G Mcnarry
Biographic Data
| ID | 58303 |
|---|---|
| NAME | G Mcnarry |
| GIVEN NAMES | G |
| FAMILY NAME | Mcnarry |
| SIGNATURE | MCNARRY G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Copenhagen |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3105-9916 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 46 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Living With Injury: A Phenomenology of Sport Injury Rehabilitation
The aim of this work was to phenomenologically grasp the bodily ways in which rehabilitation from injury, specifically anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction, is expressed and found. We draw upon the first author’s experiences of injury rehabilitation in the form of diary notes, memory recall, and subsequent interviews between the authorship team. The descriptions offered temporally chart how various bodily tensions are announced during rehabi…
Somewhere Between a Stopwatch and a Recording Device: Ethnographic Reflections From the Pool
As has recently been highlighted, despite the prevalence of methodological “confessional tales” in ethnography generally, the challenges of undertaking ethnographic research specifically in institutional sports settings remain underexplored. Drawing on data from a 3-year ethnographic study of competitive swimming in the United Kingdom (UK), here we explore some of the practical challenges of balancing different elements of the researcher’s role w…
‘Ploughing on’: A sociological investigation of ‘endurance work’ in competitive swimming and distance-running
Despite a burgeoning corpus of qualitative studies of sport and physical cultures, in-depth and embodied investigations of those requiring sustained engagement with ‘endurance work’ remain relatively under-developed. These physical cultures are sociologically interesting as they often demand of practitioners intense commitment in terms of time, energy, and (for many) finances devoted to endurance-training regimes. They also require substantial sa…
Sensoriality, Social Interaction, and “Doing sensing” in Physical–Cultural Ethnographies
As recently highlighted, despite a burgeoning field of sensory ethnography, the practices, production, and accountability of the senses in specific social interactional contexts remain sociologically under-explored. To contribute original insights to a literature on the sensuous body in physical–cultural contexts, here we adopt an ethnomethodologically sensitive perspective to focus on the accomplishment, social organization, and accountability o…
Sensory sociological phenomenology, somatic learning and 'lived' temperature in competitive pool swimming
In this article, we address an existing lacuna in the sociology of the senses, by employing sociological phenomenology to illuminate the under-researched sense of temperature, as lived by a social group for whom water temperature is particularly salient: competitive pool swimmers. The research contributes to a developing 'sensory sociology' that highlights the importance of the socio-cultural framing of the senses and 'sensory work', but where th…
Doing' competitive swimming: Exploring the skilled practices of the competitive swimming lifeworld
Despite a developing literature on various facets of sporting embodiment, there is currently a research lacuna with regard to in-depth analyses of actually 'doing' sporting activities within specific physical cultures. In this article, we address that gap by drawing on a developing theoretical literature in sociological phenomenology to investigate a particular physical-cultural domain. Here, we present and analyse data from an ethnographic study…
You Always Wanna Be Sore, Because Then You Are Seeing Results”: Exploring Positive Pain in Competitive Swimming
Pain has long been associated with sports participation, being analyzed variously as a physical phenomenon, as well as a sociocultural construct in sport sociological literature. In this article, the authors employ a sociological–phenomenological approach to generate novel insights into the underresearched domain of “lived” pain in competitive swimming. Analytic attention is paid to specific aspects of pain, including “discomfort” and “good pain,…
Sport in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic: Towards an Agenda for Research in the Sociology of Sport
These are extraordinary times. Less because we are currently in the midst of a global pandemic; \nhumanity has been here multiple times in the past, sometimes with even more devastating \nresults (the ‘Black Death’ of 1346–1353, or Cocolitzli Epidemics in the 16th \nCentury, for example). Rather, these are extraordinary times due to both the huge shutting \ndown of industry, travel and borders, and the enormous level of coverage and discussion \n…
Reflexivity and bracketing in sociological phenomenological research: Researching the competitive swimming lifeworld
In this article, following on from earlier debates in the journal regarding the ‘thorny issue’ of epochē and bracketing in sociological phenomenological research, we consider more generally the challenges of engaging in reflexivity and bracketing when undertaking ethnographic ‘insider’ research, or research in familiar settings. We ground our discussion and illustrate some of the key challenges by drawing on the experience of undertaking this res…
Sport in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic: Towards an Agenda for Research in the Sociology of Sport
These are extraordinary times. Less because we are currently in the midst of a global pandemic; \nhumanity has been here multiple times in the past, sometimes with even more devastating \nresults (the ‘Black Death’ of 1346–1353, or Cocolitzli Epidemics in the 16th \nCentury, for example). Rather, these are extraordinary times due to both the huge shutting \ndown of industry, travel and borders, and the enormous level of coverage and discussion \n…
Sensory sociological phenomenology, somatic learning and 'lived' temperature in competitive pool swimming
In this article, we address an existing lacuna in the sociology of the senses, by employing sociological phenomenology to illuminate the under-researched sense of temperature, as lived by a social group for whom water temperature is particularly salient: competitive pool swimmers. The research contributes to a developing 'sensory sociology' that highlights the importance of the socio-cultural framing of the senses and 'sensory work', but where th…
Doing' competitive swimming: Exploring the skilled practices of the competitive swimming lifeworld
Despite a developing literature on various facets of sporting embodiment, there is currently a research lacuna with regard to in-depth analyses of actually 'doing' sporting activities within specific physical cultures. In this article, we address that gap by drawing on a developing theoretical literature in sociological phenomenology to investigate a particular physical-cultural domain. Here, we present and analyse data from an ethnographic study…
You Always Wanna Be Sore, Because Then You Are Seeing Results”: Exploring Positive Pain in Competitive Swimming
Pain has long been associated with sports participation, being analyzed variously as a physical phenomenon, as well as a sociocultural construct in sport sociological literature. In this article, the authors employ a sociological–phenomenological approach to generate novel insights into the underresearched domain of “lived” pain in competitive swimming. Analytic attention is paid to specific aspects of pain, including “discomfort” and “good pain,…
Reflexivity and bracketing in sociological phenomenological research: Researching the competitive swimming lifeworld
In this article, following on from earlier debates in the journal regarding the ‘thorny issue’ of epochē and bracketing in sociological phenomenological research, we consider more generally the challenges of engaging in reflexivity and bracketing when undertaking ethnographic ‘insider’ research, or research in familiar settings. We ground our discussion and illustrate some of the key challenges by drawing on the experience of undertaking this res…
You Always Wanna Be Sore, Because Then You Are Seeing Results”: Exploring Positive Pain in Competitive Swimming
Pain has long been associated with sports participation, being analyzed variously as a physical phenomenon, as well as a sociocultural construct in sport sociological literature. In this article, the authors employ a sociological–phenomenological approach to generate novel insights into the underresearched domain of “lived” pain in competitive swimming. Analytic attention is paid to specific aspects of pain, including “discomfort” and “good pain,…
Sport in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic: Towards an Agenda for Research in the Sociology of Sport
These are extraordinary times. Less because we are currently in the midst of a global pandemic; \nhumanity has been here multiple times in the past, sometimes with even more devastating \nresults (the ‘Black Death’ of 1346–1353, or Cocolitzli Epidemics in the 16th \nCentury, for example). Rather, these are extraordinary times due to both the huge shutting \ndown of industry, travel and borders, and the enormous level of coverage and discussion \n…
‘Ploughing on’: A sociological investigation of ‘endurance work’ in competitive swimming and distance-running
Despite a burgeoning corpus of qualitative studies of sport and physical cultures, in-depth and embodied investigations of those requiring sustained engagement with ‘endurance work’ remain relatively under-developed. These physical cultures are sociologically interesting as they often demand of practitioners intense commitment in terms of time, energy, and (for many) finances devoted to endurance-training regimes. They also require substantial sa…
Sensoriality, Social Interaction, and “Doing sensing” in Physical–Cultural Ethnographies
As recently highlighted, despite a burgeoning field of sensory ethnography, the practices, production, and accountability of the senses in specific social interactional contexts remain sociologically under-explored. To contribute original insights to a literature on the sensuous body in physical–cultural contexts, here we adopt an ethnomethodologically sensitive perspective to focus on the accomplishment, social organization, and accountability o…
Sensory sociological phenomenology, somatic learning and 'lived' temperature in competitive pool swimming
In this article, we address an existing lacuna in the sociology of the senses, by employing sociological phenomenology to illuminate the under-researched sense of temperature, as lived by a social group for whom water temperature is particularly salient: competitive pool swimmers. The research contributes to a developing 'sensory sociology' that highlights the importance of the socio-cultural framing of the senses and 'sensory work', but where th…
Doing' competitive swimming: Exploring the skilled practices of the competitive swimming lifeworld
Despite a developing literature on various facets of sporting embodiment, there is currently a research lacuna with regard to in-depth analyses of actually 'doing' sporting activities within specific physical cultures. In this article, we address that gap by drawing on a developing theoretical literature in sociological phenomenology to investigate a particular physical-cultural domain. Here, we present and analyse data from an ethnographic study…
Somewhere Between a Stopwatch and a Recording Device: Ethnographic Reflections From the Pool
As has recently been highlighted, despite the prevalence of methodological “confessional tales” in ethnography generally, the challenges of undertaking ethnographic research specifically in institutional sports settings remain underexplored. Drawing on data from a 3-year ethnographic study of competitive swimming in the United Kingdom (UK), here we explore some of the practical challenges of balancing different elements of the researcher’s role w…
Living With Injury: A Phenomenology of Sport Injury Rehabilitation
The aim of this work was to phenomenologically grasp the bodily ways in which rehabilitation from injury, specifically anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction, is expressed and found. We draw upon the first author’s experiences of injury rehabilitation in the form of diary notes, memory recall, and subsequent interviews between the authorship team. The descriptions offered temporally chart how various bodily tensions are announced during rehabi…
Sociology (8 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts (6 works) · Sports, Gender, and Society (6 works) · Social science (5 works) · Anthropology (4 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Ethnography (4 works) · Embodied cognition (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works)