Sport coaches as policy actors: an investigation of the interpretation and enactment of disability and inclusion policy in swimming in Victoria Australia

Abstract

Jeanes (2020) Sport coaches as policy actors: an investigation of the interpretation and enactment of disability and inclusion policy in swimming in

Enactments of Integrated, Disability-Inclusive Sport Policy by Sporting Organizations

“…Our elucidation of ableism builds on previous work (Hammond & Jeanes, 2018;Hammond et al, 2019;Hammond et al, 2020) published elsewhere and informed by Campbell's (2001) definition of ableism as: a network of beliefs, processes and practices that produce a particular kind of self and body (the corporeal standard) that is projected as the perfect, species-typical and therefore essential and fully human. Disability, then, is cast as a diminished state of being human.…”

“…Policy enactment uses two distinct theoretical devices to examine enactment: the four contextual frames (see Table 1 below) and the policy actors and policy work typology (see Table 2 below; Hammond, Penney, & Jeanes, 2020;Jeanes et al, 2018Jeanes et al, , 2019. Ball et al's (2012) contextual frames helped us imagine how broader social, political, economic, and historical milieus influence how official policy texts are read and enacted in local milieus.…”

“…In essence, we are following other sociologists of sport (e.g., Hammond et al, 2020;Jeanes et al, 2018;O'Gorman, Partington, Potrac, & Nelson, 2020) who have adapted and recontextualized Ball's work to interrogate how contexts mediate the enactment of national and provincial policies in Canadian provincial sports organizations (i.e., DSOs and PSOs). Specifically, we have used Ball et al's (2012) contextual frames to explore the multiple ways in which policies are enacted at the microlevel (cf.…”

“…Mentally, she had that high-performance mental state. (Eva, critic) In paranordic, disability was most celebrated, and actors within the organization were most entrepreneurial concerning disabilityinclusive policies when performances yielded a high-performance result-highlighting how high-performance discourses mediated enactment (Hammond et al, 2020). Thus, a person's disability status was a criterion to become a high-performance athlete, rather than a sport looking at ways they could better incorporate diversity.…”

Italians Are the Fastest 3000 m Open-Water Master Swimmers in the World

“…Many countries located along coastlines or near bodies of water have a local population that utilizes these bodies for leisure and physical activity [ 46 ]. It is possible that countries who routinely perform the best during long-distance open-water swimming events are those whose cultural practices are situated within these bodies of water or, at the very least, originate from countries with strong sport and physical activity policies [ 47 ]. This could, in part, explain some of the findings in this study.…”