Bonnie Pang
Books
Extending recent developments in arts-based methods, mobile digital ethnographic methods, participatory visual methods and autoethnography in research with children, the book focuses on British Chinese children – an often-neglected group in research studies – providing new perspectives on diversity and inclusion, innovative research methods and the Chinese diaspora. The book draws on concepts from health and physical education, sport, sociology, and psycho-social studies to shed new light on social dynamics, cultural diversities and contextual changes in British Chinese children’s health-related experiences.
In this monograph, Bonnie proposed a trans-locality framework and coined the term ‘trans-local cultural capital’ based on Bourdieu’s theory of capital and extensive empirical data with non-white teachers in the UK and Australia. This new signifier, ‘trans-local cultural capital’ reframes the meaning of ‘skilled’ teachers and mobilises the need to ascribe proper ‘worth’ to trans-local teachers which repositions non-white teachers in the existing social hierarchy and is critical for the broader diversity of the profession.
Drawing on Pierre Bourdieu’s reflexive sociology on relative and relational sociocultural positions, this book assesses how historical, contemporary, and ongoing changes across social spaces of family, school, and community come to shape the intergenerational educational, cultural, and social reproduction of Chinese diasporic populations. The monograph provides an in-depth analysis of the identity work, educational socialisation, and resilience building of young Chinese Australians and Chinese Canadians in the ever-changing lived world.
Contemporary global sport is in constant, sometimes bewildering flux. This book goes beyond orthodox globalisation theory, deploying the metaphor of ‘playing on the edge’ in analysing the dynamic process of making and remaking sport culture in Asia and Oceania. Beyond sport’s traditionally dominant centres in the West, here the edges of the sport and media fields are vividly exposed, re-positioned, blunted and sharpened, revealing many points of tension – racial, ethnic, gendered, classed, sexual, cultural, linguistic, national, etc. – and in many combinations.
Edited Books
Pang, B., Mu, M., and Curdt-Christiansen, X.L. (2027) The Health and Educational Experiences of Chinese International Students. Critical Perspectives and Empirical Research. Springer.
Growing diversity in the international student population in host countries and ongoing geopolitical influences on student-migrant-worker nexus continues to complicate Chinese international students’ health experiences and their educational choices. This book provides relevant knowledge for researchers in the fields of sociology of education, sociocultural studies of health, and international and diasporic studies, who are interested in the complexity, dynamics, and diversity of the topic. The examination of Chinese international students’ experiences related to healthy citizenship, resilience, cultural adaptations, stressors, physical wellbeing and emotional belonging, and language anxiety makes this book a helpful contribution to the field.
Merchant, S., Jones, L., Pang, B., Rich, E. (forthcoming) Social Sciences and Sport: Theories, Methods and Practice for Public Engagement. Routledge.
Special Issues (Co/Editor)
(a curated collection of peer-reviewed articles focusing on a specific, timely, and emerging research topic)
2. 2026 (Forthcoming) Leisure in the Lives of Diasporic Communities (Leisure Studies)
3. 2026 (Forthcoming) Policy Development and Decision-Making for Transgender and Non-Binary Athletes in Sports
4. Informal Sport and Leisure, Urban Space and Social Inequalities (Leisure Studies)
5. Leisure as Surveillance, and the Surveillance of Leisure (Leisure Sciences)
Selected Journal Articles
Pang, B., Dania, A., & Luguetti, C. N. (2026). Making waves: knowledge production in sport, health and physical education. Sport, Education and Society, 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1080/13573322.2026.2731601
Pang, B., Wang, L., Chen, S., Lau, A. (2026). Negotiating capital and social inclusion in community football: Chinese experiences in England. Sport, Education and Society.
https://doi.org/10.1080/13573322.2026.2691217