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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.

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Author:   Luke Jones ,  Zoë Avner ,  Jim Denison (University of Alberta, Canada)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.426kg
ISBN:  

9781032232720

ISBN 10:   1032232722
Pages:   132
Publication Date:   01 August 2023
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

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

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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.

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