increasingly navigating precarious times ( Kirk, 2020 ), which also has implications for the (re)production of their embodied subjectivities. Precarious Bodies in a Liquid Modernity “Precarity” is a term used in the social sciences to denote an effect of neoliberal practices, particularly in relation to work
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Bodily Uncertainty, Precarious Body: An Embodied Narrative of a Physical Education Teacher From an Autobiographical Perspective
Gustavo González-Calvo and Göran Gerdin
When Sport Event Work Stopped: Exposure of Sport Event Labor Precarity by the COVID-19 Pandemic
R. Dale Sheptak Jr. and Brian E. Menaker
important, yet rarely remarked on, aspect of employment morality and sport labor studies. The Precarity of Sport Work Workers who engage in part-time, insecure, and unprotected work are identified as precarious workers. The identification of an increase in precarious work has led to the recognition of a new
Gendering the Coronavirus Pandemic: Toward a Framework of Interdependence for Sport
Madeleine Pape and Fiona McLachlan
, there are already worrying signs that gendered precarity might compound on the sporting field ( Ingle, 2020 ; Macur, 2020 ). In Australia, for example, where national women’s leagues in Aussie Rules (AFLW) and Rugby League (NRLW)—the country’s two major football codes—were established in just 2017 and
The Penalty That’s Never Called: Sexism in Men’s Hockey Culture
Teresa Anne Fowler, Shannon D.M. Moore, and Tim Skuce
in team-building events. And this means asking hard questions about hockey culture, masculinity, commodification of athletes, and their precarity. The Objectified Subject The oppressed do not initiate violence, as it is enacted by agents who “oppress, who exploit, who fail to recognize others as
Exploring (Semi) Professionalization in Women’s Team Sport Through a Continuum of Care Lens
Wendy O’Brien, Tracy Taylor, Clare Hanlon, and Kristine Toohey
contributes significantly to precarity of women’s position within professional sport ( Culvin, 2021 ; Culvin et al., 2021 ; Pavlidis, 2020 ). Administrators from the other two sports also stressed that they were taking a longer term perspective, suggesting that their sport would be in a position to offer a
“Anesthetized Gladiators:” Painkilling and Racial Capitalism in the NFL
Matt Ventresca and Samantha King
instruments and effects of the White supremacy—and Whiteness—at the heart of the NFL’s ownership, managerial, and medical structures. That is, they help erase the co-constitutive role of the NFL, big pharma, and the state in the racially contoured distribution of uneven precarity, injury, and death among the
Unrealistic Expectations and Future Status Coercion in Minor League Baseball Players’ Future-Oriented Labor
Christopher M. McLeod, Nola Agha, N. David Pifer, and Tarlan Chahardovali
practices of entrepreneurism, self-investment, and/or attracting investors” ( Brown, 2015 , p. 22). The rise of human capital investment as an ideology shaping work and life has been accompanied by growing precarity ( Kalleberg, 2009 ), the polarization of job quality ( Kalleberg, 2011 ), and alienation
“Know Your Kids, Understand Yourself, and Find a Way”: One Elementary School Physical Education Teacher’s Efforts at Employing Character Education
Jamie Jacob Brunsdon
challenge their sense of precarity (e.g., a state of chaos or insecurity) in ways that “insist of the possibility of a good life [and] in the sense that all might flourish.” Unfortunately, while there is a good amount of literature indicating that the discipline can and does, to some effect, compliment
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consumption is a response to the growing digital world and posits consumption as a spectrum from solid (enduring, ownership based) to liquid. The paper provides rationale of the differences between the two poles of consumption through identity, social relationships, mobility, and precarity. Given the
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national governing bodies, the authors identified a series of strategies. First, while it is commonsensical that mentors believe trustworthiness to be important in the mentor-mentee relationship, they also felt it important externally too—based on job precarity and an audit culture. Next, work may begin
