Introduction: Unbinding Doping Contexts
ISBN: 978-1-80117-158-8, eISBN: 978-1-80117-157-1
Publication date: 12 December 2022
Abstract
This chapter introduces the main aims and ambition with the anthology, which is to bring together research from diverse perspectives on doping and Image and Performance Enhancing Drug (IPED) use. The chapter highlights existing but often backgrounded links between sport and fitness doping research and present a re-reading of the cultural history of doping through which simplistic divisions, such as that between sport and fitness, are deconstructed. Further, by unbinding the hegemonic divide between sports doping and fitness doping, new insights (and themes) concerning anti-doping, health and risk, new emerging doping spaces and the gendering of this field of research are brought to the fore. These themes are then used as point of departure when introducing the different chapters and scholars that contribute to the volume at hand.
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Citation
Henning, A. and Andreasson, J. (2022), "Introduction: Unbinding Doping Contexts", Henning, A. and Andreasson, J. (Ed.) Doping in Sport and Fitness (Research in the Sociology of Sport, Vol. 16), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1108/S1476-285420220000016001
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:Emerald Publishing Limited
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