The Centre for Sport and Sustainability, in partnership with the Brock University Centre for Sport Capacity. This speaker series examines sport in the context of the climate emergency. It considers the politics of sport and the environment, meaning the decision-making of people, organizations, and governments, and the social dynamics that underlie these decisions. It considers environmental practices in sport, ranging from the everyday practices of individuals to the climate change mitigation practices of institutions. And it considers preferred futures based on the idea that imagining climate alternatives is a step towards achieving them.
Join our featured speaker in the third of our webinar series: Dr. Liv Yoon on Envisioning Alternative Socio-Environmental Futures Through Sociocultural Kinesiology. Throughout this webinar Liv will look to answer; how are sport/leisure, climate change, social inequities, and health-related? How do we understand these links in the context of climate change as a threat multiplier?
These questions will guide her presentation as she explores how her PhD work (‘Mount Gariwang: An Olympic Casualty’), and more broadly, how her training in sociocultural kinesiology informed her postdoctoral projects around environmental and social justice. Going beyond sport, she considers the crucial role that sociocultural kinesiology – thinking about bodies in context – can and must play in envisioning alternative socio-environmental futures.
Dr. Liv Yoon is an alumnus of the UBC School of Kinesiology (PhD 2019) and is now a postdoctoral research scholar at the Earth Institute and the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University. Her research is at the intersection of climate change, social inequities, and health, with a focus on community engagement work.
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