This paper reflects on the author's experiences of adventure through his life and uses a
narrative style to explore personal reasoning for his actions. The 'rekindling'of the …

This condensed, reflective story describes the path that Paul has taken to realise his life
calling. Using first and third person narrative forms, it explores his relationship with sport and …

Abstract Ryan Louis: This article looks at my experiences of football across different cultures
in the context of my education, family upbringing and the role that sport has played in this …

When people who use the English language take up the subject of sport their very choice of
words seems to express an unconscious desire and need. We do not say that we" sport" …

Narratives of sport as 'a way out'for young people from oppressed backgrounds tend to be
over-simplified and linear, with critiques about perceptions of sport as 'mythopoeic', and able …

Creative writing is the medium for this reflexive narrative in which Sarah (currently twenty
years old) imagines herself to be twenty years in to the future and offering careers advice to …

This paper charts a period of critical reflection between the submission of a PhD thesis and
the viva voce examination of it. The research itself is an autoethnography of an expedition …

The discussions, statements of fact and opinions contained in the articles of The Journal of
Qualitative Research in Sports Studies are those of the respective authors and cited …

Sport is an appealing and relevant context to study given the emotional, intangible,
experiential elements of it at the individual, group, and society levels. These experiential …

Sport is an entirely human endeavour. Our involvement in sport and physical activity is full of
personally and socially generated meanings as our participation occurs in interaction with …