Ansätze einer Kultursoziologie des Sports

This volume collates different approaches to a cultural sociology of sport. Referring to recent theories of culture, its different chapters deal with diverse sporting phenomena and analyse them as cultural practices in which social orders and ‘their’ subjects are formed in constellations of bodies, movements, artefacts, technologies, the media and discourses. The volume pays particular attention to the emotions, experiences and power relations which take shape and are established in these processes. Apart from analysing sport from new cultural studies and historical perspectives and supplementing the currently hegemonic discourse in sports sociology, the volume aims to contribute to the refinement of the analytical instruments in this respect through their usefulness for exemplary empirical studies, thus adding new input to the respective theoretical debates. With contributions by Thomas Alkemeyer, Michael L. Butterworth, Kristina Brümmer, Nina Degele, Hanna Katharina Göbel, Robert Gugutzer, John Hockey, Sven Ismer, Alexandra Janetzko, Heiko Kirschner, Gabriele Klein, Christian Meyer, Volker Schürmann, Olaf Stieglitz, Jürgen Streeck, Jörg Strübing, Eckehart Velten Schäfer and Niklas Woermann.