Reappraising theorisations of power in the coach–athlete relationship: future directions for sports coaching research

Consterdine, A orcid iconORCID: 0000-0002-8564-1960 and Taylor, WG (2025) Reappraising theorisations of power in the coach–athlete relationship: future directions for sports coaching research. Sports Coaching Review. pp. 1-15. ISSN 2164-0629

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Abstract

This paper calls for a reconceptualisation of the manner in which we have considered and described the coach–athlete relationship in high-performance sport. We appeal for a radical reconsideration of the way that power has been portrayed within coaching literature in an attempt to consider new ways in which power operates in such arenas. Although theoretical work on power within the coaching process has been enlightening, and more recent empirical studies have demonstrated some interesting conceptualisations of power from a poststructural perspective, it has not been extensively applied in sufficient depth overall. By offering more nuanced poststructural and critical readings of
power, together with a contextualised approach that considers interactions, language, entanglement, materiality, and discourse, it may be possible to suggest a more insightful set of ideas; one that allows us to better understand the nature of coach–athlete
relationships operating at this level

Item Type: Article
Subjects: G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GV Recreation Leisure > GV561 Sports > GV711 Coaching
G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GV Recreation Leisure > GV561 Sports
Divisions: Sport and Exercise Sciences
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date of acceptance: 26 September 2025
Date of first compliant Open Access: 8 October 2025
Date Deposited: 08 Oct 2025 09:37
Last Modified: 08 Oct 2025 09:45
DOI or ID number: 10.1080/21640629.2025.2569943
URI: https://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/27293
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