Autoethnography in sport and physical cultures

<p>This chapter considers autoethnography as a research approach that gives the most direct insights into how sporting and physical-cultural embodiment actually feels for us as participants; our experiences of pain and pleasure, joy and despair, and the plethora of sensory delights and displeasures. Autoethnography can be exhilarating and insightful, but also painful and demanding of us as researchers, and, I argue, highly relevant to the in-depth investigation of sport and physical cultures, and the mind-body selves who engage with those cultures. </p>