Swain, Spencer ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2191-0041 (2024) Sport, leisure, and social justice in an age of uncertainty: Investigating the relationship between power, precarity and the rise of the prosumer. In: Lawrence, Stefan, Hill, Joanne and Mowatt, Rasul, (eds.) Routledge Handbook of Social Justice in Sport and Leisure. Routledge (In Press)

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Abstract

Power's relationship with social justice represents a critical area of scholarship, highlighting how progressive political movements challenge social injustices relating to human rights, poverty, and civil liberties. The chapter provides an overview of power and its relationship with social control, starting with definitions from political thinkers such as Steven Lukes and Michel Foucault. Before analysing literature exploring power as a form of authority within industrial modernity, unpacking research that has positioned sport and leisure as a mechanism of disciplinary power built around the idea of panoptic surveillance. From here, the chapter introduces perspectives that connect power with an evolution in the cultural landscape of modernity that has seen disciplinary authority replaced by the principles of seduction, precarity and synopticism. This idea links sport and leisure to a culture of idolatry that has come to symbolise consumer society, the increased phenomenon of celebrity and the political ideology of free-market capitalism that together have seen the state's frontiers recede, fuelling increased individualism over collective security.

Item Type:	Book Section
Status:	In Press
Subjects:	G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GV Recreation Leisure H Social Sciences > HM Sociology J Political Science > JC Political theory
School/Department:	School of Education, Language and Psychology
Institutes:	Institute for Social Justice
URI:	https://ray.yorksj.ac.uk/id/eprint/8052

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