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Informationen zum Autor Tim Crabbe, Tony Blackshaw Klappentext The 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. Zusammenfassung This book awakens the sociology of sport to the possibilities of re-imagining 'deviance' in the realm of sport and offers a rigorous approach which will appeal to academics and students alike. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part 1: Reviewing perspectives on sport and 'deviance' 1. Introduction: Endings or new beginnings? 2. Gladiatorial sociology: grand narratives, deviancy theory and sport 3. Beyond grand narratives: Poststructuralism, new directions and functionalist legacies Part 2: Re-imagining theory and 'method' 4. Understanding sport and 'deviance' in liquid modernity: A conceptual 'toolkit' 5. 'Talking Tactics': Representing 'deviance' in sport Part 3: 'Watching the game': Evoking the new aesthetics of sport and 'deviance' 6. The Premiership: Sporting soap opera and consumptive 'deviance' 7. Cruising and the performativity of consumptive 'deviance' 8. 'jumpers for goalposts': The community sports agenda and the search for effective control 9. Conclusion: They call it 'roasting'
