Graduate Student Research Profile

Fiona McLachlan

Course:
PhD

Area of Study:
Broadly, cultural studies. My project on public swimming pools traverses cultural and spatial politics, theories of embodiment, postmodern philosophy, and deconstructive approaches to history.

Supervisor:
Doug Booth, Lisette Burrows

Thesis Title:
Poolspace: a postmodern (re)configuration of public swimming pools

Education:

BPhEd (Otago)

MPhEd (Otago) – Making and Breaking the Weighted Body: a poststructural reading of obesity discourse

Publications:

McLachlan, F. (2009). Cohesive narratives: Dissolving Aotearoa/New Zealand’s heroines of water. The International Journal of the History of Sport, 26(14), 2143-2159.

McLachlan, F. (2009). Working with ‘obesity’: Lessons from reality television. The New Zealand Physical Educator, 42(1), 22-25.

Loy, J., McLachlan, F. & Booth, D. (2009). Connotations of female movement and meaning: The development of women’s participation in the Olympic Games. Olympika, XVIII, 1-23.

McLachlan, F. (In press). ‘You can’t take a picture of this – it’s already gone’: Vanished memories, political parody, postmodern histories. Sporting Traditions.

Book review

McLachlan, F. (2009). [Review of the book Outstanding Research about Women and Sport in New Zealand]. The International Journal of the History of Sport, 26(11), 1774-1776.

Presentations:

1 July, 2009 – You can’t take a picture of this – it’s already gone: sources and sexualised pools, at the ASSH Sporting Traditions XVII conference, Wellington.

21 November, 2007 - Making and Breaking the Weighted Body: reflections and directions, at the School of Physical Education Postgraduate Conference, University of Otago, Dunedin.

2 November, 2007 - Obe-city: leisure policy and the (re)shaping of urban bodies, at the ‘Sport in the City: Cultural Connections’ International symposium, University of Otago, Dunedin.

Scholarships and Awards:

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Hobbies:

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Updated: 23 Aug 2010