Fair play? You must be joking!
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- Although we use sporting vernacular, such as 'fair play', and 'it just isn't cricket', to offer ethical judgments in everyday life, repeated scandals in sport, both historical and contemporary, challenge the notion that there is ethical potential within sport. Yet, conceptualising ethics in socio-cultural terms allows us to shift from asking whether sport is 'good', to asking how athletes in particular contexts might experience ethical dilemmas and attempt to embody an ethical athletic subjectivity.
Drawing on my research in the lifestyle sport, Ultimate Frisbee, I argue that ethics can be a prominent, and even, pleasurable, part of sport. As a way of considering the implications of this approach, I conclude by using my findings in relation to pleasurable ethics to examine the current debate over the role of pleasure within physical education and kinesiology curriculum.
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Hamish Crocket is a lecturer in the Faculty of Education at the University of Waikato, New Zealand.
His research draws on sociology, psychology and philosophy to examine participants' experiences within lifestyle sports. Primarily, he has focused on the ways in which lifestyle sport athletes might understand their participation as ethically significant.
This focus has recently lead to a consideration of potential links between ethics, aesthetics, pleasure, and contemporary consumer culture. Through his teaching at secondary and tertiary levels, and, in his ongoing role as a coach, Hamish also has research interests in curriculum, pedagogy and coach development.
Hamish has presented his work nationally and internationally to a wide range of audiences.
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