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- Title
Regional restructuring of industrial sport: The case of elite hockey player production in British Columbia.
- Authors
Decosse, Stefan; Norcliffe, Glen
- Abstract
Keywords: hockey; commodification of sport; elite players; extractive peripheries; British Columbia; marchandisation du sport; joueurs d'élite; rapports centre-périphérie; Colombie-Britannique Many aspects of the system have become elitist - including feverish scouting for possible talent; the schooling of young players in hockey academies; costly specialized training; ownership and exclusive use of hockey rinks and training facilities; early adoption by sports agents; and the pressured coaching of teams, increasingly over a 12-month season with little downtime. In bygone days, sports were played seasonally and improvement came by local coaching and playing (often by unpaid volunteers), whereas current training is more intensive with specialized schools and academies owned privately or by sports enterprises that offer dedicated equipment and facilities designed to produce elite players (Jackson [32]). Privatization and professionalization of training and playing the sport in hockey academies and HPTCs has grown rapidly - 2019 marks the first year that there will not be a Bantam AAA Western Championship because the MHA's best players have been recruited by hockey academies. Vancouver, formerly almost devoid of hockey, but now with an NHL team and numerous elite training facilities, is now branded a hockey city.
- Subjects
BRITISH Columbia; HOCKEY players; DIASPORA; BASEBALL injuries; TELEVISED sports; CITY dwellers; SPORTS; ECONOMICS
- Publication
Canadian Geographer, 2020, Vol 64, Issue 1, p120
- ISSN
0008-3658
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/cag.12569