Making "space" for women and girls in sport

An agenda for Australian geography

Bibliographic Data

ID5696262
AuthorsAdele Pavlidis (0000-0002-9218-6572, Griffith University, corresponding author)
Year2018
Volume56
Issue4
Pages343-352
Publication date2018-11-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueGeographical Research (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1745-5863 • E-ISSN: 1745-5871
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/1745-5871.12302
OpenAlexW2890969938
LanguageEN
Citations received17
References cited46

In this article, I argue that there is need to rethink how sport is inherently spatial and political. I outline the importance of doing research on the spatiality of inequality in sport and consider the ways in which ideas about affective atmospheres and textures can support nuanced understandings of sport, particularly for girls and women. From change rooms to board rooms, sporting fields to dance halls, sport happens somewhere-it is inherently spatial. Australian geographers continue to make scholarly and practical impacts of social and cultural significance by focusing on spatiality, but the geography of sport has yet to be fully developed in that respect, notwithstanding influential work on sport in rural communities and surfing and sporting events. Despite such contributions, there is still considerable work to be done, particularly in the area of women's and girls' team sport. Sport is an arena where geographers can make broader and, importantly, bolder contributions, and a concern with spatiality gives geographers unique and critical insights into sport and its manifestation across scales from the global to the local

Economic geography · Geography · Human geography · Inequality · Political science · Politics · Social geography · Social science · Sociology · Sociology of sport · Adventure Sports and Sensation Seeking · Engineering · Gender Studies · Recreation, Leisure, Wilderness Management · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts

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