00000nam a2200000 n 4500 UP-1685506469195178346 Buklod 20240801110156.0 aa r 001 0 ta 230405s2017 enka r b 001 0 eng d 9781509501571 (paperback) 19602267 CHK-6172 Belview Php1725.00 DLC DCHK rda eng GV 706.5 G78 2017 Gruneau, Richard S. 1948- author Sport and modernity Richard Gruneau. Cambridge, UK Malden, MA, USA Polity Press [2017] x, 246 pages illustrations 23 cm text rdacontent unmediated rdamedia volume rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references and index Athletics, body imagery and spectacle : Greco-Roman practices, discourses and ideologies -- The politics of representation : English sport as an object and project of modernity -- "Staging" (capitalist/colonial) modernity : international exhibitions and Olympics -- German modernism, anti-modernism and the critical theory of sport -- A savage sorting of "winners" and "losers" : modernization, development, sport, and the challenge of slums. This important new book from one of the world's leading sociologists of sport weaves together social theory, history and political economy to provide a highly original analysis of the complex relationship between sport and modernity. Incorporating a powerful set of theoretical insights from traditions and thinkers ranging from classical Marxism and the Frankfurt School of Foucault and Bourdieu, Gruneau analyzes the emergence of "sport" as a distinctive field of practice in western societies. Examining subjects including the legacy of Greek and Roman antiquity, representations of sports in nineteenth-century England, Nazism, and mode4rn "mega-events" such as the Olympics and World Cup, he seeks to show how sport developed into an arena which articulated competing understandings of the kinds of people, bodies and practices best suited to the modern western world. This book thereby explores with brio and sophistication how the ever-changing economic, social, and political relations of modernity have been produced and reproduced, and sometimes also opposed and escaped, through sport, from the Enlightenment to the rise of neoliberalism, as well as examining how the study of exercise, athletics, the body, and the spectacle of sport can deepen our understanding of the nature of modernity. It will be essential reading for students and scholars of the sociology and history of sport sociology of culture, cultural history, and cultural studies Civilization, Modern Philosophy. Sports Philosophy. Sports Sociological aspects. FO UPD DCHK GV 706.5 G78 2017 Book