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CONCEPTS• thought on the origins and functions of sport; the agon motifAgon motif (origin of sport): Sport tied to human instinct to compete and be the best. Becoming the best - Testing the best - Beating the best - Being the best. Fratriarchies: grouping of yound males in societies of same age range, interests; undertake rites of passage together. Within men compete for prestige through physical prowess, courage and gameness. [Sports is the best example of agon]In snowboarding: male domination, bringing men together; works to put women down or exclude them to define their masculinity and ridiculing and humiliating women, strengthens fraternal bonds. - Contest- Recurring phenomenon - Deeply embedded cultural formTypes of agon: warfare, duels, hunting, athletic competitions.Zero-sum game: someone can win if someone else losesNon-zero sum game: all players gain relative to their starting points.Characteristic: rivalry, stress, pursuit of fame/honor, contest between and among peers. First among equals, not free-for-all, agon may be physical but also moral games. Codes of honor: possess certain qualities, rules and regulations, levels of competition, rewards (prestige, gifts)Problems: stress, likely to break rules, success brings insecurity and danger from peers, higher ranking of the victor the greater victory over them, person at top never at ease. Other sport origins: vegetation, funeral, catastrophic, ancient Greek, civilizing. • fratriarchies; rites of passage; types of male boarding bodies as categorized by Thorpe; idea of dissonance and conflict with gender order; “sports canon”;“gender logic”Rite of passage: formalized event marking a movement of a person from one status to another. Canon: body of literature or way of understanding. important, enduring, timeless. Sports canon: fit, young, male, team, traditional American sports.Gender logic: perspectives and ideas favoured and promoted by dominant groups in society; seems to be natural and accepted. Types of male boarding bodies: 1. Grommets2. The Bros3. The Old Guys Site of struggle, various agents attempt to negotiate, transform and preserve the meaning and use of the boarding bodies. • “sociology of mobilities”; “traveling cultures, traveling selves” paradigms; “travel”; “the “tourist”; “diasporic communities” (in terms of sport); critiques of travel narratives from such paradigms/theories; theory about “back regions,” “the primitive,” and travel. Ideas about distinction and types of capital in regard to travelTravel: way to give meaning to one's cultural taste. - Modernity- Escape from existing social roles and obligations; liminality- Travelers play new roles; discovery; change in a person- Fun; heightens imagination- Contrasts with work- Boundaries between beginning and end- Unaccustomed powerThe semiotics (study of meaning-making) of tourism:Travel is a social construction; fulfilling various cultural needs.Back regions: a relative term, it exists only in regards to a specific audience: where two or more people are present, there will almost never be a true 'back region'.CRITIQUE: Romanticizing the effects of transnationalism and lifestyle migration. Keeps travellers in their own bubble (oblivious to other differences), difficulties with retirement/immobility/life stages transitions. Virtual Travel: facebook, email, real-time films. Tourist: Interested in everything as a sign of itself. Dislike other tourists. Want to be less touristy- sneer at those who are more touristy. Rarely likes the authentic product of a foreign culture.Cultural Capital: quests for authenticity, back regions, the unusual, the spectacular- fulfullment of these lend distinction. Codes of distinction: signs of many styles. Incorporate those styles into our local subcultures.Allocation of Capital: Cultural "hot spots" are places where some groups and individuals engage in an array of practices openly and not openly. This reinforces cultural hierarchies- within local fields. - NETWORK OF POWER.Transnationalism: ties, interactions, exchange, mobility linking people/institutions acrosscountries and reach across the world. leads to a transnational imaginary- where mobilityplays a factor, belonging through shared memory.Travelling cultures, travelling selves: sociology of mobility. It is a change in social status relative to others' social location within a given society.Diasporic Experiences: group of people who live outside the area from where they are from/ancestors lived - MOBILITY --> leads to the transnational imaginary.• major premises and aims of physical cultural studies; the meaning/place of the bricoleur and “tool box” in social theory and physical cultural studies.Aims of physical cultural studies: make theories that can be used by a wider audience. Confront the unspeakable, change hegemony, challenge deep-seated beliefs. Social responsibilty and the ethics of social theory. Social theory: Remembering the bricoleur, using self-expression and creativity.Bricoleur: processes by which people acquire objects from across social divisions to create new cultural identities.• theories of space, senses, affect and the theoretical approaches (or “turns”) to the study of affect (such as sensual, spatial, qualitative, poetic approaches in academe)Moments and turns in sport were influenced: Sensual Revolution: challenges conventional theories.Study of the affective, sensual and spatial: poetic approach that lets unfloding ratherthan analysis. A not real taching (based on comings and goings of desire)Sports can be studied as visual arts: (This carries feeling of senses, affect and space)Forms, lines, tones, sense of movement, aesthetics of that movement, significance of the movement, appreciation of flow of movement, mystical element. Architecture: not a thing, but is a production of space, time and social being. Is not itself space, but only a way of looking at space. Encounter architecture in sensual conditions. E.g. the importance of the skateboard as a device is not solely its manufacture or design,but what can be done with it, becoming a living component of the body. Mordern sports is unconciously more than a form of culture but tendency towards placelessness- which tends to be homotopian (sameness of sports places) landscapes due to great pressure- the inherent nature of sport. • “politics of affect,” “regimes of feeling” and “politics of hope” ideas. examples of affect from


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