Athletes, sponsors and sport organisations all have a vested interest in upholding the values of clean sport. Despite considerable concerted efforts global anti-doping system over two decades, present is imperfect. Capitalising upon consequent frustrations athletes, event organisers sponsors, alternative systems emerged outside regulatory framework. The operating principles these raise several ...

In recent years, a number of doctoral and post-doctoral students have begun to explore and experiment with the use of a new theoretical and methodological approach to gender and language study: that of Feminist PostStructuralist Discourse Analysis (FPDA). While there is a growing international interest in the FPDA approach, it is still relatively unknown in the wider community of discourse anal...

This paper discusses systems thinking development from Churchman’s systems ideas related to critical systems practice that appreciates the use of systems methods from sociolinguistic perspectives and poststructuralist thought. Systems research enabled us to understand and reinterpret Churchman’s philosophy and systems approach through the works of Deleuze and Foucault. Based upon the interpreta...

This article serves as an introduction to discourse analysis. Due to logistical reasons, because this is a relatively new and multifaceted approach in research, this article involves only introductory remarks about discourse analysis as approach to qualitative, reflexive educational research. Different postmodern "approaches" to qualitative nursing research derived from other disciplines are be...

The year is 1961. Michel Foucault has just published what would later become one of the most influential books of the postwar era, Histoire de la folie a I'age classique (Madness and Ciuilization). Foucault was accompanied by several contemporary thinkers many of whom are now household namesDeleuze, Guattari, Derrida, Lyotard, Baudrillard, Kristeva, Harraway, Debord, Jameson and others. In thei...