Hockey Dialogues: What Does Grooming Have to Do With Me? I Am a Man

• In Event: Thursday Roundtable Session 4:20 pm
  In Roundtable Session: Critical Examination of the Gendered and Racialized Experiences of College Athletes (Table 16)

Abstract

This research project engaged with a university men’s ice hockey team to understand the impact of dialogical spaces within hockey culture to discuss issues of student-athletes, hockey culture and masculinity. Men's ice hockey is an insular and heterogeneous environment with little room for open dialogue, and the lack impacts identity development, mental health, and understandings of sexual violence. Men’s ice hockey is a site of masculine making, and Bourdieu’s theory of masculine domination offers a means to consider how sexualization in hockey culture perpetuates sexual violence through grooming. Through a World Café method as a dialogical space, the role of grooming and the lack of individual identity within a team offers an intervention point for addressing sexual violence in hockey culture.

Authors

• Teresa Anne Fowler, Concordia University of Edmonton

• Emma Roppo, Concordia University - Edmonton

• Paige Shyiak, Concordia University - Edmonton