New Perspectives on Sport and 'deviance': Consumption, Performativity and Social ControlThe everyday makeup of contemporary sport is increasingly characterised by a perceived explosion of 'deviance' - violence, drug taking, racism, homophobia, misogyny, corruption and excess. Whereas once these behaviours may have been subject to the moral judgments of authority, in the face of dramatic socio-cultural change they become more a matter of populist consumer gaze. In addressing these developments this book provides a new and insightful approach toward the study of 'deviance' in the realm of sport. New Perspectives in Sport and 'Deviance' awakens the sociology of sport to the possibilities of re-imagining 'deviance' and offers an evocative approach which will appeal both to academics and students in the field of sociology of sport and sociology of deviance. |
Contents
endings or new beginnings? | 3 |
grand narratives deviancy theory and sport | 18 |
poststructuralism new directions | 42 |
representing deviance in sport | 88 |
PART III | 103 |
Cruising and the performativity of consumptive deviance | 134 |
they call it roasting | 176 |