Where is Childhood? In Conversation With Messner and Musto

• Jason Laurendeau ; Dan Konecny ^[1]
  1. [1] University of Lethbridge

     University of Lethbridge

     Canadá

     
• Localización: Sociology of sport journal, ISSN 0741-1235, Vol. 32, Nº. 3, 2015, págs. 332-344
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • n this essay, we build upon Messner and Musto’s recent call for sociologists of sport to take “kids” more seriously; we highlight that in addition to taking kids and kids’ sport more seriously, sport scholars might go further toward considering childhood not simply as a stage of life, but as a set of ideas that shape and are shaped by sporting and recreational practices and discourses. To illustrate the value of this approach, we explore a number of complexities and contradictions of contemporary risk discourses, and the ways in which these are connected to the (re)production of young people as vulnerable subjects.