Exercise and Well-Being After High-Performance Sport

Post-Retirement Perspectives
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-032-23273-7
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 144 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 213 g

Exercise and Well-Being after High-Performance Sport explores whether high-performance athletes have healthy and prosperous relationships with exercise and well-being after retirement from elite sports. This edited collection is the first of its kind to bring together sociologically informed accounts from former high-performance athletes about their retirement experiences and post-sporting careers.

The chapters combine creative narrative writing and social theory to frame the experiences of exercise and well-being after retirement from high-performance sport. Written by former high-performance athletes who are now socio-cultural sports scholars, the authors explore how retiring from elite sport impacted their relationship to exercise and physical activity, identity, and long-term mental health.

This book is key reading for graduate and postgraduate students, as well as academics and researchers interested in sports retirement experiences, sport sociology, mental health, and well-being.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jones, Luke

Avner, Zoë

Denison, Jim

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Sport | Tourismus | Freizeit Sport Sportmedizin, Medikamentenmissbrauch, Doping
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Freizeitsoziologie, Konsumsoziologie, Alltagssoziologie, Populärkultur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.