Accountability, monitoring and surveillance: Body regulation in elite sport

Title
Accountability, monitoring and surveillance: Body regulation in elite sport
Publication Date
2012-05-01
Author(s)
Cosh, Suzanne
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8003-3704
Email: scosh@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:scosh
Crabb, Shona
LeCouteur, Amanda
Kettler, Lisa
Type of document
Journal Article
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
Sage Publications Ltd
Place of publication
United Kingdom
DOI
10.1177/1359105311417914
UNE publication id
une:1959.11/26980
Abstract
Regulation of athletes’ bodies is commonplace in sporting environments, despite evidence that athletes have a higher risk of developing disordered eating than non-athletes. This article explores how athletes’ bodies are regulated in practice, building on examinations of body surveillance in other contexts. Over 40 interactions occurring during body monitoring are analysed. Athletes, pre-emptively or following an explicit request, accounted for their body regulatory behaviours, also working to produce positive athlete identities. Failing to produce an account of improvement was interactionally problematic, making visible athletes’ accountability to the institute to regulate their bodies. Implications of body regulatory practices are discussed.
Link
Citation
Journal of Health Psychology, 17(4), p. 610-622
ISSN
1461-7277
1359-1053
Pubmed ID
21911437
Start page
610
End page
622

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