{"product_id":"streakers-in-sport","title":"Streakers in Sport","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book presents the first comprehensive sociological analysis of streakers and streaking culture in elite sport, examining how these transgressors disrupt and affect sporting events.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStreakers are difficult to ignore, bursting into stadiums and arenas naked, sparsely clothed or in disguise, and bringing competitions to an abrupt halt by transgressing boundaries in factual, temporal, spatial and social terms. This book employs a rigorous sociological methodology to move beyond interpretations offered by psychiatrists, journalists, security officials and lawyers to explore the “how” and “why” of this curious behaviour. The authors address two key questions: What does observing streakers reveal about elite sport? And what does analysing elite sport reveal about the social figure of the streaker? Through this lens, sporting competitions can be seen as socially constructed scenarios of controlled crises, where streakers act as parasitic second-order troublemakers, adding a secondary layer of chaos to events already centred on the strategic conflict between opponents.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten for a broad audience, the book will appeal to students, academics and researchers in sociology, sports studies, cultural anthropology, ethnology and social psychology.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57260764103000,"sku":"9781041289975","price":68.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/streakers-in-sport","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}