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The purpose of this article is to explore how social forces related to the corporatization of universities play out at the granular level of institutional mission and vision statements in the racialized context of Canadian Kinesiology. The stated aims of Canadian Kinesiology academic units (N = 36) were collected from their public-facing websites, and we conducted a critical discourses analysis of our evidence. We argue that mission and vision statements construct Kinesiology as an altruistic and impactful scholarly project and conceal the contested nature of health, scientific knowledge, and community engagement in the field. Careful analysis of the data, with particular attention paid to that which is unspoken, silenced or erased, highlights how these guiding declarations can renew the field's underlying racial and colonial logics. To conclude, we note instances when programs use institutional statements to unsettle dominant scripts and open possibilities to work toward a more progressive and just Kinesiology. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Socio-cultural research on athlete maltreatment is well documented, with much work focused on examining the spectrum of mistreatment and programmatic/policy responses. While some sport governing bodies have implemented a 'duty of care' approach, more definitional analyses of care and caring in competitive youth sport remain absent. This gap served as point of departure for an institutional ethnographic study designed to examine practices of care and caring within the context of youth competitive volleyball through a socio-philosophical lens. Informed by the philosophical frameworks espoused in the Ethics of Care and the Ethics of Need, this paper utilises textual and interview data from the larger study to examine how athletes, coaches, and parents interpret and practice care in relationship to notions of care established in the sport organisation's governing policies. The results showed how, at the institutional level, notions of care expressed in the sport organisation's governing documents focused more so on identifying and preventing uncaring practices rather than illuminating what constitutes care and caring, while participants negotiated and interpreted their lived experiences of care as the prioritisation of the needs of athletes over the performance imperative. This was particularly true for coaches who were dually tasked with the care-taking of youth athletes on their teams, whilst also ensuring performance success on the playing field. Thus, coaches are responsible for practices of care in situ that are not fulsomely addressed in governing policies, which presents challenges for coaches when balancing athletes' needs while also adhering to the aims of competitive sport. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Policy scholars, both within and outside of sport, have pointed to trends that emphasise neoliberal and free market orientations within public sector organisations. Given such developments, this paper utilises New Public Management (NPM) and Public Entrepreneurship (PE) to explore the Canadian Sport Policy (CSP). Thematic analysis was employed to compare and analyse the 2002 and 2012 CSP documents and other related CSP texts. Study findings demonstrate that while the CSP has expanded in scope since 2002 to 2012 to be more inclusive of both elite athlete development and sport participation for all, including heightened attention to facilitating sporting opportunities for traditionally underrepresented groups, there has also been intensified adoption of NPM approaches and a turn to promoting PE within Canadian sport policy. The NPM and PE ethos encourages innovation, new ideas, and the broadening of the sport sector in Canada; however, and as raised in the discussion, there are also some troubling implications related to the reproduction of inequality and the NPM and PE emphasis in Canadian sport policy that warrant further critical discussion. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]