Dr Penelope Rossiter1 1Western Sydney University, Sydney, Australia   There is a flourishing contemporary interest in the contributions of blue spaces to human well-being. Although ‘wild swimming’ in oceans and inland waterways has seized the public imagination for its aesthetic...

Miss Laura Brown1 1Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom   The practise of sport and exercise has historic and social importance grounded in ancient Greek civilisation. The continued practise of sport and exercise through the ages, and its existing...

Mrs Jora Broerse1 1Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia   Multiculturalism and the management of diversity are of growing personal and political importance due to changing demographic urban settings. This presentation discusses ethnographic data and explores how people in Footscray, Melbourne, engage...

Dr Adele Pavlidis1, Ms Erin Nichols1 1Griffith University, Parklands, Australia   In recent times there has been a definite shift in the ways sport spaces are being (re)configured. From a site of slim, lean, feminine bodies, to a space of...