ISBN:
9781509501601
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (117 pages)
Parallel Title:
Gruneau, Richard S., 1948 - Sport and modernity
Parallel Title:
Print version Gruneau, Richard Sport and Modernity
DDC:
306.483
Keywords:
Sports--Sociological aspects
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Sports Philosophy
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Civilization, Modern Philosophy
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Sports ; Sociological aspects
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Sports Sociological aspects
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Electronic books
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Sport
;
Sportsoziologie
;
Moderne
Abstract:
"Cover" -- "Title Page" -- "Copyright" -- "Acknowledgments" -- "Introduction" -- "Notes" -- "1 Athletics, Body Imagery, and Spectacle: Greco-Roman Practices, Discourses, and Ideologies" -- "Agon and the vita activa in Greek antiquity" -- "Ideologies and contradictions in Greek athletics" -- "Dialectics of popularization and critique" -- "Appropriation, resistance, and the rise of spectacle in Greco-Roman antiquity" -- "Roman cultural conservatism, âbread and circuses,â and the politics of the popular" -- "Difference, discourse, and the metamorphosis of spectacle in late Greco-Roman antiquity" -- "Conclusion" -- "Notes" -- "2 The Politics of Representation: English Sport as an Object and Project of Modernity" -- "Representation in early English sporting recreations" -- "Representation, objectification, and the emerging field of English sporting practice" -- "English sport as its own object and its connection to the project of modernity" -- "Conclusion" -- "Notes" -- "3 âStagingâ (Capitalist/Colonial) Modernity: International Exhibitions and Olympics" -- "The âmodern idea of modernityâ and its contradictions" -- "Capitalism, imperialism, national and international exhibitions" -- "From international expositions to âOlympicâ sporting spectacles" -- "Conclusion" -- "Notes" -- "4 German Modernism, Anti-Modernism, and the Critical Theory of Sport" -- "Weimar modernism and early twentieth-century social criticism" -- "The âFrankfurt School,â Nazi aesthetics, and the incipient âcritical theoryâ of sport" -- "Countercultural criticism and the retreat from critical theory in sports studies" -- "Why critical theory still matters" -- "Conclusion" -- "Notes" -- "5 A Savage Sorting of âWinnersâ and âLosersâ: Modernization, Development, Sport, and the Challenge of Slums
Abstract:
"From state investments to civil society: modernization theory, development, and the rise of NGO âpartnershipsâ" -- "Making poverty history? Sport in the neoliberal discourse of rights, stakeholders, and partnerships" -- "International sporting spectacles, modernization, and the challenge of slums in late twentieth-century neoliberal globalization" -- "Conclusion" -- "Notes" -- "Index
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