{"id":3363,"date":"2016-10-08T18:11:18","date_gmt":"2016-10-08T18:11:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marlenharrison.com\/?p=3363"},"modified":"2026-07-18T13:26:36","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T13:26:36","slug":"autoethnography-sport-identity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marlenharrison.com\/?p=3363","title":{"rendered":"Running, Being, and Beijing: An Existential Exploration of a Runner Identity Qualitative Research in Psychology"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"bd\">\n<div class=\"gutter\">\n<p class=\"first last\">In this research, we explore the negotiation of a conflicted runner identity in a Finnish runner\u2019s short-term migration to Beijing, China. We examine the historical and cultural construction of the runner identity and discuss the current discourses that constitute the modern runner subjectivities. From there, we continue with a Heideggerian existential-phenomenological analysis of the \u201cboundary situation\u201d when the project of competitive running is challenged due to environmental and cultural barriers in the migration. Our empirical inquiry is based on the first author\u2019s autoethnographic account, written during and shortly after her 10-week stay in Beijing in March\u2013June 2011. Two main themes, the loss of control and isolation, are examined, and an existential interpretation is paired with insight from Buddhist psychology. Finally, we conclude with implications for future research in sport and migration studies as well as practical considerations for the use of autoethnography in psychological research and practice.<\/p>\n<dl>\n<dt><strong>DOI:&nbsp;<\/strong>10.1080\/14780887.2013.810796<\/dt>\n<dt>LINK:&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/abs\/10.1080\/14780887.2013.810796\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/abs\/10.1080\/14780887.2013.810796<\/a><\/dt>\n<dt>FULL MANUSCRIPT: <a title=\"document\" href=\"https:\/\/marlenharrison.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/10\/document.pdf\">Click me to view document<\/a><\/dt>\n<\/dl>\n<p><span class=\"hlFld-ContribAuthor\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/author\/Ronkainen%2C+N+J\">Noora Johanna Ronkainen<\/a><\/span><sup>a<\/sup><sup>*<\/sup>,&nbsp;<span class=\"hlFld-ContribAuthor\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/author\/Harrison%2C+M+E\">Marlen Elliot Harrison<\/a><\/span><sup>b<\/sup>&nbsp;&amp;&nbsp;<span class=\"hlFld-ContribAuthor\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/author\/Ryba%2C+T+V\">Tatiana V. Ryba<\/a><\/span><sup>a<\/sup><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Two main themes, the loss of control and isolation, are examined, and an existential interpretation is paired with insight from Buddhist psychology. Finally, we conclude with implications for future research in sport and migration studies as well as practical considerations for the use of autoethnography in psychological research and practice.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7030,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[707,4,590,606,595,15,559],"tags":[46,566,569,364,567,568],"class_list":["post-3363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic","category-all","category-autoethnographer","category-china","category-finland","category-research","category-writer","tag-autoethnography","tag-china","tag-existentialism","tag-publication","tag-qualitative-research-in-psychology","tag-running","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marlenharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marlenharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marlenharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marlenharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marlenharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3363"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/marlenharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7523,"href":"https:\/\/marlenharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3363\/revisions\/7523"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marlenharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marlenharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marlenharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marlenharrison.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}