Full Description
International attention on the abuse and exploitation of children and athletes in sport and its prevention has never been higher, as more cases of child abuse in sport have emerged across the globe in recent years. While there have been many developments in research, policy, and practice in this area, we are not yet close to putting an end to endemic child abuse within some sport environments.
Against this dynamic landscape, this edited collection is a timely critical reflection on this field, its trajectory, and contemporary developments within it. The chapters are theoretically informed, sociological analyses of abuse, violence, and exploitation of children in sport that critically interrogate the social and cultural terrain in which these interpersonal violations occur. Elucidating deeper understanding of the problem of child abuse in sport and the various responses to it, both academic and policy-based, the collection uses a critical sociological lens and various distinct theoretical lenses to provide the conceptual tools to problematise the practice and administration of youth sport.
Engaging critically with the topic, the authors identify weaknesses, limitations, and omissions within current scholarship, thereby - individually and collectively - providing an agenda for future research in this field. Child Abuse in Sport serves as an essential resource for sociology of sport students and researchers in this field, providing a state-of-the-art review of an urgent and rapidly growing area of sport scholarship and governance.
Contents
Child Abuse in sport: Critical perspectives - An introduction; Bettina Rulofs and Mike Hartill
Chapter 1. Child labour in sport: Sport, work and child exploitation; Peter Donnelly
Chapter 2. Conformity and normalisation of abuse in youth sport: A figurational approach; Claudia Pinheiro
Chapter 3. Advancing our understanding of child maltreatment and safeguarding: implications for sport and dance; Sophie Wensel, Gretchen Kerr, and Ellen MacPherson
Chapter 4. Sexual violations in youth sport: Gendered mechanisms of alienation?; Gerd Marie Solstad and Kari Stefansen
Chapter 5. "I hope that ends": Exploring emotional abuse in youth sports through the voices of active young swedish athletes; Inger Eliasson
Chapter 6. "I wanted to make a complaint, but no one told me what I had signed up to do": Navigating the abuse complaint reporting process; Natalie Barker-Ruchti and Laura G. Purdy
Chapter 7. Inquiries to child abuse in sport and their potentials for critical momentum and reconciliation; Bettina Rulofs
Chapter 8. "I'm a problem to some people": Survivor-advocacy in organised sport; Mike Hartill and Michelle Jones
Chapter 9. The origins, development, and current status of critical research on child abuse in sport; Mike Hartill and Bettina Rulofs
