num_pages: 430
description: 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.
language: English
title: Sport and Postmodern Times (SUNY Series on Sport, Culture, and Social Relations)
titlecomplete: Sport and Postmodern Times (SUNY Series on Sport, Culture, and Social Relations) (Suny Sport, Culture, and Social Relations)
ratings_count: 1
publisher: State University of New York Press