Examining Sport Histories: Power, Paradigms, and Reflexivity

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Examining Sport Histories: Power, Paradigms, and Reflexivity explores the ways in which postmodernist and poststructural approaches can enrich the study of the sporting past. Throughout the chapters, the internationally respected authors draw from their own vast experiences within the study of sport history to collectively promote postmodernism and poststructuralism as forms of social theory that can guide the future of sport historical research. Edited by Richard Pringle and Murray Phillips, Examining Sport Histories demonstrates how sport studies scholars might be more adventurous in their thinking, research, and writing.

 

Section I: An Introduction to Postmodern Sport Histories
Section II Politics, Ethics, Affects, and the Doing of Sport History
Section III: Challenges and Opportunities

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments................................................................ vii

Section I: An Introduction to Postmodern Sport Histories

Chapter 1: Sport History, Historiography and Postmodern Social Theory: An Introduction            1

Richard Pringle and Murray Phillips

Chapter 2: Postmodern Social Theory and the Art, Practice and Reading of History   27

Richard Pringle and Murray Phillips

Chapter 3: Sense and Sensibility: A Pragmatic Postmodernism for

Sport History.................................................................................... 59

Jaime Schultz

Section II: Politics, Ethics, Affects, and the Doing of Sport History

Chapter 4: Politics, Ethics, Affects: Reflections on a Historiographic Turn......................................................................... 79

Douglas Booth

Chapter 5: Destabilizing the Past Through Photographs: Picturing Japanese Sporting Tours to Australia     109

Gary Osmond

Chapter 6: Sport History Legitimation: A Historical Examination of What Constitutes “Good” Sport History  131

Richard Pringle

Chapter 7: “It’s That Feeling Sick in My Guts That I Think I Like the Most”: Sport, Pleasure, and Embodied Suffering................... 159

Matthew Klugman

Chapter 8: Doing Foucauldian Sport History....................................... 193

Pirkko Markula and Courtney W. Mason

Chapter 9: Foucault, Genealogy, Sport, and Indigeneity........................ 225

Brendan Hokowhitu

Section III: Challenges and Opportunities

Chapter 10: Interrogating Sporting Pasts and Presents: Whose Scholar- ship Will Count, and What Will It Count For?.................... 251

Mark Falcous and Joseph Maguire

Chapter 11: Poetic Sensibilities and the Use of Fiction for Sport History: Map-making in Representations of the Past...................... 273

Robert E. Rinehart

Chapter 12: On the Pros and Cons of Postmodern Sport History.............. 295

Daryl Adair

Index..................................................................... 313

About the Editors................................................. 317

About the Authors................................................ 319