Panel
Sport - Identity - Popular Culture

Identity has long since become a field fought over both individually and collectively. Sport has long contributed substantially to the formation of human identities and their inherent norms and values, myths and symbols. However, the quantity and quality of sport's contributions to the formation of identity can only be understood if these are not seen as a microcosmos or image of social processes, but rather as an independent terrain of practices of daily culture. With its rules and regulatory effects, with its political and economic premisses sport forms a huge area of popular culture, but at the same time daily life in sport is a sphere in which the meanings forming identities are constantly arranged, strengthened or changed anew, thus a sphere of popular culture. In the panel on daily culture, these two levels of sport and the cultural significance derived from them, from ancient times to modern, are to be the subject of discussion.

Key-note speaker: Matthias Marschik