Sport and the Social Significance of Pleasure

ISBN-13: 9780415885102 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 242 str.

Richard Pringle; Bob Rinehart; Jayne Caudwell

Opis

This innovative text's critical examination foregrounds the prime reason why so many people participate in or watch sport - pleasure. Although there has been a "turn" to emotions and affect within academia over the last two decades, it has been somewhat remiss that pleasure, as an integral aspect of human life, has not received greater attention from sociologists of sport, exercise and physical education. This book addresses this issue via an unabashed examination of sport and the moving body via a "pleasure lens." It provides new insights about the production of various identities, power relations and social issues, and the dialectical links between the socio-cultural and the body. Taking a wide-sweeping view of pleasure - dignified and debauched, distinguished and mundane - it examines topics as diverse as aging, health, fandom, running, extreme sports, biopolitics, consumerism, feminism, sex and sexuality. In drawing from diverse theoretical approaches and original empirical research, the text reveals the social and political significance of pleasure and provides a more rounded, dynamic and sensual account of sport.

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.