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Bourdieu on the field: gender, power and the organization of sport

In: Research Handbook on Gender and Diversity in Sport Management

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  • Allison Jeffrey
  • Holly Thorpe

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Pierre Bourdieu is one of the most widely recognized theorists in socio-cultural research. His concepts continue to be applied broadly across the disciplines, including the sociology of sport and physical cultural studies. In this chapter, we explore the potential of feminist engagements with Bourdieu’s theoretical toolbox (field, capital, habitus) for understanding the workings of power in sports organizations. In particular, we draw upon both sports management and feminist organizational scholarship, offering contemporary examples from sporting contexts to discuss the potential contained in Bourdieu’s practice theory for understanding the workings of symbolic violence in sports organizations, and how power operates with and through the bodies of sports leaders and managers. Here, we reveal how engaging Bourdieu’s concepts in synthesis with feminist theory can support interdisciplinary research to further understand the gendered workings of power and agency in sports organizations.

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  • Allison Jeffrey & Holly Thorpe, 2024. "Bourdieu on the field: gender, power and the organization of sport," Chapters, in: Pirkko Markula & Annelies Knoppers (ed.), Research Handbook on Gender and Diversity in Sport Management, chapter 23, pages 331-344, Edward Elgar Publishing.
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