How do older adults learn to tell a 'new'story about, through, and with the body? We know
that narratives are embodied, lived and central to the process of meaning-making—and as …

Becoming a tyranny? Ubiquitous and in danger of losing all meaning? Divisive and
alienated enclaves? These strong concerns about narrative inquiry and its scholars voiced …

Previous research has shown that young adults tend to identify and reinforce negative
stereotypes of growing older. They can express both fear and trepidation regarding the …

In this article, the authors construct a story of one woman's (Justine's) experience of learning
to run within the context of a beginners group. Building on existing scholarship on narrative …

This paper adopts a narrative perspective on the study of mid-life experiences in sport.
Different types of stories about sporting mid-life are identified and discussed. Drawing upon …

To understand what a narrative analysis “is” it is first vital to appreciate the paradigmatic and
theoretical assumptions that underpin it. This is of importance because, as Holstein and …

Selective sporting and exercise experiences can become embedded in memory and these
subjective memories are actively constructed, shared, and communicated to others via the …

In this short essay, I explore in a narrative style the following question: do narrative analyses
of sport and exercise need to engage more fully with social theory in order to become more …

In this article we explore how the stories an athlete tells throughout life in sport affect her
career transition experiences. We base our enquiry on a social constructionist conception of …

This paper explores the tensions that surfaced as a teacher of physical education (PE)
shifted his 'stories to live by'[Clandinin, DJ, & Connelly, FM (1999). Storying and restorying …