The making of high-performance athletes : discipline, diversity, and ethics / Debra Shogan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shogan, Debra A., 1951-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sports--Psychological aspects.

Sports.

Sports--Moral and ethical aspects.

Physical Description:

xii, 133 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, 1999.

Summary:

Highly Skilled Athletes Are Produced By Technologies Of Training That seek to create the athlete as a singular identity. Yet the disciplinary model of modern sport is consistently disrupted by the diversity and hybridity of the participants. Using Foucault's work on disciplinary power as a theoretical framework, Debra Shogan, an academic in sports ethics and a coach of high-performance athletes, examines the ways in which athletes are produced through technologies of training and the ethical issues which emerge when demands to improve performance envelops athletes, coaches, administrators, and sports scientists in decisions about how far to push the limits of performance. Making the case for a new post-modern sports ethic, Shogan shows how the juxtaposition of hybrid athletes with the homogenizing technologies of sport discipline opens up spaces for questioning, refusing, and perhaps creating new ways of participating in sport.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

080204395X

0802082017

OCLC:

41278614