Sports, Bodies, and Emotions
Sports, Bodies, and Emotions
Monday, 7 July 2025: 13:00-14:45
Location: SJES009 (Faculty of Legal, Economic, and Social Sciences (JES))
RC36 Alienation Theory and Research (host committee) Language: English
This session welcomes theory and research on sporting institutions and practices and the bodies and emotions they mobilize, discipline, and/or 'liberate'. Alienation theory meets sports sociology on a wide field of possibilities: studies of “ the global sport media complex” and the way it sculpts bodies, minds and aspirations, Foucaultian-inspired notions of sport and biopower, and feminist approaches to women’s emancipatory struggles that through sport reclaim their bodies, their autonomy, full rights to the street and to public space, to mention just a few of the many fascinating and pertinent arenas of research and debate that can enrich our thinking and cast new light on society, culture, politics and experience.
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