Consent and complicity: The athletes' role in the normalisation of damaging coaching practices
Zehntner, Chris (2020) Consent and complicity: The athletes' role in the normalisation of damaging coaching practices. In: Lang, Melanie, (ed.) Routledge Handbook of Athlete Welfare. Routledge, Abingdon, Oxon, UK, pp. 314-323.
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Abstract
This chapter reviews scholarship relating to the normalisation and proliferation of abusive coaching practice and the way that athletes come to misrecognise and contribute to this. In the first part of the chapter, the nuanced ways that athlete abuse is enacted within the coach–athlete relationship are contextualised. The mechanisms of constraint that encourage coaches to recycle taken-for-granted notions of best coaching practice are also elaborated upon. The second part of the chapter centres on a case study that reveals how female cyclists bought into questionable coaching practices in order to achieve national team selection. Social theory is used to illuminate how the athletes consented and conformed and were in part complicit with the normalisation and proliferation of abusive coaching practice. This chapter demonstrates the ways that abuse can be perpetrated by coaches, the complexity of resistance within the coach–athlete relationship, and the role of both parties in the proliferation of damaging practices that affect athlete well-being.
Item ID: | 80492 |
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Item Type: | Book Chapter (Research - B1) |
ISBN: | 9780429201745 |
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Copyright Information: | © 2021 selection and editorial matter, Melanie Lang; individual chapters, the contributors. The Accepted Manuscript (AM) is deposited under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. |
Date Deposited: | 08 Nov 2023 02:25 |
FoR Codes: | 44 HUMAN SOCIETY > 4410 Sociology > 441099 Sociology not elsewhere classified @ 100% |
SEO Codes: | 13 CULTURE AND SOCIETY > 1306 Sport, exercise and recreation > 130699 Sport, exercise and recreation not elsewhere classified @ 100% |
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