Broschiertes Buch

Exercise and Well-Being after High-Performance Sport

Post-Retirement Perspectives

Herausgeber: Jones, Luke; Denison, Jim; Avner, Zoë

Beschreibung

This edited collection bringS together sociologically informed accounts from former high-performance athletes about their retirement experiences and post-sporting careers. The authors explore how retiring from elite sport impacted their relationship to exercise and physical activity, identity, and long-term mental health.

Autor

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 146
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Dezember 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 8mm
• Gewicht: 234g
• ISBN-13: 9781032232737
• ISBN-10: 1032232730
• Artikelnr.: 72108402