The Making of Sporting Cultures presents an analysis of western
sport by examining how the collective passions and feelings of
people have contributed to the making of sport as a ?way of life?.
The popularity of sport is so pronounced in some cases that we
speak of certain sports as ?national pastimes?. Baseball in the
United States, soccer in Britain and cricket in the Caribbean are
among the relevant examples discussed.
Rather than regarding the historical development of sport as the
outcome of passive spectator reception, this work is interested in
how sporting cultures have been made and developed over time
through the active engagement of its enthusiasts. This is to study
the history of sport not only ?from below?, but also ?from within?,
as a means to understanding the ?deep relationship? between sport
and people within class contexts ? the middle class as well as the
working class. Contestation over the making of sport along axes of
race, gender and class are discussed where relevant. A range of
cultural writers and theorists are examined in regard to both how
their writing can help us understand the making of sport and as to
how sport might be located within an overall cultural context ? in
different places and times.
The book will appeal to students and academics within humanities
disciplines such as cultural studies, history and sociology and to
those in sport studies programmes interested in the historical,
cultural and social aspects of sport.
This book was published as a special issue of Sport in
Society.
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