Awakening to Elsewheres: A painting of a blue feather with a colourful sun, plants, waves and stars. By Rachel Mishenene, inspired by the Elsewheres research project.
AWAKENING TO ELSEWHERES
Research in this area emerged through collective dialogues about how physical activity systems are similarly but also differently exclusionary and welcoming, based on various (in)experiences of settler colonialism, anti-Black racism, classism, ableism, sanism, homophobia, transphobia, Islamophobia, fatphobia and other systems of oppression.
Using a collective autoethnographic approach, we demonstrate how our sporting and recreation systems are fundamentally “broken” because they are working exactly as they were initially intended: to naturalize the greater life (and sporting) chances (Spade, 2011) of certain people at the exclusion and expense of others. We then use this collective critique to demonstrate how we might use our experiences to imagine a new decolonial system: something else, somewhere else, altogether.
Using a collective autoethnographic approach, we demonstrate how our sporting and recreation systems are fundamentally “broken” because they are working exactly as they were initially intended: to naturalize the greater life (and sporting) chances (Spade, 2011) of certain people at the exclusion and expense of others. We then use this collective critique to demonstrate how we might use our experiences to imagine a new decolonial system: something else, somewhere else, altogether.
ACADEMIC PAPERS
Download the PDF
| ssj_awakening_to_elsewheres.pdf |
Download the Audio File of Authors Reading the Paper - COMING SOON
Listen to Rachel Mishenene describe the inspiration behind Awakening to Elsewheres: A Painting
OTHER RESOURCES
Watch Elsewheres: A Video-Poem
Video Citation: Eales, L., Peers, D., McGuire-Adams, T., Joseph, J., Peers, D., Bridel, W., & Chen, C. (2021). Elsewheres: A video-poem. The Re-Creation Collective.
This research was supported by the Government of Canada's New Frontiers Fund.
