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Chair: Dominic Malcolm
Room: B9N22, Building B Level 9
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Yu-Hsuan Lin6/8/22, 3:30 PM
This paper examines the Taiwanese female experiences of participation in extreme sports, contributing to research on gender culture in extreme sports as well as the constraints faced by women. In recent years extreme sports have attracted many people who like to challenge themselves. However, compared with traditional sports categories, there has been little research focusing on female aspects...
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Simon Lütkewitte6/8/22, 3:50 PM
Gender equality is a cornerstone of liberal democracy and a frequent subject to research in the social sciences. While research shows progress in many Western societies over the past decades, it shows notable segregation by gender in several life domains. A prominent example of continuing segregation by gender is sports participation. Already in the 1980’s, Messner argued that sports...
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Lucy Piggott, Anne Tjønndal, Jorid Hovden6/8/22, 4:10 PM
Sport leadership and governance is widely recognized as being gender-imbalanced and gender-inequitable. With the emergence of eSports, new organisations have been established both internationally and in the Nordic countries. Unlike most sporting contexts, eSports performance does not depend on physical abilities. This has led practitioners to argue that eSports have the potential to become...
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Matthew Nesbitt
This paper, rooted in the sociology of sport and inspired by Kevin Young’s framework on Pain Cultures, Zones and Parameters (2004), re-conceptualises Young’s work in order to develop an understanding of the central dimensions of sports-related risk and generate a more sophisticated picture of the complex and often contradictory ways in which female athletes encounter (perceptually and...
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