1st Edition

Sport and Performance in the Twenty-First Century

By Kelsey Blair Copyright 2023
150 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

150 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

150 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Analyzing sport through the lens of performance and theorizing performance through the lens of sport, Sport and Performance in the Twenty-First Century offers a field intervention, a series of in-depth performance analyses, and an investigation of the intersection between sport performances and public life in the historical present in the global north. The objectives of this book are... Read more

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Sport and the Field of Performance

Chapter 1: Performance Genres, Sport, and Match-fixing at the 2012 Olympic Games

Chapter 2: Configurations and Formations: The Patterning of Behaviour in Performance Activities and the Practice of Women’s Basketball

Chapter 3: The Patterning of Audience Behaviours and Hockey in Canada

Chapter 4: Sequences of Action Across Genres: Injury Mini-Dramas and American Football

Chapter 5: Gestural Marks in Sport Performance, The Genealogy of the Butterfly, and the Refugee Olympic Team

Appendix 1

Index

Biography

Kelsey Blair is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English at Concordia University in Montreal. She is a theatre, performance, and cultural studies scholar, a university teacher, an author, and a freelance writer.