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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...
Supporting young people's health and safety: perspectives on drugs, alcohol and sexual health, Centre for Children and Young People (2012)
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,...
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)
Politics, pedagogy and practice in school health policy (with Carolyn Vander Schee), Policy Futures in Education (2011)
The end of the obesity epidemic, School of Education (2011)
Despite apocalyptic predictions from a vocal alliance of health professionals, politicians and social commentators that...
The end of the obesity epidemic (2011)
Despite apocalyptic predictions from a vocal alliance of health professionals, politicians and social commentators that...
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...
Truth, belief and the cultural politics of obesity scholarship and public health policy, Critical Public Health (2011)
A number of debates centring on the so-called ‘obesity epidemic’ have sprung up in the...
Neo-liberalism, the ‘obesity epidemic’ and the challenge to theory, Ethical consumption: a critical introduction (2010)
Dicing with death: tensions, contradictions and awkward positions in school health education (with Deana Leahy), Health and physical education: contemporary issues for Australia and New Zealand (2009)
Friends, enemies and the cultural politics of critical obesity research, Biopolitics and the ‘obesity epidemic’: governing bodies (2009)
Understanding obesity by understanding desire, Critical feminist approaches to eating dis/orders (2009)
When a boy's gotta dance: new masculinities, old pleasures, Sport, Education and Society (2008)
Why would boys want to dance? Why would anyone want to dance? The argument prosecuted...
Couch potatoes’ and ‘wind-up dolls’? A critical assessment of the ethics of youth physical activity research, Youth physical activity and sedentary behaviour: challenges and solutions (2008)
Fatness, fitness and the moral universe of sport and physical activity (with Cathy Zanker), Sociology of Sport Journal (2008)
We use what we call collaborative autoethnography in this article to tell the story of...
Postmodern values and leisure in young Spanish university students: an exploratory study (with Cornelio Aguila, Alvaro Sicilia-Camacho, Antonio J. Rojas Tejada, and Miguel A. Delgado-Noguera), Leisure Sciences (2008)
This article reports exploratory research about tendencies toward postmaterialism in university students. This paper used...
Tackling Murderball: masculinity, disability and the big screen (with Hayley Fitzgerald), Sport, Ethics and Philosophy (2008)
The sport of wheelchair rugby is the subject of a recent film Murderball, which tells...
Is the war on obesity also a war on children?, Childrenz Issues: Journal of the Children's Issues Centre (2007)
One of the many obesity-related questions which remains unanswered is, perhaps, the biggest question of...
Obesity discourse and the crisis of faith in disciplinary technology (with David Kirk), Utbildning & Demokrati: Tidskrift för Didaktik och Utbildningspolitik (2007)
According to Kirk (1998) (following Foucault) a shift in corporeal power has been underway since...
Neither flower child nor artiste be: aesthetics, ability and physical education, Sport, Education and Society (2006)
This paper examines the meaning of ability in the context of dance education, in part,...
Why understanding itself is physical education’s greatest challenge: a response to Himberg, Teachers College Record (2006)
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...
More art than science? Boys, masculinities and physical education, Handbook of physical education (2006)
A reply to Hancox: the problem with medical and scientific thinking about obesity, Childrenz Issues: Journal of the Children's Issues Centre (2005)
While strong, direct evidence linking computer use to childhood obesity is lacking, this has not...
The obesity epidemic: science, morality and ideology (2005)
Increasing obesity levels are currently big news but do we think carefully enough about what...