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Sport and dance command the passions and devotion of countless athletes, dancers and fans worldwide. Although conventionally thought to reside within separate social realms, these two embodied cultural forms are revealed in this benchmark volume to share a vital capacity to constitute and express identities through their practiced movements and scripted forms. Thus, the work of choreographers and coaches along with the performances of dancers and athletes offer not merely entertainment and aesthetic accomplishment but also powerful means for celebrating existing social arrangements and cultural ideals or, alternately, for imagining and advocating new ones.Drawing on a wide selection of sport and dance activities from around the world, this book elucidates the ways in which embodied performances both mirror and reshape social life. It traces, for example, how football, salsa and tango can each be employed to articulate or rewrite national and gender identities. Also examined are children's sport and the dynamics by which immigration and cultural integration, along with the socialization of children and youth, may be directed through the organization of community sport. The volume investigates the marshalling of sport and dance in settings from Africa to Ireland as vehicles for framing moral issues that revolve around the appropriate use, protection and exhibition of the body. This innovative study establishes the paradoxical fashion in which dance and sport can unite certain people and communities while at the same time serving exclusionary and nationalistic purposes.
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Sport, Dance and Embodied Identities Sport, Dance and Embodied Identities Edited by Noel Dyck and Eduardo P. Archetti Oxford • New York First published in 2003 by Berg Editorial offices: 1st Floor, Angel Court, 81 St Clements Street, Oxford, OX4 1AW, UK 838 Broadway, Third Floor, New York, NY 10003-4812, USA © Noel Dyck and Eduardo P. Archetti 2003 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced in any form or by any means without the written permission of Berg. Berg is an imprint of Oxford International Publishers Ltd. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Sport, dance, and embodied identities / edited by Noel Dyck and Eduardo P. Archetti.– 1st ed. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 1-85973-635-1 – ISBN 1-85973-640-8 1. Sports–Social aspects. 2. Dance–Social aspects. 3. Identity (Psychology) I. Dyck, Noel. II. Archetti, Eduardo P. GV706.5.S7113 2003 306.4′83–dc21 2003004507 British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. ISBN 1 85973 635 1 (Cloth) ISBN 1 85973 640 8 (Paper) Typeset by JS Typesetting Ltd, Wellingborough, Northants. Printed in the United Kingdom by Biddles Ltd, Guildford and King’s Lynn. www.bergpublishers.com Contents Notes on Contributors vii Part I: Introduction 1 Introduction – Embodied Identities: Reshaping Social Life Through Sport and Dance Noel Dyck and Eduardo Archetti 1 Part II: Training Children’s Bodies and Selves 2 3 4 Bodying Forth a Room for Everyone: Inclusive Recreational Badminton in Copenhagen Sally Anderson 23 Embodying Success: Identity and Performance in Children’s Sport Noel Dyck 55 Embodied Play and Gender Identities in Competitive Handball for Children in Norway Harald Beyer Broch 75 Part III: Reshaping Adult Identities 5 6 7 Long-distance Football Support and Liminal Identities Among Norwegian Fans Hans Hognestad 97 ‘Ladies, Just Follow His Lead!’: Salsa, Gender and Identity Heike Wieschiolek 115 The Aik