Touchy Subject: A Foucauldian Analysis of Coaches’ Perceptions of Adult-Child Touch in Youth Swimming

It has been suggested that child safety discourses are creating an environment in which safety from abuse defines every act of adult-child touch as suspicious, resulting in adults who work with children being positioned as ‘risky’ and child-related settings becoming no-touch zones. Research on the i...

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Published in:Sociology of sport journal 2015-03, Vol.32 (1), p.4-21
Main Author: Lang, Melanie
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Athletes
Avoidance
Child Welfare Services
Children
Foucault, Michel
Perceptions
Safety
Youth
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