Play, Physical Activity and Public Health (PDF)

Stephanie A. Alexander is Post-doctoral Fellow at the Collège d'études mondiales in Paris, France in the Chair Anthropology and Global Health. Her research involves critical examinations of interventions on children's play and physical activity to analyse how play may be reshaped when it is promoted for health purposes. Her current research examines questions about the globalisation of concepts such as 'active play' and of assumptions about childhood and health that underlie physical activity interventions.

Katherine L. Frohlich is Professor with the Département de médecine sociale et préventive within the École de Santé Publique at Université de Montréal (ESPUM), Canada as well as Research Associate with the Institut de Recherche en Santé Publique at Université de Montréal (IRSPUM). She is Director of the Masters Programme in Public Health at ESPUM. Her current research interests include social inequities in health-related practices, the sociology of smoking and the playability of urban spaces.

Caroline Fusco is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Kinesiology and Physical Education at the University of Toronto, Canada. She favours poststructuralist, feminist and cultural geography theories and her work is grounded in the pursuit of ethical relations, equity and social justice. Her current research interests centre on the cultural landscapes of play, youth and ecologies of urban recreation, intersectional studies of sport, sexuality and space, and she is most passionate about bringing a critical animal studies lens to the disciplines of kinesiology, recreation and sport.