Leanne Petherick
Biographic Data
| ID | 4078916 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Leanne Petherick |
| GIVEN NAMES | Leanne |
| FAMILY NAME | Petherick |
| SIGNATURE | PETHERICK L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of British Columbia |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4099-317X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Reading curriculum as cultural practice
Background This paper highlights the cultural construction of health in Health and Physical Education (HPE) curriculum. Using Kanu’s approach to reading the curriculum as cultural practice, I interrogate how the construction of ‘healthy lifestyle’ in particular is positioned within government policy. In this way, diverse cultural understandings of health are foregrounded to consider how race, ethnicity and culture are central to health and lifest…
Fostering intercultural dialogue
Recent research has drawn attention to the culture of whiteness and Eurocentrism within post-secondary kinesiology and physical education programs. By speaking with eighteen Chinese-Canadian undergraduate students, this case study examines how Eurocentrism manifests in an undergraduate kinesiology program at a western Canadian university. We found that a subtle, yet pervasive, center–margin framework was woven throughout the teaching and research…
Unsettling the Myth of Canadian Nationhood
We situate the race-based division of Manitoba’s Keystone Junior Hockey League as a case study to reveal the ongoing processes of settler colonialism. We argue that this split is an example of “White settler possessive logics,” whereby settler belonging is naturalized through reiterative embodied acts of occupation. That this split happened in hockey, which is colloquially referred to as “Canada’s game,” is perhaps unsurprising given that hockey …
Bringing the ‘other half’ back
In this paper, we introduce readers to the Indigenous Wellbeing of Boys and Men project, a 4-year research collaboration between scholars from the Universities of Manitoba and British Columbia and Fisher River Cree Nation (Ochékwi Sipi). We overview the research design of the project, paying particular attention to the foundational strategies that informed the research process. These strategies included, embedding the project within an Indigenous…
Indigenous Gender Reformations
This paper situates Euro-Western sport within a broader settler colonial logic of elimination that frames Indigenous bodies, cultures, and ideas within a politics of containment in the production of the colonized masculine subject. We use three examples to illustrate our argument, including an examination of the use of Euro-Western sport and physical culture in Indian Residential Schools, the definitional confinement of diverse and constantly ada…
HPV vaccination discourses and the construction of “at-risk” girls
Governing indigenous recreation at a distance
Within the Canadian context, the physical activity levels of children and youth in the after school time period has become a source of public health concern. We argue that this concern is informed by broader public health crises, in particular the ‘global obesity epidemic’ and the closely related ‘global pandemic of physical inactivity', and that these so-called ‘crises’ operate as part of a discursive regime that serves to justify after school i…
Examining the more-than-built environments of a northern Manitoban community
Taking Up the Vitality Message
Currently, in Canada and elsewhere in the West, government spending, media, and health activities focus heavily on 'lifestyles' and the 'obesity epidemic.' In the last decade, many health and education professionals in Canada have adopted policies to improve health and fitness among youth, seeing them particularly 'at risk' for engaging in unhealthy practices. Canada's Vitality message of learning how to eat well, be active, and feel good about o…
Shaping the Child as a Healthy Child
Although health surveillance in schools is not a new phenomenon, surveillance has arguably intensified in the contemporary historical moment. As individuals and professional collectivities coalesce around the concern for youth health, surveillant mechanisms proliferate within the educational context. In this article, I critically examine the 'Youth Health Survey' (YHS) administered in Manitoba (Canada), to illustrate how youth health is deployed …
Teaching Across the Lines of Fault in Psychology and Sociology
While interdisciplinary knowledge is critical to moving beyond categorical ways of knowing, this comes with its own set of pedagogical challenges. We contend that acknowledging existing knowledge hierarchies and epistemological differences, recognizing the ideological baggage that students’ bring to the classroom in terms of their understandings of health, embracing intellectual uncertainty, and encouraging learning-as-witnessing, are fundamental…
Fields of Play
Book Review| April 01 2014 Fields of Play: An Ethnography of Children’s Sports Dyck, Noel. Fields of Play: An Ethnography of Children’s Sports. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2012. Pp. ix+195. Bibliography and index. $26.95 pb. Leanne Petherick Leanne Petherick University of Manitoba Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Sport History (2014) 41 (1): 158–159. https://doi.org/10.5406/jsporthistory.41.1.158 Cit…
Producing the young biocitizen
Given that the health of the nation is often interpreted in and through the health of the nation's youth, the threat of the ‘childhood obesity epidemic’ garners much attention and it is hardly surprising that physical education has been recruited in the ‘war on [childhood] obesity'. This paper explores how students aged 13–15 years, at a secondary school in Toronto, Canada, make sense of, negotiate and embody the health messages embedded within t…
Indigenous Gender Reformations
This paper situates Euro-Western sport within a broader settler colonial logic of elimination that frames Indigenous bodies, cultures, and ideas within a politics of containment in the production of the colonized masculine subject. We use three examples to illustrate our argument, including an examination of the use of Euro-Western sport and physical culture in Indian Residential Schools, the definitional confinement of diverse and constantly ada…
Shaping the Child as a Healthy Child
Although health surveillance in schools is not a new phenomenon, surveillance has arguably intensified in the contemporary historical moment. As individuals and professional collectivities coalesce around the concern for youth health, surveillant mechanisms proliferate within the educational context. In this article, I critically examine the 'Youth Health Survey' (YHS) administered in Manitoba (Canada), to illustrate how youth health is deployed …
Producing the young biocitizen
Given that the health of the nation is often interpreted in and through the health of the nation's youth, the threat of the ‘childhood obesity epidemic’ garners much attention and it is hardly surprising that physical education has been recruited in the ‘war on [childhood] obesity'. This paper explores how students aged 13–15 years, at a secondary school in Toronto, Canada, make sense of, negotiate and embody the health messages embedded within t…
HPV vaccination discourses and the construction of “at-risk” girls
Examining the more-than-built environments of a northern Manitoban community
Taking Up the Vitality Message
Currently, in Canada and elsewhere in the West, government spending, media, and health activities focus heavily on 'lifestyles' and the 'obesity epidemic.' In the last decade, many health and education professionals in Canada have adopted policies to improve health and fitness among youth, seeing them particularly 'at risk' for engaging in unhealthy practices. Canada's Vitality message of learning how to eat well, be active, and feel good about o…
Teaching Across the Lines of Fault in Psychology and Sociology
While interdisciplinary knowledge is critical to moving beyond categorical ways of knowing, this comes with its own set of pedagogical challenges. We contend that acknowledging existing knowledge hierarchies and epistemological differences, recognizing the ideological baggage that students’ bring to the classroom in terms of their understandings of health, embracing intellectual uncertainty, and encouraging learning-as-witnessing, are fundamental…
Producing the young biocitizen
Given that the health of the nation is often interpreted in and through the health of the nation's youth, the threat of the ‘childhood obesity epidemic’ garners much attention and it is hardly surprising that physical education has been recruited in the ‘war on [childhood] obesity'. This paper explores how students aged 13–15 years, at a secondary school in Toronto, Canada, make sense of, negotiate and embody the health messages embedded within t…
Teaching Across the Lines of Fault in Psychology and Sociology
While interdisciplinary knowledge is critical to moving beyond categorical ways of knowing, this comes with its own set of pedagogical challenges. We contend that acknowledging existing knowledge hierarchies and epistemological differences, recognizing the ideological baggage that students’ bring to the classroom in terms of their understandings of health, embracing intellectual uncertainty, and encouraging learning-as-witnessing, are fundamental…
Fields of Play
Book Review| April 01 2014 Fields of Play: An Ethnography of Children’s Sports Dyck, Noel. Fields of Play: An Ethnography of Children’s Sports. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2012. Pp. ix+195. Bibliography and index. $26.95 pb. Leanne Petherick Leanne Petherick University of Manitoba Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of Sport History (2014) 41 (1): 158–159. https://doi.org/10.5406/jsporthistory.41.1.158 Cit…
Examining the more-than-built environments of a northern Manitoban community
Taking Up the Vitality Message
Currently, in Canada and elsewhere in the West, government spending, media, and health activities focus heavily on 'lifestyles' and the 'obesity epidemic.' In the last decade, many health and education professionals in Canada have adopted policies to improve health and fitness among youth, seeing them particularly 'at risk' for engaging in unhealthy practices. Canada's Vitality message of learning how to eat well, be active, and feel good about o…
Shaping the Child as a Healthy Child
Although health surveillance in schools is not a new phenomenon, surveillance has arguably intensified in the contemporary historical moment. As individuals and professional collectivities coalesce around the concern for youth health, surveillant mechanisms proliferate within the educational context. In this article, I critically examine the 'Youth Health Survey' (YHS) administered in Manitoba (Canada), to illustrate how youth health is deployed …
Governing indigenous recreation at a distance
Within the Canadian context, the physical activity levels of children and youth in the after school time period has become a source of public health concern. We argue that this concern is informed by broader public health crises, in particular the ‘global obesity epidemic’ and the closely related ‘global pandemic of physical inactivity', and that these so-called ‘crises’ operate as part of a discursive regime that serves to justify after school i…
Indigenous Gender Reformations
This paper situates Euro-Western sport within a broader settler colonial logic of elimination that frames Indigenous bodies, cultures, and ideas within a politics of containment in the production of the colonized masculine subject. We use three examples to illustrate our argument, including an examination of the use of Euro-Western sport and physical culture in Indian Residential Schools, the definitional confinement of diverse and constantly ada…
HPV vaccination discourses and the construction of “at-risk” girls
Bringing the ‘other half’ back
In this paper, we introduce readers to the Indigenous Wellbeing of Boys and Men project, a 4-year research collaboration between scholars from the Universities of Manitoba and British Columbia and Fisher River Cree Nation (Ochékwi Sipi). We overview the research design of the project, paying particular attention to the foundational strategies that informed the research process. These strategies included, embedding the project within an Indigenous…
Unsettling the Myth of Canadian Nationhood
We situate the race-based division of Manitoba’s Keystone Junior Hockey League as a case study to reveal the ongoing processes of settler colonialism. We argue that this split is an example of “White settler possessive logics,” whereby settler belonging is naturalized through reiterative embodied acts of occupation. That this split happened in hockey, which is colloquially referred to as “Canada’s game,” is perhaps unsurprising given that hockey …
Reading curriculum as cultural practice
Background This paper highlights the cultural construction of health in Health and Physical Education (HPE) curriculum. Using Kanu’s approach to reading the curriculum as cultural practice, I interrogate how the construction of ‘healthy lifestyle’ in particular is positioned within government policy. In this way, diverse cultural understandings of health are foregrounded to consider how race, ethnicity and culture are central to health and lifest…
Fostering intercultural dialogue
Recent research has drawn attention to the culture of whiteness and Eurocentrism within post-secondary kinesiology and physical education programs. By speaking with eighteen Chinese-Canadian undergraduate students, this case study examines how Eurocentrism manifests in an undergraduate kinesiology program at a western Canadian university. We found that a subtle, yet pervasive, center–margin framework was woven throughout the teaching and research…
Sociology (13 works) · Political science (8 works) · Social science (7 works) · Medicine (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Indigenous (5 works) · Physical Education and Pedagogy (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts (5 works) · Sports, Gender, and Society (4 works)