Annelies Knoppers
Biographic Data
| ID | 266563 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Annelies Knoppers |
| GIVEN NAMES | Annelies |
| FAMILY NAME | Knoppers |
| SIGNATURE | KNOPPERS A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Utrecht University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5247-9488 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 47 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 378 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 47 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 12 |
Competition regulation in youth sports: By referees? Why and how?
The organisation of youth sport competitions in team sports rests in the hands of adults: coaches, managers and referees. Dutch sports associations offer training programmes for referees to learn and apply the game rules. However, scholarly attention paid to the development and implementation of policies that govern referees has been minimal. The perspectives of national sports policy administrators, who are responsible for educating referees and…
Practicing the art of noticing in physical education
Education, including physical education (PE), is a realm where practices of inclusion matter daily. These practices aim to contribute to equality in the classroom/gym and the wellbeing and future prosperity of students. However, they can alienate some students and lead to new forms of isolation. This paper explores how exclusion can persist in practices that are meant to include. We apply a composting narrative approach to open up the messy pract…
Paradoxes in practices of inclusion in physical education
The purpose of this paper was to explore how high school PE teachers create norms for inclusion based on gender as it intersected with ethnicity, ability, and effort
Shaping students for inclusion: A gift and a project. Dutch preservice teachers and the complexity of inclusive teaching practices in physical education
This paper aims to uncover assumptions about inclusion held by preservice teachers in physical education. The focus is on how they construct ideas about inclusion and how these constructions inform their attempts to reduce inequities and enhance inclusion in their teaching practices. A critical approach to the reflections of 41 Dutch preservice teachers, revealed how they struggled with inclusion and perceived it both as a gift and a project. The…
Elite women coaches negotiating and resisting power in football
While football remains mostly a sport associated with men and national identity, it has also become a popular sport for women and girls in Western countries. Despite this success, however, the coaching of football remains a strongly male dominated occupation. In this paper, we explored how 10 elite women coaches of national football teams negotiated and resisted the entanglement of techniques of biopower, sovereign and disciplinary power within t…
Everything is said with a smile: Homonegative speech acts in sport
The acceptance of gay males in sport is growing in various western countries. However, research also suggests that young males, including athletes, tend to engage in homonegative speech acts, often called microaggressions, that make it difficult for them to navigate practices of masculinity. We used solicited diaries or diary logs written by (non-)heterosexual young male team sport athletes (aged 16-25) to investigate how they experienced and hea…
The way we roll: The use of longboards and cameras by girls to roll through the urban outdoors
We use a nonrepresentational (NRT) lens to explore the affect generated in the use of an action sport for girls from disadvantaged backgrounds in a short-term Sport for Development (SfD) project. Longboards and GoPro cameras were used to enable adolescent girls from disadvantaged communities to participate in urban outdoor action sport and to be digitally engaged by making vlogs of their participation. We used an NRT framework to explore the ways…
Gendered discourses in coaching high-performance sport
One of the most important sources of knowledge coaches draw on to inform their practice is their experience of being coached themselves. These experiences are gendered. To date, however, relatively little research is available that indicates how coaches do gender in their discursive coaching practices. We used a Foucauldian lens to explore discourses drawn on by 12 international elite rowing coaches to legitimate their 'regimes of truth' in their…
Of course I ask the best students to demonstrate’: Digital normalizing practices in physical education
In this paper, we focus on the use of digital video technology for instruction in physical education (PE). Physical educators can produce PE instruction videos (PIVs) as educational resources and often use them to enable independent learning situations. Little research has focused on the criteria teachers use to select students for demonstration in such video practices, while such selections may impact the constructions of (un) desirable bodies i…
Healthy habits are no fun: How Dutch youth negotiate discourses about food, fit, fat, and fun
In this article, we use the notion of "biopedagogical practices" to explore how Dutch youth respond to health messages that focus on body weight. Previous studies suggest that such health messages encourage body dissatisfaction in youth. Few studies, however, focus on the local/cultural specificity of youth's responses to these biopedagogical practices. In this article, we address questions about the re-interpretation of and resistance to health …
Bodies Matter: Professional Bodies and Embodiment in Institutional Sport Contexts
Bodies are always present in organizations, yet they frequently remain unacknowledged or invisible including in sport organizations and sport management research. We therefore argue for an embodied turn in sport management research. The purpose of this article is to present possible reasons why scholars have rarely paid attention to bodies in sport organizations; to offer arguments why they should do so; and to give suggestions for what scholarsh…
The organization of diversity in a boxing club: Governmentality and entangled rationalities
This study answers a recent call for research on the complexity, locality, and use of power in the governing of diversity in organizations. We used the concepts of governmentally and of governing sameness and difference to explore multiple and heterogeneous ways of regulating gender diversity in organizations. Governmentally was defined as interrelated ways of reasoning and of using technologies of power within a boxing organization. We found tha…
Perceived differences and preferred norms: Dutch physical educators constructing gendered ethnicity
Many physical education (PE) teachers have been challenged by the shift from teaching in primarily ethnic homogenous contexts to multi-ethnic (ME) classes. Teachers in secondary schools often experience difficulty in class management in such classes. This difficulty may limit their ability to create a positive student–teacher relationship and may result in practices of inclusion, exclusion and marginalisation. The purpose of this paper was to exp…
Young athletes and their coaches: Disciplinary processes and habitus development
Sport scholars have paid relatively little attention to meanings that participants in recreational youth sport may give meanings to their participation and how those meanings are informed by coaching practices. In this study, we draw on Bourdieu’s notions about the development of the habitus, symbolic capital and the positions youth take in the field of sport, and on Foucault’s understanding of disciplinary power to explore meanings 29 children, …
Discursive managerial practices of diversity and homogeneity
The concept of diversity as an organizational value has become an integral part of many organizational policies, yet women and minorities continue to be underrepresented as managers. Scholars have drawn attention to the paradox in which managers recognize diversity as an organizational value and yet top level managerial ranks remain primarily homogenous. How senior managers negotiate the use of the discourse of diversity and the underrepresentati…
Assessing the sociology of sport: On critical sport sociology and sport management
On the 50th anniversary of the ISSA and IRSS, Annelies Knoppers, one of the leading scholars in understanding the culture of sport in organizational settings, considers how the critical lens of sociology can enhance and mesh with research on sport management. Knoppers argues that there have been lost opportunities and understandings from the little overlap between scholars publishing in journals in the sociology of sport and sport management. Usi…
Becoming a ‘good coach’
The purpose of this paper was to gain insight into how coaches problematized their coaching practices and the process in which they engaged to become what they perceived to be better coaches using a course based on critical reflective practice. We assumed that constant critical self-reflection would enable coaches to move closer to their individual idea of a ‘good coach.’ Scholars and coaches collaborated to develop course content. The course was…
Gender relations, gender-based violence and sport for development and peace: Questions, concerns and cautions emerging from Uganda
Regulation of diversity through discipline: Practices of inclusion and exclusion in boxing
Boxing gyms in the Netherlands, which were traditionally bastions of 'white' men, have become more and more diverse. Since boxers with different ethnic backgrounds and women have joined boxing clubs, trainers need to manage this emerging diversity in their gyms. This empirical study of a gym in the Netherlands, where full participation of women is the norm, attempts to gain insights about practices of and experiences in the regulation of social i…
‘It's just the way it is…’ or not? How physical education teachers categorise and normalise differences
This article explores how Dutch physical education (PE) teachers discursively construct body differences between students related to gender, (dis)ability and health. Our results show how disciplinary technologies of categorisation and normalisation are embedded in two distinct discourses that our participants used: the discourse of naturalness for explaining and managing differences in gender and ability and the discourse of transformation for ex…
Sport as a contested racial/ethnic discourse: Processes of racialization in Dutch sport media and sport policy
In this article, we draw on key concepts from cultural studies, post-colonialism, whiteness theory, and sport media studies to search for and discuss shared processes of racialization/ethnization in three sport-related cultural practices – soccer commentary, sport media viewing, and sport policy making. Our analysis reveals how discourses surrounding race/ethnicity in Dutch society are reflected in these sport-related cultural practices and how t…
It's actually very normal that I'm different’. How physically disabled youth discursively construct and position their body/self
In this paper, we explore how physically disabled youth who participate in mainstream education discursively construct and position themselves in relation to dominant discourses about sport and physicality that mark their bodies as ‘abnormal’ and ‘deviant’. We employ a feminist poststructuralist perspective to analyze the narratives about sport, physical education (PE), the body and self of four physically disabled Dutch youngsters. Our results i…
Constructing Racial/Ethnic Difference in and Through Dutch Televised Soccer Commentary
The purpose of this study was to expand on current research about ways in which race and ethnicity are socially constructed through popular media culture. In this article we explore to what extent broadcast commentary of televised soccer in the Netherlands reproduces and challenges hegemonic discourses about race/ethnicity and is congruent with findings of similar research in other contexts. We used a layered approach toward race/ethnicity instea…
A picture is worth a thousand words: Constructing (non-) athletic bodies
In this article we explore body norms Dutch youth create in their discursive constructions of athletic and (non-)athletic bodies and how these norms are enforced by the Panopticon and the Synopticon. Our methodology consisted of auto-driven photo elicitation group interviews with 42 secondary school students. The results indicate the complexity of the discursive constructions that youth use. We created seven visual metaphors to illustrate the var…
Scholarship on Gender and Sport in Sex Roles and Beyond
In this paper we critically review how research on girls or women and sport has developed over the last 35 years. We use a post-positivist lens to explore the content of the papers published in Sex Roles in the area of women, gender and sport and examine the shifts in how gender and sport have been conceptualized in these accounts. In order to initiate a broader dialogue about the scholarly analysis of gender and sport, we subsequently explore id…
Gendered Managerial Discourses in Sport Organizations: Multiplicity and Complexity
The lack of women in senior management functions in sport may in part be attributed to dominant discursive managerial practices in sport organizations. The purpose of this study is to explore ways in which the discourses and their subtexts used by directors of Dutch national sport organizations to talk about their work, sustain homologous reproduction. Close reading of the transcripts of interviews by both researchers followed by a continuous cyc…
Dominant Discourses about Race/Ethnicity and Gender in Sport Practice and Performance
Although it is generally assumed that the (sport) media play an important role in the meanings readers/viewers give to gender and race/ethnicity, relatively little is known about the way 'the public' deals with hegemonic (media) representations about race/ethnicity and gender. The purpose of the present study is to describe the dominant discourses concerning race/ethnicity and gender and sport performance used by white and black Dutch students. W…
Constructing Racial/Ethnic Difference in and Through Dutch Televised Soccer Commentary
The purpose of this study was to expand on current research about ways in which race and ethnicity are socially constructed through popular media culture. In this article we explore to what extent broadcast commentary of televised soccer in the Netherlands reproduces and challenges hegemonic discourses about race/ethnicity and is congruent with findings of similar research in other contexts. We used a layered approach toward race/ethnicity instea…
Doing and Undoing Gender in Sport Governance
Exclusionary Practices in Sport Journalism
Finding a ‘Normal’ Woman: Selection Processes for Board Membership
The higher the organization level, the lower the percentage of women in governance. The purpose of the present study was to explore how men and women negotiate women’s ‘fit’ as candidates for boards of national sport organizations. We based our analysis on in- depth interviews with male chairs and female board members. The results provide evidence that men can control boards by affirming and negating affirmative action policies and by framing the…
The Social Integrative Meaning of Sport: A Critical and Comparative Analysis of Policy and Practice in the Netherlands
The diversity of sport participants in the Netherlands is beginning to reflect the diversity within the general population. Sport as a whole is becoming more accessible, and participation in sport of different social groups takes place within both mainstream and “separate” sports clubs and in differently organized sports groups. In our paper we critically analyze the broader social integrative functions ascribed to sport by policy makers. We atte…
Gay/Lesbian Sport Clubs and Events: Places of Homo-Social Bonding and Cultural Resistance
Over the last two decades the founding of sport clubs and organization of sport events specifically for gays and lesbians has increased in the Netherlands and most other western countries. For many policy-makers the popularity of playing sport ‘apart’ seems to be in contradiction to current liberal legislation concerning homosexuality and gay and lesbian rights. Gay/lesbian sport clubs and events like the Gay Games, which took place in Amsterdam …
Women’s Soccer in the United States and the Netherlands: Differences and Similarities in Regimes of Inequalities
Gender, class, and sexuality are intersecting categories of inequality and also social forces that shape meanings given to organizations, social institutions, identities, and images. The authors use Acker’s (2000) concept “regimes of inequality” to explore how gender, specifically masculinities, intersects with social class and sexuality in women’s soccer. The extent to which social relations are also situational and culturally specific can be re…
Opportunity and Work Behavior in College Coaching
Opportunity for mobility and growth plays a large part in determining work behavior such as aspirations, satisfaction and work exit (Kanter, 1977). To have opportunity means to have many viable career and financial options, to have access to information on new job vacancies and to receive informal training. In this paper we explore the gendering of opportunity and of work behavior in Division I college coaching. The sample consisted of 947 coache…
Perceived differences and preferred norms: Dutch physical educators constructing gendered ethnicity
Many physical education (PE) teachers have been challenged by the shift from teaching in primarily ethnic homogenous contexts to multi-ethnic (ME) classes. Teachers in secondary schools often experience difficulty in class management in such classes. This difficulty may limit their ability to create a positive student–teacher relationship and may result in practices of inclusion, exclusion and marginalisation. The purpose of this paper was to exp…
Race, ethnicity, and content analysis of the sports media: A critical reflection
Opinions about and attitudes towards the constructs of race and ethnicity in contemporary Western society are not only influenced by institutions such as those of academic institutions, politics, education, family or paid labour, but also by the media. Popular forms of media culture, varying from news broadcasts and talk shows to soap operas and music videos, can be highly influential in structuring ideas about race and ethnicity. Entman contende…
Sport, Gender and Ethnicity: Practises of Symbolic Inclusion/Exclusion
We Do Not Engage in Promotional Journalism: Discursive Strategies Used by Sport Journalists to Describe the Selection Process
Although the results of content analyses of television and newspaper sport coverage have shown quantitative and qualitative gender differences, such analyses do not reveal why some texts are selected and others not. Although this selection process is constrained by structural factors, there is room for agency since journalists decide what to include and how to write about that. Little scholarly attention has been paid to the ways in which agency …
Elite women coaches negotiating and resisting power in football
While football remains mostly a sport associated with men and national identity, it has also become a popular sport for women and girls in Western countries. Despite this success, however, the coaching of football remains a strongly male dominated occupation. In this paper, we explored how 10 elite women coaches of national football teams negotiated and resisted the entanglement of techniques of biopower, sovereign and disciplinary power within t…
Bodies Matter: Professional Bodies and Embodiment in Institutional Sport Contexts
Bodies are always present in organizations, yet they frequently remain unacknowledged or invisible including in sport organizations and sport management research. We therefore argue for an embodied turn in sport management research. The purpose of this article is to present possible reasons why scholars have rarely paid attention to bodies in sport organizations; to offer arguments why they should do so; and to give suggestions for what scholarsh…
Gender relations, gender-based violence and sport for development and peace: Questions, concerns and cautions emerging from Uganda
Meanings Given to Performance in Dutch Sport Organizations: Gender and Racial/Ethnic Subtexts
This article focuses on the dominant meanings given by coaches and managers to “performance” in Dutch (amateur) sport clubs and how such meanings contribute to organizational processes related to (the intersection of) gender and race/ethnicity. We use the results of six studies conducted in (amateur) sport organizations in the Netherlands for this discussion/exploration. We argue that the relatively slow increase in the number of women and ethnic…
Assessing the sociology of sport: On critical sport sociology and sport management
On the 50th anniversary of the ISSA and IRSS, Annelies Knoppers, one of the leading scholars in understanding the culture of sport in organizational settings, considers how the critical lens of sociology can enhance and mesh with research on sport management. Knoppers argues that there have been lost opportunities and understandings from the little overlap between scholars publishing in journals in the sociology of sport and sport management. Usi…
A picture is worth a thousand words: Constructing (non-) athletic bodies
In this article we explore body norms Dutch youth create in their discursive constructions of athletic and (non-)athletic bodies and how these norms are enforced by the Panopticon and the Synopticon. Our methodology consisted of auto-driven photo elicitation group interviews with 42 secondary school students. The results indicate the complexity of the discursive constructions that youth use. We created seven visual metaphors to illustrate the var…
Scholarship on Gender and Sport in Sex Roles and Beyond
In this paper we critically review how research on girls or women and sport has developed over the last 35 years. We use a post-positivist lens to explore the content of the papers published in Sex Roles in the area of women, gender and sport and examine the shifts in how gender and sport have been conceptualized in these accounts. In order to initiate a broader dialogue about the scholarly analysis of gender and sport, we subsequently explore id…
Male Athletic and Managerial Masculinities: Congruencies in Discursive Practices
The popularity and influence of sport in Western society have been steadily increasing. The most visible of such sports continue to be men's professional sports that dominate media coverage. Consumers of the sport media see primarily men in action. Similarly, management continues to be numerically dominated by men, especially in the senior ranks. Although professional/media sport and management continue to be two areas where cultures associated w…
Winning Is Not the Only Thing
The purpose of this study was to explore the dimensionality, situation specificity, and magnitude of game orientation in teenagers across the independent variables of gender, athletic status (athlete, nonathlete) and ethnicity (Anglo, Black, Hispanic). Subjects ( N = 864) completed a Likert version of Webb’s Professionalization Scale (1969) in response to a description of a recreational and of a competitive situation. Responses to questions perta…
Everything is said with a smile: Homonegative speech acts in sport
The acceptance of gay males in sport is growing in various western countries. However, research also suggests that young males, including athletes, tend to engage in homonegative speech acts, often called microaggressions, that make it difficult for them to navigate practices of masculinity. We used solicited diaries or diary logs written by (non-)heterosexual young male team sport athletes (aged 16-25) to investigate how they experienced and hea…
Young athletes and their coaches: Disciplinary processes and habitus development
Sport scholars have paid relatively little attention to meanings that participants in recreational youth sport may give meanings to their participation and how those meanings are informed by coaching practices. In this study, we draw on Bourdieu’s notions about the development of the habitus, symbolic capital and the positions youth take in the field of sport, and on Foucault’s understanding of disciplinary power to explore meanings 29 children, …
Winning Is Not the Only Thing
The purpose of this study was to explore the dimensionality, situation specificity, and magnitude of game orientation in teenagers across the independent variables of gender, athletic status (athlete, nonathlete) and ethnicity (Anglo, Black, Hispanic). Subjects ( N = 864) completed a Likert version of Webb’s Professionalization Scale (1969) in response to a description of a recreational and of a competitive situation. Responses to questions perta…
Professional Orientation of Junior Tennis Players
The highly visible successes of teenagers in professional tennis seem to have increased the emphasis on winning in junior tennis. The purpose of this field study was to determine the extent to which a professional orientation, that is, an emphasis on winning, existed in junior tennis players and the degree to which it was related to levels of involvement and success as well as the aspiration to become a professional tennis player. Subjects were s…
Playing to Win or Playing to Play
The Webb Scale (1969) has been used in much of the research focusing on the professionalization of attitudes via sport. The results of such studies seemed to indicate that the extent to which winning was valued varied by age, gender, and type of sport involvement. However, these findings may in part have been a function of the noncontextual nature of the Webb Scale. In addition, the use of ranking methodology may have forced game orientation into…
Gender and the Salaries of Coaches
This study examined salary differences between female and male Division I college coaches using three approaches. The human capital approach contends that salary differences are rooted in differences in qualifications. In contrast, a structural approach argues that gender differences in salary are associated with the gender ratio, the proportion of women to men in an occupation. The third approach, capitalist patriarchy, sees the gender wage gap …
Dimensions of Power: A Question of Sport or Gender
Organizational power can be defined as access to and ability to mobilize resources such as supplies, support, and information (Kanter, 1977). Differences in organizational power in athletic departments can be seen as a function of sport (whether one coaches a revenue or nonrevenue sport) or of gender. This study examined the extent to which sport or gender best explained differences in the degree of organizational power that Division I college co…
Sportswomen Towards 2000: A Celebration
Opportunity and Work Behavior in College Coaching
Opportunity for mobility and growth plays a large part in determining work behavior such as aspirations, satisfaction and work exit (Kanter, 1977). To have opportunity means to have many viable career and financial options, to have access to information on new job vacancies and to receive informal training. In this paper we explore the gendering of opportunity and of work behavior in Division I college coaching. The sample consisted of 947 coache…
Gender Ratio and Social Interaction among College Coaches
Data from 947 Division I college coaches in the United States were used to examine three hypotheses concerning the impact of gender ratio on the frequency of social interaction between women and men coaches. These hypotheses were based on (a) the structural perspective characterized by the politics of optimism, (b) the institutional approach associated with the politics of pessimism, and (c) the common consciousness or subculture perspective repr…
The Social Integrative Meaning of Sport: A Critical and Comparative Analysis of Policy and Practice in the Netherlands
The diversity of sport participants in the Netherlands is beginning to reflect the diversity within the general population. Sport as a whole is becoming more accessible, and participation in sport of different social groups takes place within both mainstream and “separate” sports clubs and in differently organized sports groups. In our paper we critically analyze the broader social integrative functions ascribed to sport by policy makers. We atte…
Meanings Given to Performance in Dutch Sport Organizations: Gender and Racial/Ethnic Subtexts
This article focuses on the dominant meanings given by coaches and managers to “performance” in Dutch (amateur) sport clubs and how such meanings contribute to organizational processes related to (the intersection of) gender and race/ethnicity. We use the results of six studies conducted in (amateur) sport organizations in the Netherlands for this discussion/exploration. We argue that the relatively slow increase in the number of women and ethnic…
Women’s Soccer in the United States and the Netherlands: Differences and Similarities in Regimes of Inequalities
Gender, class, and sexuality are intersecting categories of inequality and also social forces that shape meanings given to organizations, social institutions, identities, and images. The authors use Acker’s (2000) concept “regimes of inequality” to explore how gender, specifically masculinities, intersects with social class and sexuality in women’s soccer. The extent to which social relations are also situational and culturally specific can be re…
Gay/Lesbian Sport Clubs and Events: Places of Homo-Social Bonding and Cultural Resistance
Over the last two decades the founding of sport clubs and organization of sport events specifically for gays and lesbians has increased in the Netherlands and most other western countries. For many policy-makers the popularity of playing sport ‘apart’ seems to be in contradiction to current liberal legislation concerning homosexuality and gay and lesbian rights. Gay/lesbian sport clubs and events like the Gay Games, which took place in Amsterdam …
Exclusionary Practices in Sport Journalism
Dominant Discourses about Race/Ethnicity and Gender in Sport Practice and Performance
Although it is generally assumed that the (sport) media play an important role in the meanings readers/viewers give to gender and race/ethnicity, relatively little is known about the way 'the public' deals with hegemonic (media) representations about race/ethnicity and gender. The purpose of the present study is to describe the dominant discourses concerning race/ethnicity and gender and sport performance used by white and black Dutch students. W…
We Do Not Engage in Promotional Journalism: Discursive Strategies Used by Sport Journalists to Describe the Selection Process
Although the results of content analyses of television and newspaper sport coverage have shown quantitative and qualitative gender differences, such analyses do not reveal why some texts are selected and others not. Although this selection process is constrained by structural factors, there is room for agency since journalists decide what to include and how to write about that. Little scholarly attention has been paid to the ways in which agency …
Sport, Gender and Ethnicity: Practises of Symbolic Inclusion/Exclusion
Male Athletic and Managerial Masculinities: Congruencies in Discursive Practices
The popularity and influence of sport in Western society have been steadily increasing. The most visible of such sports continue to be men's professional sports that dominate media coverage. Consumers of the sport media see primarily men in action. Similarly, management continues to be numerically dominated by men, especially in the senior ranks. Although professional/media sport and management continue to be two areas where cultures associated w…
Doing and Undoing Gender in Sport Governance
Finding a ‘Normal’ Woman: Selection Processes for Board Membership
The higher the organization level, the lower the percentage of women in governance. The purpose of the present study was to explore how men and women negotiate women’s ‘fit’ as candidates for boards of national sport organizations. We based our analysis on in- depth interviews with male chairs and female board members. The results provide evidence that men can control boards by affirming and negating affirmative action policies and by framing the…
Gendered Managerial Discourses in Sport Organizations: Multiplicity and Complexity
The lack of women in senior management functions in sport may in part be attributed to dominant discursive managerial practices in sport organizations. The purpose of this study is to explore ways in which the discourses and their subtexts used by directors of Dutch national sport organizations to talk about their work, sustain homologous reproduction. Close reading of the transcripts of interviews by both researchers followed by a continuous cyc…
Giving Meaning to Sport Involvement in Managerial Work
I use a discursive analytical approach to explore ways in which senior managerial men working in nonprofit organizations understand the contribution, if any, of their own sport history to their work skills, how this may vary by organizational contexts and how the subtexts of these discourses may strengthen the dominance of managerial men in a specific context. I used semi‐structured interviews to ask 67 senior managerial men about the role they p…
Scholarship on Gender and Sport in Sex Roles and Beyond
In this paper we critically review how research on girls or women and sport has developed over the last 35 years. We use a post-positivist lens to explore the content of the papers published in Sex Roles in the area of women, gender and sport and examine the shifts in how gender and sport have been conceptualized in these accounts. In order to initiate a broader dialogue about the scholarly analysis of gender and sport, we subsequently explore id…
Race, ethnicity, and content analysis of the sports media: A critical reflection
Opinions about and attitudes towards the constructs of race and ethnicity in contemporary Western society are not only influenced by institutions such as those of academic institutions, politics, education, family or paid labour, but also by the media. Popular forms of media culture, varying from news broadcasts and talk shows to soap operas and music videos, can be highly influential in structuring ideas about race and ethnicity. Entman contende…
A picture is worth a thousand words: Constructing (non-) athletic bodies
In this article we explore body norms Dutch youth create in their discursive constructions of athletic and (non-)athletic bodies and how these norms are enforced by the Panopticon and the Synopticon. Our methodology consisted of auto-driven photo elicitation group interviews with 42 secondary school students. The results indicate the complexity of the discursive constructions that youth use. We created seven visual metaphors to illustrate the var…
‘It's just the way it is…’ or not? How physical education teachers categorise and normalise differences
This article explores how Dutch physical education (PE) teachers discursively construct body differences between students related to gender, (dis)ability and health. Our results show how disciplinary technologies of categorisation and normalisation are embedded in two distinct discourses that our participants used: the discourse of naturalness for explaining and managing differences in gender and ability and the discourse of transformation for ex…
Sociology (40 works) · Sports, Gender, and Society (37 works) · Psychology (33 works) · Political science (32 works) · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts (31 works) · Gender Studies (29 works) · Social Psychology (27 works) · Physical Education and Pedagogy (22 works) · Gender Studies (20 works) · Social Psychology (19 works)