The University of Queensland

Women in action sport cultures: identity, politics and experience

Holly Thorpe and Rebecca Olive eds. (2016). Women in action sport cultures: identity, politics and experience. London, United Kingdom: Palgrave Macmillan. doi: 10.1057/978-1-137-45797-4

How to swim without water: swimming as an ecological sensibility

Olive, Rebecca (2023). How to swim without water: swimming as an ecological sensibility. Living with Water: Everyday Encounters and Liquid Connections. (pp. 235-253) Manchester University Press. doi: 10.7765/9781526161734.00029

Thinking the social through myself: reflexivity in research practice

Olive, Rebecca (2020). Thinking the social through myself: reflexivity in research practice. Research Methods in Outdoor Studies. (pp. 121-129) edited by Barbara Humberstone and Heather Prince. London, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9780429199004-12

Surfers and leisure: 'Freedom' to surf? Contested spaces on the coast

Britton, Easkey, Olive, Rebecca and Wheaton, Belinda (2019). Surfers and leisure: 'Freedom' to surf? Contested spaces on the coast. Living with the sea: knowledge, awareness and action. (pp. 147-166) edited by Mike Brown and Kimberley Peters. Abingdon, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781315161839-10

Feminist ethnography and physical culture: towards reflexive, political, and collaborative methods

Olive, Rebecca and Thorpe, Holly (2018). Feminist ethnography and physical culture: towards reflexive, political, and collaborative methods. Physical culture, ethnography, and the body: theory, method, and praxis. (pp. 114-128) edited by Michael D. Giardina and Michele K. Donnelly. London, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781315266602-7

Stories of surfing: surfing, space and subjectivity/intersectionality

Olive, Rebecca, Roy, Georgina and Wheaton, Belinda (2018). Stories of surfing: surfing, space and subjectivity/intersectionality. Surfing, sex, genders and sexualities. (pp. 148-167) edited by lisahunter. Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781315201238

Un/intentional pedagogies: impacts of feminist ethics and methods in practice

Olive, Rebecca (2018). Un/intentional pedagogies: impacts of feminist ethics and methods in practice. The Palgrave handbook of feminism and sport, leisure and physical education. (pp. 335-349) edited by Louise Mansfield, Jayne Caudwell, Belinda Wheaton and Beccy Watson. London, United Kingdom: Palgrave Macmillan. doi: 10.1057/978-1-137-53318-0_21

Culture, meaning and sustainability in surfing

Lazarow, Neil and Olive, Rebecca (2017). Culture, meaning and sustainability in surfing. Sustainable surfing. (pp. 202-218) edited by Gregory Borne and Jess Ponting. Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781315680231-13

The political imperative of feminism

Olive, Rebecca (2017). The political imperative of feminism. Routledge handbook of physical cultural studies. (pp. 51-60) edited by Michael L. Silk, David L. Andrews and Holly Thorpe. London: Routledge.

Conducting observations in sport and exercise settings

Thorpe, Holly and Olive, Rebecca (2016). Conducting observations in sport and exercise settings. Routledge handbook of qualitative research in sport and exercise. (pp. 124-138) edited by Brett Smith and Andrew C. Sparkes. London, United Kingdom: Routledge.

Looking back, moving forward? reflections from early action sport researchers

Thorpe, Holly, Olive, Rebecca, Beal, Becky, Booth, Douglas, Laurendeau, Jason, Palmer, Catherine, Rinehart, Robert E. and Wheaton, Belinda (2016). Looking back, moving forward? reflections from early action sport researchers. Women in action sport cultures: identity, politics and experience. (pp. 23-44) edited by Holly Thorpe and Rebecca Olive. London, United Kingdom: Palgrave Macmillan. doi: 10.1057/978-1-137-45797-4_2

Surfing together: exploring the potential of a collaborative ethnographic moment

Olive, Rebecca, Thorpe, Holly, Roy, Georgina, Nemani, Mihi, lisahunter, Wheaton, Belinda and Humberstone, Barbara (2016). Surfing together: exploring the potential of a collaborative ethnographic moment. Women in action sport cultures: identity, politics and experience. (pp. 45-68) edited by Holly Thorpe and Rebecca Olive. London, United Kingdom: Palgrave Macmillan. doi: 10.1057/978-1-137-45797-4_3

Surfing, localism, place-based pedagogies, and ecological sensibilities in Australia

Olive, Rebecca (2016). Surfing, localism, place-based pedagogies, and ecological sensibilities in Australia. Routledge international handbook of outdoor studies. (pp. 501-510) edited by Barbara Humberstone, Heather Prince and Karla A. Henderson. Abingdon, Oxon, UK: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781315768465-56

Women who surf: female difference, intersecting subjectivities and cultural pedagogies

Olive, Rebecca (2016). Women who surf: female difference, intersecting subjectivities and cultural pedagogies. The pedagogies of cultural studies. (pp. 179-195) edited by Andrew Hickey. New York, NY United States: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781315689739

Interactivity, blogs, and the ethics of doing sport history

Olive, Rebecca (2015). Interactivity, blogs, and the ethics of doing sport history. Sport history in the digital era. (pp. 157-179) edited by Gary Osmond and Murray G. Phillips. Champaign, IL, USA: University of Illinois Press.

Expression session

Olive, Rebecca (2009). Expression session. Wax On: From Cronulla to Palm Beach and Beyond. (pp. 10-11) edited by Daniel Mudie Cunningham. Gymea, NSW: Hazelhurst Regional Gallery and Arts Centre.

Oceans of knowledge: NAVIGATING ECOLOGIES OF TIME AND PLACE

Olive, Rebecca (2023). Oceans of knowledge: NAVIGATING ECOLOGIES OF TIME AND PLACE. Sporting Traditions, 40 (1), 19-30.

A feminist embodied ethics of social media use: Corporeal vulnerability and relational care practices

Toffoletti, Kim, Thorpe, Holly, Olive, Rebecca, Pavlidis, Adele and Moran, Claire (2023). A feminist embodied ethics of social media use: Corporeal vulnerability and relational care practices. New Media & Society, 146144482311715. doi: 10.1177/14614448231171560

Swimming and surfing in ocean ecologies: encounter and vulnerability in nature-based sport and physical activity

Olive, Rebecca (2023). Swimming and surfing in ocean ecologies: encounter and vulnerability in nature-based sport and physical activity. Leisure Studies, 42 (5), 679-692. doi: 10.1080/02614367.2022.2149842

Connection is key when there's no planet B: the need to innovate environmental science communication with transdisciplinary approaches

Burrows, Stephen, Olive, Rebecca, O'Brien, Stacey and Galloway, Tamara (2022). Connection is key when there's no planet B: the need to innovate environmental science communication with transdisciplinary approaches. Science of the Total Environment, 853 158435, 1-4. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.158435

‘Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted’: searching for the value of metrics and altmetrics in sociology of sport journals

Olive, Rebecca, Townsend, Stephen and Phillips, Murray G. (2022). ‘Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted’: searching for the value of metrics and altmetrics in sociology of sport journals. International Review for the Sociology of Sport, 58 (3), 431-454. doi: 10.1177/10126902221107467

Sustainability in the Australian Health and Physical Education Curriculum: an ecofeminist analysis

Olive, Rebecca and Enright, Eimear (2021). Sustainability in the Australian Health and Physical Education Curriculum: an ecofeminist analysis. Sport, Education and Society, 26 (4), 389-402. doi: 10.1080/13573322.2021.1888709

Coastal Communities, Leisure and Wellbeing: Advancing a Trans-Disciplinary Agenda for Understanding Ocean-Human Relationships in Aotearoa New Zealand

Wheaton, Belinda, Waiti, Jordan T. A., Olive, Rebecca and Kearns, Robin (2021). Coastal Communities, Leisure and Wellbeing: Advancing a Trans-Disciplinary Agenda for Understanding Ocean-Human Relationships in Aotearoa New Zealand. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18 (2) 450, 450-20. doi: 10.3390/ijerph18020450

Doing feminist physical cultural research in digital spaces: reflections, learnings and ways forward

Toffoletti, Kim, Olive, Rebecca, Thorpe, Holly and Pavlidis, Adele (2021). Doing feminist physical cultural research in digital spaces: reflections, learnings and ways forward. Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health, 13 (1), 11-25. doi: 10.1080/2159676x.2020.1836513

Sisterhood, pleasure and marching: Indigenous women and leisure

Olive, Rebecca, Osmond, Gary and Phillips, Murray G. (2021). Sisterhood, pleasure and marching: Indigenous women and leisure. Annals of Leisure Research, 24 (1), 13-28. doi: 10.1080/11745398.2019.1624181

Understanding Blue Spaces: Sport, Bodies, Wellbeing, and the Sea

Olive, Rebecca and Wheaton, Belinda (2021). Understanding Blue Spaces: Sport, Bodies, Wellbeing, and the Sea. Journal of Sport and Social Issues, 45 (1), 3-19. doi: 10.1177/0193723520950549

Visibility and vulnerability on Instagram: negotiating safety in women’s online-offline fitness spaces

Toffoletti, Kim, Thorpe, Holly, Pavlidis, Adele, Olive, Rebecca and Moran, Claire (2021). Visibility and vulnerability on Instagram: negotiating safety in women’s online-offline fitness spaces. Leisure Sciences, 45 (8), 1-19. doi: 10.1080/01490400.2021.1884628

Questioning representations of athletes with elevated testosterone levels in elite women’s sports: a critical policy analysis

Brömdal, Annette, Olive, Rebecca and Walker, Brooke (2020). Questioning representations of athletes with elevated testosterone levels in elite women’s sports: a critical policy analysis. International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics, 12 (4), 699-715. doi: 10.1080/19406940.2020.1834432

Sinking and Floating on a Shoreless Sea: Co-Reading ‘The Fool and His Inheritance’

Mills, Catriona, Olive, Rebecca and Clark, Nina (2020) Sinking and Floating on a Shoreless Sea: Co-Reading ‘The Fool and His Inheritance’. Paradoxa, 31 271-292.

The trouble with newcomers: women, localism and the politics of surfing

Olive, Rebecca (2019). The trouble with newcomers: women, localism and the politics of surfing. Journal of Australian Studies, 43 (1), 39-54. doi: 10.1080/14443058.2019.1574861

Embodied pedagogies in human movement studies classrooms: a postgraduate pathway into teaching and learning

Olive, Rebecca (2018). Embodied pedagogies in human movement studies classrooms: a postgraduate pathway into teaching and learning. Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies, 40 (3), 227-248. doi: 10.1080/10714413.2018.1472485

Exploring critical alternatives for youth development through lifestyle sport: surfing and community development in Aotearoa/New Zealand

Wheaton, Belinda, Roy, Georgina and Olive, Rebecca (2017). Exploring critical alternatives for youth development through lifestyle sport: surfing and community development in Aotearoa/New Zealand. Sustainability, 9 (12) 2298, 2298. doi: 10.3390/su9122298

Technicity, temporality, embodiment: guest editors’ introduction

Aghtan, Kamillea, Ford, Akkadia, Kerruish, Erika, Olive, Rebecca, Sellberg, Karin and Stephens, Elizabeth (2016). Technicity, temporality, embodiment: guest editors’ introduction. Australian Feminist Studies, Virtual Special Issue

Review of Seascapes:shaped by the sea, first edition, by Mike Brown and Barbara Humberstone, Farnham, Ashgate, February 2015, 216 pp., £65 (hardback), ISBN 978-1-4724-2435-8

Olive, Rebecca (2016). Review of Seascapes:shaped by the sea, first edition, by Mike Brown and Barbara Humberstone, Farnham, Ashgate, February 2015, 216 pp., £65 (hardback), ISBN 978-1-4724-2435-8. Leisure Studies, 35 (4), 506-508. doi: 10.1080/02614367.2015.1040627

Review of Scott Laderman, Empire in Waves: A Political History of Surfing (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2014), pp. xiiþ238, index and images, $65.00 (hardback), $26.95 (paperback). ISBN: 9780520279117

Olive, Rebecca (2015). Review of Scott Laderman, Empire in Waves: A Political History of Surfing (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2014), pp. xiiþ238, index and images, $65.00 (hardback), $26.95 (paperback). ISBN: 9780520279117. International Journal of the History of Sport, 32 (11-12), 1494-1496. doi: 10.1080/09523367.2015.1045691

Reframing surfing: physical culture in online spaces

Olive, Rebecca (2015). Reframing surfing: physical culture in online spaces. Media International Australia, 155 (1), 99-107. doi: 10.1177/1329878X1515500112

The American surfer: radical culture and capitalism / Surfing life: surface, substructure and the commodification of the sublime

Olive, Rebecca (2015). The American surfer: radical culture and capitalism / Surfing life: surface, substructure and the commodification of the sublime. Sport in Society, 18 (3), 395-398. doi: 10.1080/17430437.2015.1010821

Women's recreational surfing: a patronising experience

Olive, Rebecca, McCuaig, Louise and Phillips, Murray G. (2015). Women's recreational surfing: a patronising experience. Sport Education and Society, 20 (2), 258-276. doi: 10.1080/13573322.2012.754752

On the track/in the bleachers: authenticity and feminist ethnographic research in sport and physical cultural studies

Pavlidis, Adele and Olive, Rebecca (2014). On the track/in the bleachers: authenticity and feminist ethnographic research in sport and physical cultural studies. Sport in Society, 17 (2), 218-232. doi: 10.1080/17430437.2013.828703

'Making friends with the neighbours': blogging as a research method

Olive, Rebecca (2013). 'Making friends with the neighbours': blogging as a research method. International Journal of Cultural Studies, 16 (1), 71-84. doi: 10.1177/1367877912441438

Introduction: feminist sport history in the past, present and future

Thorpe, Holly and Olive, Rebecca (2012). Introduction: feminist sport history in the past, present and future. Journal of Sport History, 39 (3), 373-377.

Introduction

Thorpe, Holly and Olive, Rebecca (2012). Introduction. Journal of Sport History, 39 (3), 373-378. doi: 10.1353/sph.2012.0099

The power, politics and potential of feminist sports history: a multi-generational dialogue

Thorpe, H. and Olive, R. (2012). The power, politics and potential of feminist sports history: a multi-generational dialogue. Journal of Sport History, 39 (3), 379-394. doi: 10.1353/sph.2012.0105

Negotiating the 'F-Word' in the Field: Doing Feminist Ethnography in Action Sport Cultures

Olive, Rebecca and Thorpe, Holly (2011). Negotiating the 'F-Word' in the Field: Doing Feminist Ethnography in Action Sport Cultures. Sociology of Sport Journal, 28 (4), 421-440. doi: 10.1123/ssj.28.4.421

Surfers and leisure 'Freedom' to surf ? Contested spaces on the coast

Britton, Easkey, Olive, Rebecca and Wheaton, Belinda (2019). Surfers and leisure 'Freedom' to surf ? Contested spaces on the coast. Seascapes Symposium - Living with the Sea, Auckland, New Zealand, 16-19 February 2016. Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge.

Going surfing/doing research: Learning how to negotiate cultural politics from women who surf

Olive, Rebecca (2016). Going surfing/doing research: Learning how to negotiate cultural politics from women who surf. Melbourne, Australia: Routledge. doi: 10.1080/10304312.2016.1143199

Embodied understandings, affective pedagogies: ‘doing’ Cultural Studies in the classroom’

Olive, Rebecca (2012). Embodied understandings, affective pedagogies: ‘doing’ Cultural Studies in the classroom’. Cultural Studies Association of Australasia Annual Conference (CSAA 2012), Sydney, Australia, 4-6 December 2012.

Reflexitivity: Locating myself in research

Olive, Rebecca (2009). Reflexitivity: Locating myself in research. Sporting Traditions XVII. The Cultural Paradigm: Reinvigorating Sport History?, Wellington, New Zealand, 30 June - 3 July, 2009. New Zealand: Routledge.

Why going for a swim in the ocean can be good for you, and for nature

Olive, Rebecca (2020, 12 31). Why going for a swim in the ocean can be good for you, and for nature The Conversation

Living with sharks

Olive, Rebecca (2020, 01 01). Living with sharks White Horses

Blurred lines: Women, subjectivities and surfing

Olive, Rebecca Jane (2013). Blurred lines: Women, subjectivities and surfing. PhD Thesis, School of Human Movement Studies, The University of Queensland.