Bonnie Pang
Biographic Data
| ID | 3749581 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bonnie Pang |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bonnie |
| FAMILY NAME | Pang |
| SIGNATURE | PANG B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Western Sydney University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0250-2317 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 74 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Negotiating capital and social inclusion in community football: Chinese experiences in England
This study explores the experiences of diverse Chinese people in community football in England, focusing on the factors that shape social inclusion and the perceived inequalities affecting their participation. While existing research with minorities has largely concentrated on South Asian communities in UK football, the everyday engagement of Chinese people in this context remains significantly under-researched. Addressing this limitation, the st…
Introduction to the special issue, ‘reimagining curriculum, policy and pedagogy in health and physical education: Chinese societies and Chinese diasporas’
What does it mean to psychoanalyse sport? Reflections from the field
What does it mean to psychoanalyse sport? The question itself invites a confrontation with the strange, the opaque, and the frequently overlooked aspects of a cultural form that is typically read f
Governing Paralympians: A Media Discourse Analysis of Disability and Gender in China
This paper uses Foucauldian-influenced discourse analysis to explore the governance of disability and gender in Chinese print media during the 2022 Beijing Winter Paralympics. Drawing on 38 articles published in China Daily , a state-affiliated newspaper, this study examines the media representations of Paralympians and, more importantly, the ways in which gendered and disabled subject positions are constituted, negotiated, and regulated. The ana…
The Superfluous Modern Girl: Osei in Futabatei Shimei’s Ukigumo
Futabatei Shimei’s Ukigumo (Floating Cloud; 1887) is roundly considered “Japan’s first modern novel” by both Anglophone and Japanese scholars; its only English translation, by Marleigh Grayer Ryan in 1967, proclaims the achievement in the very title of the book. The significance of the label, combined with the novel’s incompleteness, has led to discussion over the nature of Japanese literary modernity itself. For Futabatei and his contemporaries,…
Leisure as Surveillance, and the Surveillance of Leisure
Introduction: Leisure in the surveillance society?This special issue centralizes questions of leisure and "the problem(s)" of surveillance.While some leisure scholarship has focused on surveillance (Jordan & Aitchison, 2008;Rose & Spencer, 2016;Silk, Millington, Rich & Bush, 2016), we believe further attention is warranted, not least because of the incredible permeation and "deep mediatization" (Couldry & Hepp, 2020) of digital leisure in everyda…
Examining the Eye Movement Behaviors Associated With Skilled Decision-Making by Elite Australian Rules Football Players
Exploration of eye-movement behaviors of humans can provide insight into the processes used to inform and make decisions, with a large body of research revealing general trends, especially in the sporting context. Despite this some questions remain within the sport context particularly for elite groups engaged in diverse sports, and the potential for this information to provide for training, development, and performance. Therefore, the purpose of…
Understanding Indo-Fijian girls’ experiences in sport, physical activity and physical education: An intersectional study
Whilst other sporting narratives of girls and women from the Global North have been well explored, there is limited research about girls from a Fijian background. Furthermore, within this ethnic/cultural group, their diverse voices are not well understood. Indo-Fijian girls who are of a South Asian background, and were born and reside in Fiji, are marginalised to a triple degree in the country’s sporting platforms: they face gender inequalities e…
Trans*, female bodybuilding and racial equality: Narratives from a Hong Kong Chinese gender-fluid bodybuilder
This article examines the construction of femininity and sexuality, specifically as trans* intersect with race/ethnicity, in sport. The third author (S.F.’s) lived experiences as a Hong Kong Chinese gender-fluid bodybuilder who competes in international women’s bodybuilding contests serve as an impetus to examine cultural norming and marginalization in professional sport. Narrative analysis and autobiographical memory are used to understand SF’s …
Health and Employment Experiences of Chinese International Students in Australia
(2021). Health and Employment Experiences of Chinese International Students in Australia. Chinese Education & Society: Vol. 54, Experiences and Mobility of Overseas Chinese Students and Scholars, pp. 107-119
The postmonolingual turn: Rethinking embodiment with New Confucianism in bodily education and research
The study of the body remains dominated by Western scholars examining Western bodies and using Western conceptualisations of the body. Though mainstream sociology of the body research is founded within dualisms, often privileging one side of a binary opposition at the expense of another, a thread within Chinese philosophies cut across such dualistic categories. This paper aims to reinvigorate this thread by the 'turn to' a postmonolingual approac…
Beyond Hypervisibility and Fear: British Chinese Communities’ Leisure and Health-Related Experiences in the Time of Coronavirus
This paper examines British Chinese communities’ lived experiences of leisure in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The data that inform this paper are based on my ongoing ethnographic research with British Chinese students in two supplementary schools in the United Kingdom (UK) about their leisure and health-related experiences (supported by Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship 2019–2020). The current findings are discussed in relation to my field …
Repurposing field analysis for a relational and reflexive sociology of Chinese diasporas
In this paper, we engage with Chinese diasporas research through recourse to Bourdieu’s relational, reflexive sociology. We start with the historical and recent developments of Chinese diasporas research and point out the potential of using Bourdieu to strengthen the theoretical underpinnings of this research. While we see a steady stream of Bourdieu-informed Chinese diasporas studies and acknowledge their contribution and innovation, we observe …
Problematising the (in)visibility of racialized and gendered British Chineseness in youth health and physical cultures
In an increasingly complex world marked by transnationalism and globalisation, the role of physical cultures in everyday life is undergoing change, as people with different orientations to movement and bodies, especially its dominant Western forms, negotiate their relationships to it. The examination of race in Europe and the United Kingdom (UK) in the current intellectual landscape is often located within a Black-White debate that often excludes…
Engaging Bourdieu’s habitus with Chinese understandings of embodiment: Knowledge flows in Health and Physical Education in higher education in Hong Kong
This paper begins with a question: can concepts generated in the Chinese context in the sociocultural relations of the periphery contribute to the development of the social sciences in the field of Health and Physical Education (HPE) that have their roots in the metropole? Setting the scene in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR), a postcolonial city reverted to the rule of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) in 1997, this paper a…
Interpreting the Chinese Diaspora: Identity, Socialisation, and Resilience According to Pierre Bourdieu
Globalisation and migration have created a vibrant yet dysphoric world fraught with different, and sometimes competing, practices and discourses. The emergent properties of the modern world inevitably complicate the being, doing, and thinking of Chinese diasporic populations living in predominantly white, English-speaking societies. This raises questions of what 'Chineseness' is. The gradual transfer of power from the West to the East shuffles th…
Experiencing risk, surveillance, and prosumption: Health and physical education students’ perceptions of digitised health and physical activity data
Digital technologies are now considered important in shaping young people's engagement in and with health and physical activity. Recent discussions show that the use of digital technologies to track health and fitness may over-emphasize the linear understanding of the body and health generally underpinned by Western health ideologies such as healthism. Other studies have shown the increased use of digital technologies in teaching Health and Physi…
Representations of Chinese gendered and racialised bodies in contemporary media sites
Social media are influential sociocultural forces that construct and transmit information about gender, health and bodies to young people in the digital age. In health and physical activity, Chinese people are often represented and positioned differently to other (minority) ethnic groups. For example, Black young people are often understood as having low academic motivations and aspirations but as ‘natural’ athletes; in contrast, Chinese young pe…
Using visual methodologies to understand pre-service Health and Physical Education teachers’ subjectivities of bodies
Socio-cultural theorists have argued that having a diverse understanding of subjectivities of normal/ideal bodies is important for Health and Physical Education (HPE) teachers. When teachers hold a single understanding and perception of normal/ideal bodies, such as a thin body as normal or ideal body, which are usually informed by dominant discourses, they may (re)produce narrow understandings of bodies among their students. This paper focuses on…
Rethinking the ‘aspirations’ of Chinese girls within and beyond Health and Physical Education and physical activity in Greater Western Sydney
This paper aims to explore young Chinese girls’ aspirations and ideal environments for engagement in Health and Physical Education (HPE) and physical activity (PA) in Greater Western Sydney. Interviews are used to elicit these girls’ perceptions of their future and ideal environments in relation to HPEPA. Their data offer insights into key influences regarding what is thinkable, desirable and achievable in their HPEPA environments. Results showed…
Conducting research with young Chinese-Australian students in health and physical education and physical activity: Epistemology, positionality and methodologies
Research that delves into the sociocultural perspectives of health and physical education and physical activity (HPEPA) in the lives of ethnic minority students in Westernised countries is often conducted by investigators who are Westerners, native English speakers and racially different from the study participants. Limited research is conducted by researchers who have racial and/or linguistic identities similar to those of study participants, an…
Teachers' experiences in teaching Chinese Australian students in health and physical education
Young Chinese Australians' subjectivities of ‘health’ and ‘(un)healthy bodies’
Young people with English as an Additional Language/Dialect backgrounds are often identified in public health messages and popular media as ‘bodies at risk’ because they do not conform to the health regimens of contemporary Western societies. With increasing numbers of Chinese students in Australian schools, it is necessary to advance teachers' understandings of the ways in which these young people negotiate notions of ‘health’ and ‘(un)healthy b…
Promoting physical activity in Hong Kong Chinese young people: Factors influencing their subjective task values and expectancy beliefs in physical activity
According to Eccles et al.’s (1983) Expectancy Value Model, the two major constructs that influence young people’s activity choice are subjective task value and expectancy beliefs (Eccles et al., 1983). Eccles et al. (1983) conceptually distinguished four dimensions of subjective task value: attainment value, intrinsic value, utility value and cost, and two dimensions of expectancy beliefs: expectancies for success and competence beliefs. Previou…
Do I have a choice?’ The influences of family values and investments on Chinese migrant young people's lifestyles and physical activity participation in Australia
This paper examines Chinese migrant young people's lifestyles and physical activity experiences in relation to the values and cultural investments of their families in Australia. The data in this paper were taken from a larger-scale study underpinned by a critical and interpretive ethnographic method conducted in two school sites. The young people's lives were significantly shaped by dominant Chinese cultural norms and traditional notions of gend…
Conducting research with young Chinese-Australian students in health and physical education and physical activity: Epistemology, positionality and methodologies
Research that delves into the sociocultural perspectives of health and physical education and physical activity (HPEPA) in the lives of ethnic minority students in Westernised countries is often conducted by investigators who are Westerners, native English speakers and racially different from the study participants. Limited research is conducted by researchers who have racial and/or linguistic identities similar to those of study participants, an…
Do I have a choice?’ The influences of family values and investments on Chinese migrant young people's lifestyles and physical activity participation in Australia
This paper examines Chinese migrant young people's lifestyles and physical activity experiences in relation to the values and cultural investments of their families in Australia. The data in this paper were taken from a larger-scale study underpinned by a critical and interpretive ethnographic method conducted in two school sites. The young people's lives were significantly shaped by dominant Chinese cultural norms and traditional notions of gend…
The postmonolingual turn: Rethinking embodiment with New Confucianism in bodily education and research
The study of the body remains dominated by Western scholars examining Western bodies and using Western conceptualisations of the body. Though mainstream sociology of the body research is founded within dualisms, often privileging one side of a binary opposition at the expense of another, a thread within Chinese philosophies cut across such dualistic categories. This paper aims to reinvigorate this thread by the 'turn to' a postmonolingual approac…
Young Chinese Australians' subjectivities of ‘health’ and ‘(un)healthy bodies’
Young people with English as an Additional Language/Dialect backgrounds are often identified in public health messages and popular media as ‘bodies at risk’ because they do not conform to the health regimens of contemporary Western societies. With increasing numbers of Chinese students in Australian schools, it is necessary to advance teachers' understandings of the ways in which these young people negotiate notions of ‘health’ and ‘(un)healthy b…
Engaging Bourdieu’s habitus with Chinese understandings of embodiment: Knowledge flows in Health and Physical Education in higher education in Hong Kong
This paper begins with a question: can concepts generated in the Chinese context in the sociocultural relations of the periphery contribute to the development of the social sciences in the field of Health and Physical Education (HPE) that have their roots in the metropole? Setting the scene in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR), a postcolonial city reverted to the rule of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) in 1997, this paper a…
Problematising the (in)visibility of racialized and gendered British Chineseness in youth health and physical cultures
In an increasingly complex world marked by transnationalism and globalisation, the role of physical cultures in everyday life is undergoing change, as people with different orientations to movement and bodies, especially its dominant Western forms, negotiate their relationships to it. The examination of race in Europe and the United Kingdom (UK) in the current intellectual landscape is often located within a Black-White debate that often excludes…
Teachers' experiences in teaching Chinese Australian students in health and physical education
Physical activity in the lives of Hong Kong Chinese children
To understand the physical activity culture in the lives of Hong Kong Chinese children and their parents, 48 young people between the ages 9 and 16 and their parents, with different socio-economic backgrounds and geographical locations, were interviewed for this study. By applying Confucianism and postcolonialism, this study aimed to investigate the meaning of physical activity in the lives of Hong Kong children and their parents. The results sho…
Understanding Indo-Fijian girls’ experiences in sport, physical activity and physical education: An intersectional study
Whilst other sporting narratives of girls and women from the Global North have been well explored, there is limited research about girls from a Fijian background. Furthermore, within this ethnic/cultural group, their diverse voices are not well understood. Indo-Fijian girls who are of a South Asian background, and were born and reside in Fiji, are marginalised to a triple degree in the country’s sporting platforms: they face gender inequalities e…
Leisure as Surveillance, and the Surveillance of Leisure
Introduction: Leisure in the surveillance society?This special issue centralizes questions of leisure and "the problem(s)" of surveillance.While some leisure scholarship has focused on surveillance (Jordan & Aitchison, 2008;Rose & Spencer, 2016;Silk, Millington, Rich & Bush, 2016), we believe further attention is warranted, not least because of the incredible permeation and "deep mediatization" (Couldry & Hepp, 2020) of digital leisure in everyda…
Representations of Chinese gendered and racialised bodies in contemporary media sites
Social media are influential sociocultural forces that construct and transmit information about gender, health and bodies to young people in the digital age. In health and physical activity, Chinese people are often represented and positioned differently to other (minority) ethnic groups. For example, Black young people are often understood as having low academic motivations and aspirations but as ‘natural’ athletes; in contrast, Chinese young pe…
Rethinking the ‘aspirations’ of Chinese girls within and beyond Health and Physical Education and physical activity in Greater Western Sydney
This paper aims to explore young Chinese girls’ aspirations and ideal environments for engagement in Health and Physical Education (HPE) and physical activity (PA) in Greater Western Sydney. Interviews are used to elicit these girls’ perceptions of their future and ideal environments in relation to HPEPA. Their data offer insights into key influences regarding what is thinkable, desirable and achievable in their HPEPA environments. Results showed…
Promoting physical activity in Hong Kong Chinese young people: Factors influencing their subjective task values and expectancy beliefs in physical activity
According to Eccles et al.’s (1983) Expectancy Value Model, the two major constructs that influence young people’s activity choice are subjective task value and expectancy beliefs (Eccles et al., 1983). Eccles et al. (1983) conceptually distinguished four dimensions of subjective task value: attainment value, intrinsic value, utility value and cost, and two dimensions of expectancy beliefs: expectancies for success and competence beliefs. Previou…
Health and Employment Experiences of Chinese International Students in Australia
(2021). Health and Employment Experiences of Chinese International Students in Australia. Chinese Education & Society: Vol. 54, Experiences and Mobility of Overseas Chinese Students and Scholars, pp. 107-119
Beyond Hypervisibility and Fear: British Chinese Communities’ Leisure and Health-Related Experiences in the Time of Coronavirus
This paper examines British Chinese communities’ lived experiences of leisure in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The data that inform this paper are based on my ongoing ethnographic research with British Chinese students in two supplementary schools in the United Kingdom (UK) about their leisure and health-related experiences (supported by Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship 2019–2020). The current findings are discussed in relation to my field …
Repurposing field analysis for a relational and reflexive sociology of Chinese diasporas
In this paper, we engage with Chinese diasporas research through recourse to Bourdieu’s relational, reflexive sociology. We start with the historical and recent developments of Chinese diasporas research and point out the potential of using Bourdieu to strengthen the theoretical underpinnings of this research. While we see a steady stream of Bourdieu-informed Chinese diasporas studies and acknowledge their contribution and innovation, we observe …
Experiencing risk, surveillance, and prosumption: Health and physical education students’ perceptions of digitised health and physical activity data
Digital technologies are now considered important in shaping young people's engagement in and with health and physical activity. Recent discussions show that the use of digital technologies to track health and fitness may over-emphasize the linear understanding of the body and health generally underpinned by Western health ideologies such as healthism. Other studies have shown the increased use of digital technologies in teaching Health and Physi…
Using visual methodologies to understand pre-service Health and Physical Education teachers’ subjectivities of bodies
Socio-cultural theorists have argued that having a diverse understanding of subjectivities of normal/ideal bodies is important for Health and Physical Education (HPE) teachers. When teachers hold a single understanding and perception of normal/ideal bodies, such as a thin body as normal or ideal body, which are usually informed by dominant discourses, they may (re)produce narrow understandings of bodies among their students. This paper focuses on…
Subjective task value in physical activity participation: The perspective of Hong Kong schoolchildren
Subjective Task Value (STV) is a multidimensional construct of values predominantly used to examine western culture (Eccles et al., 1983); it is influential in motivating individuals to make choices and display long-lasting behaviours. While existing studies were conducted with western populations, the manifestation of value has yet to be investigated from the viewpoint of the Chinese culture. This study sought, first, to test the validity of the…
Comparison of perceived support for physical activity and physical activity related practices of children and young adolescents in Hong Kong and Australia
This study compared the self-reported physical activity, perceived social support for, and perceived barriers to, physical activity of primary and secondary school children from Hong Kong and Australia. Hong Kong boys and girls reported spending significantly less time, outside of school hours, on physical activity than their Australian contemporaries ( p < .05). There was significantly higher perceived support for activity from Australian parent…
Comparison of perceived support for physical activity and physical activity related practices of children and young adolescents in Hong Kong and Australia
This study compared the self-reported physical activity, perceived social support for, and perceived barriers to, physical activity of primary and secondary school children from Hong Kong and Australia. Hong Kong boys and girls reported spending significantly less time, outside of school hours, on physical activity than their Australian contemporaries ( p < .05). There was significantly higher perceived support for activity from Australian parent…
Physical activity in the lives of Hong Kong Chinese children
To understand the physical activity culture in the lives of Hong Kong Chinese children and their parents, 48 young people between the ages 9 and 16 and their parents, with different socio-economic backgrounds and geographical locations, were interviewed for this study. By applying Confucianism and postcolonialism, this study aimed to investigate the meaning of physical activity in the lives of Hong Kong children and their parents. The results sho…
Subjective task value in physical activity participation: The perspective of Hong Kong schoolchildren
Subjective Task Value (STV) is a multidimensional construct of values predominantly used to examine western culture (Eccles et al., 1983); it is influential in motivating individuals to make choices and display long-lasting behaviours. While existing studies were conducted with western populations, the manifestation of value has yet to be investigated from the viewpoint of the Chinese culture. This study sought, first, to test the validity of the…
Do I have a choice?’ The influences of family values and investments on Chinese migrant young people's lifestyles and physical activity participation in Australia
This paper examines Chinese migrant young people's lifestyles and physical activity experiences in relation to the values and cultural investments of their families in Australia. The data in this paper were taken from a larger-scale study underpinned by a critical and interpretive ethnographic method conducted in two school sites. The young people's lives were significantly shaped by dominant Chinese cultural norms and traditional notions of gend…
Promoting physical activity in Hong Kong Chinese young people: Factors influencing their subjective task values and expectancy beliefs in physical activity
According to Eccles et al.’s (1983) Expectancy Value Model, the two major constructs that influence young people’s activity choice are subjective task value and expectancy beliefs (Eccles et al., 1983). Eccles et al. (1983) conceptually distinguished four dimensions of subjective task value: attainment value, intrinsic value, utility value and cost, and two dimensions of expectancy beliefs: expectancies for success and competence beliefs. Previou…
Young Chinese Australians' subjectivities of ‘health’ and ‘(un)healthy bodies’
Young people with English as an Additional Language/Dialect backgrounds are often identified in public health messages and popular media as ‘bodies at risk’ because they do not conform to the health regimens of contemporary Western societies. With increasing numbers of Chinese students in Australian schools, it is necessary to advance teachers' understandings of the ways in which these young people negotiate notions of ‘health’ and ‘(un)healthy b…
Using visual methodologies to understand pre-service Health and Physical Education teachers’ subjectivities of bodies
Socio-cultural theorists have argued that having a diverse understanding of subjectivities of normal/ideal bodies is important for Health and Physical Education (HPE) teachers. When teachers hold a single understanding and perception of normal/ideal bodies, such as a thin body as normal or ideal body, which are usually informed by dominant discourses, they may (re)produce narrow understandings of bodies among their students. This paper focuses on…
Rethinking the ‘aspirations’ of Chinese girls within and beyond Health and Physical Education and physical activity in Greater Western Sydney
This paper aims to explore young Chinese girls’ aspirations and ideal environments for engagement in Health and Physical Education (HPE) and physical activity (PA) in Greater Western Sydney. Interviews are used to elicit these girls’ perceptions of their future and ideal environments in relation to HPEPA. Their data offer insights into key influences regarding what is thinkable, desirable and achievable in their HPEPA environments. Results showed…
Conducting research with young Chinese-Australian students in health and physical education and physical activity: Epistemology, positionality and methodologies
Research that delves into the sociocultural perspectives of health and physical education and physical activity (HPEPA) in the lives of ethnic minority students in Westernised countries is often conducted by investigators who are Westerners, native English speakers and racially different from the study participants. Limited research is conducted by researchers who have racial and/or linguistic identities similar to those of study participants, an…
Teachers' experiences in teaching Chinese Australian students in health and physical education
Experiencing risk, surveillance, and prosumption: Health and physical education students’ perceptions of digitised health and physical activity data
Digital technologies are now considered important in shaping young people's engagement in and with health and physical activity. Recent discussions show that the use of digital technologies to track health and fitness may over-emphasize the linear understanding of the body and health generally underpinned by Western health ideologies such as healthism. Other studies have shown the increased use of digital technologies in teaching Health and Physi…
Representations of Chinese gendered and racialised bodies in contemporary media sites
Social media are influential sociocultural forces that construct and transmit information about gender, health and bodies to young people in the digital age. In health and physical activity, Chinese people are often represented and positioned differently to other (minority) ethnic groups. For example, Black young people are often understood as having low academic motivations and aspirations but as ‘natural’ athletes; in contrast, Chinese young pe…
Interpreting the Chinese Diaspora: Identity, Socialisation, and Resilience According to Pierre Bourdieu
Globalisation and migration have created a vibrant yet dysphoric world fraught with different, and sometimes competing, practices and discourses. The emergent properties of the modern world inevitably complicate the being, doing, and thinking of Chinese diasporic populations living in predominantly white, English-speaking societies. This raises questions of what 'Chineseness' is. The gradual transfer of power from the West to the East shuffles th…
Problematising the (in)visibility of racialized and gendered British Chineseness in youth health and physical cultures
In an increasingly complex world marked by transnationalism and globalisation, the role of physical cultures in everyday life is undergoing change, as people with different orientations to movement and bodies, especially its dominant Western forms, negotiate their relationships to it. The examination of race in Europe and the United Kingdom (UK) in the current intellectual landscape is often located within a Black-White debate that often excludes…
Engaging Bourdieu’s habitus with Chinese understandings of embodiment: Knowledge flows in Health and Physical Education in higher education in Hong Kong
This paper begins with a question: can concepts generated in the Chinese context in the sociocultural relations of the periphery contribute to the development of the social sciences in the field of Health and Physical Education (HPE) that have their roots in the metropole? Setting the scene in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR), a postcolonial city reverted to the rule of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) in 1997, this paper a…
Health and Employment Experiences of Chinese International Students in Australia
(2021). Health and Employment Experiences of Chinese International Students in Australia. Chinese Education & Society: Vol. 54, Experiences and Mobility of Overseas Chinese Students and Scholars, pp. 107-119
The postmonolingual turn: Rethinking embodiment with New Confucianism in bodily education and research
The study of the body remains dominated by Western scholars examining Western bodies and using Western conceptualisations of the body. Though mainstream sociology of the body research is founded within dualisms, often privileging one side of a binary opposition at the expense of another, a thread within Chinese philosophies cut across such dualistic categories. This paper aims to reinvigorate this thread by the 'turn to' a postmonolingual approac…
Beyond Hypervisibility and Fear: British Chinese Communities’ Leisure and Health-Related Experiences in the Time of Coronavirus
This paper examines British Chinese communities’ lived experiences of leisure in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The data that inform this paper are based on my ongoing ethnographic research with British Chinese students in two supplementary schools in the United Kingdom (UK) about their leisure and health-related experiences (supported by Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship 2019–2020). The current findings are discussed in relation to my field …
Repurposing field analysis for a relational and reflexive sociology of Chinese diasporas
In this paper, we engage with Chinese diasporas research through recourse to Bourdieu’s relational, reflexive sociology. We start with the historical and recent developments of Chinese diasporas research and point out the potential of using Bourdieu to strengthen the theoretical underpinnings of this research. While we see a steady stream of Bourdieu-informed Chinese diasporas studies and acknowledge their contribution and innovation, we observe …
Examining the Eye Movement Behaviors Associated With Skilled Decision-Making by Elite Australian Rules Football Players
Exploration of eye-movement behaviors of humans can provide insight into the processes used to inform and make decisions, with a large body of research revealing general trends, especially in the sporting context. Despite this some questions remain within the sport context particularly for elite groups engaged in diverse sports, and the potential for this information to provide for training, development, and performance. Therefore, the purpose of…
Understanding Indo-Fijian girls’ experiences in sport, physical activity and physical education: An intersectional study
Whilst other sporting narratives of girls and women from the Global North have been well explored, there is limited research about girls from a Fijian background. Furthermore, within this ethnic/cultural group, their diverse voices are not well understood. Indo-Fijian girls who are of a South Asian background, and were born and reside in Fiji, are marginalised to a triple degree in the country’s sporting platforms: they face gender inequalities e…
Trans*, female bodybuilding and racial equality: Narratives from a Hong Kong Chinese gender-fluid bodybuilder
This article examines the construction of femininity and sexuality, specifically as trans* intersect with race/ethnicity, in sport. The third author (S.F.’s) lived experiences as a Hong Kong Chinese gender-fluid bodybuilder who competes in international women’s bodybuilding contests serve as an impetus to examine cultural norming and marginalization in professional sport. Narrative analysis and autobiographical memory are used to understand SF’s …
Leisure as Surveillance, and the Surveillance of Leisure
Introduction: Leisure in the surveillance society?This special issue centralizes questions of leisure and "the problem(s)" of surveillance.While some leisure scholarship has focused on surveillance (Jordan & Aitchison, 2008;Rose & Spencer, 2016;Silk, Millington, Rich & Bush, 2016), we believe further attention is warranted, not least because of the incredible permeation and "deep mediatization" (Couldry & Hepp, 2020) of digital leisure in everyda…
What does it mean to psychoanalyse sport? Reflections from the field
What does it mean to psychoanalyse sport? The question itself invites a confrontation with the strange, the opaque, and the frequently overlooked aspects of a cultural form that is typically read f
Governing Paralympians: A Media Discourse Analysis of Disability and Gender in China
This paper uses Foucauldian-influenced discourse analysis to explore the governance of disability and gender in Chinese print media during the 2022 Beijing Winter Paralympics. Drawing on 38 articles published in China Daily , a state-affiliated newspaper, this study examines the media representations of Paralympians and, more importantly, the ways in which gendered and disabled subject positions are constituted, negotiated, and regulated. The ana…
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