Qualitative Research for Physical Culture

About M. SilkP. Markula

PIRKKO MARKULA Professor of Socio-Cultural Studies of Sport and Physical Activity at the University of Alberta Canada. Her research interests include poststructuralist feminist analysis of dance exercise and sport ethnography autoethnography and performance ethnography. She is co-author of Foucault Sport and Exercise editor of Olympic Women and the Media and Feminist Sport Studies and co-editor of Critical Bodies and Moving Writing.MICHAEL SILK Senior Lecturer in the Department of Education Faculty of Humanities and Social Science at the University of Bath UK. His research and scholarship centers on the production and consumption of urban space the governance of bodies and the performative politics of identity within the context of a global neoliberal economic order. His recent works include: Sport and Corporate Nationalisms (co-authored) Qualitative Methods and Sports Studies (co-authored) Televised Sport in the Post 9/11 Era and Sport & Neoliberalism (co-authored).