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'Running for mum': sports charity challenges and therapeutic places

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posted on 2023-05-22, 17:38 authored by Palmer, C
This chapter explores the spatial relations of grief, loss, memory and accomplishment through the growing phenomenon of sports-based charity challenges. For many who take part in events such as fun runs, completing the event helps raise money for a particular cause that is often motivated by their own personal loss or bereavement. Drawing on preliminary fieldwork undertaken with participants in the Mother’s Day Classic - a major fundraising event for breast cancer research and education in Australia – the chapter argues that training for and participating in this and similar charity sporting events provide a range of spaces in which therapeutic encounters occur. The chapter argues that the MDC offers an emotional geography that is publicly enacted against a curative therapeutic landscape of sporting achievement and celebration of lives lived and lost, in doing so, providing insight and understanding into the role of charity in fitness and leisure worlds.

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Publication title

Advances in Sociology Research

Volume

21

Editors

J A Jaworski

Pagination

107-124

ISBN

978-1-53610-810-1

Department/School

School of Social Sciences

Publisher

Nova Science Pub Inc

Place of publication

United States

Extent

8

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Copyright 2017 Nova Science Publishers, Inc.

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Expanding knowledge in human society

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