Assemblage Thinking as Attunement to Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Youth Sport Research.

The article focuses on deploying assemblage thinking as a theoretical lens to critically examine race, gender, and sexuality in youth sport research. Assemblage thinking, rooted in Deleuze and Guattari's concept of agencement, emphasizes relationality, immanence, and materiality, viewing identities as provisional performative doings rather than fixed categories. This approach challenges traditional humanist and intersectional frameworks by highlighting how youth sport assemblages are shaped by dynamic interactions among human and nonhuman actants within broader forces such as capitalism, which perpetuates inequalities along racial, gender, and sexual lines. The article advocates for youth sport researchers to adopt performative participation and transformative methodologies that recognize shared agency and the complex material-semiotic entanglements influencing development and wellbeing, aiming to foster more inclusive and sustainable youth sport environments.