Browsing by Author "Rinehart, Robert E."

• Action sport NGOs in a neo-liberal context: The cases of Skateistan and Surf Aid International 

  Thorpe, Holly Aysha; Rinehart, Robert E. (Sage, 2013)

  Sport nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) have flourished in the contemporary moment, particularly situated within neoliberal global politics. In this article we focus on the relatively recent proliferation of action ...

• All Things in Moderation: "Saint" Joe Paterno 

  Rinehart, Robert E. (Sage, 2012)

  This piece is about remembrance and forgetting; about shame and forgiveness; about capitalist media and the victimization of vulnerable citizens.

• Alternative sport and affect: non-representational theory examined 

  Thorpe, Holly Aysha; Rinehart, Robert E. (Taylor & Francis, 2010)

  This paper is our concerned response to the tendency in critical studies of physical culture and alternative sport to reduce experience to language, discourse, texts or representation. We consider the potential of British ...

• Anhedonia and alternative sports 

  Rinehart, Robert E. (De Boeck Superieur s.a., 2014)

  The vague sense of being unable to experience pleasure, and the rush to experience it quickly, episodically, and deeply, is a key paradox in contemporary life. Alternative sport (whiz, extreme, action, and lifestyle) ...

  

• Poetic sensibilities, humanities, and wonder: Toward an e/affective sociology of sport 

  Rinehart, Robert E. (Human Kinetics Publishers Inc, 2010)

  In the academy that we often call the “sociology of sport,” rarely do we allow for the existence of poets or even of poetic sensibilities. This may seem to be a strange comment, given that NASSS particularly, and the ...

  

• Ballycross RFC: Sectarianism, masculinity and racism in a Northern Irish rugby club 

  Kavanagh, Thomas Richard (The University of Waikato, 2019)

  This thesis is a study of Ballycross RFC, a rugby club in Northern Ireland. With a history of violent conflict and a society that remains largely segregated by religion, politics, education and housing, Northern Ireland ...

  

• Baristas: The artisan precariat 

  Piercy, Gemma Louise (The University of Waikato, 2018)

  My research on the work identit(ies) of baristas demonstrates that different workplaces, in conjunction with individual biographies, produce different kinds of work identities. Connected to these differences are the actual ...

  

• The writing of assignments in a pre-service primary education programme: Student and staff perspectives 

  Gera, Christina Mary (The University of Waikato, 2017)

  The writing of assignments by tertiary students is an area that merits exploration due to the high stakes involved for students, staff and institutions. Generally, in order for students to pass courses, they need to write ...

  

• Young Māori mothers and bed-sharing with their pēpi/baby: A case study focusing on the relevance and influence of three varying health promotion resources 

  Haereroa, Nikki M. (University of Waikato, 2015)

  Māori Sudden Unexpected Death in Infancy (SUDI) rates are significantly higher than non-Māori. Bed-sharing is considered to be one of the major modifiable risk factors associated with SUDI rates (Mitchell et al., 1992), ...

  

• Playing with ethics?: A Foucauldian examination of the construction ethical subjectivities in Ultimate Frisbee 

  Crocket, Hamish Robert (University of Waikato, 2012)

  Links between instrumental rationality and problematic sporting subjectivities are well established (e.g., Beamish & Ritchie, 2006; Donnelly, 1996; Hughes & Coakley, 1991). In recent years, however, critical scholars have ...

  

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