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

by Tim Crabbe and Tony Blackshaw

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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:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0415288843

ISBN13:9780415288842

Release Date:September 2004

Publisher:Routledge

Length:224 Pages

Weight:1.03 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 6.1" x 9.4"

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Pathologies Psychology Sports & Outdoors Sports & Recreation

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