Making of High Performance Athletes
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 athlet...
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 athlet...
