Exercise and Well-Being after High-Performance Sport (eBook, ePUB)

Post-Retirement Perspectives
Redaktion: Jones, Luke; Denison, Jim; Avner, Zoë

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This edited collection bringS together sociologically informed accounts from former high-performance athletes about their retirement experiences and post-sporting careers. The authors explore how retiring from elite sport impacted their relationship to exercise and physical activity, identity, and long-term mental health.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 144
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000917338
• Artikelnr.: 68079812

Autorenporträt

Luke Jones is a lecturer in sport coaching at the University of Bath, UK, and a former youth international and semi-professional footballer. Luke's doctoral research and subsequent research programme has focused upon exploring retirement from sport using a socio-cultural perspective, including how former athletes relate to their own exercise. Zoë Avner is a lecturer in sports coaching at Deakin University, Australia, and a former French youth international and semi-professional footballer. Her research draws on post-structuralist and feminist methodologies to explore athlete and coach learning, power and coaching, and coaching ethics. Jim Denison is a former NCAA Division I middle-distance runner who also competed internationally following his university career. He is a professor in the Faculty of Kinesiology, Sport, and Recreation at the University of Alberta, Canada. A sport sociologist and coach educator, his research examines the formation of coaches' practices through a post-structuralist lens.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
LUKE JONES, ZOË AVNER, AND JIM DENISON
1 Professional Sport: An Ill-Fitting Suit?
KITRINA DOUGLAS
2 Aesthetics of Existence Post-elite Sport Performances: Negotiating the
Critic and the Complicit Elite Athlete Self
GÖRAN GERDIN
3 Learning to Look Through the Body Rather than At It: An Athlete's Attempt
to Re-configure Their Relationship with Exercise
JOHN TONER
4 A Hard Habit to Break: Epiphanies Stop Coming - If I Ain't Running!
DAVID HOWE
5 From Disciplined Body to Foucauldian Ethical Thinker: A Transformational
Tale of a High-Performance Baseball Player
CLAYTON KUKLICK
6 The Continuation of 'Slim to Win': The Sustained Impact of a Dominant
Cultural Ideology on One Athlete Post-sport
JENNY MCMAHON AND KERRY R. MCGANNON
7 Finally ... for the Joy of It All: A Corporeal Reconciliation Narrative
of a Former College Distance Runner
TED BUTRYN
8 Moving in Different Circles
DARRYN STAMP
9 Moving Afresh: A Narrative and Foucauldian Analysis of Transitioning to
New Movement Practices
JOSEPH MILLS
Conclusion
ZOË AVNER, LUKE JONES, AND JIM DENISON