Post-Qualitative Inquiry in Sport, Health and Physical Education

Alan Ovens|Aspasia Dania
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Post-Qualitative Inquiry in Sport, Health and Physical Education provides emerging insights on post-qualitative research in Sport, Health, and Physical Education and introduces new ways of engaging with multiple forms of inquiry in this broad field. By acknowledging that post-qualitative inquiry is metaphysical, speculative and empirical, the volume questions the privileging of knowledge in Sport, Health, and Physical Education through totalizing research paradigms. The volume embraces knowing as an assemblage, knowing as embodiment, knowing as limitless and not yet actualized, knowing as becoming through deliberate imprecision, and knowing as affective enquiry.

This volume constitutes a significant and exciting advance in Sport, Health, and Physical Education research– highlighting how the considerable promise of post-qualitative and innovative approaches to inquiry can enhance new conceptual openings and reorient established forms of thinking in this broad field.

Chapter 1. Stepping Off The Map: An Invitation To Post-Qualitative Inquiry; Alan Ovens and Aspasia Dania 

  • Chapter 2. Moving Beyond Method: The Philosophical and Theoretical Foundations of Post-Qualitative Inquiry; Alan Ovens and Aspasia Dania 
  • Chapter 3. Intimate Scholarship: Knowledge-making as a Deeply Situated and Relational Practice; Alan Ovens  
  • Chapter 4. Reconceptualizing Data: From Representations to Assemblages; Aspasia Dania and Alan Ovens
  • Chapter 5. Translation, Academic Survival, and Speaking “Perfect English”: A dialogue about Anglophone Hegemony in Research Practice and Publication; Yuan-Yuan Chan, Ryan Weichieh Liao, and Jared M. Poole
  • Chapter 6. Assemblage Thinking: Disturbing the Given in Researching Physical Education Teacher Education; Aspasia Dania 
  • Chapter 7. A/r/tography, Relational Inquiry, and Complexity Thinking; Elizabet Kaitell and Alison Morag Murray
  • Chapter 8. Poststructural Approaches to Discourse Analysis: Unravelling Discourses and Power; Danielle Layton, Keiko M. McCullough, and Jessica Nina Lester 
  • Chapter 9. Researcher Ikigai: Power of Deep Purpose; Fiona Chambers and Züleyha Avşar
  • Chapter 10. Wonder And the Rhythm of Becoming (Healthy and Vital); Christie C. Byers, Mirka Koro, and Kathryn Riley 
  • Chapter 11. Affective Inquiry: Understanding the Role of Emotions and Intensity in Sport, and Physical Education; Aspasia Dania 
  • Chapter 12. Post-Qualitative Visual Ethnography: Emerging Everyday Practices for Teaching and Learning; Laura S. Lorenz and Bettina Kolb 
  • Chapter 13. Embodied Dialogue and Dance as Post-Qualitative Inquiry; Eeva Anttila  
  • Chapter 14. Reframing Academic Teaching as Intellectual Activism: A Feminist Post-Qualitative Perspective; Aspasia Dania and Emmanouela Mandalaki
  • Chapter 15. Decolonising Research and Post Qualitative Inquiry: Pushing the Boundaries of Westernised Research Paradigms in Health Education; Jean M. Uasike Allen and Hayley McGlashan-Fainu
  • Chapter 16. Towards a Post-Qualitative Informed Approach to Collective Memory Work; Stephanie Merchant, Jessica Francombe-Webb, and Bryan C. Clift
  • Chapter 17. A Queer Letter To A Fictional Friend; Pierre Lescoat

Alan Ovens is an Associate Professor of Sport, Health and Physical Education at the University of Auckland. His research explores the interacting themes of education, wellbeing and human movement.

Aspasia Dania is an Associate Professor at the School of Physical Education and Sport Science, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece.