Ethnographic Worldviews

Robert Rinehart is an Associate Professor in Sport & Leisure Studies at the University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand.  He is the author of Players All:  Performances in Contemporary Sport (Indiana University Press, 1998), and co-editor, with Synthia Sydnor, of To the Extreme:  Alternative Sport, Inside and Out (SUNY Press, 2003), and is currently working on a book examining sport, business, education, and peace.  He is also convenor for the Contemporary Ethnography Across the Disciplines biennual conference (cead.org.nz). Karen Nicole Barbour is a senior lecturer in dance and choreography at the University of Waikato. She is committed to fostering qualitative dance research, specifically in choreographic practice, contemporary dance, improvisation, site-specific dance, and digital dance. She has recently published Dancing across the page: Narrative and embodied ways of knowing (2011). Her current research interests lie in collaborative artistic research, feminist choreographic practices, and narrative writing practices to express lived experiences. Clive Pope is a Senior Lecturer of sport pedagogy in the Department of Sport & Leisure Studies at The University of Waikato. Clive's research is informed from ethnographic perspectives and most recently he has developed a growing interest in visual research methods, particularly visual ethnography and photovoice to explore the sport experiences of young people.