Readjusting our sporting sites/sight: sportification and the theatricality of social life

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17511321.2015.1065433" target="_blank" >http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17511321.2015.1065433</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17511321.2015.1065433" target="_blank" >10.1080/17511321.2015.1065433</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Readjusting our sporting sites/sight: sportification and the theatricality of social life

Original language description

This paper points out the potential of using sport for the analysis of society. Cultivated human movement is a specific social and cultural subsystem (involving sport, movement culture and physical culture), yet it becomes a part of wider social discourses by extending some of its characteristics into various other spheres. This process, theorised as sportification, provides as useful concept to examine the permeation of certain phenomena from the area of sport into the social reality outside of sport.In this paper, we investigate the phenomena of sportification which we parallel with visual culture and spectatorship practices in the Renaissance era. The emphasis in our investigation is on theatricality and performativity; particularly, the superficial spectator engagement with modern sport and sporting spectacles. Unlike the significance afforded to visualisation and deeper symbolic interpretation in Renaissance art, contemporary cultural shifts have changed and challenged the ways i

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_x - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

CEP classification

AA - Philosophy and religion

OECD FORD branch

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Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2015

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Sport, Ethics and Philosophy

ISSN

1751-1321

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

9

Issue of the periodical within the volume

3

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

14

Pages from-to

257-270

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

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