Sport and the British Upper Classes<i>c</i>.1500–2000: A Historiographic Overview

Huggins, Mike

doi:10.1080/17460260802315470

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“…In phase 1.0, sport was more firmly associated with a fixed set of codified, competitive and corporeal disciplines. Where it had wider application, in Britain and much of the colonies, ‘sport’ may also have been associated with old pastimes such as fox-hunting and shooting that were linked to upper-class countryside pursuits (Huggins, 2008). In phases 2.0 and, in particular, 3.0, the expanded meanings of ‘sport’ have been more associated with a wider array of physical practices and cultures that have close ties to ‘lifestyle’ consumer culture, such as the fitness industries and ‘alternative’ sports (e.g.…”

Section: Historical Aspects: Global Sport/consumer Culture 10 20 Amentioning

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Global sport and consumer culture: An introduction

Giulianotti

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2017

Journal of Consumer Culture

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This special issue of the Journal of Consumer Culture investigates the complex intersections of global sport and consumer culture. Our aims in putting together this issue have been interrelated and twofold. First, most importantly, we have sought to open up new knowledge and critical understanding of the underexplored nexus of consumer culture and global sport.In doing so, second, we have endeavoured to facilitate a critical and comparative grasp of this relationship, by providing studies of different sport and consumer cultures in diverse national and transnational contexts, and by drawing on a wide range of social scientific disciplines and standpoints.Thus, the special issue features seven papers on global sport and consumer culture that have disciplinary moorings in sociology, anthropology, history, management and marketing studies, and cultural studies, and which harness research from Europe, East and South Asia, North America, and Australasia. Our contributors utilize studies and illustrations from many sporting domains, notably baseball, cricket, football, Olympic sports, and e-sports.A quick glance at contemporary global sport attests to its multifarious ties to consumer culture. Sport fans follow clubs and athletes across local, national, and, increasingly transnational levels, and display these allegiances in part through branded sport merchandise.Global consumer culture is increasingly populated by baseball caps, training shoes, t-shirts with team logos, and other sport-related consumer products. A burgeoning transnational fitness industry promises to sculpt the idealized consumer body, on which these products are to be worn, and on which self-tracking exercise devices are to be appended (Lupton 2016;Sassatelli 2004). Advertising and endorsements for consumer products feature prominent inputs from global sport stars, clubs and governing bodies (Horne, 2006;Smart, 2005). Sport fans now access vast volumes of top-level sports, which are wrapped in corporate advertising, and screened worldwide on commercial television and digital platforms (Hutchins and Rowe, 2012). Powerful corporate interests drive the founding and global spread of glamorous sport events and tournaments -from the Olympic Games and football's World Cup finals, through to numerous 'national' leagues -that are marketed to fast-consuming urban middle-classes (Giulianotti, 2015). Yet, these commercial processes are not uncontested, but instead 2 germinate unease, criticism and protest over the influence of capital on how sport is experienced, played and organized (Lupton, 2016;Walsh and Giulianotti, 2007).These and many other intersections of consumer culture and global sport provide the focus for this special issue. Our introduction has three main parts. First, we set out the extensive historical ties that exist between global sport and consumer culture through a three-phase model of the relationship. Second, we detail the large-scale social processes that underpin global consumer sport, and the major substantive social themes that emerge ...

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Section: Historical Aspects: Global Sport/consumer Culture 10 20 Amentioning

confidence: 99%

Global sport and consumer culture: An introduction

Giulianotti

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2017

Journal of Consumer Culture

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“…19 Many elite sporting activities enjoyed substantial popularity and were perceived to involve risk and exertion. 20 They were rooted in a martial heritage and were understood to foster manliness and train participants for conflict. The Grand Tour's itinerary gave scope for many of these activities.…”

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Dogs, Servants and Masculinities: Writing about Danger on the Grand Tour

Goldsmith¹

2015

J Eighteenth Century Stud

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The eighteenth‐century Grand Tour has typically been conceptualised as dominated by Classical aesthetics and Frenchified politeness. This article reconsiders the Grand Tour's status by examining how experiences of danger were constructed by aristocratic and gentry Grand Tourists and their families, friends and tutors. Based on their manuscript journals and letters and related publications, it identifies several narrative strategies, including the utilisation of servants and dogs as emotional others and extensions of the self, and argues that danger formed a crucial aspect of the Grand Tour, through which elite masculine virtues could be formed and adult masculine identities constructed.

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“…3 Although fashion was key to the popularisation of shooting, other factors were important in determining where the elite went to shoot, as the large numbers of gamebirds needed for a top-quality shoot could only be provided if the soil and climate were suitableupland heather-covered moors for grouse and ploughland and grain crops for partridge and pheasant. 4 Rabbits and hares required open land on sandy soils, but were increasingly seen as vermin, with gamebirds the primary target. 5 In East Anglia, poor, sandy soils were converted to lucrative shooting estates as agriculture became economically unviable during the later nineteenth century, while the heather-dominated northern moors were agriculturally suitable only for sheep.…”

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Exploring changes in gamekeeper numbers in England (1851–1921)

Bailey

2023

Rural History

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The gamekeeper played an important role in the development of modern gamebird shooting but has been peripheral in many analyses of the sport, which have tended to focus on the poacher, the landed elite, or the game laws. This study places the gamekeeper in a central position and, for a selection of counties, provides a detailed examination and comparison of changes in gamekeeper numbers between 1851 and 1921. The influence on gamekeeper numbers of population changes, estate area, landowner numbers and poaching prosecutions were also examined. Significant differences were found between the counties in gamekeeper numbers, and the magnitude and timing of changes in these. Average estate area varied greatly with no direct link to the area of the county, or to the number of gamekeepers on an estate. The type of quarry and interest of the landowner were important in determining the number of gamekeepers employed. In some counties, there may have been a link between the level of poaching and gamekeeper numbers, but there were significant differences between the counties. The results indicated a complex, regionally nuanced, picture in which factors such as the location, primary quarry and poaching pressure, as well as the interests of the landowner and the depth of his pockets, determined gamekeeper numbers.

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Sport and the British Upper Classesc.1500–2000: A Historiographic Overview

Cited by 7 publications

References 15 publications

Global sport and consumer culture: An introduction

Global sport and consumer culture: An introduction

Dogs, Servants and Masculinities: Writing about Danger on the Grand Tour

Exploring changes in gamekeeper numbers in England (1851–1921)

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