Sociologies (Oct 2019)
Comparer les politiques antidopage
Abstract
The issue of doping in sport questions ways of designing comparative research. On the one hand, because the social practices the institutions try to fight are often the fruits of both international networks and local conditions. On the other hand, because the harmonization policy pursued by the World Anti-Doping Agency is being built on the basis of alignments with international standards. Finally, these policies evaluation processes are sometimes self-referenced and are based on the production of opaque indicators. This article proposes an alternative by building-up corpus of texts in several languages upon which international comparisons can be made. One of their development goals would be to understand the interconnection conditions between an internationalization process and local realities as well as the functioning of heterogeneous institutions.
