ABSTRACT

Sport has classically been regarded as an ‘elsewhere’, a leisure activity set apart from the serious business of life. Sociological critiques of sport, however, emphasise its importance in transmitting ideology, and its responsiveness to historical change. The question, then, is how does this ‘elsewhere’ connect to the everyday? The article proposes that the spaces of sport generally function as a hypertopia, which involves a going beyond of the normative, rather than the Foucauldian idea of the heterotopia or utopia, which foreground difference. By analysing Lindsay Anderson's This Sporting Life in terms of the hypertopia, it is possible to rethink sport's connection to hegemonic social orders, and consider the way filmic representations of sport constantly engage with this sense of ‘going beyond’.

摘要

体育传统上被视为一种“别处”，一种与严肃的生活事业相分离的休闲活动。然而，对体育的社会学批评强调了它在传播意识形态方面的重要性，以及它对历史变化的反应。那么，问题是这个“其他地方”如何与日常生活联系起来？文章提出，体育空间通常起到超托邦的作用，它涉及对规范的超越，而不是福柯的异托邦或乌托邦观念，后者突出了差异。通过分析林赛·安德森的《体育生活》就超托邦而言，重新思考体育与霸权社会秩序的联系是可能的，并考虑体育的电影表现方式如何不断地参与这种“超越”的感觉。