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Conceptualising ‘vulnerability’ across sport integrity contexts
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Camilla Knight,
Lone F. Thing,
Michael McNamee
Sport, Ethics and Philosophy, Pages: 1 - 19
Swansea University Authors:
Anna Semenova , Camilla Knight, Michael McNamee
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DOI (Published version): 10.1080/17511321.2025.2563570
Abstract
Vulnerability is a multifaceted concept used across disciplines, yet in the context of sport integrity, it remains underexplored and lacks a clear conceptualisation despite its growing usage and wider application. This paper critically examines how the concept of vulnerability is currently incorpora...
| Published in: | Sport, Ethics and Philosophy |
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| ISSN: | 1751-1321 1751-133X |
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Informa UK Limited
2025
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| URI: | https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa70404 |
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Vulnerability is a multifaceted concept used across disciplines, yet in the context of sport integrity, it remains underexplored and lacks a clear conceptualisation despite its growing usage and wider application. This paper critically examines how the concept of vulnerability is currently incorporated in different sport integrity contexts and research literature. It proposes a novel understanding of vulnerability informed by the fields of research ethics and bioethics, specifically in relation to established analyses and operationalisations of vulnerability. Drawing on the layered account of vulnerability, we conceptualise vulnerability as relational and dynamic, moving beyond fixed and stereotypical categorisations of vulnerability. Our understanding of vulnerability expands the understanding of this concept from its more common association with doping behaviours and populations and illustrates how the layered approach can be helpful in identifying and analysing vulnerability across different sport integrity contexts. In doing so, this paper demonstrates how a bioethics-informed approach can enhance the conceptual clarity and support a more consistent application of vulnerability within sport integrity field. |
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| Keywords: |
Layers of vulnerability; bioethics; doping; match-fixing; safe sport |
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Faculty of Science and Engineering |
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The author(s) declare that financial support was received for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article. This project DAiSI has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon Europe by the granting Authority REA (the European Research Executive Agency) under Grant Agreement No. 101120342; from the Swiss State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (SERI) and from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (grant number: EP/Y031687/1). Funded by the UK Research and Innovation. |
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