Challenge and relief : a Foucauldian disciplinary analysis of retirement from professional association football in the United Kingdom

The aim of this study was to consider the retirement experiences of British male professional Association footballers by utilising Foucault’s (1991) analysis of discipline discussed in Discipline and Punish: the Birth of the Prison. Specifically, we drew upon Foucault to consider how, through the various techniques and instruments of discipline, the professional football context produces ‘docile footballing bodies’ and how this might influence a player’s experiences in retirement. We gathered our empirical material using a Foucauldian-informed interview framework (Avner et al., 2013) with 25 former professional male football players between the ages of 21-34. Our analysis suggested that retirement from football was both a challenge and a relief for our participants, and that their extended period of time within football’s strong disciplinary apparatus significantly influenced how they experienced their retirement

Health and well-being implications surrounding the use of wearable GPS devices in professional rugby league: A Foucauldian disciplinary analysis of the normalised use of a common surveillance aid

Wearable GPS tracking devices have become commonplace coaching aids across professional field sports to enhance sports performances and reduce injury rates, despite the implications of the technology being poorly understood. This study looked at how GPS devices are used and the impact constant surveillance has upon the physical, psychological, and emotional health of rugby football workers. The disciplinary analysis of Michel Foucault was used to investigate how British Super League teams use wearable GPS technology, to investigate the dominant 'truth' that promotes surveillance technologies as 'universally beneficial' to athlete sports performance, health and well-being. Data was drawn from semi-structured interviews with three performance analysts/strength and conditioning coaches at three different Super League clubs across the North of England. Participants confessed data generated from wearable GPS is often totally ignored, despite being specifically produced to protect athlete health and wellbeing. When used, GPS data can become a 'disciplinary tool' to normalise and coerce players to comply with potentially unhealthy physical and psychological demands of a professional playing career. Importantly, regardless of how GPS data was used, the employment of wearable GPS devices was constantly and rigorously implemented. The constant surveillance experience by working players, when mismanaged or adopted as a coercive disciplinary tool, magnifies the uncertainty and fear of failure central to the predominant challenges that arise during a working football career. This leads to the acceptance of problematic norms damaging to physical, psychological, and emotional health. If GPS or other surveillance based performance analysis technologies are to be used in sport, coaches need to regulate or re-think their day-to-day use to avoid creating new harms to athlete health and well-being

Another Look At Neurosis: A Review Article

A CAJM article on neurosis.Neurosis is a disturbance of the mind in which the patient retains contact with reality (Sims, 1968), that is to say, he can still appreciate that his fears or worries are unfounded although, nevertheless, disturbing. Once contact with reality is lost, the disease progresses and enters the more serious category of psychosis. Psychiatric disturbances are becoming increasingly common in society, a change attributed to the greater “stress” of modern life. In Britain a quarter of the patients attending the general practitioner have a predominantly psychiatric complaint (Valentine, 1965), a trend that we can expect to follow as this country “develops”. According to the World Heath Organisation’s International Classification, the two most common neuroses should be called anxiety reaction and neurotic depression. This classification implies that there are two distinct conditions, and yet it is common experience that anxiety and depression are closely associated and that they often- occur together in the same patient. The psychiatrist interprets anxiety as a failure to adapt to a threat from the outside world or a threat from incompletely repressed desires that are struggling to reach consciousness. Depression, on the other hand, is said to be the consequence of an unsatisfied desire for admiration and the attendant threat to one’s self-esteem (Sims, 1968)

Peoples Temple pamphlet

A pamphlet distributed by Jim Jones\u27s Peoples Templehttps://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/mayor-moscone/1004/thumbnail.jp

Molecular Vital Statistics: The Significance of Shape: A Review Article

A CAJM article on molecules.The living cell depends on its enzymes1 to carry out the chemical reactions necessary for its survival. Enzymes are catalysts; they increase the speed of chemical reactions without altering the nature or result of the reaction. As an example, consider lactase, the trivial name for an enzyme which is found in the lining of the intestine. (Its official name and number are /J-D-galactoside galactohydrolase, E.C. 3.2.1.23.2) It splits milk sugar (lactose) into two smaller sugars (glucose and galactose). This change occurs spontaneously, but only at an extremely slow rate. The enzyme is essential to allow this chemical reaction to occur sufficiently quickly for the sugar to be absorbed from the intestine

SEEDS - 2021

Contributors include: Cathy Colton, Diana Garifas, Rebecca Gawo, Alondra Marisol Herrera, Najlah Iqbal, Mahnoor Jamal, Jon-Paul Kreatsoulas, Saarah Junaid, Hailey Jurasek, Ayushi Kumar, Gabriela Lopriore, Abena Motaboli, Kayla Nuszen, Becca Petros, Margarita Rivera, Marco DeLa Rosa, Adriana Santillan, Loni Stratch, Hana D. Urban, Joanna B. Vaklin, Mike Fudacz, Laura Gaerditz, Rodrigo Haro, Roger D. Hicks, Rameen Karar, Ken Konopka, Jonathan Lee, Morgan Mowbray, Zinnia Nguyen, Andrew R. Torres, Ayesha A., Veronica Cerda, Joshua Cordero, Alexandra Galvan, Brian Garbrecht, Kellie Jarr, Katelyn Krabacher, Xena Lopez, Brandi Navarez, Jorge Ortega, Jacqueline Sanchez, Mary Sheehan, Rache Singel, Michael Edward Supranowiczhttps://neiudc.neiu.edu/seeds/1012/thumbnail.jp

The Vogue in Renal Physiology: A Review Article

A CAJM article on renal physiology

SEEDS - 2022

Contributors include: Alexander Jarvis, Alexis Sanchez, Maribel Cruz, Sally Dao, Hannah Grajciar, Drehna, Matt R., Jesus Robles, Zinnia Nguyen, Brandi Nevarez, Savannah Owens, Ayushi Kumar, Raul Dorado, Kellie Jarr, Marshal Stewart, Jacqueline, Jim Jones, Leslie Lozado, Clay Cofre, Warda, Amina Murati, Michael Cainghug, Tuvinh Nguyen, Cynthia G., D.B., Timothy Garrison, Saarah Junaid, Rebeca Ruiz, Frances Cltally, Jaritza Delgado, Itzel Linarres, Log Kya Kahege, Sara Weiner,https://neiudc.neiu.edu/seeds/1013/thumbnail.jp