Sport, Performance and Sustainability.

• Superior document: Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society Series
• Author: Svensson, Daniel.
• TeilnehmendeR: Backman, Erik.; Hedenborg, Susanna.; Sörlin, Sverker.
• Place / Publishing House: Milton : : Taylor & Francis Group,, 2023.; ©2023.
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Series: Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (166 pages)

"This book examines the logic of 'faster, higher, stronger', and the techno-scientific 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 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 and physical education. This is fascinating reading for anybody with an interest in sport, the environment, development, sociology or culture"-- Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents

Part I. Overarching logics and issues : tensions and entanglements between sport, performance and sustainability Introduction : balancing performance and environmental sustainability / Daniel Svensson, Erik Backman, Susanna Hedenborg and Sverker Sörlin -- The idea of natural athletic performance : an interpretation and a defense / Sigmund Loland -- Part II. Developments and processes : challenges to the performance paradigm? -- Adventure sports, social media, and environmental activism / Simon Beames and Jack Reed -- The changing landscape of sport facilities : consequences for practitioners and the environment / Erik Backman, Daniel Svensson and Itai Danielski -- Environmental sustainability in a fast-emerging sport : the sportification of Padel / Johan Carlsson -- A diagnosis of sportification and indigenisation in the history of Sámi Lassoing / Isak Lidström and Bo Carlsson -- Part III. Education and sport sustainability : pedagogical, social and environmental challenges in school sport and physical education -- Environmental sustainability in physical education : a study of physical education Teachers' perceptions and attitudes towards environmental sustainability in physical education / Andreas Isgren Karlsson and Erik Backman -- School sport education and sustainability : towards ecological and inclusive student-athletes? / Marie Larneby.