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A Performative Feel for the GameThrowing Like a Handballboy: Enchanted Flows of Power

A Performative Feel for the Game: Throwing Like a Handballboy: Enchanted Flows of Power [This chapter ends the book’s looping transitioning from a sport media study to a youth sports ethnography, and back again. While the argument advocated throughout this book has been one in which social power has been bracketed out to foster a meaning-centered analysis, the boys’ team forcefully brings power relations back onto the stage. At the center of their deep play with status hierarchies and masculinities, resides the coach’s ritualized pregame use of the Hollywood movie Any Given Sunday. As a hyperbolic representation of masculinity, the movie brings to the fore a nerve of ambivalence that troubled the team throughout the season. The big male body of imagined elite athletes was fascinating. Yet, in being out of reach for most of them, it was often labeled and ridiculed as the body of a hyperbolic weight-pumper with a stone-age mentality. The world of elite competition, fame, and fortune portrayed in the media was indeed attractive. Yet, what the coach wanted the most was a team that would stay together and stay untampered by the lures of patriarchal capitalism. This chapter shows how inequality is rendered tolerable in dialog, both on the discursive surface and in the cultural depths of our irreconcilable wishes.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A Performative Feel for the GameThrowing Like a Handballboy: Enchanted Flows of Power

Part of the Cultural Sociology Book Series
Broch, Trygve B.
Springer Journals — Dec 22, 2019
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Springer International Publishing
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© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
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978-3-030-35128-1
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147 –185
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10.1007/978-3-030-35129-8_5
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[This chapter ends the book’s looping transitioning from a sport media study to a youth sports ethnography, and back again. While the argument advocated throughout this book has been one in which social power has been bracketed out to foster a meaning-centered analysis, the boys’ team forcefully brings power relations back onto the stage. At the center of their deep play with status hierarchies and masculinities, resides the coach’s ritualized pregame use of the Hollywood movie Any Given Sunday. As a hyperbolic representation of masculinity, the movie brings to the fore a nerve of ambivalence that troubled the team throughout the season. The big male body of imagined elite athletes was fascinating. Yet, in being out of reach for most of them, it was often labeled and ridiculed as the body of a hyperbolic weight-pumper with a stone-age mentality. The world of elite competition, fame, and fortune portrayed in the media was indeed attractive. Yet, what the coach wanted the most was a team that would stay together and stay untampered by the lures of patriarchal capitalism. This chapter shows how inequality is rendered tolerable in dialog, both on the discursive surface and in the cultural depths of our irreconcilable wishes.]

Published: Dec 22, 2019

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