Abstract
Feminist cultural studies encourages researchers to privilege everyday, lived experiences of the people and cultures we are researching to uncover alternative possibilities for greater diversity and inclusion. This politicized foundation impacts on our methodological choices and the various outputs we produce from our findings. In this chapter I explore the ways my feminist cultural studies research approach offered opportunities to engage in un/intentional pedagogies in the fields of my research, and to contribute to changes in attitudes about, and opportunities for, women who surf. The forms of pedagogy I discuss in this chapter are different to the traditional pedagogies of a classroom, but are embodied, intersecting, relational pedagogies that are implicit in the often banal aspects of our everyday lives.
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For this and many other moments of theoretical insight, I am forever grateful to Louise McCuaig.
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Olive, R. (2018). Un/Intentional Pedagogies: Impacts of Feminist Ethics and Methods in Practice. In: Mansfield, L., Caudwell, J., Wheaton, B., Watson, B. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Feminism and Sport, Leisure and Physical Education. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-53318-0_21
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