On September 25, 2020, Jeanette successfully defended her MA thesis entitled: Re(Cycling) through poverty: A study of homelessness and bicycling in Vancouver, Canada.
Well done Jeanette!
Article led by Madison Ardizzi now available in Sociology of Sport Journal!
The article, entitled “‘People Still Believe a Bicycle Is for a Poor Person’: Features of “Bicycles for Development” Organizations in Uganda and Perspectives of Practitioners” can be found here. Congratulations Madison!
New book out! — Sport and the Environment: Politics and Preferred Futures
Featuring contributions from a diverse group of international scholars, including current and former members of the Sport Environment Peace Media research group. More information on the book can be found here.
Jesse Couture receives 2019-2020 Killam Graduate Teaching Assistant Award!
Congratulations Jesse!
Congratulations to Devra Waldman — on a successful Ph.D. defense!
On December 13, 2019, Devra successfully defended her Ph.D. dissertation, entitled ‘Manufactured magnificence in the ‘Millennial City’: The (post)colonial politics of a sport-focused gated community development in Gurgaon, India’. Devra’s dissertation can be found here.
Congratulations to Shawn Forde — on a successful Ph.D. defense!
On December 11, 2019, Shawn successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation, entitled ‘Football and Forlorn Hope: An Ethno-graphic Exploration of the Sporting Utopias Presented by FIFA and a South African Local Football Association’. Shawn’s dissertation can be found here.
New publication from Shawn Forde — “Football and forlorn hope: an ethnographic comic concerning the Grahamstown Soccer Association from 1975 to 1985”
The article appears in Anthropology Southern
Africa. Congratulations Shawn!
Presentations at the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport Conference (NASSS) — Devra, Jesse and Jeanette!
Well done Devra, Jeanette and Jesse — on your successful presentations at NASSS, that took place November 6-9, 2019 in Virginia Beach, VA !
Here they are:
Devra Waldman, “Aiming for (the) ‘green’: (post)colonial and aesthetic politics and implications of the production of purified environments in the making of a golf-focused community in Gurgaon, India”
Jeanette Steinmann, Brian Wilson, University of British Columbia, Lyndsay Hayhurst, York University, Mitchell McSweeney, York University — “Experiences of ‘safe space’: From a bicycle program to the road”
Jesse Couture, “Reflections from the ‘Strava’sphere: Preliminary findings from an ethnographic study of a social network for athletes”
Jeanette Steinmann presents at North American Society for Sport History (NASSH) conference!
Last month, Jeanette Steinmann traveled to Boise, ID to share some of her important work on homelessness & bicycling at the North American Society for Sport History conference — #NASSH2019! Excited about Jeanette’s ongoing MA research on this topic!
Jesse Couture presents at Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, held at UBC June 1-7, 2019!
Presenting in sessions hosted by the Canadian Association for Leisure Studies, Jesse Couture ‘s talk was titled: “Community, connectivity, and ‘kudos’: Social self-tracking and the lived experience of digitized leisure.” Well done Jesse!