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Coaching with Foucault: Problematizing Sports’ Disciplinary Logic to Re-imagine Effective Coaching

Coaching and ethical self-creation: problematizing the “efficient tennis machine”

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Pages 25-42 | Received 31 May 2017, Accepted 05 Jan 2018, Published online: 26 Jan 2018

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