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We must not engage in the blind glorification of sport’: Christian orthodox youths negotiate dominant societal and alternative Reformed sport discourses

Froukje Smits (Lid Lectoraat); Annelies Knoppers; Corina van Doodewaard

There are approximately 250,000 Orthodox Reformed Christians (ORC) in the Netherlands, who live according to a strict adherence to the Bible. The ORC dissociate themselves from the mainstream sport discourse in the Netherlands that regards sport as a societal good. We draw on post-structural perspectives …

2017-08-21Mens & MaatschappijArtikel

'You don't realize what you see!': the institutional context of emotional abuse in elite youth sport.

Frank Jacobs; Froukje Smits (Lid Lectoraat); Annelies Knoppers

Various discourses construct youth sport as a site for pleasure and participation, for positive development, for performance and for protection/safeguarding. Elite youth sport however continues to be a site for emotionally abusive coaching behaviour. Little attention has been paid to how the institutional …

2017Mens & MaatschappijBoekdeel

‘Everything revolves around gymnastics’: athletes and parents make sense of elite youth sport

Froukje Smits (Lid Lectoraat); Frank Jacobs; Annelies Knoppers

The continuation of emotional abuse as a normalized practice in elite youth sport has received scholarly attention, often with the use of a Foucauldian framework. The use of sense-making, a theoretical framework that focuses on how meaning is created in ambiguous situations, may give additional insights …