[...]... world Implications for environmental theory and education’, in Ley, D and Samuels, M (eds) Humanistic Geography Prospects and Problems (London, 1978), pp 238–50 Seamon, D A Geography of the Lifeworld Movement, Rest and Encounter (London, 1979) Seamon, D Body- Subject, time -space routines and place ballets’, in Buttimer, A and Seamon, D (eds) The Human Experience of Space and Place (London, 1980), pp... segmented space (see Chapters 3 and 4) are valuable in this respect Sport is a world of territoriality, while representational sport draws on and amplifies nationalist feeling In international sports events, national symbolism is ‘over explicit’ (Ehn, 1989) Among the sub-themes identified by Cosgove and Rogers are ‘myths of nation’, and in constructing ‘myths of nation’ sports may form a central role (and. .. connection with a recast sports geography, and more specifically from the suggestions about body culture and configurations of bodies and landscapes, it is possible to suggest further parallels between Eichberg’s work and studies tackling the intersections of body culture with the axes of space and (individual and collective) identity There are various currents of inquiry in history, anthropology and. .. (London, 1995) Raitz, K (ed.) The Theater of Sport (Baltimore, Md., 1995) Robinson, J ‘“A perfect system of control” State power and “native locations” in South Africa’, Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 1990, pp 135–62 Robinson, J The Power of Apartheid: State, Power and Space in South African Cities (Oxford, 1996) Rodaway, P Sensuous Geographies Body, Sense and Place (London, 1994) Rooney,... very many different configurations of the human body The ‘sportised’ body may assume several such configurations ‘Serious sport (or ‘elite sport or ‘achievement sport ) is only one of several possible configurations in modernity Eichberg applies his notion of a ‘trialectic’ in his desire to avoid the use of simple dualisms (e.g sport/ leisure) and to avoid a vulgar interpretation of sport This ‘trialectic’,... prevailing notion of sport is only one way in which the moving, physical body can be configured in modernity Taking his evidence from Danish research, he again recognises tendencies other than those related to the Olympic ideal of citius, altius, fortius These are non-sportised forms of body discipline arising through physical education and sport for all’, on the one hand, and the less constrained and freer... spatial and environmental aspects of society, as exemplified in the context of modern and premodern forms of body culture First, however, we feel that it is worth briefly reviewing the contributions of geography to the study of sport, and second, to make some observations about approaches to the inclusion of space in the study of the body SPACE, PLACE AND SPORT: BRIEF THOUGHTS Traditional studies of... speed, light and power’, in Cloke, P et al Writing the Rural: Five Cultural Geographies (London, 1994), pp 191–248 (reprinted in Thrift, N Spatial Formations (London, 1996), pp 257–310) Turner, B The Body and Society: Explorations in Social Theory (Oxford, 1984) Valentine, G ‘(Hetero)sexing space Lesbian perceptions and experiences of everyday spaces’, Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 1993,... Nicholson, L (ed.) Feminism/Postmodernism (London, 1990), pp 190–233 Harvey, D The Condition of Postmodernity (Oxford, 1989) Hill, M ‘Bound to the environment Towards a phenomenology of sightlessness’, in Seamon, D and Mugerauer, R (eds) Dwelling, Place and Environment Towards a Phenomenology of Person and World (New York, 1989), pp 99–112 Jarvie, G and Maguire, J Sport and Leisure in Social Thought (London,... striving to see sport in context and as itself an impelling force within the wider social world, in which case the specific body cultures written into specific constellations of sports are viewed as integral to the overarching processes and transformations of a given period and region: German village games casting light on the fragility of medieval Europe; Olympic Games on the institutionalisation of Western . alt="" Body Cultures Essays on Sport Space and Identity Eichberg, Henning. Body cultures: essays on sport, space, and identity. London; NY: Routledge,. different configurations of the human body. The ‘sportised’ body may assume several such configurations. ‘Serious sport (or ‘elite sport or ‘achievement sport ) is only one