Civil Sociality. Children, Sport, and Cultural Policy in Denmark (PB) 12+

📒 A volume in Education Policy in Practice: Critical Cultural StudiesSeries Editors Bradley A. U. Levinson, and Margaret Sutton, Indiana UniversitySally Anderson's book on sport, cultural policy, and "civil sociality" in Denmark has been a longtime in coming, but it's well worth the wait. Based on many years of familiarity with Danish society,and countless hours of intensive fieldwork, Dr. Anderson provides us with a unique anthropologicalperspective on the process by which state cultural policy actively engages civil society in aquest to shape social relations in the public sphere. The particular domain of policy and socialactivity is nonschool, voluntary sport, in its various forms. By definition, of course, such activitytakes place outside the regular Danish school curriculum, but it is not for this reason any less"educational." Indeed, although it is very broadly attended and institutionalized, perhaps becauseDanish after-school sport is not compulsory, it is all the more compelling for children and youth,and therefore more powerful in certain ways. Indeed, Dr. Anderson has a signal talent for showingus how afterschool sport in Denmark both transmits and produces social knowledge, and powerfullyshapes social relations.