Going South
Canadians' Engagement with American Athletic Scholarships
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2978700 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Noel Dyck (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Publication date | 2010-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Anthropology in Action (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0967-201X • E-ISSN: 1752-2285 |
| Publisher | Berghahn Books (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.3167/aia.2010.170105 |
| OpenAlex | W2020283719 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
This article examines the dynamics and implications of Canadians' pursuit of and ambiguous engagement with athletic scholarships offered to elite athletes by American colleges and universities. After sketching in the broader social and cultural context within which the movement of Canadian athletes to the U.S. occurs, it considers ways in which reckonings of high achievement in sport and other fields of performance tend to be constructed in Canada in terms of transnational and global comparisons. By examining how and why innumerable Canadian children and youths, with the assistance of parents and other adults, come to focus upon the pursuit of American athletic scholarships, this article seeks to penetrate an ambivalent form of competition that rewards its winners by taking them away from their families and country for a period of years just as they enter adulthood
Ambivalence · Athletes · Competition (biology · Context (archaeology · Elite · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Canadian Identity and History · Gender Studies · History · Law · Medicine · Psychology · Social Psychology · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts · Sports, Gender, and Society
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,23 |
| Citation span | 2013 - 2025 (13) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |