Overcoming the Neutral Zone Trap

Hockey's Agents of Change
Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-1-77212-579-5
Verlag: University of Alberta Press

Buch, Englisch, 256 Seiten, Format (B × H): 419 mm x 191 mm, Gewicht: 458 g

This engaging interdisciplinary collection seeks to shed light on narratives and research that challenge hockey’s norms, push its boundaries, and provide new ways of conceptualizing its role in North American culture. The volume’s editors use the metaphor of the neutral zone trap to explore how traditional ideologies and practices within the sport have contributed to exclusion and the misperception of various ways of existing in its community. The book includes both personal and scholarly accounts of agents of change—people, ideas, and events—that confront the challenges associated with making hockey a more progressive space. By peeling back assumptions and common understandings of hockey culture, Overcoming the Neutral Zone Trap opens up critical discussions of previously underexplored topics as they relate to the women’s game, Indigenous participation, viable career pathways, masculine identities, hockey parents, mental health, and social media. Fans and experts alike will find much in these pages to deepen their understanding of hockey’s social implications.

Contributors: Angie Abdou, Kieran Block, Cam Braes, William Bridel, Judy Davidson, Jonathon R.J. Edwards, Catherine Houston, Colin D. Howell, Chelsey H. Leahy, Roger G. LeBlanc, Cheryl A. MacDonald, Fred Mason, Brock McGillis, Vicky Paraschak, Brett Pardy, Ann Pegoraro, Kyle A. Rich, Tavis Smith, Noah Underwood

Autoren/Hrsg.

MacDonald, Cheryl A.

Edwards, Jonathon R. J.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Abdou, Angie

Block, Kieran

Braes, Cam

Bridel, William

Davidson, Judy

Houston, Catherine

Howell, Colin D.

Leahy, Chelsey H.

LeBlanc, Roger G.

Mason, Fred

McGillis, Brock

Paraschak, Vicky

Pardy, Brett

Pegoraro, Ann

Rich, Kyle A.

Smith, Tavis

Underwood, Noah

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Sport | Tourismus | Freizeit Sport Sport: Psychologie, Soziologie, Ethik
• Sozialwissenschaften Sport | Tourismus | Freizeit Sport Wintersport Eishockey
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Sportsoziologie

Über Autor(innen)

Edwards, Jonathon R. J.
Jonathon R.J. Edwards is Assistant Dean of Graduate Studies and Research and Associate Professor in the Faculty of Kinesiology at the University of New Brunswick.

MacDonald, Cheryl A.
Cheryl A. MacDonald is a sport sociologist at the Saint Mary’s University Centre for the Study of Sport & Health.