The Making of High Performance Athletes: Discipline, Diversity, and Ethics (Heritage) - Softcover

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Shogan, Debra

 
9780802082015: The Making of High Performance Athletes: Discipline, Diversity, and Ethics (Heritage)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0802082017 ISBN 13: 9780802082015
Publisher: University of Toronto Press, 1999

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

Debra Shogan is a professor in the Faculty of Physical Education and Recreation, University of Alberta, and a former coach of high performance athletes.

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Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Publication date
1999
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0802082017
ISBN 13 
9780802082015
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
160

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