Roslyn Kerr
Biographic Data
| ID | 97344 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Roslyn Kerr |
| GIVEN NAMES | Roslyn |
| FAMILY NAME | Kerr |
| SIGNATURE | KERR R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Lincoln University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4125-9452 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 37 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 59 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 37 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Reckoning with Reconciliation: Art and Artists in Bosnia and Herzegovina
∞ Reconciliation is often invoked as a primary goal of transitional justice and peacebuilding but it is a term that both resists easy definition and is hotly contested. Art, meanwhile, is posited as an alternative means of promoting reconciliation, but measuring its effectiveness is fraught with difficulty. This article takes a novel approach to answer the question of what art and artists can contribute to postconflict reconciliation by analysing…
Curating a ‘Living Museum’: Art and Justice Interactions at the History Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina
In 2019, the History Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina launched an open call, inviting artists, practitioners, art historians and researchers to interact with its extensive collection of socialist-era artworks and in the process launching a 'Living Museum'.Based on close analysis of two exhibitions that resulted from the open call, this article demonstrates how the turn to the arts and the local turn in transitional justice converged to bring the …
Parents’ discursive accounts of their children’s participation in rugby league
Critical discursive psychology (CDP) was employed to examine how parents’ accounts of their young children’s participation in rugby league in New Zealand negotiate parental identities and, in particular, attend to issues of accountability in that role. The study analysed semi-structured interview data from 21 parents to examine the ways in which personal narratives intersect with parenting discourses. CDP notions of discourse were used to examine…
The “Digital Turn” in Transitional Justice Research: Evaluating Image and Text as Data in the Western Balkans
The “digital turn” has transformed the landscape of transitional justice research. A wealth of data has been created through social media channels, and new digitisation tools have made existing data more easily accessible. This article discusses the ethical and methodological dimensions of using digital data and novel technologies in transitional justice research based on innovative research using digital archives, digitised transcripts, social m…
Theorizing the Moving Body in Competitive Sport
This article examines an area that has received surprisingly little attention within the sociology of sport literature: the role of human movement and the ways in which it can be understood and valued. Drawing on the work of Pierre Bourdieu and Judith Butler, in this article, the authors have raised the possibility of sporting “movement capital.” The authors argued that rules and regulations produce and legitimize particular types of movements, w…
Motherhood capital' in tourism fieldwork: Experiences from Arctic Canada
Drawing on a study of resident attitudes toward tourism development in the Canadian Arctic, this article examines the experiences of one of the authors who was accompanied by her infant son during her fieldwork. Utilising Lo’s (Sociological Perspectives 59(3):694–713, 2016) concept of ‘motherhood capital’, derived from the work of Pierre Bourdieu, we argue that the presence of her son, who joined her on five occasions between the age of 9 and 22 …
Sport and Physical Activity Practices Examined Through Parents’ Discourse About Children’s Rugby League
This study examined the ways in which discourses operate when parents talk about their children’s participation in rugby league in New Zealand. The primary interest was in the recruitment and reinforcement of sport and physical activity discourses. The paper uses a critical discursive psychological approach to identify regularities in the ways a sample of parents spoke about their children’s sport and links these patterned ways of speaking to the…
Art, Aesthetics, Justice, and Reconciliation: What can art do
The potential convergence of art and international justice has received greater attention in recent years. In light of recognition of the limitations of international courts and the challenges of outreach, scholars and practitioners have begun to seek alternative ways of fostering engagement among the communities most affected by the crimes under their jurisdiction. In this context, the question has arisen: What can art do? What is the potential …
What Works? Creative Approaches to Transitional Justice in Bosnia and Herzegovina
∞ Scholars and practitioners of transitional justice have begun to seek alternative approaches in the arts and culture as a means to pursue core goals of peace and reconciliation. This Special Issue asks what creative approaches can do that conventional transitional justice mechanisms cannot, and invites us to reflect on the possibilities, and the potential challenges, risks and constraints. In response, this article discusses two arts-based init…
"Moving Beyond "Insider or Outsider: The Ethnographic Challenges of Researching Elite Sport Facilities in New Zealand
Recently, several researchers have highlighted the difficulty with the binary terms "insider-outsider" within qualitative research. We similarly critique the insider/outsider binary in this article, but offer an alternative by utilizing Bourdieu's theoretical concepts of capital, habitus, and field to compare two researcher's ethnographic accounts of researching sports facilities in New Zealand. One of the ethnographers, D.S., describes himself a…
The migration of gymnastics coaches from the Former Soviet Union to New Zealand: An actor–network theory perspective
This article uses actor–network theory (ANT) to examine factors that influenced highly skilled gymnastics coaches from the gymnastics stronghold of the Former Soviet Union to migrate to the geographically and culturally distant nation of New Zealand. Our research diverges from the emphasis on the professional sports labour market that has dominated sports migration research and extends upon the network-orientated approaches that have recently bee…
The Role of Setting in the Field: The Positioning of Older Bodies in the Field of Elite Women's Gymnastics
The last decade has seen an increase in the age of elite women's gymnasts. This article examines the older gymnastic body within the field of elite women's gymnastics, and how gymnasts, over the age of 20, and their coaches and judges, reconstruct the field in interview accounts. While participants contested the value of differently aged and sized bodies, they also made distinctions between the capitals that were valuable in different settings su…
State of leisure studies in Australia and New Zealand
A recurring theme has emerged from past ANZALS (Australia and New Zealand Association for Leisure Studies) Conferences' keynote presentations concerning the status of leisure studies from a teaching and research perspective. While this broad discussion has been raised, little is formally known about the current status of leisure studies in Australian and New Zealand universities. The ANZALS Board initiated a project in 2015 to gain insights into …
Growing up and speaking out: Female gymnasts' rights in an ageing sport
This research examines the experiences of ‘older’ elite gymnasts competing in Women's Artistic Gymnastics in Australia, through the framework of athlete rights. Using a qualitative approach interviews were conducted with elite or former elite gymnasts who were at least 20 years old during their active career, and coaches and judges who worked with such athletes. This paper focuses on three key themes that emerged from the data. First was the rela…
The integration of ‘foreign’ technologies into sporting practice
Sporting performances and processes can be strongly influenced by technology and equipment that are not considered a standard part of sport. This chapter focuses on the introduction of ‘non-sport’ technologies into the sports training environment. It includes two case studies: a study of the use of Global Positioning Systems (GPS) in Australian Rules Football (AFL) and an examination of the use of technologically constructed hypoxic environments …
The integration of science and medicine into sports training
Experts in sports science and medicine are now assumed to make-up a significant part of a competitive athlete’s actor-network. These experts have a range of technological tools at their disposal that are able to reveal the inner workings of the body and suggest solutions. This chapter investigates the processes utilised by athletes and coaches to integrate sport scientists into the sporting context. While it would be easy to assume that enrolment…
What is technology?
This chapter investigates three ways that technology can be understood through actor-network theory. First, an individual technology is considered as consisting of its own unique actor-network and also within the wider actor-network that constitutes sporting practice. Second, technology is argued to be a stabilising device, which when integrated with human behaviour, can cause behaviour to become constant. Third, technology is considered as holdi…
Index
Series editor's preface
This book presents new theories and international empirical evidence on the state of work and employment around the world. Changes in production systems, economic conditions and regulatory conditions are posing new questions about the growing use by employers of precarious forms of work, the contradictory approaches of governments towards employment and social policy, and the ability of trade unions to improve the distribution of decent employmen…
Technologies for judging, umpiring and refereeing
This chapter considers the actor-network of various sports that have enrolled technological devices for assisting with umpiring or judging. The cases of cricket, tennis and artistic gymnastics are drawn upon to examine how the actor-network of each sport is affected by the new technology. The focus in this chapter is following the actor-network beyond the initial implementation. Each sport is followed beyond the point at which the governing body …
Conclusion
This book presents new theories and international empirical evidence on the state of work and employment around the world. Changes in production systems, economic conditions and regulatory conditions are posing new questions about the growing use by employers of precarious forms of work, the contradictory approaches of governments towards employment and social policy, and the ability of trade unions to improve the distribution of decent employmen…
Enhancement
The technologies that this chapter focuses on are those which are constituent for sport and are used by athletes every time they train or compete. These kinds of technologies include balls in football, boats in rowing or yachting, bicycles in cycling and shoes in running. As these form necessary parts of each sport, it is understandable that improving these technologies has become another avenue for athletes to attempt to achieve an advantage ove…
Translating performances
Latour (1992) is famous for describing non-humans as the “missing masses” in the study of society. While more recently authors have argued that the increased number of studies examining technology, animals and other non-humans mean that that non-humans are no longer missing (see Sayes, 2014), they remain missing in the study of sports media. There is little attention to the exact technologies utilised by sports producers and how the assemblage of…
Sport and technology: An actor-network theory perspective
In today's world, we are offered a constantly expanding number of technologies to integrate into our lives. We now utilise a range of interconnected technologies at work, at home and at leisure. The realm of sport is no exception, where new technologies or enhancements are available to athletes, coaches, scientists, umpires, governing bodies and broadcasters. However, this book argues that in a world where time has become a precious commodity and…
An Ironic Imbalance: Coaching Opportunities and Gender in Women’s Artistic Gymnastics in Australia and New Zealand
Women’s Artistic Gymnastics (WAG) is a sport designed specifically for women. With roots in ballet, calisthenics and eugenics, it was meant to showcase femininity, beauty, and encourage healthy bodies for motherhood, therefore offering socially acceptable sporting opportunities for females. This paper considers whether such sporting opportunities extended to female coaches. We examine the recruitment patterns in relation to gender of some of the …
From Foucault to Latour: Gymnastics Training as a Socio-Technical Network
When fourteen-year-old Nadia Comaneci won gold at the 1976 Olympic Games, her youthful appearance inspired concerns about the hard training of young gymnasts. These concerns frequently centered around the coach as a figure of authority with the power to potentially exploit young girls. This paper both confirms and questions this assumption through using an Actor Network Theory (ANT) perspective. It is argued that what has been missing from previo…
"Moving Beyond "Insider or Outsider: The Ethnographic Challenges of Researching Elite Sport Facilities in New Zealand
Recently, several researchers have highlighted the difficulty with the binary terms "insider-outsider" within qualitative research. We similarly critique the insider/outsider binary in this article, but offer an alternative by utilizing Bourdieu's theoretical concepts of capital, habitus, and field to compare two researcher's ethnographic accounts of researching sports facilities in New Zealand. One of the ethnographers, D.S., describes himself a…
What Works? Creative Approaches to Transitional Justice in Bosnia and Herzegovina
∞ Scholars and practitioners of transitional justice have begun to seek alternative approaches in the arts and culture as a means to pursue core goals of peace and reconciliation. This Special Issue asks what creative approaches can do that conventional transitional justice mechanisms cannot, and invites us to reflect on the possibilities, and the potential challenges, risks and constraints. In response, this article discusses two arts-based init…
Motherhood capital' in tourism fieldwork: Experiences from Arctic Canada
Drawing on a study of resident attitudes toward tourism development in the Canadian Arctic, this article examines the experiences of one of the authors who was accompanied by her infant son during her fieldwork. Utilising Lo’s (Sociological Perspectives 59(3):694–713, 2016) concept of ‘motherhood capital’, derived from the work of Pierre Bourdieu, we argue that the presence of her son, who joined her on five occasions between the age of 9 and 22 …
Women's Artistic Gymnastics in Australia and New Zealand: A Foucauldian Examination of the Relationship Between Sport Governance and Consumption
This article relates the Australian and New Zealand women's artistic gymnastics governance systems to the micro-level conduct of coaches, gymnasts, and parents. Two ethnographic studies conducted in these countries examined how gymnasts, parents, and coaches reacted to and produced training realities. We employ a Foucauldian perspective of consumption to analyze the data. The results demonstrate different types of consumer mentalities. In Austral…
Curating a ‘Living Museum’: Art and Justice Interactions at the History Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina
In 2019, the History Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina launched an open call, inviting artists, practitioners, art historians and researchers to interact with its extensive collection of socialist-era artworks and in the process launching a 'Living Museum'.Based on close analysis of two exhibitions that resulted from the open call, this article demonstrates how the turn to the arts and the local turn in transitional justice converged to bring the …
An Ironic Imbalance: Coaching Opportunities and Gender in Women’s Artistic Gymnastics in Australia and New Zealand
Women’s Artistic Gymnastics (WAG) is a sport designed specifically for women. With roots in ballet, calisthenics and eugenics, it was meant to showcase femininity, beauty, and encourage healthy bodies for motherhood, therefore offering socially acceptable sporting opportunities for females. This paper considers whether such sporting opportunities extended to female coaches. We examine the recruitment patterns in relation to gender of some of the …
The Disappearance of the Perfect 10: Evaluating Rule Changes in Women's Artistic Gymnastics
The 2004 Olympic Games saw a range of judging scandals in the sport of artistic gymnastics that prompted the International Gymnastics Federation to make changes to the sport's judging system. Therefore, following these games, the International Gymnastics Federation reworked the gymnastics scoring system, where the most prominent change was the removal of the ‘perfect 10’ as the highest score possible, to be replaced by an open-ended scoring syste…
Space Capsule Justice: The Icty and Bosnia — Image, Distance and Disconnection
Warfare in Bosnia and Hercegovina in the first half of the 1990s was highly visualized, described elsewhere as the first truly ‘televisual’ war.1 In line with Yugoslavia’s historic fate as a laboratory,2 the war in Bosnia also prompted an experiment in international justice which itself was highly visualized, both in the factors that created it — shocking images of emaciated men at detention camp fences around Prijedor, northern Bosnia, in August…
Art, Aesthetics, Justice, and Reconciliation: What can art do
The potential convergence of art and international justice has received greater attention in recent years. In light of recognition of the limitations of international courts and the challenges of outreach, scholars and practitioners have begun to seek alternative ways of fostering engagement among the communities most affected by the crimes under their jurisdiction. In this context, the question has arisen: What can art do? What is the potential …
The migration of gymnastics coaches from the Former Soviet Union to New Zealand: An actor–network theory perspective
This article uses actor–network theory (ANT) to examine factors that influenced highly skilled gymnastics coaches from the gymnastics stronghold of the Former Soviet Union to migrate to the geographically and culturally distant nation of New Zealand. Our research diverges from the emphasis on the professional sports labour market that has dominated sports migration research and extends upon the network-orientated approaches that have recently bee…
Integrating Scientists into the Sports Environment: A Case Study of Gymnastics in New Zealand
This article examines how sports scientists who operate outside the sports training arena are mobilized to work with gymnasts in New Zealand. Although sociology of sport has drawn attention to a variety of facets of sports science, there has been only little attention to the enrolment processes through which sports scientists become part of the sporting network. This study uses a perspective specifically developed by actor network theorists for t…
Reckoning with Reconciliation: Art and Artists in Bosnia and Herzegovina
∞ Reconciliation is often invoked as a primary goal of transitional justice and peacebuilding but it is a term that both resists easy definition and is hotly contested. Art, meanwhile, is posited as an alternative means of promoting reconciliation, but measuring its effectiveness is fraught with difficulty. This article takes a novel approach to answer the question of what art and artists can contribute to postconflict reconciliation by analysing…
Theorizing the Moving Body in Competitive Sport
This article examines an area that has received surprisingly little attention within the sociology of sport literature: the role of human movement and the ways in which it can be understood and valued. Drawing on the work of Pierre Bourdieu and Judith Butler, in this article, the authors have raised the possibility of sporting “movement capital.” The authors argued that rules and regulations produce and legitimize particular types of movements, w…
The Role of Setting in the Field: The Positioning of Older Bodies in the Field of Elite Women's Gymnastics
The last decade has seen an increase in the age of elite women's gymnasts. This article examines the older gymnastic body within the field of elite women's gymnastics, and how gymnasts, over the age of 20, and their coaches and judges, reconstruct the field in interview accounts. While participants contested the value of differently aged and sized bodies, they also made distinctions between the capitals that were valuable in different settings su…
Growing up and speaking out: Female gymnasts' rights in an ageing sport
This research examines the experiences of ‘older’ elite gymnasts competing in Women's Artistic Gymnastics in Australia, through the framework of athlete rights. Using a qualitative approach interviews were conducted with elite or former elite gymnasts who were at least 20 years old during their active career, and coaches and judges who worked with such athletes. This paper focuses on three key themes that emerged from the data. First was the rela…
Hard work or child's play? Migrant coaches’ reflections on coaching gymnastics in New Zealand
Since the 1990s, a number of gymnastics coaches from the former Soviet Union (FSU) have migrated to New Zealand where they have taken up full-time employment working as coaches within gymnastics clubs. This study utilized life story interviews with migrant Russian coaches and conceptual resources from discursive psychology to examine how these coaches understand unfamiliar cultural discourses relevant to their coaching practice, and how they resp…
International Judicial Intervention: The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia
Prosecuting war crimes: Trials and tribulations
During the course of the last decade or so, we have witnessed a growth in the business of international criminal justice, prompted by changes in the international system and a greater concern about violations of human rights occurring within the borders of a state. The establishment of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in May 1993 was the first step on a path that led to the establishment of a permanent Internat…
Peace through Justice? The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia
The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) was established in 1993 with an explicit mandate to contribute to the restoration and maintenance of international peace and security through the administration of justice. In spite of early difficulties and widespread scepticism, the Tribunal evolved into a fully functioning international criminal court, operating in real‐time over Kosovo in 1998–1999. From the point when the f…
Athlete first: A history of the paralympic movement
by Steve Bailey, West Sussex, John Wiley, 2008, 281 pp., £50 (hardback), ISBN 978‐0‐470‐05824‐4 by P. David Howe, London, Routledge, 2008, 187 pp., £24.99 (paperback), ISBN 978‐0‐415‐28887‐3, (elec
Culture under Cross-Examination: International Justice and the Special Court for Sierra Leone, Tim Kelsall. * Fictions of Justice: The International Criminal Court and the Challenge of Legal Pluralism…
Since the early 1990s, transitional justice has developed from being a relatively esoteric area of study and a rarity in international politics to being the order of the day for states emerging from violent conflict or undergoing transition from authoritarian to democratic rule. In the academic world, the field of transitional justice has emerged as truly interdisciplinary, with contributions from legal scholars, political scientists, historians,…
Integrating Scientists into the Sports Environment: A Case Study of Gymnastics in New Zealand
This article examines how sports scientists who operate outside the sports training arena are mobilized to work with gymnasts in New Zealand. Although sociology of sport has drawn attention to a variety of facets of sports science, there has been only little attention to the enrolment processes through which sports scientists become part of the sporting network. This study uses a perspective specifically developed by actor network theorists for t…
Space Capsule Justice: The Icty and Bosnia — Image, Distance and Disconnection
Warfare in Bosnia and Hercegovina in the first half of the 1990s was highly visualized, described elsewhere as the first truly ‘televisual’ war.1 In line with Yugoslavia’s historic fate as a laboratory,2 the war in Bosnia also prompted an experiment in international justice which itself was highly visualized, both in the factors that created it — shocking images of emaciated men at detention camp fences around Prijedor, northern Bosnia, in August…
Pictures of Peace and Justice from N uremberg to the H olocaust: N uremberg: Its Lesson for Today , Memory of the Camps , and Majdanek: Cemetery of Europe – Missing Films, Memory Gaps and the Impact b…
The present article examines three ‘missing’ films and their significance for memory and historiography of the N uremberg International Military Tribunal and the H olocaust: N uremberg: Its Lesson for Today , Memory of the Camps and Majdanek: Cemetery of Europe . Between them, the three ‘missing’ films contain material that is absent from collective memory and, in some regards, scholarship. The ‘missing’ films reflect the ‘missing’ message of the…
The Disappearance of the Perfect 10: Evaluating Rule Changes in Women's Artistic Gymnastics
The 2004 Olympic Games saw a range of judging scandals in the sport of artistic gymnastics that prompted the International Gymnastics Federation to make changes to the sport's judging system. Therefore, following these games, the International Gymnastics Federation reworked the gymnastics scoring system, where the most prominent change was the removal of the ‘perfect 10’ as the highest score possible, to be replaced by an open-ended scoring syste…
From Foucault to Latour: Gymnastics Training as a Socio-Technical Network
When fourteen-year-old Nadia Comaneci won gold at the 1976 Olympic Games, her youthful appearance inspired concerns about the hard training of young gymnasts. These concerns frequently centered around the coach as a figure of authority with the power to potentially exploit young girls. This paper both confirms and questions this assumption through using an Actor Network Theory (ANT) perspective. It is argued that what has been missing from previo…
Hard work or child's play? Migrant coaches’ reflections on coaching gymnastics in New Zealand
Since the 1990s, a number of gymnastics coaches from the former Soviet Union (FSU) have migrated to New Zealand where they have taken up full-time employment working as coaches within gymnastics clubs. This study utilized life story interviews with migrant Russian coaches and conceptual resources from discursive psychology to examine how these coaches understand unfamiliar cultural discourses relevant to their coaching practice, and how they resp…
Women's Artistic Gymnastics in Australia and New Zealand: A Foucauldian Examination of the Relationship Between Sport Governance and Consumption
This article relates the Australian and New Zealand women's artistic gymnastics governance systems to the micro-level conduct of coaches, gymnasts, and parents. Two ethnographic studies conducted in these countries examined how gymnasts, parents, and coaches reacted to and produced training realities. We employ a Foucauldian perspective of consumption to analyze the data. The results demonstrate different types of consumer mentalities. In Austral…
The integration of ‘foreign’ technologies into sporting practice
Sporting performances and processes can be strongly influenced by technology and equipment that are not considered a standard part of sport. This chapter focuses on the introduction of ‘non-sport’ technologies into the sports training environment. It includes two case studies: a study of the use of Global Positioning Systems (GPS) in Australian Rules Football (AFL) and an examination of the use of technologically constructed hypoxic environments …
The integration of science and medicine into sports training
Experts in sports science and medicine are now assumed to make-up a significant part of a competitive athlete’s actor-network. These experts have a range of technological tools at their disposal that are able to reveal the inner workings of the body and suggest solutions. This chapter investigates the processes utilised by athletes and coaches to integrate sport scientists into the sporting context. While it would be easy to assume that enrolment…
What is technology?
This chapter investigates three ways that technology can be understood through actor-network theory. First, an individual technology is considered as consisting of its own unique actor-network and also within the wider actor-network that constitutes sporting practice. Second, technology is argued to be a stabilising device, which when integrated with human behaviour, can cause behaviour to become constant. Third, technology is considered as holdi…
Index
Series editor's preface
This book presents new theories and international empirical evidence on the state of work and employment around the world. Changes in production systems, economic conditions and regulatory conditions are posing new questions about the growing use by employers of precarious forms of work, the contradictory approaches of governments towards employment and social policy, and the ability of trade unions to improve the distribution of decent employmen…
Technologies for judging, umpiring and refereeing
This chapter considers the actor-network of various sports that have enrolled technological devices for assisting with umpiring or judging. The cases of cricket, tennis and artistic gymnastics are drawn upon to examine how the actor-network of each sport is affected by the new technology. The focus in this chapter is following the actor-network beyond the initial implementation. Each sport is followed beyond the point at which the governing body …
Conclusion
This book presents new theories and international empirical evidence on the state of work and employment around the world. Changes in production systems, economic conditions and regulatory conditions are posing new questions about the growing use by employers of precarious forms of work, the contradictory approaches of governments towards employment and social policy, and the ability of trade unions to improve the distribution of decent employmen…
Enhancement
The technologies that this chapter focuses on are those which are constituent for sport and are used by athletes every time they train or compete. These kinds of technologies include balls in football, boats in rowing or yachting, bicycles in cycling and shoes in running. As these form necessary parts of each sport, it is understandable that improving these technologies has become another avenue for athletes to attempt to achieve an advantage ove…
Translating performances
Latour (1992) is famous for describing non-humans as the “missing masses” in the study of society. While more recently authors have argued that the increased number of studies examining technology, animals and other non-humans mean that that non-humans are no longer missing (see Sayes, 2014), they remain missing in the study of sports media. There is little attention to the exact technologies utilised by sports producers and how the assemblage of…
Sport and technology: An actor-network theory perspective
In today's world, we are offered a constantly expanding number of technologies to integrate into our lives. We now utilise a range of interconnected technologies at work, at home and at leisure. The realm of sport is no exception, where new technologies or enhancements are available to athletes, coaches, scientists, umpires, governing bodies and broadcasters. However, this book argues that in a world where time has become a precious commodity and…
An Ironic Imbalance: Coaching Opportunities and Gender in Women’s Artistic Gymnastics in Australia and New Zealand
Women’s Artistic Gymnastics (WAG) is a sport designed specifically for women. With roots in ballet, calisthenics and eugenics, it was meant to showcase femininity, beauty, and encourage healthy bodies for motherhood, therefore offering socially acceptable sporting opportunities for females. This paper considers whether such sporting opportunities extended to female coaches. We examine the recruitment patterns in relation to gender of some of the …
State of leisure studies in Australia and New Zealand
A recurring theme has emerged from past ANZALS (Australia and New Zealand Association for Leisure Studies) Conferences' keynote presentations concerning the status of leisure studies from a teaching and research perspective. While this broad discussion has been raised, little is formally known about the current status of leisure studies in Australian and New Zealand universities. The ANZALS Board initiated a project in 2015 to gain insights into …
Growing up and speaking out: Female gymnasts' rights in an ageing sport
This research examines the experiences of ‘older’ elite gymnasts competing in Women's Artistic Gymnastics in Australia, through the framework of athlete rights. Using a qualitative approach interviews were conducted with elite or former elite gymnasts who were at least 20 years old during their active career, and coaches and judges who worked with such athletes. This paper focuses on three key themes that emerged from the data. First was the rela…
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