Affective geographies in pandemic times: An intersectional analysis of women's wellbeing in Aotearoa New Zealand

H Thorpe, J Brice, G O'Leary, A Soltani… - Emotion, Space and …, 2023 - Elsevier
This article builds upon and extends a growing body of literature focused on how the
pandemic has shifted human relations with space, place, and wellbeing. Working at the …

Women's Physical Activity as Becoming: Lines of Flight from the Fitness Assemblage

H Thorpe, J Brice, G O'Leary… - Journal of Sport and …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Building upon and extending a growing strand of research engaging feminist new
materialisms to understand women's moving bodies as more-than-human phenomena, this …

“If You Didn't Exercise during Lockdown, What Were You Even Doing?”: Young Women, Sport, and Fitness in Pandemic Times

H Thorpe, G O'Leary, N Ahmad, MJ Nemani - Youth, 2023 - mdpi.com
Sports and physical activity organizations around the world have expressed concern that the
COVID-19 pandemic has significantly impacted girls and young women's participation, with …

'I danced on the road to the Macarena song which felt a bit naughty': Affective entanglements and the wayfaring pandemic child

Y Olusoga - Global Studies of Childhood, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
This paper applies a posthumanist lens, informed by the work of Hollett and Ehret and of
Ingold, to consider children's playful affective entanglements with the human and the more …

Women sport and fitness professionals in pandemic times: Feminist ethics, digital connection and becoming community

H Thorpe, A Jeffrey, N Ahmad - Sport and Physical Culture in Global …, 2023 - Springer
In this chapter we draw upon interviews and object-oriented methods with women working in
the sport and fitness sector (ie, athletes, coaches, fitness instructors, studio owners) about …

Introduction: Assembling COVID/COVID Assemblages

H Thorpe, JI Newman, DL Andrews - Sport and Physical Culture in Global …, 2023 - Springer
This introductory chapter begins by examining the contextual nature of the material-
discursive expressions of sport in pandemic times. It then offers a theoretical apparatus to …

Habits of Belonging in and through Boxing

SK Crews - Performance Research, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
This paper explores how habit and belonging are interconnected in boxing. Despite being
an exclusionary sport–one that is steeped in myopic traditions and exploitation–boxing …