Embodied understandings of academic resonance within Sport, Health and Physical Education contexts

The aim of this study was to examine embodiment as a process of physical and symbolic attunement to the world of academia. To achieve this, Rosa’s theory of resonance (2019) was used as a conceptual lens for gaining deeper insights on the way that the ‘academic body’ may negate or embrace its corporeality to articulate voice and presence within modern university circumstances. By using autoethnographic writing with dialogic interviewing, the authors ‘plugged-into’ the concepts of embodiment and resonance based on three evocative storytelling narratives. Via an ‘intersecting autoethnography’ approach, the enactment of academicity was reconceived as a subject-world reciprocal connection that can evoke transformative experiences, driven by the desire or the fear of establishing relationships with a resonant impact. The article invites scholars in the field of Sport, Health and Physical Education to go beyond established understandings of academic relatedness and value embodiment as an opportunity to reconfigure ways of resonating in various instances within academia.