Reconceptualising Intracareer Transitions as Coach-Becomings: A Rhizomatic Narrative Case Study of an American Basketball Coach

Author:

Darpatova-Hruzewicz Donka1ORCID,Book Robert T.23ORCID,Khomutova Anastasiya4ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Faculty of Psychology, University SWPS School of Social Sciences and Humanities, Warsaw, Poland

2. Department of Sport Science and Clinical Biomechanics, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark

3. Department of Sports, Physical Education, and Outdoor Studies, University of South-Eastern Norway, Kongsberg, Norway

4. School of Sport and Health Sciences, University of Brighton, Brighton, United Kingdom

Abstract

This paper offers a poststructuralist exploration of the career transitions of an American basketball coach into and within collegiate basketball. We draw on the theory of Deleuze and Guattari to reconceptualise coaching transitions as coach-becomings contrasted with humanist conceptions of outcome-centred, staged processes. Our nomadic analysis is based on longitudinal interviews and ethnographic data collected over a 4-year period. We adopt narrative rhizomatics and ventriloquism to examine the coaching and institutional assemblages engaged in the production of coaching beliefs and behaviours in specific transition contexts. We also attend to the dialogical and performative aspects of analysis in relation to the role of researchers. Our findings suggest that collegiate environments are conducive to disciplinary coaching practices framed within discourses of masculine militarism and dualist representationalism, thus adversely impacting learning, development, and adaptability in transition. We argue that an alternative conceptualisation of transitions as coach-becomings shifts the focus away from arborescent unitary logic to more creative, nonlinear pedagogies that embrace multiplicity and fluidity. Engaging with the Deleuzian ontology of difference also implies raising awareness of coaching as a social and political practice.

Publisher

Human Kinetics

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