TY - BOOK ID - 77901089 TI - Sport and postmodern times PY - 1998 SN - 9780585060842 9781438416748 0585060843 0791439259 0791439267 1438416741 PB - Albany State University of New York Press DB - UniCat KW - Sports KW - Physical education and training KW - Sociology of sports KW - Sociology KW - Sociological aspects. KW - Social aspects. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77901089 AB - Using postmodern social theory, this book expands our understanding of sport, the body, and the broader physical culture.This book provides critical insight into the questions of race, gender, sexuality, and locality in sport and society. Topics discussed include postmodern sport writing; sport and the postmodern deconstruction of gender and sexuality; virtual sport and the postmodern mediascape; discipline, normalization, rationalization, surveillance, panopticism, and other forms of power used to “invest” postmodern sporting bodies; and new perspectives on sport and physical culture, consumer culture, and postmodern geography. ER -