Civil Sociality

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 societyand 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 lesseducational. 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 youthand 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.