DDRIG: Governance of Athletes through Protective Policies

根据对生物差异的科学和文化理解，在体育管理方面实施了一系列保护性政策。这些保护性政策包括资格规定和关于运动员健康的共识声明。它们都取决于社会和文化对保护的理解，以及谁需要保护和为什么需要保护。该项目分析了如何在组织，政策和实践中概念化保护。 项目的研究结果将超越体育领域，以提高我们对科学和社会如何相互交叉的理解，从而塑造主导的认知方式。该项目将产生重要的见解如何保护政策制定了一系列措施，以保障通过监管，纪律和/或排斥机构的选定概念。本项目以国际奥委会（IOC）关于运动中相对能量缺乏的共识声明（RED-S）为案例研究，运用政策、文献计量学和访谈数据回答两个核心研究问题：（1）参与RED-S研究和政策制定的科学家、政策制定者和其他利益相关者如何确定机构是否需要保护？以及（2）科学家、政策制定者和其他参与RED-S研究和政策制定的利益相关者提出了哪些类型的RED-S解决方案？该项目借鉴治理研究的理论见解，有助于更广泛地讨论社会和/或生物层面在界定合格机构方面的重要性。该项目为科学和技术学者提供了进一步的理论见解，以了解影响个人，社区和国家的治理理论和战略。项目结果将鼓励关于运动员的身体如何在体育内外进行监管和监督的跨学科对话，并为未来为运动员制定包容性和同情心的保护政策提供信息。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

A range of protective policies have been implemented in the governance of sport based upon scientific and cultural understandings of biological-based differences. These protective policies include eligibility regulations and consensus statements on athletes’ health. They all depend upon social and cultural understandings of protection, and who needs protection and why. This project analyzes how protection is conceptualized across organizations, policies, and practice. Project findings will translate beyond the sporting realm to enhance our understanding of how science and society intersect to shape dominant ways of knowing. This project will yield crucial insights into how protective policies enact a range of measures to safeguard selected notions of bodies through regulation, discipline, and/or exclusion. It will be of interest to athletes, coaches, policy makers, and administrators.Focusing on the International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) consensus statement on relative energy deficiency in sport, or RED-S, as a case study, this project uses policy, bibliometric, and interview data to answer two central research questions: (1) how do scientists, policymakers, and other stakeholders involved with RED-S research and policy-creation identify bodies as (not) needing protection? And (2) what types of solutions to RED-S are proposed by scientists, policymakers, and other stakeholders involved with RED-S research and policy-creation? Drawing on theoretical insights from governmentality studies, the project contributes to larger discussions about the significance of social and/or biological dimensions in defining eligible bodies. This project produces further theoretical insights for science and technology scholars into rationales and strategies of governance that impact individuals, communities, and nations. Project findings will encourage transdisciplinary dialogue about how athlete’s bodies are regulated and policed, inside, and outside of sport, and inform future efforts to create inclusive and empathetic protective policies for athletes.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.