ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the emergence and development of the forms and, the meanings of modern rationalized sport as a consequence of the political/economic regulation of time and space. It begins with a brief examination of time and space as social constructions, and also begins during the ‘age of enlightenment’, which set the frame for the emergence of modern sport. This is followed by a more specific examination of the production of modern sport within the emerging spatial and temporal frames. The reconstructed sense of time and space, and resistance to it, provided the frame within which these reforms occurred. Resistances to modern rationalized sports are still evident. It would be a mistake to think that folk games, or at least the playful elements that existed in folk games and in the early modern sports where amateurism determined an emphasis on process over outcome – what Raymond Williams referred to as residual cultures – had died out.
