Parissa Safai
Biographic Data
| ID | 83150 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Parissa Safai |
| GIVEN NAMES | Parissa |
| FAMILY NAME | Safai |
| SIGNATURE | SAFAI P |
| AFFILIATIONS | York University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3945-9647 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 61 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
I ‘always wear[s] a collared shirt now in the afternoons’
Despite efforts to diversify Canadian high-performance sport coaching, there remains a significant underrepresentation of women coaches. Drawing on the work of scholars such as Goffman and Hochschild, this paper highlights findings from a study of a group of women sport coaches’ experiences with engaging in impression management – the process in which individuals curate and perform versions of themselves to shape how they may be perceived by othe…
Jack of All Trades, Master of One
This paper draws on findings from a study aimed at examining how Canadian Kinesiology programs define themselves within the post-secondary education landscape, and their students’ understandings and experiences of their studies. Using critical discourse analysis, our findings demonstrate Kinesiology’s ability to preserve its appeal among undergraduate students through its successful positioning of itself as a disciplinary field of choice and flex…
Sport and the Promise of Artificial Intelligence
Artificial intelligence (AI) has the capacity to deliver generative, complex, and powerful functions and decisions. Sport offers a unique site for AI development and implementation, yet the sociological significance of AI in sport remains understudied. We consider sport-based AI applications en route to describing the promise of AI in sport in four ways: (a) the promise of supercharged data parsing at scale, (b) the promise of supercharged precis…
An examination of social relations and concussion management via the blue card
Our findings emphasize the need to attend to social relations in concussion management and provide insight into match officials' fraught experiences on the frontlines of concussion management. We identify factors affecting match official well-being and provide considerations for concussion management initiatives designed to improve athlete safety, such as the Blue Card
We haven’t agreed on that, and you’ll never get people to agree on that.” Contestation within the Canadian sport coaching professional project
Drawing on the findings from a larger institutional ethnographic study exploring gender, work, and professionalization in sport coaching in the Canadian university sport system, this paper brings to light the contested nature of the sport coaching professional project in Canada. We specifically focus on the efforts of the Coaching Association of Canada to advance its Chartered Professional Coach designation as the preeminent coaching credential a…
Self-care as self-preservation
OPINION article Front. Sports Act. Living, 12 October 2023Sec. The History, Culture and Sociology of Sports Volume 5 - 2023 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fspor.2023.1278093
It's Hard Work
Within mainstream cancer literature, policy documents, and clinical practice, "work" is typically characterized as being synonymous with paid employment, and the problem of work is situated within the "return to work" discourse. The work that patients perform in managing their health, care, and everyday life at times of illness, however, is largely overlooked and unsupported. Drawing on feminist political economy theory, we report on a qualitativ…
The Absence of Resistance Training? Exploring the Politics of Health in High Performance Youth Triathlon
While research and scholarship on the dynamic interconnections between sport and health has steadily grown in the sociocultural study of sport in the past few decades, this paper focuses more directly on the politics of health within sport. Drawing on a small study of the lived experiences and understandings of health, pain/injury, risk and precaution among 12 male and female high performance youth (16–19 years of age) triathletes and three coach…
Sport and Social Movements
Sport and Social Movements: From the Local to the Global is the first book-length treatment of the way social movements have intersected and continue to intersect with sport. It traces the history of various social movements associated with labour, women, rights (civil, racial, disability and sexual), peace and the environment and their relationship to sport and sports mega-events such as the Olympic Games. Based on research conducted by a multin…
The Social Organization of Sports Medicine
1. Introduction: The Social Science of Sports Medicine Dominic Malcolm and Parissa Safai Part I: Sports Medicine Conceived 2. The Role of Physiology and Cardiology in the Founding and Early Years of the American College of Sports Medicine Jack W. Berryman 3. From Voluntarism to Specialization: Sports Medicine and the British Association of Sport and Medicine Neil Carter 4. From Rehabilitation Patients to Rehabilitating Athletes: Searching for a H…
Alterglobalization, Global Social Movements, and the Possibility of Political Transformation through Sport
Alterglobalization is the name for a large spectrum of global social movements that present themselves as supporting new forms of globalization, urging that values of democracy, justice, environmental protection, and human rights be put ahead of purely economic concerns. This article develops a framework for the study of the influence of alterglobalization on sport by: outlining a periodization of social movements and sport; proposing a typology …
Sport Volunteerism in Canada
Given the importance of volunteerism to Canadian sport, and the need for research to understand the characteristics of sport volunteerism, a pilot study was carried out to explore the experiences of volunteers in sport. The study focused on two different sport associations (one individual sport and one team sport) in two majority linguistic localities (one predominantly francophone in Québec and one predominantly anglophone in Ontario). Language …
A Critical Analysis of the Development of Sport Medicine in Canada, 1955-80
Using a combination of archival research and semi-structured in-depth interviews, this study outlines the early development of sport medicine in Canada, from the mid-1950s to the late 1970s, in relation to the development of Canadian high performance sport during this period of time. I argue that the early development of sport medicine in Canada dovetailed with and benefited from the broader professionalization and rationalization of high perform…
Healing the Body in the “Culture of Risk”
This case study examines the relationship between the “culture of risk” and the negotiation of treatment between sport medicine clinicians and student-athletes at a large Canadian university. The evidence acknowledges that a “culture of risk” was reinforced under certain circumstances during negotiation, but was also tempered by the existence of a “culture of precaution” that worked to resist those influences. The dialectic between the cultures o…
Boys Behaving Badly
Healing the Body in the “Culture of Risk”
This case study examines the relationship between the “culture of risk” and the negotiation of treatment between sport medicine clinicians and student-athletes at a large Canadian university. The evidence acknowledges that a “culture of risk” was reinforced under certain circumstances during negotiation, but was also tempered by the existence of a “culture of precaution” that worked to resist those influences. The dialectic between the cultures o…
Alterglobalization, Global Social Movements, and the Possibility of Political Transformation through Sport
Alterglobalization is the name for a large spectrum of global social movements that present themselves as supporting new forms of globalization, urging that values of democracy, justice, environmental protection, and human rights be put ahead of purely economic concerns. This article develops a framework for the study of the influence of alterglobalization on sport by: outlining a periodization of social movements and sport; proposing a typology …
A Critical Analysis of the Development of Sport Medicine in Canada, 1955-80
Using a combination of archival research and semi-structured in-depth interviews, this study outlines the early development of sport medicine in Canada, from the mid-1950s to the late 1970s, in relation to the development of Canadian high performance sport during this period of time. I argue that the early development of sport medicine in Canada dovetailed with and benefited from the broader professionalization and rationalization of high perform…
It's Hard Work
Within mainstream cancer literature, policy documents, and clinical practice, "work" is typically characterized as being synonymous with paid employment, and the problem of work is situated within the "return to work" discourse. The work that patients perform in managing their health, care, and everyday life at times of illness, however, is largely overlooked and unsupported. Drawing on feminist political economy theory, we report on a qualitativ…
The Absence of Resistance Training? Exploring the Politics of Health in High Performance Youth Triathlon
While research and scholarship on the dynamic interconnections between sport and health has steadily grown in the sociocultural study of sport in the past few decades, this paper focuses more directly on the politics of health within sport. Drawing on a small study of the lived experiences and understandings of health, pain/injury, risk and precaution among 12 male and female high performance youth (16–19 years of age) triathletes and three coach…
Sport and the Promise of Artificial Intelligence
Artificial intelligence (AI) has the capacity to deliver generative, complex, and powerful functions and decisions. Sport offers a unique site for AI development and implementation, yet the sociological significance of AI in sport remains understudied. We consider sport-based AI applications en route to describing the promise of AI in sport in four ways: (a) the promise of supercharged data parsing at scale, (b) the promise of supercharged precis…
We haven’t agreed on that, and you’ll never get people to agree on that.” Contestation within the Canadian sport coaching professional project
Drawing on the findings from a larger institutional ethnographic study exploring gender, work, and professionalization in sport coaching in the Canadian university sport system, this paper brings to light the contested nature of the sport coaching professional project in Canada. We specifically focus on the efforts of the Coaching Association of Canada to advance its Chartered Professional Coach designation as the preeminent coaching credential a…
Self-care as self-preservation
OPINION article Front. Sports Act. Living, 12 October 2023Sec. The History, Culture and Sociology of Sports Volume 5 - 2023 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fspor.2023.1278093
Sport Volunteerism in Canada
Given the importance of volunteerism to Canadian sport, and the need for research to understand the characteristics of sport volunteerism, a pilot study was carried out to explore the experiences of volunteers in sport. The study focused on two different sport associations (one individual sport and one team sport) in two majority linguistic localities (one predominantly francophone in Québec and one predominantly anglophone in Ontario). Language …
Boys Behaving Badly
Boys Behaving Badly
Healing the Body in the “Culture of Risk”
This case study examines the relationship between the “culture of risk” and the negotiation of treatment between sport medicine clinicians and student-athletes at a large Canadian university. The evidence acknowledges that a “culture of risk” was reinforced under certain circumstances during negotiation, but was also tempered by the existence of a “culture of precaution” that worked to resist those influences. The dialectic between the cultures o…
Sport Volunteerism in Canada
Given the importance of volunteerism to Canadian sport, and the need for research to understand the characteristics of sport volunteerism, a pilot study was carried out to explore the experiences of volunteers in sport. The study focused on two different sport associations (one individual sport and one team sport) in two majority linguistic localities (one predominantly francophone in Québec and one predominantly anglophone in Ontario). Language …
A Critical Analysis of the Development of Sport Medicine in Canada, 1955-80
Using a combination of archival research and semi-structured in-depth interviews, this study outlines the early development of sport medicine in Canada, from the mid-1950s to the late 1970s, in relation to the development of Canadian high performance sport during this period of time. I argue that the early development of sport medicine in Canada dovetailed with and benefited from the broader professionalization and rationalization of high perform…
Alterglobalization, Global Social Movements, and the Possibility of Political Transformation through Sport
Alterglobalization is the name for a large spectrum of global social movements that present themselves as supporting new forms of globalization, urging that values of democracy, justice, environmental protection, and human rights be put ahead of purely economic concerns. This article develops a framework for the study of the influence of alterglobalization on sport by: outlining a periodization of social movements and sport; proposing a typology …
The Social Organization of Sports Medicine
1. Introduction: The Social Science of Sports Medicine Dominic Malcolm and Parissa Safai Part I: Sports Medicine Conceived 2. The Role of Physiology and Cardiology in the Founding and Early Years of the American College of Sports Medicine Jack W. Berryman 3. From Voluntarism to Specialization: Sports Medicine and the British Association of Sport and Medicine Neil Carter 4. From Rehabilitation Patients to Rehabilitating Athletes: Searching for a H…
Sport and Social Movements
Sport and Social Movements: From the Local to the Global is the first book-length treatment of the way social movements have intersected and continue to intersect with sport. It traces the history of various social movements associated with labour, women, rights (civil, racial, disability and sexual), peace and the environment and their relationship to sport and sports mega-events such as the Olympic Games. Based on research conducted by a multin…
The Absence of Resistance Training? Exploring the Politics of Health in High Performance Youth Triathlon
While research and scholarship on the dynamic interconnections between sport and health has steadily grown in the sociocultural study of sport in the past few decades, this paper focuses more directly on the politics of health within sport. Drawing on a small study of the lived experiences and understandings of health, pain/injury, risk and precaution among 12 male and female high performance youth (16–19 years of age) triathletes and three coach…
It's Hard Work
Within mainstream cancer literature, policy documents, and clinical practice, "work" is typically characterized as being synonymous with paid employment, and the problem of work is situated within the "return to work" discourse. The work that patients perform in managing their health, care, and everyday life at times of illness, however, is largely overlooked and unsupported. Drawing on feminist political economy theory, we report on a qualitativ…
Self-care as self-preservation
OPINION article Front. Sports Act. Living, 12 October 2023Sec. The History, Culture and Sociology of Sports Volume 5 - 2023 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fspor.2023.1278093
An examination of social relations and concussion management via the blue card
Our findings emphasize the need to attend to social relations in concussion management and provide insight into match officials' fraught experiences on the frontlines of concussion management. We identify factors affecting match official well-being and provide considerations for concussion management initiatives designed to improve athlete safety, such as the Blue Card
We haven’t agreed on that, and you’ll never get people to agree on that.” Contestation within the Canadian sport coaching professional project
Drawing on the findings from a larger institutional ethnographic study exploring gender, work, and professionalization in sport coaching in the Canadian university sport system, this paper brings to light the contested nature of the sport coaching professional project in Canada. We specifically focus on the efforts of the Coaching Association of Canada to advance its Chartered Professional Coach designation as the preeminent coaching credential a…
Jack of All Trades, Master of One
This paper draws on findings from a study aimed at examining how Canadian Kinesiology programs define themselves within the post-secondary education landscape, and their students’ understandings and experiences of their studies. Using critical discourse analysis, our findings demonstrate Kinesiology’s ability to preserve its appeal among undergraduate students through its successful positioning of itself as a disciplinary field of choice and flex…
Sport and the Promise of Artificial Intelligence
Artificial intelligence (AI) has the capacity to deliver generative, complex, and powerful functions and decisions. Sport offers a unique site for AI development and implementation, yet the sociological significance of AI in sport remains understudied. We consider sport-based AI applications en route to describing the promise of AI in sport in four ways: (a) the promise of supercharged data parsing at scale, (b) the promise of supercharged precis…
I ‘always wear[s] a collared shirt now in the afternoons’
Despite efforts to diversify Canadian high-performance sport coaching, there remains a significant underrepresentation of women coaches. Drawing on the work of scholars such as Goffman and Hochschild, this paper highlights findings from a study of a group of women sport coaches’ experiences with engaging in impression management – the process in which individuals curate and perform versions of themselves to shape how they may be perceived by othe…
Political science (10 works) · Sports, Gender, and Society (10 works) · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts (9 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Medicine (6 works) · Public relations (6 works) · Athletes (5 works) · Law (5 works)