Japan Journal of Sport Sociology
Online ISSN : 2185-8691
Print ISSN : 0919-2751
ISSN-L : 0919-2751
Sport, Festivity, and Body Politics in Post-modern Days
Takeshi NOZAKI
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2002 Volume 10 Pages 26-35,133

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The purpose of this study is to clarify the effect of anti-modernism for sport-spectators in sport as festival. Anti-modernism is defined as a mechanism about a production of one's new standpoint from inter-bodily performance. Sport in modern society as festivity is a devise that brings a large quantity of bodies into excitement. The body experience of sport-spectators must relate with their political imagination.
Post-modern Society composed of nation-states continues to be an imagined political community that is produced through magico-religious anti-modernism-experience in festival against the currents of globalization. Any identity (e. g. nationality) is given to bodies with transcendental choice for them. Nobody can choose their subjectivities and their world-horizon on their own responsibility.
Main results are as follows;
1) Excitement in festival delivers a norm about nationality into body of sport-spectators through their inter-bodily chain. The norm cuts off their utterance about aliens in their bodies at times.
2) It is considered that World Cup Soccer in France '98 re-organizes the French-nationality through the biggest impact of immigrant-players. Excitement in the games re-writes the norm about nationality in their bodies.
3) We have norms that distinguish between “we” and “they” with deep bodily realistic feeling of authenticity. We live in Space-Time organized by the norms. When the excitement in Festival renews a world-horizon, it creates another type of discrimination.
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