Original scientific paper
Surveillance of the Body: Foucauldian Approach to the Sport
Ozren Biti
orcid.org/0000-0002-9228-0438
; The Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Research, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
This paper puts forth the idea that sport is a set of practices, policies, events and phenomena which can be rendered in terms of the surveillance of the body. Such interpretation is derived from the work of Michel Foucault, especially his books Discipline and Punish and The Birth of the Clinic, from the perspective of body studies, surveillance studies and sports studies. This idea of sport does not amount to a simple recognition of the surveillance of the body but comprises different and often interconnected modes of power, discipline and discourse as they take shape in this highly controversial political, social and cultural realm. In order to demon-
strate this complexity, Foucault’s categories are implemented on several examples from sport’s past and present.
Keywords
Michel Foucault; sport; body; surveillance
Hrčak ID:
94721
URI
Publication date:
27.12.2012.
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