‘I just can’t bear these procedures, I just want to be out there working with children’: an autoethnography on neoliberalism and youth sports charities in the UK

Batlle, Ioannis Costas; Carr, Sam; Brown, Ceri

doi:10.1080/13573322.2017.1288093

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“…Evans & Davies, 2014) and professional sport (e.g. Gilmore, Wagstaff, & Smith, 2018;Purdy & Potrac, 2016;Purdy, Kohe, & Paulauskas, 2019;Roderick & Schumaker, 2017), there remains little critical consideration of the ways in which other sports workers experience, understand, and respond to neoliberal ideology in their relationships with other people, both inside and outside of the workplace (Costas-Batlle, Carr, & Brown, 2017;. As such, this paper seeks to break new ground in the sociology of sports work by presenting the findings of a fieldbased study that explored the lives, practices, and meaning making of two working class, male community sports coaches (aged 18 and 21 years), who were employed to deliver a government sponsored initiative to promote prosocial behaviour through sporting activity.…”

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“…Adams, Harris, & Lindsey, 2018;Draper & Coalter, 2016), as well as the increasingly commodified and outsourced nature of this form of policy work (e.g. Costas-Batlle et al, 2017;Thorpe & Reinhart, 2013). However, little attention has been given to the micro-level experiences of those people undertaking this work, inclusive of the everyday challenges, dilemmas, contradictions, and emotions that they experience inside and outside of the workplace (Gale et al, 2019).…”

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Uncertainty, shame and consumption: negotiating occupational and non-work identities in community sports coaching

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Gale

Potrac

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Sport, Education and Society

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This paper addressed the lived experiences of two community sports coaches in an era of neoliberal capitalism, consumerism, and insecure employment.Specifically, we considered a) their attempts to develop a desired occupational identity in a casualised and audit-driven industry and b) their experiences of the tensions that existed between the conditions of their employment and their ability to effectively enact other (important) identities outside of the workplace. Data were generated via 45 hours of participant observation and 42 hours of in-depth interviews. The fieldnotes and interview transcripts were iteratively analysed.Symbolic interactionist and postmodern theorisations of identity, work, and consumption were integrated to interpret the participants' experiences. Our analysis highlighted how the participants' identity management was influenced by the expectations of work and non-work social audiences and the motivational weight of their future aspirations. It also illustrated how the participants' readings of their employment conditions, dominant societal discourses regarding consumption, and subcultural expectations of success and failure informed their respective decision to leave this form of work. Based on these findings, we believe this study makes a substantive contribution to the evolving literature base addressing the identity management of sports workers, as well as our micro-level understandings of the impacts and consequences of neoliberal capitalism in sport.

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Uncertainty, shame and consumption: negotiating occupational and non-work identities in community sports coaching

Ives

Gale

Potrac

et al. 2019

Sport, Education and Society

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“…Research linking sport and neoliberalism has focused on the influence of neoliberalism on sports organizations (see Costas Battle, Carr, & Brown, 2018; Malcolm, 2018), global sport (see Jackson, 2013; Numerato, 2015), gender and sport (see Besnier, Guinness, Kann, & Kovač, 2018; Forde & Frisby, 2015), and sport and development (see Burnett, 2014; Scherer, Koch, & Holt, 2016). This essay considers the ways in which advanced metrics in youth sports cultivate a neoliberally inflected assessment of performance grounded in numbers.…”

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Youth Baseball and Data Analytics: Quantifying Risk Management and Producing Neoliberal Responsible Citizenship Through the GameChanger App

Sanderson

Baerg

2018

Communication & Sport

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Data analytics have become a significant evaluation mechanism within professional baseball to objectively quantify performance. This trend also has integrated into youth baseball through statistical applications that digitally capture and evaluate player performance. This essay examines the influence of baseball stat-tracking app GameChanger in the context of Little League Baseball and how it positions players, parents, and coaches to understand responsible citizenship through neoliberal risk management. The essay considers how risk management quantification and its accompanying development of responsible citizenship through GameChanger impact each of these stakeholder groups. As statistical evaluation becomes more commonplace in Little League Baseball, it shifts the Little League Experience into a more quantified, risk-management enterprise. In doing so, the experience becomes altered by enhancing opportunities for those players whom data suggest possess the maximum utility for production.

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“…Subsequent studies have drawn attention to the effects of financialisation on the sector (see, for example, Manzi and Morrison, 2018), but not to the effects on charitable status. The second study (Costas Batlle et al (2018)) uses an autoethnographic method to develop an account of how a particular sports charity was affected by the funding environment, influenced by consultants and pro bono assistance from corporations, producing measurable targets and a new programme framed around funders' interests in employability and skills training. It is these effects of money that, in this paper, we term 'shaping' in that the charitable purpose is shaped in different directions, producing new and diverse collaborations.…”

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Charitable purposes and the shaping effects of money

Cowan

Hardy²

2022

International Journal of Law in Context

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We address a curious omission from both the literature on the law of charity and socio-legal studies – the effect of apparently extraneous factors, such as politics and ideology, as well as the searching for money on the charitable purposes and identities of the public who are to benefit from the charity. This is a curious omission because even the law accepts that the idea of public benefit in charity law is a sociological concept, albeit one that has developed a technical meaning. We argue that approaching charitable purposes and public benefit as sociological concepts enables us to appreciate the tensions that those external factors produce as they re-shape those purposes and refashion the public who are to benefit. We refer to these factors under the rubric of the shaping effects of money. We use a case-study of the Canal and River Trust (CRT) to develop this argument. The trust was set up by the government as a charity to manage and control 2,000 miles of inland waterways in England and Wales. We draw on interviews with households who live on boats and ‘continuously cruise’ those boats on the canals to illustrate how their interests have been marginalised as the CRT has re-shaped itself as a well-being charity.

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‘I just can’t bear these procedures, I just want to be out there working with children’: an autoethnography on neoliberalism and youth sports charities in the UK

Cited by 11 publications

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Uncertainty, shame and consumption: negotiating occupational and non-work identities in community sports coaching

Uncertainty, shame and consumption: negotiating occupational and non-work identities in community sports coaching

Youth Baseball and Data Analytics: Quantifying Risk Management and Producing Neoliberal Responsible Citizenship Through the GameChanger App

Charitable purposes and the shaping effects of money

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