Lucie Schoch
Biographic Data
| ID | 3596917 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lucie Schoch |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lucie |
| FAMILY NAME | Schoch |
| SIGNATURE | SCHOCH L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Lausanne |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9278-775X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 56 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Safeguarding in sport: Toward a performative compliance of international sports federations
Drawing on Bourdieu's theory, this study examines the development of safeguarding measures by international sports federations, conceptualised as a case of ‘performative compliance’. Using a multi-step qualitative abductive approach, through a document analysis, it analyses how these organisations address safeguarding. The findings reveal a proliferation of measures introduced in response to external pressures and rising stakeholder expectations.…
Symbolic power of sports journalists as challenged by external recognition of women’s sports performance
This study examines journalists’ working experiences to understand how they hinder the recognition of female footballers’ performances. It relies on 16 semi-structured interviews with Swiss sports journalists on Swiss French-speaking television. Guided by Pierre Bourdieu’s theory, the study shows that advancements in the recognition of women’s football are promoted by a combination of external actors’ economic and political powers, while hindranc…
Driving Change? Field Containment of Gender Equality Committees in International Sports Governance
This study investigates the ability of Gender Equality Committees (GECs) to drive change in the governance of International Federations, particularly in the overrepresentation of men in leadership roles. We situate GECs within the gendered fields of strategic action, whose change efforts must engage diverse actors beyond the immediate organizational context of a given International Federation. In examining the GECs of two gender-progressive Inter…
Advocating for athletes or appropriating their voices? A frame and field analysis of power struggles in sport
Although advocacy is central to cultural transformations, claims makers are social actors who struggle for meaning and power. This article focuses on Global Athlete (GA) to analyse the stakes behind advocacy. This sports advocate has engaged a frame keying, even fabrication, to gain recognition in the global sport landscape. GA's activity is examined on two levels. First, the article analyses how, to become a credible actor, GA framed itself by c…
Gendering strategic action fields in sports governance
How do meso-level field relations shape the ways that sports organizations act on gender equality? In this paper, we approach international sports governance as comprised of meso-level fields of strategic action in which male dominance and relations of masculinity are centrally at stake. We focus on the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI), showing how the organization's efforts to address gender inequality are shaped by its relations with adjacen…
Fight Against Doping as a Social Performance: The Case of the 2015–2016 Russian Anti-Doping Crisis
In 2016, the Olympic Movement had to face a major crisis of state sponsored doping in Russia. This crisis raised suspicions about the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and the World Anti-doping Agency’s (WADA) efficiency and integrity. This article focuses on the Russian doping case, as it offers rich and diverse empirical material that helps understand the social context of the production and circulation of performance. To this end, we artic…
How Can They Like Doing That?” The Ambivalent Definition of Legitimate Work in Sports Journalism
This paper investigates the opposing definitions of legitimate journalism between female and male sports reporters in the Swiss daily press, observable through the tensions in the division of work, task hierarchies, and contradictory definitions of what is perceived as distasteful or undesirable. It aims to adopt an inclusive approach that avoids being judgemental towards male perspectives or adopting a cynical view of female journalists, to bett…
The toxic doxa of 'clean sport' and IOC's and Wada's quest for credibility
The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) and the International Olympic Committee (IOC) have been held accountable for the 'Russian crisis,' a major state-sponsored doping scandal, which began in 2014. The scandal has brought intense scrutiny on the IOC's and WADA's efficiency in curbing doping. This paper argues that their impaired credibility should not only be explained through their objective failure in preventing doping in Russia but can be mainly…
Cycling alone: Team Sky's difficult quest for credibility during the 2015 Tour de France
This article aims to address the question of credibility as a key issue for sports stakeholders. Due to the number of doping scandals, professional cycling offers an interesting example to understand how agents try building credibility after facing mistrust. The present study provides an example of how a professional team (Sky) faced controversy during the 2015 Tour de France. The dispute about Sky riders' performance reflects the rejection of th…
The Gender of Sports News: Horizontal Segregation and Marginalization of Female Journalists in the Swiss Press
This study analyzes the allocation of sport news among female and male journalists in the francophone Swiss daily press. Relying on both quantitative content analysis and qualitative data collected through interviews with female and male sports journalists, it identifies a horizontal segregation within sports newsrooms. An overwhelmingly greater number of male journalists cover the most prestigious subjects and produce greater numbers of technica…
Stéréotypes de genre: Une ressource pour les professionnelles de l’information sportive
FR. Cette étude s’intéresse aux interactions des femmes journalistes de sport de la presse romande avec leurs sources masculines. Les femmes journalistes de sport évoluent dans l’un des univers journalistiques les plus masculins, tant du point de vue de la présence des femmes dans la profession (13% seulement dans la presse romande malgré une récente féminisation) que de l’objet médiatisé. S’appuyant sur des observations réalisées dans deux quoti…
La gestion des temps professionnels du journalisme: Le genre des rubriques sportives
Cet article analyse la gestion du temps par les journalistes de sport de la presse suisse romande, parmi lesquels les femmes sont toujours plus nombreuses depuis les années 2000. Les observations participantes et les entretiens montrent que les hommes journalistes de sport font valoir des rythmes professionnels qui les placent fréquemment dans des conditions « d'urgence », sources de « bon » stress qui attestent de surcroît de leur dévouement au …
Femmes dans le journalisme sportif en Suisse: Comment s'ajuster aux passions masculines
Cet article présente les résultats d'une enquête socio-ethnographique au sein de la presse quotidienne sportive romande. Il révèle deux registres vocationnels au sein des journalistes de sport, dans un contexte de féminisation de ce groupe professionnel : là où les hommes évoquent une vocation pour le journalisme sportif, déclinée sur le mode de la passion sportive, les femmes revendiquent plus volontiers un amour de l'écriture et du journalisme.…
Feminine’ writing: The effect of gender on the work of women sports journalists in the Swiss daily press
This study investigates the specificity of women sports journalists’ writing in the context of the French-speaking Swiss daily press. By analysing their working practices (observations and interviews) and their output (content analysis), it shows that women sports journalists do not adopt the customary professional norms of this journalistic speciality. Their ‘feminine’ writing is characterized by an interest in soft news and ‘human’ perspective …
I Love to Play the Bimbo Sometimes With Athletes”: The role of professional interactions between female sports journalists and their male sources in the production of sports reports
This article analyses the professional interactions between female journalists and their sources, key moments in the information production process, and explores, in the context of the Swiss daily press, one of the most masculine journalistic universes: sports journalism. It illustrates that because of the specific mode of recruitment into this journalistic speciality, women are confronted with various constraints—a lack of knowledge in the domai…
Women Sports Journalists in Switzerland: Between Assignment and Negotiation of Roles
In this paper, we analyze working experiences of female sports journalists in the French-speaking Swiss daily press. We draw on Bourdieu’s theory of habitus and field to examine how structures of power shape these journalists’ lives. Based on 27 semistructured interviews and observations in the field, we found that women journalists’ work experiences depend on the relationship between their position in the field and their ethos and hexis. We iden…
Women Sports Journalists in Switzerland: Between Assignment and Negotiation of Roles
In this paper, we analyze working experiences of female sports journalists in the French-speaking Swiss daily press. We draw on Bourdieu’s theory of habitus and field to examine how structures of power shape these journalists’ lives. Based on 27 semistructured interviews and observations in the field, we found that women journalists’ work experiences depend on the relationship between their position in the field and their ethos and hexis. We iden…
I Love to Play the Bimbo Sometimes With Athletes”: The role of professional interactions between female sports journalists and their male sources in the production of sports reports
This article analyses the professional interactions between female journalists and their sources, key moments in the information production process, and explores, in the context of the Swiss daily press, one of the most masculine journalistic universes: sports journalism. It illustrates that because of the specific mode of recruitment into this journalistic speciality, women are confronted with various constraints—a lack of knowledge in the domai…
How Can They Like Doing That?” The Ambivalent Definition of Legitimate Work in Sports Journalism
This paper investigates the opposing definitions of legitimate journalism between female and male sports reporters in the Swiss daily press, observable through the tensions in the division of work, task hierarchies, and contradictory definitions of what is perceived as distasteful or undesirable. It aims to adopt an inclusive approach that avoids being judgemental towards male perspectives or adopting a cynical view of female journalists, to bett…
The toxic doxa of 'clean sport' and IOC's and Wada's quest for credibility
The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) and the International Olympic Committee (IOC) have been held accountable for the 'Russian crisis,' a major state-sponsored doping scandal, which began in 2014. The scandal has brought intense scrutiny on the IOC's and WADA's efficiency in curbing doping. This paper argues that their impaired credibility should not only be explained through their objective failure in preventing doping in Russia but can be mainly…
Feminine’ writing: The effect of gender on the work of women sports journalists in the Swiss daily press
This study investigates the specificity of women sports journalists’ writing in the context of the French-speaking Swiss daily press. By analysing their working practices (observations and interviews) and their output (content analysis), it shows that women sports journalists do not adopt the customary professional norms of this journalistic speciality. Their ‘feminine’ writing is characterized by an interest in soft news and ‘human’ perspective …
Cycling alone: Team Sky's difficult quest for credibility during the 2015 Tour de France
This article aims to address the question of credibility as a key issue for sports stakeholders. Due to the number of doping scandals, professional cycling offers an interesting example to understand how agents try building credibility after facing mistrust. The present study provides an example of how a professional team (Sky) faced controversy during the 2015 Tour de France. The dispute about Sky riders' performance reflects the rejection of th…
The Gender of Sports News: Horizontal Segregation and Marginalization of Female Journalists in the Swiss Press
This study analyzes the allocation of sport news among female and male journalists in the francophone Swiss daily press. Relying on both quantitative content analysis and qualitative data collected through interviews with female and male sports journalists, it identifies a horizontal segregation within sports newsrooms. An overwhelmingly greater number of male journalists cover the most prestigious subjects and produce greater numbers of technica…
Advocating for athletes or appropriating their voices? A frame and field analysis of power struggles in sport
Although advocacy is central to cultural transformations, claims makers are social actors who struggle for meaning and power. This article focuses on Global Athlete (GA) to analyse the stakes behind advocacy. This sports advocate has engaged a frame keying, even fabrication, to gain recognition in the global sport landscape. GA's activity is examined on two levels. First, the article analyses how, to become a credible actor, GA framed itself by c…
Driving Change? Field Containment of Gender Equality Committees in International Sports Governance
This study investigates the ability of Gender Equality Committees (GECs) to drive change in the governance of International Federations, particularly in the overrepresentation of men in leadership roles. We situate GECs within the gendered fields of strategic action, whose change efforts must engage diverse actors beyond the immediate organizational context of a given International Federation. In examining the GECs of two gender-progressive Inter…
La gestion des temps professionnels du journalisme: Le genre des rubriques sportives
Cet article analyse la gestion du temps par les journalistes de sport de la presse suisse romande, parmi lesquels les femmes sont toujours plus nombreuses depuis les années 2000. Les observations participantes et les entretiens montrent que les hommes journalistes de sport font valoir des rythmes professionnels qui les placent fréquemment dans des conditions « d'urgence », sources de « bon » stress qui attestent de surcroît de leur dévouement au …
Women Sports Journalists in Switzerland: Between Assignment and Negotiation of Roles
In this paper, we analyze working experiences of female sports journalists in the French-speaking Swiss daily press. We draw on Bourdieu’s theory of habitus and field to examine how structures of power shape these journalists’ lives. Based on 27 semistructured interviews and observations in the field, we found that women journalists’ work experiences depend on the relationship between their position in the field and their ethos and hexis. We iden…
I Love to Play the Bimbo Sometimes With Athletes”: The role of professional interactions between female sports journalists and their male sources in the production of sports reports
This article analyses the professional interactions between female journalists and their sources, key moments in the information production process, and explores, in the context of the Swiss daily press, one of the most masculine journalistic universes: sports journalism. It illustrates that because of the specific mode of recruitment into this journalistic speciality, women are confronted with various constraints—a lack of knowledge in the domai…
Feminine’ writing: The effect of gender on the work of women sports journalists in the Swiss daily press
This study investigates the specificity of women sports journalists’ writing in the context of the French-speaking Swiss daily press. By analysing their working practices (observations and interviews) and their output (content analysis), it shows that women sports journalists do not adopt the customary professional norms of this journalistic speciality. Their ‘feminine’ writing is characterized by an interest in soft news and ‘human’ perspective …
Femmes dans le journalisme sportif en Suisse: Comment s'ajuster aux passions masculines
Cet article présente les résultats d'une enquête socio-ethnographique au sein de la presse quotidienne sportive romande. Il révèle deux registres vocationnels au sein des journalistes de sport, dans un contexte de féminisation de ce groupe professionnel : là où les hommes évoquent une vocation pour le journalisme sportif, déclinée sur le mode de la passion sportive, les femmes revendiquent plus volontiers un amour de l'écriture et du journalisme.…
La gestion des temps professionnels du journalisme: Le genre des rubriques sportives
Cet article analyse la gestion du temps par les journalistes de sport de la presse suisse romande, parmi lesquels les femmes sont toujours plus nombreuses depuis les années 2000. Les observations participantes et les entretiens montrent que les hommes journalistes de sport font valoir des rythmes professionnels qui les placent fréquemment dans des conditions « d'urgence », sources de « bon » stress qui attestent de surcroît de leur dévouement au …
Stéréotypes de genre: Une ressource pour les professionnelles de l’information sportive
FR. Cette étude s’intéresse aux interactions des femmes journalistes de sport de la presse romande avec leurs sources masculines. Les femmes journalistes de sport évoluent dans l’un des univers journalistiques les plus masculins, tant du point de vue de la présence des femmes dans la profession (13% seulement dans la presse romande malgré une récente féminisation) que de l’objet médiatisé. S’appuyant sur des observations réalisées dans deux quoti…
The Gender of Sports News: Horizontal Segregation and Marginalization of Female Journalists in the Swiss Press
This study analyzes the allocation of sport news among female and male journalists in the francophone Swiss daily press. Relying on both quantitative content analysis and qualitative data collected through interviews with female and male sports journalists, it identifies a horizontal segregation within sports newsrooms. An overwhelmingly greater number of male journalists cover the most prestigious subjects and produce greater numbers of technica…
Fight Against Doping as a Social Performance: The Case of the 2015–2016 Russian Anti-Doping Crisis
In 2016, the Olympic Movement had to face a major crisis of state sponsored doping in Russia. This crisis raised suspicions about the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and the World Anti-doping Agency’s (WADA) efficiency and integrity. This article focuses on the Russian doping case, as it offers rich and diverse empirical material that helps understand the social context of the production and circulation of performance. To this end, we artic…
How Can They Like Doing That?” The Ambivalent Definition of Legitimate Work in Sports Journalism
This paper investigates the opposing definitions of legitimate journalism between female and male sports reporters in the Swiss daily press, observable through the tensions in the division of work, task hierarchies, and contradictory definitions of what is perceived as distasteful or undesirable. It aims to adopt an inclusive approach that avoids being judgemental towards male perspectives or adopting a cynical view of female journalists, to bett…
The toxic doxa of 'clean sport' and IOC's and Wada's quest for credibility
The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) and the International Olympic Committee (IOC) have been held accountable for the 'Russian crisis,' a major state-sponsored doping scandal, which began in 2014. The scandal has brought intense scrutiny on the IOC's and WADA's efficiency in curbing doping. This paper argues that their impaired credibility should not only be explained through their objective failure in preventing doping in Russia but can be mainly…
Cycling alone: Team Sky's difficult quest for credibility during the 2015 Tour de France
This article aims to address the question of credibility as a key issue for sports stakeholders. Due to the number of doping scandals, professional cycling offers an interesting example to understand how agents try building credibility after facing mistrust. The present study provides an example of how a professional team (Sky) faced controversy during the 2015 Tour de France. The dispute about Sky riders' performance reflects the rejection of th…
Gendering strategic action fields in sports governance
How do meso-level field relations shape the ways that sports organizations act on gender equality? In this paper, we approach international sports governance as comprised of meso-level fields of strategic action in which male dominance and relations of masculinity are centrally at stake. We focus on the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI), showing how the organization's efforts to address gender inequality are shaped by its relations with adjacen…
Symbolic power of sports journalists as challenged by external recognition of women’s sports performance
This study examines journalists’ working experiences to understand how they hinder the recognition of female footballers’ performances. It relies on 16 semi-structured interviews with Swiss sports journalists on Swiss French-speaking television. Guided by Pierre Bourdieu’s theory, the study shows that advancements in the recognition of women’s football are promoted by a combination of external actors’ economic and political powers, while hindranc…
Driving Change? Field Containment of Gender Equality Committees in International Sports Governance
This study investigates the ability of Gender Equality Committees (GECs) to drive change in the governance of International Federations, particularly in the overrepresentation of men in leadership roles. We situate GECs within the gendered fields of strategic action, whose change efforts must engage diverse actors beyond the immediate organizational context of a given International Federation. In examining the GECs of two gender-progressive Inter…
Advocating for athletes or appropriating their voices? A frame and field analysis of power struggles in sport
Although advocacy is central to cultural transformations, claims makers are social actors who struggle for meaning and power. This article focuses on Global Athlete (GA) to analyse the stakes behind advocacy. This sports advocate has engaged a frame keying, even fabrication, to gain recognition in the global sport landscape. GA's activity is examined on two levels. First, the article analyses how, to become a credible actor, GA framed itself by c…
Safeguarding in sport: Toward a performative compliance of international sports federations
Drawing on Bourdieu's theory, this study examines the development of safeguarding measures by international sports federations, conceptualised as a case of ‘performative compliance’. Using a multi-step qualitative abductive approach, through a document analysis, it analyses how these organisations address safeguarding. The findings reveal a proliferation of measures introduced in response to external pressures and rising stakeholder expectations.…
Political science (15 works) · Sports, Gender, and Society (15 works) · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts (13 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Gender Studies (9 works) · Public relations (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Social science (7 works) · Media studies (6 works)