Risk and Sport: An Analysis of Sociological Theories and Research Agendas

Giulianotti, R.

Abstract

Risk has been a prominent keyword in public and academic spheres since the early 1990s. Discourses of risk assessment and management now underpin a vast range of professional, social and political domains, from the planning of children’s leisure to global diplomacy on nuclear proliferation. Similar to “cultural” and “global” turns, we may speak of a “risk turn” that marks an epistemological and ontological step-change from the early 1990s onwards in social sciences.

Citation

Giulianotti, R. (2009). Risk and Sport: An Analysis of Sociological Theories and Research Agendas. Sociology of Sport Journal, 26(4), 540-556

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Publication Date: Dec 1, 2009
• Deposit Date: Mar 24, 2010
• Journal: Sociology of Sport Journal
• Print ISSN: 0741-1235
• Electronic ISSN: 1543-2785
• Publisher: Human Kinetics
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 26
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 540-556
• Public URL: https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1558221
• Publisher URL: http://hk.humankinetics.com/SSJ/toc.cfm?iss=1817