Imagined Playing Fields,Suspect Bodies: Sport and the Politics of Bio-Citizenship.

详细信息   

• 作者：Henne ; Kathryn E.
• 学历：Ph.D.
• 年：2011
• 导师：Richland, Justin B.,eadvisorCoutin, Susanecommittee memberCurrie, Elliott P.ecommittee memberHan, Sora Y.ecommittee memberBoellstorff, Tomecommittee member
• 毕业院校：University of California
• Department：Criminology, Law and Society - Ph.D
• ISBN：9781124818542
• CBH：3464957
• Country：USA
• 语种：English
• FileSize：4498672
• Pages：310

文摘

Although discourses around fair play in sport suggest that it is a cornerstone value to the ethics of sport, this dissertation demonstrates that the practices of international regulatory regime aimed at preserving it reinforce exclusionary practices not directly related to the preservation of fair play. Drawing upon research conducted in Europe, New Zealand, and California, I explore how the development of regulations around gender verification and doping in sport reveal an attempt to protect an ideal of elite "athlete-citizenship" that reflects the traditions of sport and their ethics. My analysis suggests that these regulations, though reliant upon standardized protocols and scientific procedures, uphold a myth of purity that athlete bodies cannot achieve. These jurisdictional claims render athletes as a transnational caste on the basis of their physical attributes, and these findings indicate a need to reconsider anthropological understandings of "biological citizenship" to include spaces that transcend the boundaries of the nation-state. While my dissertation describes the shifting particularities of athlete-citizenship in sport, it also explores the significance of athlete outlawed by the regime's regulations and the postcolonial, gendered, and nationalistic conditions---sometime extraneous to the regime's claims to eliminate cheaters in sport---that can preclude them from becoming athlete-citizens. I argue that these "alien" bodies are significant, because they mark the boundaries of the transnational sports community, and thus, the examination of the nature and conditions of their offenses is integral to understanding how these regulations uphold and reconfigure barriers to participation in elite sport and intersect with other dilemmas of citizenship linked to national contexts.