Body Cultures: Essays on Sport, Space & Identity by Henning Eichberg

by Bale,John

• ISBN13: 9780415172325
• ISBN10: 0415172322
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-01-22
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Body Culturesexplores the relationship between the body, sport and landscape. This book presents the first critically edited collection of Henning Eichberg's seven provocative essays into "body culture". Eichberg, a well-known scholar in continental Europe who draws upon the ideas of Elias, Focault, Habermas and others, is now attracting considerable interest from sociologists, historians and geographers. This collection has been extensively edited to highlight Eichberg's most important arguments and themes. The editors focus particularly on Eichberg's provocative claims about the notion of space: from the micro-scale of how human bodies "express" themselves or are formally "disciplined" through their movements in space, to the macro-scale of how bodies and cultures are invented and contested in connection with the self- identities they come to possess in given locations. Introductory essays provide clear explanations and interpretations as well as a biography of Eichberg.

Table of Contents

List of figures	vii	(2)
Notes on contributors	ix	(2)
Acknowledgements	xi
Introductory essays	3	(44)
1 INTRODUCTION: HENNING EICHBERG, SPACE, IDENTITY AND BODY CULTURE	3	(19)
John Bale
Chris Philo
2 THINKING DANGEROUSLY: THE PERSON AND HIS IDEAS	22	(25)
Susan Brownell
Essays by Henning Eichberg	47	(118)
The body in space	47	(40)
3 THE ENCLOSURE OF THE BODY: THE HISTORICAL RELATIVITY OF `HEALTH', `NATURE' AND THE ENVIRONMENT OF SPORT	47	(21)
4 NEW SPATIAL CONFIGURATIONS OF SPORT? EXPERIENCES FROM DANISH ALTERNATIVE PLANNING	68	(19)
Bodies, cultures and identities	87	(24)
5 SPORT IN LIBYA: PHYSICAL CULTURE AS AN INDICATOR OF SOCIETAL CONTRADICTIONS	87	(13)
Ali Yehia El Mansouri
6 OLYMPIC SPORT: NEO-COLONIALISM AND ALTERNATIVES	100	(11)
Towards a new paradigm	111	(54)
7 BODY CULTURE AS PARADIGM: THE DANISH SOCIOLOGY OF SPORT	111	(17)
8 A REVOLUTION OF BODY CULTURE? TRADITIONAL GAMES ON THE WAY FROM MODERNISATION TO `POSTMODERNITY'	128	(21)
9 THE SOCIETAL CONSTRUCTION OF TIME AND SPACE AS SOCIOLOGY'S WAY HOME TO PHILOSOPHY: SPORT AS PARADIGM	149	(16)
Index	165