New Perspectives Sport and 'Deviance': Consumption, Peformativit

Taylor & Francis

New Perspectives on Sport and 'Deviance'Consumption, Peformativity and Social Control\nAuthor(s): Tim Crabbe, Tony Blackshaw\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780415288859, 978-0415288859\nSynopsis\nThe 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.\n\nIn addressing these developments this book provides a new and insightful approach toward the study of 'deviance' in the realm of sport.\n\nNew 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 fi.