After the Dust Settles

Foucauldian Narratives of Retired Athletes' "Re-orientation" to Exercise

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ID5285767
AuthorsLuke Jones (0000-0001-5207-3349, University of Hull, corresponding author), Zoe Avner (0000-0002-0079-1186, Northumbria University), J Denison (0009-0007-4049-3152, University of Alberta)
Year2022
Volume4
Pages901308-901308
Publication date2022-07-08
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueFrontiers in Sports and Active Living (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2624-9367 • E-ISSN: 2624-9367
PublisherFrontiers Media SA (PUBLISHER • CH)
DOI10.3389/fspor.2022.901308
PMID35873214
OpenAlexW4284895934
LanguageEN
Citations received7
References cited74

One aspect of sports retirement that has been overlooked until recently is the manner in which retired athletes relate to, and seek to redefine, the meaning of exercise in their post-sport lives. In this article, three Foucauldian scholars present and analyze a series of vignettes concerning their own sense-making and meaning-making about exercise following their long-term involvement in high-performance soccer (authors one and two) and distance running (author three). In doing so, this paper aims to underline the problematic legacy of high-performance sport for retiring athletes' relationship to movement and exercise, and to highlight how social theory, and Foucauldian theorization in particular, can serve to open new spaces and possibilities for thinking about sports retirement

Aesthetics · Art · Athletes · Literature · Narrative · Physical therapy · Psychotherapist · Sociology · Gender Studies · Medicine · Psychology · Social Psychology · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts · Sport Psychology and Performance · Sports, Gender, and Society

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