Transtemporal sport histories; or, rethinking the ‘invention’ of American basketball

The Myth of the Repack Group: Some Problems and Provocations from an Actor-Network Perspective

“…Theoretically, the work presented here adds to a growing body of literature that seeks to question, deconstruct, and reassemble dominant historical tropes within leisure studies as to bring them to bear on the present. This is a crucial exercise, as historical myths can often act as invented traditions that reinforce a series of ideological assertions regarding the ascendancy of Western modernization, as well as attendant notions of racial, gendered and national superiority (Clevenger, 2019). In this respect, a central tenet of ANT and a key contribution which is manifest in my focus on heterogeneous networks is that studies of technology do not just neutrally describe the makeup of history and the technologies that such histories comprise, but that they actively transform these histories in the process of (re)writing them.…”