The cultural practices of sport: examining dual career assemblages

Donka Darpatova-Hruzewicz and Tatiana V. Ryba

Chapter 19 in Handbook on Sport and Culture, 2025, pp 280-298 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: In this chapter, athletes’ dual careers are theorised by examining sports schools as sites of intersection of the cultural, socio-political, and historical forces that shape the institutional landscape of sport. Specifically, sports schools are conceptualised as social assemblages constitutive of human and non-human elements – including bodies, policies, discourses, theoretical frameworks, ideologies, and materialities – enmeshed in the production of cultural practices. The analysis follows a radical contextualisation approach, which assumes relationality or the claim that the effects of any cultural practices or events are defined only by the complex set of relations that surround, penetrate, and shape them. By adopting assemblage thinking, the authors endeavour to challenge dominant dual career discourses of youth athletes by highlighting the complexity of talent/holistic athlete development environments and demonstrating new ways of theorising dual careers, such that acknowledge multiplicities rather than predetermined normative differences.

Keywords: Talent development; Youth sport; Sports schools; Radical contextualisation; Polish sport; Finnish sport (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781035339976
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