Acknowledgements
Introduction: Sport and the Field of Performance
Chapter 1: Performance Genres, Sport, and Match-fixing at the 2012 Olympic Games
Chapter 2: Configurations and Formations: The Patterning of Behaviour in Performance Activities and the Practice of Womens Basketball
Chapter 3: The Patterning of Audience Behaviours and Hockey in Canada
Chapter 4: Sequences of Action Across Genres: Injury Mini-Dramas and American Football
Chapter 5: Gestural Marks in Sport Performance, The Genealogy of the Butterfly, and the Refugee Olympic Team
Appendix 1
Index
Analyzing sport through the lens of performance and theorizing performance through the lens of sport, this book is an investigation of the intersection between sport performances and public life in the historical present in the global north.
Kelsey Blair is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English at Concordia University in Montreal. She is a theatre, performance, and cultural studies scholar, a university teacher, an author, and a freelance writer.
Analyzing sport through the lens of performance and theorizing performance through the lens of sport, Sport and Performance in the Twenty-First Century offers a field intervention, a series of in-depth performance analyses, and an investigation of the intersection between sport performances and public life in the historical present in the global north.
The objectives of this book are three-fold. First, the book advocates for the study of sport in the fields of Theatre and Performance Studies and, through in-depth performance analyses, demonstrates how the critical langul³ˇ
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