Sport-based risk management: shaping motivated, responsible and self-governing citizen subjects

• Published in: European Journal for Sport and Society Vol. 14; no. 1; pp. 60 - 78
• Main Author: Ekholm, David
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Routledge 02.01.2017
• Subjects: Activation; governmentality; role models; social problems; welfare

The Sport Programme, initiated by municipal administrators and managed by a social entrepreneur, is a Swedish sport-based intervention promoted as a response to social problems of crime and segregation in a targeted urban area. The article examines the manager and coaches' presentation of the p...