2019 HMNS Seminar: 'Being grateful: materialising ‘success’ in women’s sport' by Dr Adele Pavlidis

Event Details

Date:

Friday, 07 June 2019

Time:

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Room:

127

UQ Location:

Human Performance Laboratories (St Lucia)

URL:

http://www.hms.uq.edu.au/

Event category(s):

Full Description:: As women enter into spheres of production and consumption previously considered ‘masculine’ there is an opportunity to question the emotions and affects in circulation and what these ‘do’ to support the transformation of social life. The entrée of women into the world of professional contact sport is one site where these emotions and affects are intensified.
Drawing on interviews with 13 women who are part of a professional competition, this presentation focuses in on positivity, happiness and gratitude as concepts that illuminate both the impossible cruelty of women’s full inclusion in the sport-industry complex, and, more importantly, the ways women’s inclusion is challenging and shifting the practices and organisation of sport.

Dr Adele Pavlidis is a DECRA Fellow at the Griffith Centre for Social and Cultural Research. Her fellowship explores the ways Australian sport culture is changing, focused particularly on women in contact sports.

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