conceptualising physical activity participation as career
Physical activity is increasingly positioned as playing an important role in preventing and mitigating many of the decrements associated with biological ageing. As a result, public health messages encourage older people to remain active in later life. Despite this, physical activity participation rates among older adults are low. This may be in part related to the conventional approach to understanding physical activity participation as a product…
From non-runner to parkrunner: Subjective athletic identity and experience of parkrun
Parkrun is a mass sporting community event which presents itself as a global social movement that aims to create a healthier and happier population. Existing research has explored the impact of parkrun on physical and mental wellbeing, and the mechanisms through which it may change physical activity behaviours. This paper draws upon a UK-wide survey of 8157 parkrunners to explore the subjective athletic identities of those who initially self-iden…
Understanding the parkrun community; sacred Saturdays and organic solidarity of parkrunners
This article focuses on parkrun, the multi-site weekly timed 5 km run, which operates around the world. Using Durkheim’s work on community, we use qualitative data from a survey of over 8000 parkrunners to make sense of the parkrun community. We argue that parkrun allows for an organic solidarity that celebrates the various moral rationales for participation. We suggest that this organic solidarity produces a collective effervescence that enables…
Becoming a hillwalker: Incorporating history in understandings of physical activity
This paper challenges dominant explanations of physical activity participation in later life as they tend to prioritise individual motivation at the expense of other explanations. Reference is also made to generational characteristics. What the recourse to generation tends to do is reinforce stereotypes of age, while the more complex and deep-seated processes which affect the development of dispositions to physical movement are not highlighted. F…
Living by numbers: Media representations of sports stars' careers
This article will address the making and unmaking of elite sporting careers, by focusing on the media reporting of the rise and fall of two elite sport stars, Roger Federer and Lance Armstrong. Sport stars are not simply the raw, unmediated products of innate or mysterious physical ability. Their physical capital is constituted through techniques - physical and discursive - that reflect wider social and cultural values. In this paper I report on …
Back from the brink: Ageing, exercise and health in a small gym
This paper discusses findings from a qualitative study which explored older adults' experiences of becoming regular exercisers in a gym triggered by health problems and their interactions with their younger gym instructors. A key question which the study sought to address was whether becoming embedded in the sub-field of exercise challenged traditional discourses of ageing (age habitus). While these older gym users reported significant benefits (…
Acting your age? Sports science and the ageing body
The anti-ageing enterprise: Science, knowledge, expertise, rhetoric and values
Ageing, the body and social change: Running in Later Life
The Ageing Body and the Ontology of Ageing: Athletic Competence in Later Life
This article will propose new understandings of ageing bodies in late modern societies, underpinned by a concern to find ways of resisting the erosion of social and cultural capital which accompanies bodily ageing, not predicated on thedenial of ageing. This analysis is necessary as theorizing older bodies has been and, I would argue, is still underdeveloped. This is not to deny the existence of important developments in theorizing later life, pa…
Running to Run: Embodiment, Structure and Agency amongst Veteran Elite Runners
This ar ticle is concerned with ageing embodiment and social change. It operates a synthesis of Bourdieu's theor y of the logic of practice and understandings of agency as an embodied process. Is age a source of habitus? Within what structural circumstances can ageing embodiment lead to social transformation? What are the limitations to this? An analysis of the minutiae of ever yday embodiment of older social actors active in the social field of …
Moving to 'Age-appropriate' Housing: Government and Self in Later Life
This article seeks to explore new ways of understanding and researching old age by drawing on Foucauldian analysis. The focus is on the government of populations and of the self, in a changing welfare climate. Recent theoretical developments in sociology have problematized dominant cultural and social constructions of ageing, and the ways in which old people make sense of their ageing selves against these normalizing processes, by highlighting th…
Running to Run: Embodiment, Structure and Agency amongst Veteran Elite Runners
This ar ticle is concerned with ageing embodiment and social change. It operates a synthesis of Bourdieu's theor y of the logic of practice and understandings of agency as an embodied process. Is age a source of habitus? Within what structural circumstances can ageing embodiment lead to social transformation? What are the limitations to this? An analysis of the minutiae of ever yday embodiment of older social actors active in the social field of …
Acting your age? Sports science and the ageing body
The anti-ageing enterprise: Science, knowledge, expertise, rhetoric and values
The Ageing Body and the Ontology of Ageing: Athletic Competence in Later Life
This article will propose new understandings of ageing bodies in late modern societies, underpinned by a concern to find ways of resisting the erosion of social and cultural capital which accompanies bodily ageing, not predicated on thedenial of ageing. This analysis is necessary as theorizing older bodies has been and, I would argue, is still underdeveloped. This is not to deny the existence of important developments in theorizing later life, pa…
Back from the brink: Ageing, exercise and health in a small gym
This paper discusses findings from a qualitative study which explored older adults' experiences of becoming regular exercisers in a gym triggered by health problems and their interactions with their younger gym instructors. A key question which the study sought to address was whether becoming embedded in the sub-field of exercise challenged traditional discourses of ageing (age habitus). While these older gym users reported significant benefits (…
Living by numbers: Media representations of sports stars' careers
This article will address the making and unmaking of elite sporting careers, by focusing on the media reporting of the rise and fall of two elite sport stars, Roger Federer and Lance Armstrong. Sport stars are not simply the raw, unmediated products of innate or mysterious physical ability. Their physical capital is constituted through techniques - physical and discursive - that reflect wider social and cultural values. In this paper I report on …
(Re)conceptualising physical activity participation as career
Physical activity is increasingly positioned as playing an important role in preventing and mitigating many of the decrements associated with biological ageing. As a result, public health messages encourage older people to remain active in later life. Despite this, physical activity participation rates among older adults are low. This may be in part related to the conventional approach to understanding physical activity participation as a product…
Understanding the parkrun community; sacred Saturdays and organic solidarity of parkrunners
This article focuses on parkrun, the multi-site weekly timed 5 km run, which operates around the world. Using Durkheim’s work on community, we use qualitative data from a survey of over 8000 parkrunners to make sense of the parkrun community. We argue that parkrun allows for an organic solidarity that celebrates the various moral rationales for participation. We suggest that this organic solidarity produces a collective effervescence that enables…
Moving to 'Age-appropriate' Housing: Government and Self in Later Life
This article seeks to explore new ways of understanding and researching old age by drawing on Foucauldian analysis. The focus is on the government of populations and of the self, in a changing welfare climate. Recent theoretical developments in sociology have problematized dominant cultural and social constructions of ageing, and the ways in which old people make sense of their ageing selves against these normalizing processes, by highlighting th…
Moving to 'Age-appropriate' Housing: Government and Self in Later Life
This article seeks to explore new ways of understanding and researching old age by drawing on Foucauldian analysis. The focus is on the government of populations and of the self, in a changing welfare climate. Recent theoretical developments in sociology have problematized dominant cultural and social constructions of ageing, and the ways in which old people make sense of their ageing selves against these normalizing processes, by highlighting th…
Running to Run: Embodiment, Structure and Agency amongst Veteran Elite Runners
This ar ticle is concerned with ageing embodiment and social change. It operates a synthesis of Bourdieu's theor y of the logic of practice and understandings of agency as an embodied process. Is age a source of habitus? Within what structural circumstances can ageing embodiment lead to social transformation? What are the limitations to this? An analysis of the minutiae of ever yday embodiment of older social actors active in the social field of …
Acting your age? Sports science and the ageing body
The anti-ageing enterprise: Science, knowledge, expertise, rhetoric and values
Ageing, the body and social change: Running in Later Life
The Ageing Body and the Ontology of Ageing: Athletic Competence in Later Life
This article will propose new understandings of ageing bodies in late modern societies, underpinned by a concern to find ways of resisting the erosion of social and cultural capital which accompanies bodily ageing, not predicated on thedenial of ageing. This analysis is necessary as theorizing older bodies has been and, I would argue, is still underdeveloped. This is not to deny the existence of important developments in theorizing later life, pa…
Back from the brink: Ageing, exercise and health in a small gym
This paper discusses findings from a qualitative study which explored older adults' experiences of becoming regular exercisers in a gym triggered by health problems and their interactions with their younger gym instructors. A key question which the study sought to address was whether becoming embedded in the sub-field of exercise challenged traditional discourses of ageing (age habitus). While these older gym users reported significant benefits (…
Living by numbers: Media representations of sports stars' careers
This article will address the making and unmaking of elite sporting careers, by focusing on the media reporting of the rise and fall of two elite sport stars, Roger Federer and Lance Armstrong. Sport stars are not simply the raw, unmediated products of innate or mysterious physical ability. Their physical capital is constituted through techniques - physical and discursive - that reflect wider social and cultural values. In this paper I report on …
Becoming a hillwalker: Incorporating history in understandings of physical activity
This paper challenges dominant explanations of physical activity participation in later life as they tend to prioritise individual motivation at the expense of other explanations. Reference is also made to generational characteristics. What the recourse to generation tends to do is reinforce stereotypes of age, while the more complex and deep-seated processes which affect the development of dispositions to physical movement are not highlighted. F…
Understanding the parkrun community; sacred Saturdays and organic solidarity of parkrunners
This article focuses on parkrun, the multi-site weekly timed 5 km run, which operates around the world. Using Durkheim’s work on community, we use qualitative data from a survey of over 8000 parkrunners to make sense of the parkrun community. We argue that parkrun allows for an organic solidarity that celebrates the various moral rationales for participation. We suggest that this organic solidarity produces a collective effervescence that enables…
Engaging participants in qualitative research: Methodological reflections on studying active older lives in Scotland and Australia
Deliberations on methodology in qualitative research have typically offered guidance for increasing involvement by subjects or focus on the reasons why people choose not to take part in the research. This paper provides a different contribution to advancing knowledge and practice in qualitative methodologies. It examines the reasons why people choose to participate in qualitative research. Drawing together our reflections on three research projec…
(Re)conceptualising physical activity participation as career
Physical activity is increasingly positioned as playing an important role in preventing and mitigating many of the decrements associated with biological ageing. As a result, public health messages encourage older people to remain active in later life. Despite this, physical activity participation rates among older adults are low. This may be in part related to the conventional approach to understanding physical activity participation as a product…
From non-runner to parkrunner: Subjective athletic identity and experience of parkrun
Parkrun is a mass sporting community event which presents itself as a global social movement that aims to create a healthier and happier population. Existing research has explored the impact of parkrun on physical and mental wellbeing, and the mechanisms through which it may change physical activity behaviours. This paper draws upon a UK-wide survey of 8157 parkrunners to explore the subjective athletic identities of those who initially self-iden…
Rising to the Gender Challenge in Scotland: Women's Embodiment of the Disposition to be Mountaineers
Mountains have long been dominated by men and hypermasculine practices. Women have worked hard to find a legitimate space in them. This paper is drawn from a qualitative study which explores the experiences of 10 women, based in Scotland, who have dedicated part of their lives to mountains. It adds to existing insights on women who have made inroads into mountaineering. Conceptualising mountaineering as a social field structured by masculine domi…
Sociology (12 works) · Psychology (11 works) · Political science (8 works) · Epistemology (7 works) · Medicine (7 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Older people (6 works) · Active ageing (5 works) · Aesthetics (5 works) · Gender Studies (5 works)