New perspectives on sport and 'deviance' : consumption, performativity and social control / Tony Blackshaw and Tim Crabbe.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Blackshaw, Tony, 1960-

Contributor:

Crabbe, Tim.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sports--Sociological aspects.

Sports.

Deviant behavior.

Social control.

Physical Description:

xii, 211 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2004.

Summary:

"New Perspectives on Sport and Deviance" examines a significant contradiction in our way of thinking about contemporary sport. On one side, there is a growing awareness of behavior that is judged to be deviant or outside the frameworks of 'normal' sporting practice, such as drug taking, violence, corruption, cheating, racism, homophobia and sexual abuse. On the other side, there exists a tendency within sporting, political and popular discourses to regard sport as an activity that is conferred with a whole series of positive attributes, a view that conceives sport as an unquestionably positive force in terms of individual and social development. In this systematic assessment of deviance in sport, the authors employ innovative theoretical approaches, building on Foucauldian notions of a 'normalizing gaze, ' to reveal the ways in which deviant behaviors are defined, and inclusive and exclusive practices are policed, within specific sporting cultures.

Contents:

Part I Reviewing perspectives on sport and 'deviance' 1

1 Introduction: endings or new beginnings? 3

2 Gladiatorial sociology: grand narratives, deviancy theory and sport 18

3 Beyond grand narratives: poststructuralism, new directions and functionalist legacies 42

Part II Re-imagining theory and 'method' 61

4 Understanding sport and 'deviance' in liquid modernity: a conceptual 'toolkit' 63

5 'Talking tactics': representing 'deviance' in sport 88

Part III 'Watching the game': evoking the new aesthetics of sport and 'deviance' 107

6 The Premiership: sporting soap opera and consumptive 'deviance' 109

7 Cruising and the performativity of consumptive 'deviance' 134

8 'Jumpers for goalposts': the community sports agenda and the search for effective social control 153

9 Conclusion: they call it 'roasting' 176.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [186]-201) and index.

ISBN:

0415288843

0415288851

OCLC:

54001441