Authors:
- Uniquely combines ethnography, media studies, and sociology to explore understandings of cultural dynamics and diversity
- Challenges dominant discourse in critical sports sociology by applying anthropological and performance theories
- Sensitive to both the minutiae of social life as well as media-driven national narratives around sport
Part of the book series: Cultural Sociology (CULTSOC)
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Media, Sport Enchantment and Gender
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Socialization, Sport Felicity and Gender
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Back Matter
About this book
Applying a cultural sociology of performance, this book interrogates how the meaning of sport intersects with gender. Trygve B. Broch points out uncertainties in the causal arguments made by key figures in the cultural studies tradition, instead advancing a meaning-centered study of sports as involving both a social and an athletic performance. Sports not only reflect or reverse social realities, but capture and keep our attention when we use and experience them as a means to reflect on social life, injustice, and hierarchy. More specifically, blending approaches from media studies with ethnography, Broch explores the women-dominated sport of handball in Norway, a country that considers gender equality a basis of democracy. As such, the analyses here show how broadly available meanings about sameness and equality are mediated and experienced through a performative feel for the game.
Reviews
“I found it to be a challenging read. … I would encourage anyone with an interest in sport and gender to read this book, challenging as it might be, primarily for the stories about the lives and interactions of the young handball players.” (Alan Bairner, idrottsforum.org, June 18, 2020)
“In situating his ethnographic study of handball in Norway in a wider cultural sociological perspective, Broch has provided a refreshing, heterodox account of the experiential appeal and the progressive possibilities of sport. A Performative Feel for the Game is, no doubt, something of a provocation. But, it is one that will repay careful consideration by sport sociologists who are committed to understanding how global sport’s many auto-reproductive gender hierarchies might be shaken and dismantled.” (David Rowe, Emeritus Professor of Cultural Research, Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University, Australia, and author of Sport, Culture and the Media (1999) and Global Media Sport (2011))Authors and Affiliations
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Inland Norway University of Applied Scie, Elverum, Norway
Trygve B. Broch
About the author
Trygve B. Broch is Associate Professor at the Department of Public Health and Sport Sciences, Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences, Norway. He is also a Faculty Fellow at the Center for Cultural Sociology, Yale University, USA.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: A Performative Feel for the Game
Book Subtitle: How Meaningful Sports Shape Gender, Bodies, and Social Life
Authors: Trygve B. Broch
Series Title: Cultural Sociology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-35129-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-35128-1Published: 22 December 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-35131-1Published: 22 December 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-35129-8Published: 21 December 2019
Series ISSN: 2946-3572
Series E-ISSN: 2946-3580
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 209
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Sociological Theory, Sociology of Sport and Leisure, Sociology of Culture, Gender Studies