Overcoming the Neutral Zone Trap: Hockey's Agents of Change (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781772125795)

Overcoming the Neutral Zone Trap challenges hockey's norms, pushes its boundaries, and provides new ways of conceptualizing its role in North American culture. The editors of this engaging interdisciplinary collection use the metaphor of the neutral zone trap to explore the ways that hockey's culture and structures work to exclude marginalized people. The book features both personal and scholarly accounts of agents of change--people, ideas, and events--that confront the challenges associated with making hockey a more inclusive space. By exposing assumptions about hockey culture, Overcoming the Neutral Zone Trap opens up critical discussions of previously underexplored topics as they relate to the women's game, Indigenous participation, viable career pathways, masculine identities, hockey parents, mental health, and social media. This is a book for fans, players, organizers, and researchers alike.

Contributors: Angie Abdou, Kieran Block, Cam Braes, William Bridel, Judy Davidson, Jonathon R.J. Edwards, Catherine Houston, Colin D. Howell, Chelsey H. Leahy, Roger G. LeBlanc, Cheryl A. MacDonald, Fred Mason, Brock McGillis, Vicky Paraschak, Brett Pardy, Ann Pegoraro, Kyle A. Rich, Tavis Smith, Noah Underwood

Author: Cheryl A. MacDonald
ISBN-10: 1772125792
ISBN-13: 9781772125795
Publisher: University of Alberta Press
Language: English
Published: 01/27/2022
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.80d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 11/01/2022