Sport and the Social Signifi cance of Pleasure This innovative text’s critical examination foregrounds the prime reason why so many people participate in or watch sport—pleasure. Although there has been a “turn” to emotions and affect within academia over the last two decades, it is somewhat remiss that pleasure, as an integral aspect of human life, has not received greater attention from sociologists of sport, exercise and physical education. This book addresses this issue with an unabashed examination of sport and the moving body via a “pleasure lens.” It pro- vides new insights about the production of various identities, power relations and social issues, and the dialectical links between the socio-cultural and the body. Taking a wide-sweeping view of pleasure—dignifi ed and debauched, distinguished and mundane—it examines topics as diverse as aging, health, fandom, running, extreme sports, biopolitics, consumerism, feminism, sex and sexuality. In drawing from diverse theoretical approaches and original empirical research, the text reveals the social and political signifi cance of plea- sure and provides a more rounded, dynamic and sensual account of sport. Richard Pringle is an Associate Professor in the School of Curriculum and Pedagogy in the Faculty of Education at the University of Auckland. Robert E. Rinehart is Associate Professor in Sport and Leisure Studies at the University of Waikato. Jayne Caudwell is Reader in Sport, Gender and Sexualities at the University of Brighton. 66244-599d-1Pass-0FM-r01.indd244-599d-1Pass-0FM-r01.indd i 44/3/2015/3/2015 112:34:232:34:23 PPMM Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society For a full list of titles in this series, please visit www.routledge.com 11 Ultimate Fighting and 18 Sport Policy in Britain Embodiment Barrie Houlihan and Iain Lindsey Violence, Gender and Mixed Martial Arts 19 Sports and Christianity Dale C. 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Mike Hartill Rinehart and Jayne Caudwell 66244-599d-1Pass-0FM-r01.indd244-599d-1Pass-0FM-r01.indd iiiiii 44/3/2015/3/2015 112:34:232:34:23 PPMM 66244-599d-1Pass-0FM-r01.indd244-599d-1Pass-0FM-r01.indd iivv 44/3/2015/3/2015 112:34:232:34:23 PPMM Sport and the Social Signifi cance of Pleasure Richard Pringle, Robert E. Rinehart and Jayne Caudwell 66244-599d-1Pass-0FM-r01.indd244-599d-1Pass-0FM-r01.indd v 44/3/2015/3/2015 112:34:232:34:23 PPMM First published 2015 by Routledge 711 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017 and by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business © 2015 Taylor & Francis “The Force That Through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower” By Dylan Thomas, from The Poems of Dylan Thomas , copyright ©1939 by New Directions Publishing Corp. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp. 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No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. Trademark Notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identifi cation and explanation without intent to infringe. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data [CIP data] ISBN: 978-0-415-88510-2 (hbk) ISBN: 978-1-315-71963-4 (ebk) Typeset in Sabon by Apex CoVantage, LLC 66244-599d-1Pass-0FM-r01.indd244-599d-1Pass-0FM-r01.indd vvii 44/3/2015/3/2015 112:34:242:34:24 PPMM Contents List of Figures ix Acknowledgments xi 1 Proem: Sport and the Social Signifi cance of Pleasure 1 RICHARD PRINGLE, ROBERT E. RINEHART AND JAYNE CAUDWELL 2 Pleasures Small and Large 12 ROBERT E. RINEHART 3 A Short History of Pleasure 29 RICHARD PRINGLE 4 Theorizing Sporting Pleasures across the Disciplines 41 RICHARD PRINGLE 5 Studying Sport, Feminism and Pleasure 64 JAYNE CAUDWELL 6 Aging Bod(ies) and Pleasure: Poetic Orientations 80 ROBERT E. RINEHART 7 Running for Pleasures 97 JAYNE CAUDWELL 8 When the Pleasurable Is Political: An Affective Analysis of Viewing the Olympics 116 RICHARD PRINGLE 9 ‘I Just Love Watching Football’ 133 JAYNE CAUDWELL 66244-599d-1Pass-0FM-r01.indd244-599d-1Pass-0FM-r01.indd vviiii 44/3/2015/3/2015 112:34:242:34:24 PPMM viii Contents 10 Aesthetic Pleasure and Sport: The Case of Love + Guts: Skateboarding Killed the Art Show 151 ROBERT E. RINEHART 11 Anhedonia and Alternative Sports 180 ROBERT E. RINEHART 12 Be Happy, Play Sport?: Governing Happiness via the Promotion of Sport 195 RICHARD PRINGLE Authors 209 References 211 Index 235 66244-599d-1Pass-0FM-r01.indd244-599d-1Pass-0FM-r01.indd vviiiiii 44/3/2015/3/2015 112:34:242:34:24 PPMM Figures 7.1 Bogor, nr. Jakarta, Island of Java, Indonesia 104 10.1 Outside Manky Chops Gallery 166 10.2 ‘Solitude’ 167 10.3 ‘Forever Rolling’ and ‘Mike’s Will’ 168 10.4 ‘Drain it, ride it’; ‘Early Release’; ‘Dive In’; ‘Dive In’; ‘Early Release’; ‘Drain it, ride it’ 170 10.5 ‘Get rotten’ 171 10.6 ‘Adro hand’ 173 10.7 ‘Untitled’ 174 10.8 ‘Drawings’ 175 10.9 ‘Non Compliance’ and ‘Six Fingers’ 176 66244-599d-1Pass-0FM-r01.indd244-599d-1Pass-0FM-r01.indd iixx 44/3/2015/3/2015 112:34:242:34:24 PPMM 66244-599d-1Pass-0FM-r01.indd244-599d-1Pass-0FM-r01.indd x 44/3/2015/3/2015 112:34:242:34:24 PPMM Acknowledgments RICHARD PRINGLE My contributions to this text have been enriched through discussions with Doug Booth, Mark Falcous—my erudite doctoral students Anita Harman and Gōran Gerdin—and, of course, Dixie, Zachary and Luke (who have taught me a lot about pleasure). I have also appreciated the experience and learned considerably through writing with Bob and Jayne: your collective intellect, wit and friendship are warmly regarded.