Ethnographies in Sport and Exercise Research

1. Introduction (Gyozo Molnar & Laura Purdy)  2. Ethnography in sport-related research: influences, continuities, possibilities (Carrie Dunn & John Hughson)  Part 1: Ethnography: methodological and theoretical considerations  3. Finding the Field: Ethnographic Research in Exercise Settings (Pirkko Markula)  4. Ethnography as a sensual way of being: Methodological and representational challenges (Andrew C. Sparkes)  5. Ethnographic creative non-fiction: Exploring the what’s, why’s and how’s (Brett Smith & Kerry R. McGannon & Toni L. Williams)  Part 2: Case Studies 6. Women’s lived experiences of health and ageing in physical activity (Meridith Griffin & Cassandra Phoenix)  7. Suffering and the Loneliness of the Fell Runner: An Ethnographic Foray (Michael Atkinson)  8. The boxer in the mirror: The ethnographic-self as a resource while conducting insider research among professional boxers (Alex Stewart)  9. Considering micropolitical (under)‘currents’: Reflections on fieldwork within an elite men’s rowing programme (Laura Purdy)  10. Reflecting on the ‘perils of ethnography’: A case study of football fan rivalry in Birmingham (Adam Benkwitz)  11. The legitimacy of ethnographic filming: Literary thoughts and practical realities (C. Edwards & R. L. Jones)  12. Traversing ontological dispositions: The intersection between remote Indigenous communities and elite urban-based men’s football organisation (Tim Butcher, Chris Hallinan & Barry Judd)  Part 3: Future considerations and directions  13. Walking the streets: The flâneur and the sociology of sport (Alan Bairner)  14. The marginal place of ethnographic research in sport management (John Harris)

Biography

Gyozo Molnar is Senior Lecturer in Sport Studies in the Institute of Sport and Exercise Science at the University of Worcester, UK. His current publications and research revolve around migration, globalisation, national identity, the Olympics and sport-related role exit. His most current research, with Dr Yoko Kanemasu, has focused on the migratory aspects of Fiji rugby. He is co-editor (with Prof. Alan Bairner) of The Politics of the Olympics (2010, Routledge) and co-writer (with Dr John Kelly) of the Sport, Exercise and Social Theory: An introduction (2012, Routledge)

Laura G. Purdy is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sport and Physical Activity at Edge Hill University, UK. Her research interests lie in delving deeper into high performance/elite sporting cultures, focusing on the everyday realities of coaches and athletes/players. In doing so, she has utilised ethnographic methodologies and methods to explore the lived experiences of coaches and athletes/players in relation to the concepts of identity, power and interaction. In addition to disseminating her work via Sport, Education and Society and the Sociology of Sport Journal, she has contributed to rugby and basketball coaches’ CPD in a number of international settings

‘This book is great for sport-focused individuals in the academy who are new to ethnographic research, who want to have a deeper understanding of what ethnography is in general, and who would like to explore ethnography as a research-method option … it opens a door for students to be involved in a somewhat underutilized but valuable research technique’, Boyun Woo, International Journal of Sport Communication