The making of high-performance athletes : discipline, diversity, and ethics
- Title
- The making of high-performance athletes : discipline, diversity, and ethics / Debra Shogan.
- Published by
- Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, ©1999.
- Author
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Details
- Description
- xii, 133 pages; 24 cm
- 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 examines the effects of technologies of training and the ethical issues that emerge when demands to improve performance involve 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."--Jacket.
- Subject
- Contents
- 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.
- Owning institution
- Princeton University Library
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [119]-129) and index.