Risk and Sport: An Analysis of Sociological Theories and Research Agendas

• Autores: Richard Giulianotti
• Localización: Sociology of sport journal, ISSN 0741-1235, Vol. 26, Nº. 4, 2009, págs. 540-556
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Risk has been a prominent keyword in public and academic spheres since the early 1990s. Discourses of risk assessment and management now underpin a vast range of professional, social and political domains, from the planning of children�s leisure to global diplomacy on nuclear proliferation. Similar to �cultural� and �global� turns, we may speak of a �risk turn� that marks an epistemological and ontological step-change from the early 1990s onwards in social sciences.