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'Sport and the sociological imagination: understanding lifestyle sport' - Professor Belinda Wheaton

Professor Wheaton will follow her academic journey, from London to Aotearoa,developing her sociological imagination from student to professor, through the lens of informal and lifestyle sports. Lifestyle sports, such as surfing, skateboarding and parkour, have either emerged over the past thirty to forty years, or have taken on a new meaning or focus. Since the 1980s, they have experienced unprecedented growth in participation and visibility, challenging our ideas about what sport is, and how it has been used as a tool for public policy across physical health, well¬being, and community and civic engagement. The talk will go from the beaches of California where Professor Wheaton studied identity and exclusion amongst ‘Black’ surfers, to the streets of Paris where parkour emerged. It will end at the Tokyo Olympics where surfing, skateboarding and sport climbing made their Olympic debut. Through this Professor Wheaton will discuss the sociology of sport, and how it has become central to understanding contemporary society and cultural change. In the words of New Times writer Martin Jacques (1997), ‘Sport has become a symbol for our changing society, defining the nature of our new times.’ About Professor Belinda Wheaton: Belinda is cultural sociologist in Te Huataki Waiora School of Health teaching across Sport Development and Coaching and Community Health. Belinda is best known for her research on informal and lifestyle sport cultures, their cultural politics and use in policy, which includes monographs The Cultural Politics of Lifestyle Sports, Action Sports and the Olympic Games: Past, Present, Future’ (Wheaton & Thorpe, 2022) and 3 edited collections. Her research has been funded by UK research councils (ESRC, AHRC), an IOC research grant and Sport England. Belinda is also Co-editor of The Palgrave Handbook of Feminism and Sport, Leisure and Physical Education, Leisure and the Politics of the Environment, and is Managing Editor of the journal Annals of Leisure Research. Belinda's recent research focuses on understanding Ocean-Human Relationships in coastal blue space leisure practices in Aotearoa, and how this contributes to wellbeing for communities and their environments.