Marianne Clark

Marianne Clark
  • Doctor of Philosophy
  • UNSW Sydney

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Introduction
My research interests encompass feminist and sociological perspectives of health and physical activity, digital and physical cultures, and qualitative research methods. I use a range of social theories to interrogate the intersections of bodies, space, movement and technologies.
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Current institution
UNSW Sydney

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Publications (37)
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Researching Contemporary Wellness Cultures is an edited collection that brings together scholars examining the various ways and spaces in which wellness is constructed and practices within various sociological sub-disciplines across and in related fields including anthropology, cultural studies, and internet studies.
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Objective This paper examines the ways in which young people in Eastern Canada learn about menstruation and construct personal period pedagogies through embodied experiences and encounters with digital and social media. Design A qualitative exploratory approach was undertaken to elicit the stories and voices of young people who menstruate. Menstru...
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Health misinformation on social media has largely been examined from a harms-focused perspective, with scholars seeking to identify what impacts misinformation has on public health and a popular focus on removing it from platforms. The act of debunking is one response wherein misinformation is corrected with knowledge from scientific sources. To da...
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With pandemic conditions and social distancing disrupting traditional research methods, the COVID-19 pandemic has left many researchers turning to digital and creative methods, perhaps for the first time. Despite the significant challenges qualitative researchers have faced during the pandemic, this chapter considers what potentials these condition...
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Purpose In this article, the authors aim to explore mobile apps as both mundane and extraordinary digital media artefacts, designed and promoted to improve or solve problems in people's lives. Drawing on their “App Stories” project, the authors elaborate on how the efficiencies and affordances credited to technologies emerge and are performed throu...
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Digital self-tracking devices increasingly inhabit everyday landscapes, yet many people abandon self-trackers not long after acquisition. Although research has examined why people discontinue these devices, less explores what actually happens when people unplug. This article addresses this gap by considering the embodied and habitual dimensions of...
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Human bodies are frequently rendered into digitised and datafied formats. People go online, use apps, carry or wear mobile devices, and move around in spaces equipped with digital sensors. When people engage with these technologies, a plethora of information is generated with and about them. This might include their appearance and their bodily func...
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The implementation of physical distancing measures and lockdowns across the globe to control the spread of COVID-19 has led to the home becoming a focal point of exercise and fitness activities for many people. A plethora of digital tools were hastily assembled to help people workout at home or in spaces close to home: including apps with workout s...
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Written at a time when new ways of knowing, relating and responding to the environment appear more urgent than ever, this paper explores the potential of using new materialist theory for more-than-human understandings of sport and the environment. The paper consists of three parts. We begin by reviewing key trends in research on sport and the envir...
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The Preface and Introduction chapter for The Face Mask in COVID Times: A Sociomaterial Analysis
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With millions of people around the world spending weeks and months in quarantine, new questions emerged during the COVID-19 pandemic about the opportunities, benefits, and risks of physical activity. Health organisations, governments and the media alike advocated the importance of physical activity for health and wellbeing. While exercise was being...
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Over the past decade, a critical mass of feminist scholars has been working to develop new ways of understanding the complex interactions between the social and biological body. Working broadly under the umbrella of ‘new materialisms,’ a subgroup of feminist scholars is proposing alternative non-dualistic models for engaging with biology, corporeal...
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This paper details a collaborative journey in which we sought to use new materialist theoretical and post-qualitative approaches to explore the entangled phenomena of women’s moving bodies and fitness objects. In particular, we engaged with Karen Barad’s agential realism to explore the materiality of the sports bra and its material-discursive relat...
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This chapter examines the mundane and often taken-for-granted objects that are an everyday part of sporting cultures and fitness lifestyles. To date, scholars have explored the ways objects become embedded with meaning within sporting cultures. In particular, feminist scholars have shown the ways objects contribute to the development of gendered id...
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Continuing with the discussion about objects and new materialisms, in this chapter we look toward digital health and fitness technologies and the ways in which new materialisms can contribute to theorizing human-technology relations. Similar to other chapters, we begin with an overview of existing literature and common approaches used to explore ge...
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In this chapter we discuss the challenges, opportunities, and considerations of putting new materialist theory into practice in empirical research. In this chapter we engage with literature from across a range of fields to provide an overview of the many ways that new materialisms are informing the research process and methodology, methods, and res...
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Building upon and extending the feminist new materialist theorizing in the previous chapter, we take up Barad’s concept of apparatus in this chapter to rethink the processes, possibilities, and politics of transdisciplinary research. We begin by outlining how a Baradian-inspired approach to transdisciplinarity encourages us to not only explore ways...
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Rather than offering a tidy summary of the ‘key findings’ from our project, in the final chapter of this book we conclude with some reflections on the feminist, collective, embodied, and material thinking practices that this process of collaborative writing yielded. The chapter includes some do-it-yourself inspired imagery to evoke the highly affec...
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This introductory chapter consists of three main parts. We begin by locating the book in the strong foundational knowledge of feminists of sport, physical activity, and moving bodies, and signposting the growing interest among critical scholars of sport and physical culture in posthumanism and new materialisms. We then offer an overview of some of...
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In this chapter we challenge scholars of sport and physical culture to consider the implications of the ‘biological turn in social theory’ and, in particular, the possibilities of new materialist approaches for understanding the bio-socio-cultural complexities of moving bodies. It begins by mapping the important works of feminist and body studies s...
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In this chapter, we explore the potential of using new materialisms to think about the environment from a non-anthropocentric view. We begin this chapter by summarizing some of the main contributions from Indigenous scholarship, environmental humanities, and ecofeminism, before highlighting the ways in which new materialisms mirror, and in some cas...
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This paper engages with new materialist theory to reimagine transdisciplinary health research. In particular, we draw upon Karen Barad's theory of agential realism and concept of apparatus to rethink the processes of doing transdisciplinary research. A Baradian inspired approach to transdisciplinarity encourages us to not only explore ways of knowi...
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During the height of social distancing conditions in the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in Australia, the beaches of Sydney’s eastern suburbs became heavily regulated through prolific signage, physical barriers, and the presence of police and council staff. This essay explores the role of signage, as part of the outdoor media landscape, in con...
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Purpose : Wearable physical activity monitors present new ethical considerations for researchers and research ethics boards. Best practice guidelines are needed for research involving wearable monitors and should consider how these devices may impact participants outside of the research context. This study examines the perceptions of university stu...
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This book offers the first critical examination of the contributions of feminist new materialist thought to the study of sport, fitness, and physical culture. Bringing feminist new materialist theory into a lively dialogue with sport studies, it highlights the possibilities and challenges of engaging with posthumanist and new materialist theories...
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Engaging a feminist ethnographic methodology, this article offers a discussion of women’s embodied experiences of wellbeing in intergenerational somatic dance classes. Somatic dance classes aim to develop embodied awareness, support ease and freedom in movement, and offer opportunities for creativity, agency and reflection. Drawing on in-depth inte...
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This paper critically explores the potential of feminist new materialist approaches to develop new understandings of the complex entanglements of the biological and socio-cultural dimensions of women athletes’ embodied health experiences. In particular, we draw upon Elizabeth Wilson’s (2015) Gut Feminism to ask ‘what conceptual and methodological i...
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This article presents a diffractive experiment in thinking about mothers’ engagements with self-tracking technologies as materially and discursively produced phenomena. Inspired by St. Pierre’s claim that any empirical adventure with new materialisms must begin by living with theory, we share our feminist, collaborative journey with Fitbits and Kar...
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BACKGROUND Wearable fitness trackers are becoming increasingly affordable and accessible making them an alluring tool for mHealth interventions and strategies. Research to date has focused primarily on issues of efficacy, accuracy and acceptability with equivocal conclusions, yet little is known about how individuals interpret and make sense of the...
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Purpose The comparison between athletes and non-athletes for sleep, sedentary time or incidental daily activity is yet to be examined in a student population. Therefore, the purpose of the current study was to measure sleep and activity levels using accelerometry in athlete and non-athlete university students. Methods 19 students on university ath...

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