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Dr Kristina Brümmer, research assistant at the Institute of Sport Science at the University of Oldenburg and former fellow of the DFG Research Training Group "Self-Formations. Practices of Subjectivation in Historical and Interdisciplinary Perspective", received the dissertation prize awarded by the DGS section "Sociology of the Body and Sport" for the years 2014-2016 on 29 September 2016.
The dissertation entitled "Mitspielfähigkeit. Sports training as formative practice" uses the example of sports acrobatic training to address the question of how female athletes deal with uncertainty in high-risk exercises. Video-based detailed analyses of training episodes show how an ability to deal creatively with uncertainty and coordination with others is learnt in training practice. The study thus answers sociological questions about the connection between the practical production of social order and the self-education of its actors that are relevant far beyond the specific case. It was published in early 2015 as a monograph in the series "Practices of Subjectivation" by transcript, Bielefeld.
Every two years, a jury consisting of a member of the Section's Executive Board, a university lecturer with relevant expertise and a representative of the mid-level faculty selects an outstanding dissertation in the field of body and sport sociology from the applications received. This year, the award was presented at the 38th Congress of the German Sociological Association (DGS) "Closed Societies" in Bamberg.