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Sport and the Social Significance of Pleasure (Paperback)
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Sport and the Social Significance of Pleasure (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society
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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.
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