Sport and Speed

In: International review for the sociology of sport: irss ; a quarterly edited on behalf of the International Sociology of Sport Association (ISSA), Volume 25, Issue 2, p. 157-167

Abstract

Physical exercises, like social life in general, have changed remarkably during the last two centuries. Violent games have become "civilized", spacial patterns have been replaced by a temporal structuration of sports. Time, and in particular, speed, seem to be the dominant principles which shape the modern form of sport. "Sport and Speed" analyses this recent transformational period in the history of body techniques, employing a theoretical framework provided by cultural history and genealogical sociology respectively.