Phenomenological perspectives for sport management research

The purpose of this chapter is to contribute to the existing literature on gender and diversity in sports management by addressing the lived and intersubjective body from a phenomenological perspective. Such perspectives are largely absent from current sport management literature. In this chapter, the body is understood as an affective space for collegial relations, as well as for professional relations between athletes, coaches, and others, working in sport management. The chapter demonstrates how phenomenological perspectives and phenomenological methodology are valuable approaches when studying gender and diversity in sport management research. It offers insight into the forms of embodied knowledge that researchers, leaders, administrators, managers, and coaches may find useful in their search for valid and ethical knowledge about capacity for collegial relations, between themselves and the organization.