Description
Book SynopsisThis book examines the logic of faster, higher, and stronger' and the technoscientific revolution that has driven tremendous growth in the sports economy and in sport performance over the last 100 years. It asks whether this logic needs revisiting in the light of the climate crisis and sport's environmental responsibilities.
Drawing on multi-disciplinary work in sport history, sport pedagogy, sport philosophy, sport science, and environmental history, the book considers not only how sportification may have contributed to the growing environmental impact of sport but also whether it might be used as a tool of positive social change. It reflects on the ways that sport sets performance limits for other ethical reasons, such as doping controls, and asks whether sport could or should set limits for environmental reasons too. Sport, Performance and Sustainability touches on key themes in sport studies, including digitisation, activism, social media, empowerment, youth sport,
Table of Contents
Part I Overarching Logics and Issues: Tensions and Entanglements Between Sport, Performance, and Sustainability.1. Introduction: Balancing Performance and Environmental Sustainability. 2. The Idea of Natural Athletic Performance: An Interpretation and a Defense. Part II Developments and Processes: Challenges to the Performance Paradigm? 3. Adventure Sports, Social Media, and Environmental Activism. 4. The Changing Landscape of Sport Facilities: Consequences for Practitioners and the Environment. 5. Environmental Sustainability in a Fast-Emerging Sport: The Sportification of Pade. 6. A Diagnosis of Sportification and Indigenisation in the History of Sámi Lassoing. Part III Education and Sport Sustainability: Pedagogical, Social, and Environmental Challenges in School Sport and Physical Education. 7. Environmental Sustainability in Physical Education: A Study of Physical Education Teachers’ Perceptions and Attitudes Towards Environmental Sustainability in Physical Education. 8. School Sport Education and Sustainability: Towards Ecological and Inclusive Student-Athletes?
