‘I’m not a warrior, I’m a basketball player’: A narrative on professional sport in troubled times
Journal: International Review for the Sociology of Sport
Year: 2025

Encouraged by work calling for different approaches to examining sport industry issues, a narrative inquiry was adopted to interrogate the relationships between individual experiences and agency, management practices, and a particular sport organisation setting through the most recent turns of the Russia–Ukraine war. Commencing on 24 February 2022, this moment and ensuing consequences for professional Ukrainian basketball players reveal insights into personal sports work experiences within a dyn