Dr Michael Gard, MSpSc(UNSW), BPhEd, PhD(UOW) Michael Gard teaches, researches and writes about how the human body is and has been used, experienced, educated and governed. Currently, this work includes projects on the science of obesity, the history of sport, the sexual and gender politics of dance education and the historical and contemporary relationships between schools and public health policy.
Books
The end of the obesity epidemic (2011)
Despite apocalyptic predictions from a vocal alliance of health professionals, politicians and social commentators that...
Men who dance: aesthetics, athletics and the art of masculinity (2006)
Why do men do ballet? What kinds of men become theatrical dancers? In this highly...
The obesity epidemic: science, morality and ideology (2005)
Increasing obesity levels are currently big news but do we think carefully enough about what...
Journal articles
Disagreement, not misrecognition: a reply to Monaghan, Social Theory & Health (2013)
There are many ways to be an intellectual friend and ally. In this response to...
Youth culture, physical education and the question of relevance: after 20 years, a reply to Tinning and Fitzclarence (with Anna Hickey-Moodey and Eimear Enright), Sport, Education and Society (2013)
This article is an attempt to think through the idea that physical education should draw...
A meditation in which consideration is given to the past and future engagement of social science generally and critical physical education and sports scholarship in particular with various scientific debates, including the so-called 'obesity epidemic' and contemporary manifestations of biological determinism, Sport, Education and Society (2011)
My purpose in this paper is to consider the relationship between, on the one hand,...
Politics, pedagogy and practice in school health policy (with Carolyn Vander Schee), Policy Futures in Education (2011)
The limits to exercise performance and the future of fatigue research (with Frank E. Marino and Eric Drinkwater), British Journal of Sports Medicine (2011)
It is immensely difficult to provide a detailed historical account of the development of fatigue...
Book chapters
Between alarmists and sceptics: on the cultural politics of obesity scholarship and public policy, Alcohol, tobacco and obesity: morality, mortality and the new public health (2011)
Dance and social inclusion: possibilities and challenges (with Doug Risner), Inclusion and exclusion through youth sport (2011)