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The Reconciliatory Logic of Therapeutic Active Leisure

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ID6145065
AutoresR Sassatelli (0000-0003-4240-9691, University of Milan, autor correspondente)
Ano2016
Volume13
Fascículo3
Páginas230-245
Data de publicação2016-07-02
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoEuropean Journal for Sport and Society (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1613-8171 • E-ISSN: 2380-5919
EditoraTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/16138171.2016.1226024
OpenAlexW2514128523
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas4
Referências citadas30

Broad cultural trends such as spectacularization and individualization as induced by consumer culture are transforming the global scene of sport practice with effects that may appear as socially reconciliatory. Commercialization has worked in two directions: while competitive, professional sport is becoming a global media phenomenon, with increasingly global and yet fragmented audiences, ordinary sport practice is being individualized in the Global North and shaped by the individualizing and totalizing logic of therapeutic active leisure. In this paper the notion of therapeutic active leisure is proposed and explored with particular reference to the development of the fitness field. As I shall show it sits between sport and gymnastics and expresses the socio-economic need to control the health of the population through individualized commercialized formations, by working through consumers’ pleasures rather than citizens’ duties

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