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‘Ploughing on’: a sociological investigation of ‘endurance work’ in competitive swimming and distance-running
Despite a burgeoning corpus of qualitative studies of sport and physical cultures, indepth and embodied investigations of those requiring sustained engagement with ‘endurance work’ remain relatively under-developed. These physical cultures are sociologically interesting as they often demand of pract...
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| author | Gareth McNarry Jacquelyn Allen-Collinson Adam B Evans |
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| description | Despite a burgeoning corpus of qualitative studies of sport and physical cultures, indepth and embodied investigations of those requiring sustained engagement with ‘endurance work’ remain relatively under-developed. These physical cultures are sociologically interesting as they often demand of practitioners intense commitment in terms of time, energy, and (for many) finances devoted to endurance-training regimes. They also require substantial sacrifice with regard to social activities and family life, even for those not competing at elite levels. The nature of endurance and enduring still remains under-researched from a sociological and qualitative perspective, however, and we directly address this gap in the research literature by contributing fresh theoretical insights and empirical data on the lived experience of endurance in two different lifeworlds: competitive swimming and distance running. Employing a sociological-phenomenological framework, we analyse and conceptualise data derived from two separate ethnographic and autoethnographic research projects, and explore interesting commonalities in the shared lived experience of endurance and ‘endurance work’ in these two distinctive physical cultures. |
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| spelling | rr-article-125945002020-06-30T00:00:00Z ‘Ploughing on’: a sociological investigation of ‘endurance work’ in competitive swimming and distance-running Gareth McNarry (4499404) Jacquelyn Allen-Collinson (8665305) Adam B Evans (8665308) Sociology not elsewhere classified Human Movement and Sports Sciences Specialist Studies in Education embodiment endurance work distance running performance swimming sociological phenomenology Sports Development Cenre Sociology Despite a burgeoning corpus of qualitative studies of sport and physical cultures, indepth and embodied investigations of those requiring sustained engagement with ‘endurance work’ remain relatively under-developed. These physical cultures are sociologically interesting as they often demand of practitioners intense commitment in terms of time, energy, and (for many) finances devoted to endurance-training regimes. They also require substantial sacrifice with regard to social activities and family life, even for those not competing at elite levels. The nature of endurance and enduring still remains under-researched from a sociological and qualitative perspective, however, and we directly address this gap in the research literature by contributing fresh theoretical insights and empirical data on the lived experience of endurance in two different lifeworlds: competitive swimming and distance running. Employing a sociological-phenomenological framework, we analyse and conceptualise data derived from two separate ethnographic and autoethnographic research projects, and explore interesting commonalities in the shared lived experience of endurance and ‘endurance work’ in these two distinctive physical cultures. 2020-06-30T00:00:00Z Text Journal contribution 2134/12594500.v1 https://figshare.com/articles/journal_contribution/_Ploughing_on_a_sociological_investigation_of_endurance_work_in_competitive_swimming_and_distance-running/12594500 CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 |
| spellingShingle | Sociology not elsewhere classified Human Movement and Sports Sciences Specialist Studies in Education embodiment endurance work distance running performance swimming sociological phenomenology Sports Development Cenre Sociology Gareth McNarry Jacquelyn Allen-Collinson Adam B Evans ‘Ploughing on’: a sociological investigation of ‘endurance work’ in competitive swimming and distance-running |
| title | ‘Ploughing on’: a sociological investigation of ‘endurance work’ in competitive swimming and distance-running |
| title_full | ‘Ploughing on’: a sociological investigation of ‘endurance work’ in competitive swimming and distance-running |
| title_fullStr | ‘Ploughing on’: a sociological investigation of ‘endurance work’ in competitive swimming and distance-running |
| title_full_unstemmed | ‘Ploughing on’: a sociological investigation of ‘endurance work’ in competitive swimming and distance-running |
| title_short | ‘Ploughing on’: a sociological investigation of ‘endurance work’ in competitive swimming and distance-running |
| title_sort | ‘ploughing on’: a sociological investigation of ‘endurance work’ in competitive swimming and distance-running |
| topic | Sociology not elsewhere classified Human Movement and Sports Sciences Specialist Studies in Education embodiment endurance work distance running performance swimming sociological phenomenology Sports Development Cenre Sociology |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/2134/12594500.v1 |