ISBN:
9780203496435
,
0714682810
,
9781280111624
,
0714653438
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (280 pages)
Series Statement:
Sport in the Global Society
Series Statement:
Sport in the Global Society Ser
Parallel Title:
Print version Vertinsky, Patricia Sites of Sport: Space, Place, Experience
DDC:
306.483
Keywords:
Electronic books. -- local
;
Sports -- Psychological aspects
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Sports -- Social aspects
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Spatial behavior
;
Sports facilities
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Sports Psychological aspects
;
Sports Social aspects
;
Spatial behavior
;
Sports ; Psychological aspects
;
Sports ; Social aspects
;
Sports facilities
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
The study of built environments such as gymnasiums, football stadiums, swimmimg pools and skating rinks provides unique information about the historical enclosure of the gendered and sexualised body, the body's capabilities, needs and desires. It illuminates the tensions between the globalising tendencies of sport and the importance of local culture and a sense of place. This collection uses spatial concepts and examples to examine the nature and development of sporting practices. At a time when the importance of spacial theories and spacial metaphors to sport is being increasingly recognised, this pioneering work on the changing landscape of sporting life will appeal to students of the history, sociology and management of sport
Abstract:
Cover -- SITES OF SPORT: Space, Place, Experience -- Copyright -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Series Editor's Foreword -- Introduction -- 1 Locating a 'Sense of Place': Space, Place and Gender in the Gymnasium -- 2 Sensing the Stadium -- 3 Educative Pools: Water, School and Space in Twentieth-Century France -- 4 Freezing Social Relations: Ice, Rinks, and the Development of Figure Skating -- 5 Just Another Classroom? Observations of Primary School Playgrounds -- 6 Putting Bodies on the Line: Marching Spaces in Cold War Culture -- 7 Homebush: Site of the Clean/sed and Natural Australian Athlete -- 8 Surf Lifesavers and Surfers: Cultural and Spatial Conflict on the Australian Beach -- 9 Playing with Gravity: Mountains and Mountaineering -- 10 The Homoerotic Space of Sport in Pornography -- 11 The Space that (In)Difference Makes: (Re)Producing Subjectivities in/through Abjection - A Locker Room Theoretical Study -- 12 For Pleasure? Or Profit Or Personal Health?: College Gymnasia as Contested Terrain -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Notes on Contributors -- Index
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; SITES OF SPORT: Space, Place, Experience; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Series Editor's Foreword; Introduction; 1 Locating a 'Sense of Place': Space, Place and Gender in the Gymnasium; 2 Sensing the Stadium; 3 Educative Pools: Water, School and Space in Twentieth-Century France; 4 Freezing Social Relations: Ice, Rinks, and the Development of Figure Skating; 5 Just Another Classroom? Observations of Primary School Playgrounds; 6 Putting Bodies on the Line: Marching Spaces in Cold War Culture; 7 Homebush: Site of the Clean/sed and Natural Australian Athlete
Description / Table of Contents:
8 Surf Lifesavers and Surfers: Cultural and Spatial Conflict on the Australian Beach9 Playing with Gravity: Mountains and Mountaineering; 10 The Homoerotic Space of Sport in Pornography; 11 The Space that (In)Difference Makes: (Re)Producing Subjectivities in/through Abjection - A Locker Room Theoretical Study; 12 For Pleasure? Or Profit Or Personal Health?: College Gymnasia as Contested Terrain; Notes; Bibliography; Notes on Contributors; Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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