New Perspectives on Sport and 'Deviance': Consumption, Peformativity and Social Control

by Tim Crabbe and Tony Blackshaw

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415288851
• ISBN13: 9780415288859
• Release Date: September 2004
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.2" x 9.1"