Sport and the Social Significance of Pleasure

ISBN-13: 9781138574274 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 242 str.

Richard Pringle; Robert E. Rinehart; Jayne Caudwell

Opis

This book draws on diverse theoretical approaches, disciplines and original empirical research to critically reveal the socio-cultural and political importance of sporting pleasure, and provide a more rounded, dynamic and visceral account of sport and the moving body.

Spis treści

1. Proem: Sport and the Social Significance of Pleasure  Richard Pringle, Robert E. Rinehart and Jayne Caudwell  2. Pleasures Small and Large  Robert E. Rinehart  3. A Short History of Pleasure  Richard Pringle  4. Theorizing Sporting Pleasures Across the Disciplines  Richard Pringle  5. Studying Sport, Feminism and Pleasure  Jayne Caudwell  6. Aging Bod(ies) and Pleasure: Poetic Orientations  Robert E. Rinehart  7. Running for Pleasures  Jayne Caudwell  8. When the Pleasurable Is Political: An Affective Analysis of Viewing the Olympics  Richard Pringle  9. "I Just Love Watching Football"  Jayne Caudwell  10. Aesthetic Pleasure and Sport: The Case of Love + Guts: Skateboarding Killed the Art Show  Robert E. Rinehart  11. Anhedonia and Alternative Sports  Robert E. Rinehart  12. Be Happy, Play Sport?: Governing Happiness via the Promotion of Sport  Richard Pringle

O autorze

Richard Pringle is an Associate Professor in the School of Curriculum and Pedagogy in the Faculty of Education at the University of Auckland.

Robert E. Rinehart is Associate Professor in Sport and Leisure Studies at the University of Waikato.

Jayne Caudwell is Reader in Sport, Gender and Sexualities at the University of Brighton.