Sport and Performance in the Twenty-First Century

Analyzing sport through the lens of performance and theorizing performance through the lens of sport, this book is an investigation of the intersection between sport performances and public life in the historical present in the global north.

Kelsey Blair is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English at Concordia University in Montreal. She is a theatre, performance, and cultural studies scholar, a university teacher, an author, and a freelance writer.

Acknowledgements Introduction: Sport and the Field of Performance Chapter 1: Performance Genres, Sport, and Match-fixing at the 2012 Olympic Games Chapter 2: Configurations and Formations: The Patterning of Behaviour in Performance Activities and the Practice of Women's Basketball Chapter 3: The Patterning of Audience Behaviours and Hockey in Canada Chapter 4: Sequences of Action Across Genres: Injury Mini-Dramas and American Football Chapter 5: Gestural Marks in Sport Performance, The Genealogy of the Butterfly, and the Refugee Olympic Team Appendix 1 Index