Titel
Self-Improvement In and Through Sports: Cultural-Historical Perspectives
Abstract
This study examines the development of the modern self-improvement cultures in and through sports using three paradigmatic historic examples. It is theoretically based on Michel Foucault’s and Gilles Deleuze’s analyses of the disciplinary society and the society of control and especially on Foucault’s concept of ‘self-technologies’. Empirically, the question of improvement will be investigated by the means of three different paradigmatic fields of movement cultures in three different historical periods. The first one is the invention and the establishment of systematic rational enhancement regimes in the second half of the nineteenth century, which can be summarized under the term physical training. The second one focuses on the formation of the big number of bodies, as we can determine it, for example, within the ‘sport-for-all-initiatives’ during the 1970s in Europe (especially in Germany and in Austria). Third, we take a look at the highly individualized fitness practices from 1980 to the end of the millennium and finally some questions concerning the post-Fordist body regimes as we can find it, for example, in ‘life-logging–’ or ‘quantified-self-movement’, will be posed.
Stichwort
Body historyself-technologyimprovementcultural historyfitness
Objekt-Typ
Sprache
Englisch [eng]
Persistent identifier
https://phaidra.univie.ac.at/o:725525
Erschienen in
Titel
The International Journal of the History of Sport
Band
33
Ausgabe
14
Seitenanfang
1592
Seitenende
1605
Verlag
Informa UK Limited
Erscheinungsdatum
2016
Zugänglichkeit
Rechteangabe
© 2017 The Author(s)

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