Sport and the Social Significance of Pleasure

Nonfiction, Sports, Reference, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science
Cover of the book Sport and the Social Significance of Pleasure by Richard Pringle, Robert E. Rinehart, Jayne Caudwell, Taylor and Francis
View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart
Author: Richard Pringle, Robert E. Rinehart, Jayne Caudwell ISBN: 9781317516576
Publisher: Taylor and Francis Publication: June 5, 2015
Imprint: Routledge Language: English
Author: Richard Pringle, Robert E. Rinehart, Jayne Caudwell
ISBN: 9781317516576
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Publication: June 5, 2015
Imprint: Routledge
Language: English

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.

View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart

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.

More books from Taylor and Francis

Cover of the book Untangled Web by Richard Pringle, Robert E. Rinehart, Jayne Caudwell
Cover of the book The Material Culture and Social Institutions of the Simpler Peoples (Routledge Revivals) by Richard Pringle, Robert E. Rinehart, Jayne Caudwell
Cover of the book Childhood by Richard Pringle, Robert E. Rinehart, Jayne Caudwell
Cover of the book The Dialectics of Liquidity Crisis by Richard Pringle, Robert E. Rinehart, Jayne Caudwell
Cover of the book Witchcraft and Sorcery in East Africa by Richard Pringle, Robert E. Rinehart, Jayne Caudwell
Cover of the book Alexander the Great: The Invisible Enemy by Richard Pringle, Robert E. Rinehart, Jayne Caudwell
Cover of the book Unequal Europe by Richard Pringle, Robert E. Rinehart, Jayne Caudwell
Cover of the book Women and Work Culture by Richard Pringle, Robert E. Rinehart, Jayne Caudwell
Cover of the book Religious Ethics and Migration by Richard Pringle, Robert E. Rinehart, Jayne Caudwell
Cover of the book Greening Post-Industrial Cities by Richard Pringle, Robert E. Rinehart, Jayne Caudwell
Cover of the book Black Edwardians by Richard Pringle, Robert E. Rinehart, Jayne Caudwell
Cover of the book Post-Keynesian Views of the Crisis and its Remedies by Richard Pringle, Robert E. Rinehart, Jayne Caudwell
Cover of the book Before and After the Cold War by Richard Pringle, Robert E. Rinehart, Jayne Caudwell
Cover of the book Shakespeare's Ghost Writers by Richard Pringle, Robert E. Rinehart, Jayne Caudwell
Cover of the book Culture/Metaculture by Richard Pringle, Robert E. Rinehart, Jayne Caudwell
We use our own "cookies" and third party cookies to improve services and to see statistical information. By using this website, you agree to our Privacy Policy