Mihi Joy Nemani
Biographic Data
| ID | 2925399 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mihi Joy Nemani |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mihi Joy |
| FAMILY NAME | Nemani |
| SIGNATURE | NEMANI M J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Waikato |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5354-312X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 24 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The Forgotten Group
Early adulthood, defined here as the mid-20s to mid-30s, is increasingly recognized as a life phase in which long-term habits and routines associated with family, work, health, and leisure are consolidated and renegotiated. In the context of wider social and economic change, significant transitions such as parenthood, partnership, career establishment, and permanent housing, considered milestones of adulthood, are increasingly occurring at this a…
Postcards From the Future
How is climate change affecting young athletes? Taking inspiration from the concepts of “polluted leisure” and “climatic affective atmospheres”, this article reveals how participating in sports (i.e., surfing, surf lifesaving, waka ama, kayaking, rowing) undertaken in/on rivers, oceans, and beaches damaged and destroyed by a changing climate are surfacing new affective and embodied relations with “polluted sport.” The analysis of focus groups and…
Something to hold onto
Physical activity of young Māori and Pasifika wāhine
Young Māori (Indigenous New Zealanders) and Pasifika (Pacific Islanders born outside their country of heritage) wāhine (women) in Aotearoa-Māori name for New Zealand-are reported as being less active compared to other young women and men. Taking strengths-based approaches, we amplify the voices of physically active young Māori and Pasifika wāhine to provide insights that can inform policy and practice. Weaving Indigenous methodologies and qualita…
No rest from the mess
This paper examines how the COVID-19 pandemic impacted the everyday lives of young women living in Aotearoa New Zealand. Engaging a feminist intersectional and youth studies approach and drawing upon interviews and focus groups with 45 young women (16–25 years) from diverse socio-economic and cultural backgrounds, we reveal how culture, ethnicity, socio-economic and living conditions impacted the gendered and emotional labor expected of young wom…
‘You made us feel at home’
Decades of research on Indigenous and culturally diverse young women in sport and exercise has been underpinned by deficit models where these groups are portrayed as ‘lacking’, ‘at risk’, and/or ‘vulnerable’. Such approaches have been heavily critiqued for ignoring broader structural and systemic inequities that have produced such health disparities. These approaches also reproduce racialised ideologies of Indigenous and culturally diverse women …
‘It was too much technology … I chucked my laptop across the room
Engaging with theories of networked affect, this paper highlights the importance of new ways of thinking about young women's relations with social media beyond 'good or bad' narratives, and towards more affective, embodied and agentic relations with digital technologies. Drawing upon interviews with 45 young women (16–25 years), we reveal the emergence of new digital intensities during the COVID-19 pandemic, and the reshaping of young women's dig…
It made me feel like a shit parent”
The COVID-19 pandemic brought to the fore the everyday and exceptional challenges for mothers. Rarely, however, did research or social commentary acknowledge the multiplicities of motherhood during this prolonged period of risk, disruption, and uncertainty. This paper draws upon interviews with 24 mothers living in Aotearoa New Zealand during the pandemic, including women who were pregnant and gave birth during lockdowns, teenage mothers, single …
Methods for more-than-human wellbeing
Articulating the complexities of relational wellbeing can be challenging at the best of times, and even more complex during periods of heightened stress and uncertainty. Taking inspiration from feminist materialisms and recent writings on material methods, we explore the potential of object interviews to reveal the material-discursive dimensions of women's experiences of wellbeing during the pandemic. In this paper we describe our research proces…
The pandemic as gender arrhythmia
In this paper we build upon recent organizational research drawing upon the work of Henri Lefebvre, and feminist engagements with his theory of “Rhythmanalysis”, to examine how the COVID‐19 pandemic disrupted women's everyday lives and the impacts on their relationship with work. Drawing upon interviews with 38 women from diverse socio‐cultural backgrounds living in Aotearoa New Zealand, we describe the pandemic as an “arrhythmia”, a radical rupt…
Women's Physical Activity as Becoming
Building upon and extending a growing strand of research engaging feminist new materialisms to understand women's moving bodies as more-than-human phenomena, this paper considers the pandemic as an event that initiated new expressions and contents for the fitness assemblage. Engaging a feminist reading of Deleuze and Guattari's writings on becoming, we examine women's physical activity practices during the coronavirus pandemic. Drawing upon objec…
The pandemic as gender arrhythmia
In this paper we build upon recent organizational research drawing upon the work of Henri Lefebvre, and feminist engagements with his theory of “Rhythmanalysis”, to examine how the COVID‐19 pandemic disrupted women's everyday lives and the impacts on their relationship with work. Drawing upon interviews with 38 women from diverse socio‐cultural backgrounds living in Aotearoa New Zealand, we describe the pandemic as an “arrhythmia”, a radical rupt…
Methods for more-than-human wellbeing
Articulating the complexities of relational wellbeing can be challenging at the best of times, and even more complex during periods of heightened stress and uncertainty. Taking inspiration from feminist materialisms and recent writings on material methods, we explore the potential of object interviews to reveal the material-discursive dimensions of women's experiences of wellbeing during the pandemic. In this paper we describe our research proces…
No rest from the mess
This paper examines how the COVID-19 pandemic impacted the everyday lives of young women living in Aotearoa New Zealand. Engaging a feminist intersectional and youth studies approach and drawing upon interviews and focus groups with 45 young women (16–25 years) from diverse socio-economic and cultural backgrounds, we reveal how culture, ethnicity, socio-economic and living conditions impacted the gendered and emotional labor expected of young wom…
Women's Physical Activity as Becoming
Building upon and extending a growing strand of research engaging feminist new materialisms to understand women's moving bodies as more-than-human phenomena, this paper considers the pandemic as an event that initiated new expressions and contents for the fitness assemblage. Engaging a feminist reading of Deleuze and Guattari's writings on becoming, we examine women's physical activity practices during the coronavirus pandemic. Drawing upon objec…
It made me feel like a shit parent”
The COVID-19 pandemic brought to the fore the everyday and exceptional challenges for mothers. Rarely, however, did research or social commentary acknowledge the multiplicities of motherhood during this prolonged period of risk, disruption, and uncertainty. This paper draws upon interviews with 24 mothers living in Aotearoa New Zealand during the pandemic, including women who were pregnant and gave birth during lockdowns, teenage mothers, single …
The pandemic as gender arrhythmia
In this paper we build upon recent organizational research drawing upon the work of Henri Lefebvre, and feminist engagements with his theory of “Rhythmanalysis”, to examine how the COVID‐19 pandemic disrupted women's everyday lives and the impacts on their relationship with work. Drawing upon interviews with 38 women from diverse socio‐cultural backgrounds living in Aotearoa New Zealand, we describe the pandemic as an “arrhythmia”, a radical rupt…
Women's Physical Activity as Becoming
Building upon and extending a growing strand of research engaging feminist new materialisms to understand women's moving bodies as more-than-human phenomena, this paper considers the pandemic as an event that initiated new expressions and contents for the fitness assemblage. Engaging a feminist reading of Deleuze and Guattari's writings on becoming, we examine women's physical activity practices during the coronavirus pandemic. Drawing upon objec…
‘You made us feel at home’
Decades of research on Indigenous and culturally diverse young women in sport and exercise has been underpinned by deficit models where these groups are portrayed as ‘lacking’, ‘at risk’, and/or ‘vulnerable’. Such approaches have been heavily critiqued for ignoring broader structural and systemic inequities that have produced such health disparities. These approaches also reproduce racialised ideologies of Indigenous and culturally diverse women …
‘It was too much technology … I chucked my laptop across the room
Engaging with theories of networked affect, this paper highlights the importance of new ways of thinking about young women's relations with social media beyond 'good or bad' narratives, and towards more affective, embodied and agentic relations with digital technologies. Drawing upon interviews with 45 young women (16–25 years), we reveal the emergence of new digital intensities during the COVID-19 pandemic, and the reshaping of young women's dig…
It made me feel like a shit parent”
The COVID-19 pandemic brought to the fore the everyday and exceptional challenges for mothers. Rarely, however, did research or social commentary acknowledge the multiplicities of motherhood during this prolonged period of risk, disruption, and uncertainty. This paper draws upon interviews with 24 mothers living in Aotearoa New Zealand during the pandemic, including women who were pregnant and gave birth during lockdowns, teenage mothers, single …
Methods for more-than-human wellbeing
Articulating the complexities of relational wellbeing can be challenging at the best of times, and even more complex during periods of heightened stress and uncertainty. Taking inspiration from feminist materialisms and recent writings on material methods, we explore the potential of object interviews to reveal the material-discursive dimensions of women's experiences of wellbeing during the pandemic. In this paper we describe our research proces…
Something to hold onto
Physical activity of young Māori and Pasifika wāhine
Young Māori (Indigenous New Zealanders) and Pasifika (Pacific Islanders born outside their country of heritage) wāhine (women) in Aotearoa-Māori name for New Zealand-are reported as being less active compared to other young women and men. Taking strengths-based approaches, we amplify the voices of physically active young Māori and Pasifika wāhine to provide insights that can inform policy and practice. Weaving Indigenous methodologies and qualita…
No rest from the mess
This paper examines how the COVID-19 pandemic impacted the everyday lives of young women living in Aotearoa New Zealand. Engaging a feminist intersectional and youth studies approach and drawing upon interviews and focus groups with 45 young women (16–25 years) from diverse socio-economic and cultural backgrounds, we reveal how culture, ethnicity, socio-economic and living conditions impacted the gendered and emotional labor expected of young wom…
The Forgotten Group
Early adulthood, defined here as the mid-20s to mid-30s, is increasingly recognized as a life phase in which long-term habits and routines associated with family, work, health, and leisure are consolidated and renegotiated. In the context of wider social and economic change, significant transitions such as parenthood, partnership, career establishment, and permanent housing, considered milestones of adulthood, are increasingly occurring at this a…
Postcards From the Future
How is climate change affecting young athletes? Taking inspiration from the concepts of “polluted leisure” and “climatic affective atmospheres”, this article reveals how participating in sports (i.e., surfing, surf lifesaving, waka ama, kayaking, rowing) undertaken in/on rivers, oceans, and beaches damaged and destroyed by a changing climate are surfacing new affective and embodied relations with “polluted sport.” The analysis of focus groups and…
Sociology (6 works) · Aotearoa (5 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19 (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Medicine (4 works) · Pandemic (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Social science (4 works) · Indigenous (3 works)