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Sport and violence : rethinking Elias / Dominique Bodin and Luc Robène.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Sport in the global society. Historical perspectivesPublisher: London : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2017Copyright date: ©2017Description: xii, 177 pages ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1138213004
  • 9781138213005
Other title:
  • Rethinking Elias
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.483 23
LOC classification:
  • GV706.7 .B633 2017
Contents:
Introduction -- 1. Sport and Civilisation: Violence Mastered. From the Lack of a Definition for Violence to the Illusory Pacifying Role of Modern Sports -- 2. Sports and Violence Reflected in the Mirror of Modern Societies: Sport Ambiguities -- 3. Role Distance in Question: When it is No Longer Participating But Winning Which is Important -- 4. Sport to the Rescue of the Suburbs: Sport to Educate? Sport to Reassure? When Politicians Respond to the Signs of Disturbance of Law and Order -- 5. Hooligans, Casuals, Independents: Decivilisation or Rationalisation of the Activity? -- 6. Sport, Technique and Violence: The Technical Modes for Generating Sport Violence -- 7. Sport, Prison, Violence: On Imprisonment and Confinement Conditions - 'French Prison Sport' and the Instruments of the World's Good Conscience -- 8. Sport and Civilisation: Violence Mastered? From Civilising Functions to Pacifying Functions.
Summary: "The aim of this book, in discussing Elias’s theory, is not to refute it. Tendentiously, the theory works with its weaknesses and strong points and it has been enriched by a number of authors over time. The objective of this volume is to discuss the blind spots and, more simply, what is too often taken for granted: namely the obvious pacifying effect of sports and/or produced by sports."--Publisher's website.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- 1. Sport and Civilisation: Violence Mastered. From the Lack of a Definition for Violence to the Illusory Pacifying Role of Modern Sports -- 2. Sports and Violence Reflected in the Mirror of Modern Societies: Sport Ambiguities -- 3. Role Distance in Question: When it is No Longer Participating But Winning Which is Important -- 4. Sport to the Rescue of the Suburbs: Sport to Educate? Sport to Reassure? When Politicians Respond to the Signs of Disturbance of Law and Order -- 5. Hooligans, Casuals, Independents: Decivilisation or Rationalisation of the Activity? -- 6. Sport, Technique and Violence: The Technical Modes for Generating Sport Violence -- 7. Sport, Prison, Violence: On Imprisonment and Confinement Conditions - 'French Prison Sport' and the Instruments of the World's Good Conscience -- 8. Sport and Civilisation: Violence Mastered? From Civilising Functions to Pacifying Functions.

"The aim of this book, in discussing Elias’s theory, is not to refute it. Tendentiously, the theory works with its weaknesses and strong points and it has been enriched by a number of authors over time. The objective of this volume is to discuss the blind spots and, more simply, what is too often taken for granted: namely the obvious pacifying effect of sports and/or produced by sports."--Publisher's website.

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