The Making of High Performance Athletes : Discipline, Diversity, and Ethics / Debra Shogan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shogan, Debra, Author.

Series:

Heritage

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sports--Social aspects.

Sports.

Sports--Moral and ethical aspects.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (160 p.)

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2020]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Highly skilled athletes are produced by technologies of training which 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 envelopes athletes, coaches, administrators and sports scientists in decisions about how far to push the limits of performance. Making the case for a new, postmodern 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.

Contents:

Preface

Introduction

Production of 'the athlete': disciplinary technologies of sport

Hybrid athletes

Ethical issues and the scholarly field of sport ethics

Hybrid athletes and discipline: possibilities for a new sport ethics.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [119]-129) and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jun 2020)

ISBN:

1-4426-5932-7

1-4426-5723-5

OCLC:

903441115