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 three-fold. First, the book advocates
for the study of sport in the fields of Theatre and Performance Studies
and, through in-depth performance analyses, demonstrates how the
critical language and methods of performance studies help illuminate the
manifold impacts of the practices, activities, and events of sport.
Second, the book introduces new critical language that was originally
developed in conjunction with sport but is also designed for cross-genre
performance analysis. In introducing novel terminology, the book aims to
simultaneously facilitate analysis of sport performances and to
demonstrate how the study of sport can contribute to the fields of
Theatre and Performance Studies. Finally, the book investigates the
epistemological, affective, and socio-political effects of sport
performances in order to illuminate how sport performances influence,
and are influenced by, their historical conditions.
This study will be of great interest to students and scholars in Theatre
and Performance Studies, Physical Culture Studies, and Socio-Cultural
Sports Studies.
