Qualitative research in sport, exercise and health in the era of neoliberalism, audit and New Public Management: Understanding the conditions for the (im)possibilities of a new paradigm dialogue

Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 440-459

  Sparkes, Andrew C ^a  

^a LEEDS METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

agendas; best endeavours; power; resistance; somatic crisis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889633768     PISSN: 2159676X     EISSN: 1939845X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/2159676X.2013.796493     Document Type: Article

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