A Performative Feel for the Game

How Meaningful Sports Shape Gender, Bodies, and Social Life
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-3-030-35128-1
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 209 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 413 g

Reihe: Cultural Sociology

Applying a cultural sociology of performance, this book interrogates how the meaning of sport intersects with gender. Trygve B. Broch points out uncertainties in the causal arguments made by key figures in the cultural studies tradition, instead advancing a meaning-centered study of sports as involving both a social and an athletic performance. Sports not only reflect or reverse social realities, but capture and keep our attention when we use and experience them as a means to reflect on social life, injustice, and hierarchy. More specifically, blending approaches from media studies with ethnography, Broch explores the women-dominated sport of handball in Norway, a country that considers gender equality a basis of democracy. As such, the analyses here show how broadly available meanings about sameness and equality are mediated and experienced through a performative feel for the game.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Broch, Trygve B.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Kultursoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Freizeitsoziologie, Konsumsoziologie, Alltagssoziologie, Populärkultur
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Gesellschaftstheorie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1: Sport, Meaning and Gender.- Part I.- Chapter 2: Media, sport enchantment and gender.- Chapter 3: Enchanted fusion: bringing together game play and gender.- Part II.- Chapter 4: Socialization, sport felicity and gender.- Chapter 5: Throwing like a handballboy: enchanted flows of power.- Chapter 6: By way of conclusion.

Über Autor(innen)

Trygve B. Broch is Associate Professor at the Department of Public Health and Sport Sciences, Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences, Norway. He is also a Faculty Fellow at the Center for Cultural Sociology, Yale University, USA.