The Suffering Body in Sport: Shifting Thresholds of Pain, Risk and Injury

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The Suffering Body in Sport: Shifting Thresholds of Pain, Risk and Injury
Copyright Page
Contents
List of Tables
About the Contributors
Acknowledgments
Introduction
	Notes
	References
Chapter 1 Sport and Risk Culture
	Introduction
	Risky Enterprises in Sport
		Risk Culture: Sporting Risk
		Risk of Victimization
		Risk of Social Loss
		At Risk and Salvation
		Risk of Non-participation
		Pleasurable Risk
		Sport-related Risk
	Conceptually Understanding Relational Risk
	Five Key Readings
	References
Chapter 2 The Rationalization of HealthCare in Modern Sport: From Policy to Practice
	Introduction
	The Emergence of Medical Services in High-performance Sport: Perspectives from the Sociology of Sport
	The Rationalization of Sport and Exercise Medicine in the UK
	The Limits of Implementing a Rationalized Model of Sport and Exercise Medicine
		Competing Agendas of a Professional Project: Jurisdictional Claims and the Fragmentation of Services
		The Pervasiveness of Clinician Uncertainty and its Impact on the Enactment of Rationalized Policy
		Clinician Autonomy and the Legitimacy of Sports Medicine Clinicians
	Conclusion
	What Next for Sport and Exercise Medicine?
	Notes
	Five Key Readings
	References
Chapter 3 Risk in Lifestyle Sports: The Case of Parkour
	Introduction
	Voluntary Risk-taking and Vocabularies of Motive
		Accounting for Peril in Neoliberal Times
		The Hegemony of Neoliberalism
	Risk and Safety in Parkour
		Rites of Risk
		Rituals of Symbolic Safety
	Conclusion
	Five Key Readings
	References
Chapter 4 An Enduring Event: 20 Years of One Athlete’s Negotiation with Pain at the Ironman Triathlon World Championships
	Introduction: The Early “Whys” of My Endurance Pain
	Endurance Sport Pain
	1981–1984: The Exploration, Purpose, and Education of Pain at the Ironman Triathlon
		The Ironman Course
	1985–1989: Media, Finance, and Family – Struggle at the Ironman
	1990–1995: The Pain of Identity, Experience, Expression, and Sustainability
	1996–1999: Moving toward A New Career – A Community of Pain
	Conclusion
	Five Key Readings
	References
Chapter 5 Injury, Pain and Risk in the Paralympic Movement
	Introduction
	Being Injured and Classifying Impairment in Paralympic Sport
	Disability Studies, Risk-taking and Paralympic Identities
	Paralympic Pathways and Beginning and Ending Sport Careers
	Conclusion
	Notes
	Five Key Readings
	References
Chapter 6 Sports-related Brain Injury: Concussion and Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy
	Introduction
	Concussion in Context: The Rise of a Social Issue
		Resting in Plain View: A History of Concussion Concerns
	Passing Over: Concussion, Culture of Risk and Medical Treatment
	Conclusion: Becoming Visible?
	Notes
	Five Key Readings
	References
Chapter 7 Going Public with Pain: Athlete Stories of Disordered Eating in Discourse
	Introduction
	Female Athletes and Disordered Eating: Narrative Research
	Discursive Psychology and Critical Discourse Analysis
	Stories of Struggle in Discourse: A Research Example
		Elite Athlete Autobiographies
		Performance Discourse: Self-regulation, Suffering and Isolation
		Subject Position: Committed Controlled Athlete
		Discourse of Personal Growth: Voice and Perspective through Adversity
		Subject Position: Empowered Athlete in Transition
	Conclusion
	Five Key Readings
	References
Chapter 8 Suffering in Sport
	Introduction
	The Human Suffering in Sport Triangle: Pain, Violence, and Suffering
	The ‘Hidden’ Concept of Suffering in Sport: Social Problems
		Race and Ethnicity
		Sexuality and Gender
		Class
		Age
		Mental Health and Disability
		Religion
	Ingold: On Suffering and Connection
		The Suffering Body
		Understanding Suffering through Connection: Co-presence in Research
		Relational Suffering
	Conclusion
	Five Key Readings
	References
Chapter 9 Complexities in Canadian Legal Approaches to Sports Injury
	Introduction
	Why Tort Law?
		Intentional Torts
		Unintentional Torts
	What the Case Law Shows
	Defences Based on Volenti Non fit Injuria
	Conclusion
	Notes
	Five Key Readings
	References
	Legal Cases
Chapter 10 Regulating the Harmful, Injurious and Risky Business of Professional Wrestling
	Introduction
	World Wrestling Entertainment – Acting with Immunity and Impunity: Limits and Justifications for This Investigation
	A Short and Contemporary History of Professional Wrestling: 1982–2018
	The Increasingly Painful, Injurious and Harmful Business of Professional Wrestling
	Regulating and Deregulating Professional Wrestling
	Researching the Regulation of Professional Wrestling
	Regulation May Not Be the Panacea and There Are Worrying Signs Ahead
	Conclusion
	Acknowledgments
	Five Key Readings
	References
Chapter 11 When the Athletic Body Fades: Sporting Exit and Identity Transitions
	Introduction
	Sporting Transitions
	Re-interpreting the Body as Fragile
	A Lack of Autonomy over Body
	Who Am I?
	Conclusion
	Five Key Readings
	References
Index