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Natalie Barker-Ruchti

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ID164745
NOMENatalie Barker-Ruchti
PRENOMESNatalie
SOBRENOMEBarker-Ruchti
ASSINATURABARKER-RUCHTI N
AFILIAÇÕESÖrebro University
ORCID0000-0002-3918-7904
VERIFICADOSim
TOTAL DE OBRAS34
TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES125
TOTAL COMO AUTOR33
TOTAL COMO EDITOR1
PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO2008
ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO2026
ÍNDICE H6
  • Breaking the Pixie Spell

    Open Access•Fanny Kuhlin, Natalie Barker-Ruchti et al.•ARTICLE•Sociology of Sport Journal•2026

    Hundreds of current and former gymnasts have recently disclosed experiences of abuse and neglect in women’s artistic gymnastics, and gymnastics organizations have begun to implement measures to safeguard gymnasts. However, research suggests that safeguarding strategies (still) often fail to protect athletes, and policies can only be effective if they are accompanied with cultural change. For this study, ethnographic fieldwork was undertaken to un…

  • Children’s rights, human development and play – rejecting performance-orientated youth sport

    Open Access•Christopher R Matthews, Natalie Barker-Ruchti et al.•ARTICLE•Sport Education and Society•2026•Referências: 57

    This commentary is distinctly personal for us. We think it should be likewise for all scholars, leaders and organisers involved in youth sport. This is because, to our minds, at the core of most people’s ways of approaching and promoting these supposedly healthy activities to children and young adults, is an apparent well-meaningness which centres on wanting the best for current and future generations. Unfortunately, while we accept such good int…

  • Investigating Qualification and Professional Career Pathways of Women Coaches in High-Performance Sports

    Open Access•Astrid Schubring, Karen Petry et al.•ARTICLE•International Journal of…•2026•Referências: 34

    High-performance coaching is a deeply gendered field of work. Despite international and national efforts, women are still systematically underrepresented in coach education and in leadership positions. For example, at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo, only 13% of the accredited coaches were women. While there is substantial international research on gender inequality in high-performance coaching, in-depth knowledge on the current qualification and…

  • The abuse narrative in sport

    Open Access•Fanny Kuhlin, Natalie Barker-Ruchti•ARTICLE•Qualitative Research in Sport and…•2025

    In recent years, athletes from around the globe have taken to social and traditional media to share their stories of abuse in sport. Their stories include a love for a sport and dream to become successful, a getting used to and enduring abusive coaching and training methods, and later in life, recognising that their experiences were abusive. The purpose of this article was to explore the abuse narrative in sport by conducting a framework synthesi…

  • Sustainable Elite Youth Sports

    Open Access•Astrid Schubring, Heléne Bergentoft et al.•ARTICLE•Sustainable Development•2025•Referências: 4

    Sports have been identified as an important contributor to social sustainability, and the benefits for health, well‐being, and social learning in young people are well evidenced. Youth elite sports, however, have been criticized as being unsustainable. Following calls for a more socially sustainable development of youth elite sports, research on the topic has increased. However, studies vary in disciplinary origin, concepts, content, and methodol…

  • The Second Women’s Olympic Games, Gothenburg, 1926

    Open Access•Claes Annerstedt, Marie Annerstedt et al.•ARTICLE•The International Journal of the…•2025

  • The anatomy of body shaming in sports coaching

    Open Access•Valeria Varea, Robert S Primus et al.•ARTICLE•Culture Sport Society•2025•Referências: 40

    Stories of body shaming in sports coaching are becoming widespread, and can intentionally, unintentionally, or inadvertently be used in different sports coaching practices. These practices do not necessarily intend to harm athletes. The aim of this paper is to explore body critical and body sensitive sport coaching practices that have the potential to be shaming, or as we call it in the title, the 'anatomy' of body shaming. The study used photo e…

  • Sports Coaching Education and Alternative Pedagogies

    Laura Purdy, Natalie Barker-Ruchti•BOOK•Sports Coaching Education and…•2025

    Sports Coaching Education: Applying Innovative Pedagogies theorises alternative pedagogies and presents examples of what such teaching looks like in sports coaching higher education. To do this, this new volume outlines the teaching goals of higher education coach education, summarises the limitations of this education that research has demonstrated, and presents alternative pedagogy as a way forward. The book then turns to showcasing work by an …

  • Possibilities for an internationalised, inclusive pedagogy for transnational sport education

    Open Access•Laura Purdy, Geoffery Z Kohe et al.•ARTICLE•Sport Education and Society•2024•Referências: 7

    Global education is a priority in the Higher Education (HE) system of all nations. In sport degree programmes in HE, the internationalisation trend is also noticeable. However, working in transnational education settings may bring to light, and generate existential and pedagogical contemplation of some of the foundational principles and assumptions about effective teaching. This paper aims to extend theoretical understanding of the confluence of …

  • Surviving child sexual abuse in women's artistic gymnastics

    Open Access•Natalie Barker-Ruchti, Valeria Varea•ARTICLE•International Review for the…•2024•Citada por: 2•Referências: 53

    The USA Gymnastics sex abuse scandal raised global awareness about child sexual abuse (CSA) in women's artistic gymnastics. The ensuing media coverage also centre-staged victims' survivorship stories, a process that for many moved from dissociating, recognising and disclosing CSA to feeling comfort when connecting with survivors and accepting CSA as part of their life history. However, scholarship on what survivorship from CSA in sport entails, a…

  • Balancing risk-taking and self-care

    Open Access•Astrid Schubring, Mathias Halltén et al.•ARTICLE•International Review for the…•2023•Referências: 43

    Athletes who aim to qualify for the Olympic Games need to stay healthy. Research demonstrates, however, that many elite athletes take health risks to achieve sporting success. Drawing on social ecological thinking, the purpose of this study is to understand change in athlete health behaviour during the Olympic Games qualification phase. We draw on data from a six-month-long case study on four athletes who aimed to qualify for the 2016 Olympic Gam…

  • Moving Away

    Open Access•Renato Francisco Rodrigues Marques, Natalie Barker-Ruchti et al.•ARTICLE•International Review for the…•2022•Citada por: 4•Referências: 73

    Migration experiences are common for athletes, especially in team sports. Moving from home to a recruiting sport club has become an indispensable career investment. This is also the case in Brazilian futsal, where many developing players move to more promising clubs within the country. This process is often challenging, but little researched. The purpose of this article is to investigate 13 Brazilian men elite futsal players' intra-national migra…

  • Sustainable elite sport

    Open Access•John Dohlsten, Natalie Barker-Ruchti et al.•ARTICLE•Qualitative Research in Sport and…•2021

    Elite sport is a precarious context and as athletes are pushing their physical and mental boundaries to enhance performance, consequences can be devastating. In contrast to arguments that elite sport cannot be sustainable, some scholars have argued that with certain considerations and precautions, elite sport can have fewer unsustainable consequences. However, the current literature has missed to capture athletes’ voices regarding sustainability …

  • Qualitative research in sports studies

    Adam B Evans, Natalie Barker-Ruchti et al.•ARTICLE•European Journal for Sport and…•2021•Citada por: 4•Referências: 18

    Qualitative social scientific research in sport, exercise and other contemporary forms of physical movement has made considerable strides in recent years, such that it is not an unreasonable claim

  • From soccer to futsal

    Renato Francisco Rodrigues Marques, Astrid Schubring et al.•ARTICLE•Soccer and Society•2020•Citada por: 4•Referências: 12

    Many Brazilian boys dream of a professional soccer career. During adolescence, however, many players move into futsal, a popular, less professionalized counterpart to soccer. To study players’ investment in a futsal career, this article aimed to understand how childhood socialization relates to players’ career development; to reconstruct the pathways players developed to become elite futsal athletes; and to identify reasons that led players to mo…

  • An elite athlete’s storying of injuries and non-qualification for an Olympic Games

    Open Access•Natalie Barker-Ruchti, Astrid Schubring et al.•ARTICLE•Qualitative Research in Sport and…•2019

    In this article, we present and examine the case of one elite athlete – 28-year old Mark (pseudonym), who during a 10-month lead-up to the 2016 Rio OG qualification deadline, aimed to achieve his NGB/NOC's qualification standards, but sustained several injuries and was forced to give up his qualification attempt. Adopting a socio-narratological framework, we aim to understand how Mark storied the qualification period; how socio-cultural, organisa…

  • Researching health behaviour in 'real time

    Open Access•Astrid Schubring, Natalie Barker-Ruchti et al.•ARTICLE•Methodological Innovations•2019•Citada por: 3•Referências: 40

    In this article, we share our experience of navigating qualitative longitudinal research with a 'hard to recruit' population. To detail design conception, methodological challenges and insights, we draw on the case of a 1-year-long study on health behaviour in Olympic hopefuls. In order to accompany 12 athletes who aimed to qualify for either an Olympic Games (n = 10) or a World Championship (n = 2), we developed and implemented a career backgrou…

  • Career paths of Swedish top-level women soccer players

    Rebecca Andersson, Natalie Barker-Ruchti•ARTICLE•Soccer and Society•2018•Citada por: 7•Referências: 7

    This study explores seven Swedish top-level women's soccer players' career development experiences. Data were produced through semi-structured interviews and a biographical mapping grid. The theoretical framework of 'careership' was employed to understand the data. The results showed homogenous career paths. Moreover, the data show that the players decided at a young age to pursue a career in soccer; experienced the transition from junior to seni…

  • The Role of Setting in the Field

    Open Access•Roslyn Kerr, Natalie Barker-Ruchti et al.•ARTICLE•Sociology•2018•Citada por: 1•Referências: 38

    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…

  • Sustainability in high performance sport

    Natalie Barker-Ruchti, Dean Barker•BOOK•Sustainability in High…•2017

    1. High performance sport and sustainability: a contradiction of terms? Dean Barker, Natalie Barker-Ruchti, Arjen Wals and Richard Tinning 2. Coaches' learning and sustainability in high performance sport Steven B. Rynne and Clifford J. Mallett 3. Caring as an important foundation in coaching for social sustainability: a case study of a successful Swedish coach in high-performance sport Claes Annerstedt and Eva-Carin Lindgren 4. Alternative disco…

  • Growing up and speaking out

    Georgia Cervin, Roslyn Kerr et al.•ARTICLE•Annals of Leisure Research•2017•Citada por: 1•Referências: 3

    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 media’s role in transmitting a cultural ideology and the effect on the general public

    Jenny Mcmahon, Natalie Barker-Ruchti•ARTICLE•Qualitative Research in Sport and…•2016

    Previous research investigating Australian swimming culture revealed a deeply entrenched ‘slim to win’ ideology, a notion that is centred on the swimmer body needing to be lean in order to achieve competitive performance. While previous research revealed that ‘slim to win’ was occurring in situ, this study examines how media representations might come to be possible contributors to this ideology being proliferated to outsiders of the culture. Spe…

  • Assimilating to a boy’s body shape for the sake of performance

    Jenny Mcmahon, Natalie Barker-Ruchti•ARTICLE•Sport Education and Society•2015•Citada por: 11•Referências: 12

    This paper explores three female swimmers’ relationships with their male coaches and the body practices they were exposed to within Australian swimming. Particular attention is given to how the relationships and practices might relate to gender. Additionally, the article examines how (if at all) the conduct contributed to the social construction of an accepted female swimmer body. Through narrative accounts, the three adolescent female athletes a…

  • Women's Artistic Gymnastics in Australia and New Zealand

    Open Access•Roslyn Kerr, Natalie Barker-Ruchti•ARTICLE•Journal of Sport and Social Issues•2015•Citada por: 4•Referências: 30

    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…

  • Second Generation Immigrant Girls' Negotiations of Cultural Proximity in Switzerland

    Open Access•Natalie Barker-Ruchti, Dean Barker et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of International…•2015•Referências: 31

Próximo
  • Foucault in Leotards

    Natalie Barker-Ruchti, Richard Tinning•ARTICLE•Sociology of Sport Journal•2010•Citada por: 38•Referências: 10

    Women's artistic gymnastics is an Olympic sport that involves intricate acrobatic and rhythmic activities. This kinesthetic proficiency demands muscular strength and courage, which have been argued to serve its athletes as a source of empowerment. Various scholars question the positive effects of sport participation. This article builds on these doubts through a feminist Foucauldian study of WAG. An essayistic research story, compiled from data g…

  • Ballerinas and Pixies

    Natalie Barker-Ruchti•ARTICLE•The International Journal of the…•2008•Citada por: 13•Referências: 5

    Until the late 1960s, women's artistic gymnastics consisted of mature women performing gentle ballet-type exercises that were emotionally expressive and graceful. During the 1970s, however, the gymnasts' performances and bodies changed dramatically. Young and sexually undeveloped gymnasts began to execute acrobatic- and risk-driven routines that consisted of complex air-bound combinations of gymnastics elements. The trend to acrobatics emerged in…

  • Assimilating to a boy’s body shape for the sake of performance

    Jenny Mcmahon, Natalie Barker-Ruchti•ARTICLE•Sport Education and Society•2015•Citada por: 11•Referências: 12

    This paper explores three female swimmers’ relationships with their male coaches and the body practices they were exposed to within Australian swimming. Particular attention is given to how the relationships and practices might relate to gender. Additionally, the article examines how (if at all) the conduct contributed to the social construction of an accepted female swimmer body. Through narrative accounts, the three adolescent female athletes a…

  • Youths with migration backgrounds and their experiences of physical education

    Dean Barker, Natalie Barker-Ruchti et al.•ARTICLE•Sport Education and Society•2011•Citada por: 10•Referências: 16

    While understanding young people has never been easy, migration trends make it increasingly difficult. Many classrooms have become culturally heterogeneous and teachers are often faced with pupils with diverse linguistic and cultural heritages. Current scholarship suggests that as a discipline, physical education has not adapted to this diversity. In fact, commentators have suggested that physical education alienates pupils from minority groups a…

  • They Must Be Working Hard

    Open Access•Natalie Barker-Ruchti•ARTICLE•Culture Studies ↔ Critical…•2008•Citada por: 10•Referências: 5

    This article includes narrative excerpts compiled from field notes the author collected observing six Australian women's elite artistic gymnasts and their two coaches. Using creative nonfiction and auto-ethnography, the stories' plots describe the gymnasts' daily training realities and include personal reflections on the author's gymnastics experiences and reactions to what she saw during the observations. The stories illustrate how, despite diff…

  • Career paths of Swedish top-level women soccer players

    Rebecca Andersson, Natalie Barker-Ruchti•ARTICLE•Soccer and Society•2018•Citada por: 7•Referências: 7

    This study explores seven Swedish top-level women's soccer players' career development experiences. Data were produced through semi-structured interviews and a biographical mapping grid. The theoretical framework of 'careership' was employed to understand the data. The results showed homogenous career paths. Moreover, the data show that the players decided at a young age to pursue a career in soccer; experienced the transition from junior to seni…

  • Bending, Flirting, Floating, Flying

    Julia Weber, Natalie Barker-Ruchti•ARTICLE•Sociology of Sport Journal•2012•Citada por: 6•Referências: 6

    During the 1970s, a new corporal and aesthetic standard emerged in women’s artistic gymnastics. No longer was grace and elegance the main feature, but acrobatic and somewhat robotic performances. These exercises were increasingly performed by highly trained and sexually immature girls. The Western audience was fascinated by the athletic and innocent-looking gymnasts. The emerging corporality and performance trend combined youthfulness und slimnes…

  • Moving Away

    Open Access•Renato Francisco Rodrigues Marques, Natalie Barker-Ruchti et al.•ARTICLE•International Review for the…•2022•Citada por: 4•Referências: 73

    Migration experiences are common for athletes, especially in team sports. Moving from home to a recruiting sport club has become an indispensable career investment. This is also the case in Brazilian futsal, where many developing players move to more promising clubs within the country. This process is often challenging, but little researched. The purpose of this article is to investigate 13 Brazilian men elite futsal players' intra-national migra…

  • Qualitative research in sports studies

    Adam B Evans, Natalie Barker-Ruchti et al.•ARTICLE•European Journal for Sport and…•2021•Citada por: 4•Referências: 18

    Qualitative social scientific research in sport, exercise and other contemporary forms of physical movement has made considerable strides in recent years, such that it is not an unreasonable claim

  • From soccer to futsal

    Renato Francisco Rodrigues Marques, Astrid Schubring et al.•ARTICLE•Soccer and Society•2020•Citada por: 4•Referências: 12

    Many Brazilian boys dream of a professional soccer career. During adolescence, however, many players move into futsal, a popular, less professionalized counterpart to soccer. To study players’ investment in a futsal career, this article aimed to understand how childhood socialization relates to players’ career development; to reconstruct the pathways players developed to become elite futsal athletes; and to identify reasons that led players to mo…

  • Women's Artistic Gymnastics in Australia and New Zealand

    Open Access•Roslyn Kerr, Natalie Barker-Ruchti•ARTICLE•Journal of Sport and Social Issues•2015•Citada por: 4•Referências: 30

    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…

  • Sport-'It's Just Healthy

    Natalie Barker-Ruchti, Dean Barker et al.•ARTICLE•New Community•2013•Citada por: 4•Referências: 32

    Immigration discourses in Switzerland have developed out of a fear of ‘over-foreignisation’. Central to this development are discourses of difference in which Swiss culture is centred and foreign ones are marginalised. At present, Eastern and South-East European cultures are particularly affected. In this article, we challenge perceived cultural incommensurability by examining the socialisation of second-generation girls of immigrant background, …

  • Researching health behaviour in 'real time

    Open Access•Astrid Schubring, Natalie Barker-Ruchti et al.•ARTICLE•Methodological Innovations•2019•Citada por: 3•Referências: 40

    In this article, we share our experience of navigating qualitative longitudinal research with a 'hard to recruit' population. To detail design conception, methodological challenges and insights, we draw on the case of a 1-year-long study on health behaviour in Olympic hopefuls. In order to accompany 12 athletes who aimed to qualify for either an Olympic Games (n = 10) or a World Championship (n = 2), we developed and implemented a career backgrou…

  • Surviving child sexual abuse in women's artistic gymnastics

    Open Access•Natalie Barker-Ruchti, Valeria Varea•ARTICLE•International Review for the…•2024•Citada por: 2•Referências: 53

    The USA Gymnastics sex abuse scandal raised global awareness about child sexual abuse (CSA) in women's artistic gymnastics. The ensuing media coverage also centre-staged victims' survivorship stories, a process that for many moved from dissociating, recognising and disclosing CSA to feeling comfort when connecting with survivors and accepting CSA as part of their life history. However, scholarship on what survivorship from CSA in sport entails, a…

  • Constructive readings of interactive episodes

    Dean Barker, Dean M Barker et al.•ARTICLE•Sport Education and Society•2011•Citada por: 2•Referências: 9

    In this paper we illustrate how ways of thinking about ethics are tied up with sport and physical education practice and introduce an alternative approach that can help to develop ethical pedagogies. We begin by locating socio-moral education in physical education within historical and contemporary pedagogical scholarship. Our argument is that the work of today's physical educators is still shaped by claims that were made about school sport in th…

  • The Role of Setting in the Field

    Open Access•Roslyn Kerr, Natalie Barker-Ruchti et al.•ARTICLE•Sociology•2018•Citada por: 1•Referências: 38

    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

    Georgia Cervin, Roslyn Kerr et al.•ARTICLE•Annals of Leisure Research•2017•Citada por: 1•Referências: 3

    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…

  • Moving towards Inclusion

    Natalie Barker-Ruchti, Karin Grahn et al.•ARTICLE•The International Journal of the…•2013•Citada por: 1•Referências: 5

    The 1920s was characterised by a struggle over the social acceptance and inclusion of women's track and field disciplines into international organisations. The debate was particularly heated between Alice Milliat, the then president of the Fédération Sportive Féminine Internationale, and the members of the International Athletic Federation and International Olympic Committee. Underlying the debate were differing assumptions about gender ideals an…

  • Ballerinas and Pixies

    Natalie Barker-Ruchti•ARTICLE•The International Journal of the…•2008•Citada por: 13•Referências: 5

    Until the late 1960s, women's artistic gymnastics consisted of mature women performing gentle ballet-type exercises that were emotionally expressive and graceful. During the 1970s, however, the gymnasts' performances and bodies changed dramatically. Young and sexually undeveloped gymnasts began to execute acrobatic- and risk-driven routines that consisted of complex air-bound combinations of gymnastics elements. The trend to acrobatics emerged in…

  • They Must Be Working Hard

    Open Access•Natalie Barker-Ruchti•ARTICLE•Culture Studies ↔ Critical…•2008•Citada por: 10•Referências: 5

    This article includes narrative excerpts compiled from field notes the author collected observing six Australian women's elite artistic gymnasts and their two coaches. Using creative nonfiction and auto-ethnography, the stories' plots describe the gymnasts' daily training realities and include personal reflections on the author's gymnastics experiences and reactions to what she saw during the observations. The stories illustrate how, despite diff…

  • Foucault in Leotards

    Natalie Barker-Ruchti, Richard Tinning•ARTICLE•Sociology of Sport Journal•2010•Citada por: 38•Referências: 10

    Women's artistic gymnastics is an Olympic sport that involves intricate acrobatic and rhythmic activities. This kinesthetic proficiency demands muscular strength and courage, which have been argued to serve its athletes as a source of empowerment. Various scholars question the positive effects of sport participation. This article builds on these doubts through a feminist Foucauldian study of WAG. An essayistic research story, compiled from data g…

  • Constructive readings of interactive episodes

    Dean Barker, Dean M Barker et al.•ARTICLE•Sport Education and Society•2011•Citada por: 2•Referências: 9

    In this paper we illustrate how ways of thinking about ethics are tied up with sport and physical education practice and introduce an alternative approach that can help to develop ethical pedagogies. We begin by locating socio-moral education in physical education within historical and contemporary pedagogical scholarship. Our argument is that the work of today's physical educators is still shaped by claims that were made about school sport in th…

  • Youths with migration backgrounds and their experiences of physical education

    Dean Barker, Natalie Barker-Ruchti et al.•ARTICLE•Sport Education and Society•2011•Citada por: 10•Referências: 16

    While understanding young people has never been easy, migration trends make it increasingly difficult. Many classrooms have become culturally heterogeneous and teachers are often faced with pupils with diverse linguistic and cultural heritages. Current scholarship suggests that as a discipline, physical education has not adapted to this diversity. In fact, commentators have suggested that physical education alienates pupils from minority groups a…

  • Bending, Flirting, Floating, Flying

    Julia Weber, Natalie Barker-Ruchti•ARTICLE•Sociology of Sport Journal•2012•Citada por: 6•Referências: 6

    During the 1970s, a new corporal and aesthetic standard emerged in women’s artistic gymnastics. No longer was grace and elegance the main feature, but acrobatic and somewhat robotic performances. These exercises were increasingly performed by highly trained and sexually immature girls. The Western audience was fascinated by the athletic and innocent-looking gymnasts. The emerging corporality and performance trend combined youthfulness und slimnes…

  • Moving towards Inclusion

    Natalie Barker-Ruchti, Karin Grahn et al.•ARTICLE•The International Journal of the…•2013•Citada por: 1•Referências: 5

    The 1920s was characterised by a struggle over the social acceptance and inclusion of women's track and field disciplines into international organisations. The debate was particularly heated between Alice Milliat, the then president of the Fédération Sportive Féminine Internationale, and the members of the International Athletic Federation and International Olympic Committee. Underlying the debate were differing assumptions about gender ideals an…

  • Swiss youths, migration and integrative sport

    Dean Barker, Natalie Barker-Ruchti et al.•ARTICLE•European Journal for Sport and…•2013•Referências: 5

    This paper critically interrogates widespread assumptions pertaining to the integrative function of sporting involvement in Switzerland. It focuses specifically on young people living in a culturally diverse area and how they make use of discursive variations of the integrative sport text. Interview material draws attention to four main sub-texts that frame sport as: a pedagogical tool, a site of interpersonal exchange, a method of catharsis, and…

  • Sport-'It's Just Healthy

    Natalie Barker-Ruchti, Dean Barker et al.•ARTICLE•New Community•2013•Citada por: 4•Referências: 32

    Immigration discourses in Switzerland have developed out of a fear of ‘over-foreignisation’. Central to this development are discourses of difference in which Swiss culture is centred and foreign ones are marginalised. At present, Eastern and South-East European cultures are particularly affected. In this article, we challenge perceived cultural incommensurability by examining the socialisation of second-generation girls of immigrant background, …

  • Assimilating to a boy’s body shape for the sake of performance

    Jenny Mcmahon, Natalie Barker-Ruchti•ARTICLE•Sport Education and Society•2015•Citada por: 11•Referências: 12

    This paper explores three female swimmers’ relationships with their male coaches and the body practices they were exposed to within Australian swimming. Particular attention is given to how the relationships and practices might relate to gender. Additionally, the article examines how (if at all) the conduct contributed to the social construction of an accepted female swimmer body. Through narrative accounts, the three adolescent female athletes a…

  • Women's Artistic Gymnastics in Australia and New Zealand

    Open Access•Roslyn Kerr, Natalie Barker-Ruchti•ARTICLE•Journal of Sport and Social Issues•2015•Citada por: 4•Referências: 30

    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…

  • Second Generation Immigrant Girls' Negotiations of Cultural Proximity in Switzerland

    Open Access•Natalie Barker-Ruchti, Dean Barker et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of International…•2015•Referências: 31

  • The media’s role in transmitting a cultural ideology and the effect on the general public

    Jenny Mcmahon, Natalie Barker-Ruchti•ARTICLE•Qualitative Research in Sport and…•2016

    Previous research investigating Australian swimming culture revealed a deeply entrenched ‘slim to win’ ideology, a notion that is centred on the swimmer body needing to be lean in order to achieve competitive performance. While previous research revealed that ‘slim to win’ was occurring in situ, this study examines how media representations might come to be possible contributors to this ideology being proliferated to outsiders of the culture. Spe…

  • Sustainability in high performance sport

    Natalie Barker-Ruchti, Dean Barker•BOOK•Sustainability in High…•2017

    1. High performance sport and sustainability: a contradiction of terms? Dean Barker, Natalie Barker-Ruchti, Arjen Wals and Richard Tinning 2. Coaches' learning and sustainability in high performance sport Steven B. Rynne and Clifford J. Mallett 3. Caring as an important foundation in coaching for social sustainability: a case study of a successful Swedish coach in high-performance sport Claes Annerstedt and Eva-Carin Lindgren 4. Alternative disco…

  • Growing up and speaking out

    Georgia Cervin, Roslyn Kerr et al.•ARTICLE•Annals of Leisure Research•2017•Citada por: 1•Referências: 3

    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…

  • Career paths of Swedish top-level women soccer players

    Rebecca Andersson, Natalie Barker-Ruchti•ARTICLE•Soccer and Society•2018•Citada por: 7•Referências: 7

    This study explores seven Swedish top-level women's soccer players' career development experiences. Data were produced through semi-structured interviews and a biographical mapping grid. The theoretical framework of 'careership' was employed to understand the data. The results showed homogenous career paths. Moreover, the data show that the players decided at a young age to pursue a career in soccer; experienced the transition from junior to seni…

  • The Role of Setting in the Field

    Open Access•Roslyn Kerr, Natalie Barker-Ruchti et al.•ARTICLE•Sociology•2018•Citada por: 1•Referências: 38

    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…

  • An elite athlete’s storying of injuries and non-qualification for an Olympic Games

    Open Access•Natalie Barker-Ruchti, Astrid Schubring et al.•ARTICLE•Qualitative Research in Sport and…•2019

    In this article, we present and examine the case of one elite athlete – 28-year old Mark (pseudonym), who during a 10-month lead-up to the 2016 Rio OG qualification deadline, aimed to achieve his NGB/NOC's qualification standards, but sustained several injuries and was forced to give up his qualification attempt. Adopting a socio-narratological framework, we aim to understand how Mark storied the qualification period; how socio-cultural, organisa…

  • Researching health behaviour in 'real time

    Open Access•Astrid Schubring, Natalie Barker-Ruchti et al.•ARTICLE•Methodological Innovations•2019•Citada por: 3•Referências: 40

    In this article, we share our experience of navigating qualitative longitudinal research with a 'hard to recruit' population. To detail design conception, methodological challenges and insights, we draw on the case of a 1-year-long study on health behaviour in Olympic hopefuls. In order to accompany 12 athletes who aimed to qualify for either an Olympic Games (n = 10) or a World Championship (n = 2), we developed and implemented a career backgrou…

  • From soccer to futsal

    Renato Francisco Rodrigues Marques, Astrid Schubring et al.•ARTICLE•Soccer and Society•2020•Citada por: 4•Referências: 12

    Many Brazilian boys dream of a professional soccer career. During adolescence, however, many players move into futsal, a popular, less professionalized counterpart to soccer. To study players’ investment in a futsal career, this article aimed to understand how childhood socialization relates to players’ career development; to reconstruct the pathways players developed to become elite futsal athletes; and to identify reasons that led players to mo…

  • Sustainable elite sport

    Open Access•John Dohlsten, Natalie Barker-Ruchti et al.•ARTICLE•Qualitative Research in Sport and…•2021

    Elite sport is a precarious context and as athletes are pushing their physical and mental boundaries to enhance performance, consequences can be devastating. In contrast to arguments that elite sport cannot be sustainable, some scholars have argued that with certain considerations and precautions, elite sport can have fewer unsustainable consequences. However, the current literature has missed to capture athletes’ voices regarding sustainability …

  • Qualitative research in sports studies

    Adam B Evans, Natalie Barker-Ruchti et al.•ARTICLE•European Journal for Sport and…•2021•Citada por: 4•Referências: 18

    Qualitative social scientific research in sport, exercise and other contemporary forms of physical movement has made considerable strides in recent years, such that it is not an unreasonable claim

  • Moving Away

    Open Access•Renato Francisco Rodrigues Marques, Natalie Barker-Ruchti et al.•ARTICLE•International Review for the…•2022•Citada por: 4•Referências: 73

    Migration experiences are common for athletes, especially in team sports. Moving from home to a recruiting sport club has become an indispensable career investment. This is also the case in Brazilian futsal, where many developing players move to more promising clubs within the country. This process is often challenging, but little researched. The purpose of this article is to investigate 13 Brazilian men elite futsal players' intra-national migra…

  • Balancing risk-taking and self-care

    Open Access•Astrid Schubring, Mathias Halltén et al.•ARTICLE•International Review for the…•2023•Referências: 43

    Athletes who aim to qualify for the Olympic Games need to stay healthy. Research demonstrates, however, that many elite athletes take health risks to achieve sporting success. Drawing on social ecological thinking, the purpose of this study is to understand change in athlete health behaviour during the Olympic Games qualification phase. We draw on data from a six-month-long case study on four athletes who aimed to qualify for the 2016 Olympic Gam…

  • Possibilities for an internationalised, inclusive pedagogy for transnational sport education

    Open Access•Laura Purdy, Geoffery Z Kohe et al.•ARTICLE•Sport Education and Society•2024•Referências: 7

    Global education is a priority in the Higher Education (HE) system of all nations. In sport degree programmes in HE, the internationalisation trend is also noticeable. However, working in transnational education settings may bring to light, and generate existential and pedagogical contemplation of some of the foundational principles and assumptions about effective teaching. This paper aims to extend theoretical understanding of the confluence of …

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