The Making of High Performance Athletes: Discipline, Diversity, and Ethics

by Debra Shogan

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080204395X
• ISBN13: 9780802043955
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.2" x 8.5"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher