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dc.contributor.advisorWatson, Cate-
dc.contributor.advisorAllen, Justine-
dc.contributor.authorMaclean, Jordan-
dc.date.accessioned2021-07-27T08:12:12Z-
dc.date.issued2020-11-04-
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1893/32982-
dc.description.abstractSomething that I witnessed. Something that has led to fractured and isolated debates in coaching research. And something that might benefit from being looked at in a different way because very little is known about the ontological dimension of what things do in coaching practices. The aim of this thesis is to develop a relationist ontology of coaching as its own field of practice. The methodology draws inspiration from Latourian actor-network theory (ANT). ANT is a relationist ontology that examines the associations between humans and nonhumans. Five Latourian ANT concepts informed the inquiry into sport coaching: actors, who can be human and nonhuman; networks, which are how actors become assembled; trials of strength, which define what actors do; translation, which describes how actors relate to each other; and articulated propositions, which grant others the ability to speak about an assembled actor-network. An ANT ethnography forms the basis of the fieldwork which consists of observations in two community football clubs over a season. Fieldnotes are the main data gathering method in which I ‘followed the actors themselves’ (Latour 2005a). Actors become relevant as they acted in ways that empirically warranted attention. A sociomaterial analysis is set out which generates ‘anecdotes’ (Adams and Thompson 2016) that are short stories of how social and material relations come together in practices. Each anecdote forms a part in the cartography of coaching which is ordered as follows: (1) moving from The Game towards a field of practice, (2) delegation, (3) quasi-object, (4) interruptions, and (5) manufacturing. Each part is accompanied with a move inspired by Latourian ANT. The significant contribution of this thesis is coaching is a relationist field of practice resting upon five propositions: first, nonhumans are ‘matters of concern’ (Latour 2004a); second, coaching is ontologically different from The Game; third, materials give shape to, and materiality shapes, practices; fourth, coaches intervene with alliances; and fifth, a new sociomaterial competence is necessitated. A more “truthful” territory is articulated so that other coaches can become more object-oriented when translating the cartography into their own practices. An ontological manifesto for the sociomateriality of sport paves the way for a big picture outlook for how academics and practitioners conceptualise, understand, describe, and improve their own coaching.en_GB
dc.language.isoenen_GB
dc.publisherUniversity of Stirlingen_GB
dc.subjectBruno Latouren_GB
dc.subjectsport coachingen_GB
dc.subjectsociomaterialityen_GB
dc.subjectontologyen_GB
dc.subjectrelationalen_GB
dc.subject.lcshLatour, Brunoen_GB
dc.subject.lcshSocial sciences Philosophyen_GB
dc.subject.lcshSocial participationen_GB
dc.subject.lcshOntologyen_GB
dc.subject.lcshCoaching (Athletics)en_GB
dc.titleCoaching with Latour: An ontological manifesto for the sociomateriality of sporten_GB
dc.typeThesis or Dissertationen_GB
dc.relation.referencesMaclean, J. (2021) Coaching the beautiful game: an actor-network theory study of sport coaching, Studies in Continuing Education, DOI: 10.1080/0158037X.2021.1900095en_GB
dc.relation.referencesMaclean, J. (2021) The 'Lieutenants' of coaching: how materiality shapes coach developers' practices. Somatechnics, 11 (2), pp.265-282. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3366/soma.2021.0355en_GB
dc.type.qualificationlevelDoctoralen_GB
dc.type.qualificationnameDoctor of Philosophyen_GB
dc.rights.embargodate2023-07-21-
dc.rights.embargoreasonMay I request to delay public access of my thesis for a one year period. I have published one paper from my doctorate and am currently writing another two, of which I would like to have online before my thesis is publicly available. Embargo later extended to 2 years. At the request of the author the thesis has been embargoed for a number of months with an authorised exception to the UKRI required 12 month maximum. UKRI have agreed that, at the discretion of the University, authors can request short extensions beyond the prescribed 12 months.en_GB
dc.contributor.funderThis work was supported by Economic and Social Research Council [grant number 1790484]en_GB
dc.author.emailJordan.maclean1@stir.ac.uken_GB
dc.rights.embargoterms2023-07-23en_GB
dc.rights.embargoliftdate2023-07-23-
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