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Shaantanu Kulkarni

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ID3619984
NAMEShaantanu Kulkarni
GIVEN NAMESShaantanu
FAMILY NAMEKulkarni
SIGNATUREKULKARNI S
AFFILIATIONSLaurentian University
ORCID0009-0003-1803-820X
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS4
TOTAL CITATIONS4
AUTHOR COUNT4
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2023
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX1
  • Throw, sweep, thrive and belong: A small story narrative analysis of sense of community meanings for elite curler mothers on Instagram

    Open Access•Shaantanu Kulkarni, Kerry Rebecca Mcgannon et al.•ARTICLE•International Review for the…•2026

    To advance understanding of socially constructed motherhood and sport, researchers are exploring elite athlete mothers’ sporting comebacks on social media (e.g. Instagram). The role of community aspects (e.g. belongingness, trust) linked to athlete mothers’ sporting career negotiation in digital media holds potential to expand understanding of socio-cultural career affordances for these sportswomen. This study explored the sense of community mean…

  • From birth to rebirth: Comeback meanings in media stories of Canadian athlete mothers’ sporting journeys

    Kerry Rebecca Mcgannon, Willa Hladun et al.•ARTICLE•Sport Education and Society•2025•References: 25

    Sport media is a public pedagogy that impacts sportswomen’s embodied subjectivities by circulating gender ideologies and discourses as forms of truth. In this study we used relativist narrative inquiry to build on sport media research exploring socially constructed motherhood and sport. We interrogated ‘comeback meanings’ in sport media stories of four veteran (i.e. multiple Olympic Games appearances, 32–41 years of age) Canadian athletes’ journe…

  • Tangled and Bumpy Roads to Gender Equity: Socio-Cultural Insights from Media Stories About Olympic Athletes and Motherhood

    Open Access•Kerry Rebecca Mcgannon, Andrea Bundon et al.•ARTICLE•American Behavioral Scientist•2024•Cited by: 1•References: 21

    With the 2024 Olympic Games touted as reaching gender parity (i.e., same number of female and male athletes participating), media conversations are continuing about elite athlete mothers. Researchers interrogating media stories of Olympic athlete mothers have shown that their sporting journeys are not straightforward due to tensions linked to gender (in)equity. In this paper we use narrative inquiry as a theoretical lens to explore "comeback them…

  • Exposing a Motherhood Penalty in Sport: A Feminist Narrative Inquiry of Media Stories of Canadian Athlete Mothers’ Journeys to the 2020 Tokyo Games

    Open Access•Kerry Rebecca Mcgannon, Shaantanu Kulkarni et al.•ARTICLE•Communication & Sport•2023•Cited by: 3•References: 4

    Coinciding with athlete mothers' stories gaining media visibility, sport media researchers are studying media discourses to learn more about socially constructed motherhood and sport. The present study extends media research on elite athlete mothers, by using feminist narrative inquiry to interrogate discrimination meanings in sport. North American sport media stories were collected on Canadian athletes' (i.e., boxer Mandy Bujold, basketball play…

  • Exposing a Motherhood Penalty in Sport: A Feminist Narrative Inquiry of Media Stories of Canadian Athlete Mothers’ Journeys to the 2020 Tokyo Games

    Open Access•Kerry Rebecca Mcgannon, Shaantanu Kulkarni et al.•ARTICLE•Communication & Sport•2023•Cited by: 3•References: 4

    Coinciding with athlete mothers' stories gaining media visibility, sport media researchers are studying media discourses to learn more about socially constructed motherhood and sport. The present study extends media research on elite athlete mothers, by using feminist narrative inquiry to interrogate discrimination meanings in sport. North American sport media stories were collected on Canadian athletes' (i.e., boxer Mandy Bujold, basketball play…

  • Tangled and Bumpy Roads to Gender Equity: Socio-Cultural Insights from Media Stories About Olympic Athletes and Motherhood

    Open Access•Kerry Rebecca Mcgannon, Andrea Bundon et al.•ARTICLE•American Behavioral Scientist•2024•Cited by: 1•References: 21

    With the 2024 Olympic Games touted as reaching gender parity (i.e., same number of female and male athletes participating), media conversations are continuing about elite athlete mothers. Researchers interrogating media stories of Olympic athlete mothers have shown that their sporting journeys are not straightforward due to tensions linked to gender (in)equity. In this paper we use narrative inquiry as a theoretical lens to explore "comeback them…

  • Exposing a Motherhood Penalty in Sport: A Feminist Narrative Inquiry of Media Stories of Canadian Athlete Mothers’ Journeys to the 2020 Tokyo Games

    Open Access•Kerry Rebecca Mcgannon, Shaantanu Kulkarni et al.•ARTICLE•Communication & Sport•2023•Cited by: 3•References: 4

    Coinciding with athlete mothers' stories gaining media visibility, sport media researchers are studying media discourses to learn more about socially constructed motherhood and sport. The present study extends media research on elite athlete mothers, by using feminist narrative inquiry to interrogate discrimination meanings in sport. North American sport media stories were collected on Canadian athletes' (i.e., boxer Mandy Bujold, basketball play…

  • Tangled and Bumpy Roads to Gender Equity: Socio-Cultural Insights from Media Stories About Olympic Athletes and Motherhood

    Open Access•Kerry Rebecca Mcgannon, Andrea Bundon et al.•ARTICLE•American Behavioral Scientist•2024•Cited by: 1•References: 21

    With the 2024 Olympic Games touted as reaching gender parity (i.e., same number of female and male athletes participating), media conversations are continuing about elite athlete mothers. Researchers interrogating media stories of Olympic athlete mothers have shown that their sporting journeys are not straightforward due to tensions linked to gender (in)equity. In this paper we use narrative inquiry as a theoretical lens to explore "comeback them…

  • From birth to rebirth: Comeback meanings in media stories of Canadian athlete mothers’ sporting journeys

    Kerry Rebecca Mcgannon, Willa Hladun et al.•ARTICLE•Sport Education and Society•2025•References: 25

    Sport media is a public pedagogy that impacts sportswomen’s embodied subjectivities by circulating gender ideologies and discourses as forms of truth. In this study we used relativist narrative inquiry to build on sport media research exploring socially constructed motherhood and sport. We interrogated ‘comeback meanings’ in sport media stories of four veteran (i.e. multiple Olympic Games appearances, 32–41 years of age) Canadian athletes’ journe…

  • Throw, sweep, thrive and belong: A small story narrative analysis of sense of community meanings for elite curler mothers on Instagram

    Open Access•Shaantanu Kulkarni, Kerry Rebecca Mcgannon et al.•ARTICLE•International Review for the…•2026

    To advance understanding of socially constructed motherhood and sport, researchers are exploring elite athlete mothers’ sporting comebacks on social media (e.g. Instagram). The role of community aspects (e.g. belongingness, trust) linked to athlete mothers’ sporting career negotiation in digital media holds potential to expand understanding of socio-cultural career affordances for these sportswomen. This study explored the sense of community mean…

Sports, Gender, and Society (4 works) · Athletes (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts (3 works) · History (2 works) · Media studies (2 works) · Medicine (2 works) · Narrative (2 works)

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