The War on Drugs in Sport: Moral Panics and Organizational Legitimacy

ISBN-13: 9780367597719 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 272 str.

Vanessa McDermott

Opis

This innovative and compelling work critically examines the relationship between sport, moral regulation and governance from a moral panic theoretical perspective. It argues that doping scandals create a crisis for sport governing bodies and other elite groups, leading to a moral panic, where the issues at stake for them are perceptions of their

Spis treści

Introduction  1. Locating Legitimacy and Moral Panics  2. Historical Overview: The International Olympic Committee, Legitimacy and Doping  3. The World Anti-Doping Agency: Legitimacy and a Moral Panic  4. The Australian Football League: Legitimating the War on Drugs in Sport  5. Mediating Legitimacy and Moral Panics  6. Legitimacy, Doping and the Grassroots Sporting Community.  Conclusion.  Appendix 6.1: Interview Research Methodology.  Appendix 6.2: Interview Participants: NSOs, Information & Education (n=28).

O autorze

Vanessa McDermott is a Research Fellow at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia.