Note: Originally published: 2013.

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Note: Boxing is a traditional sport in many ways, characterized by continuities in the form of practices and regulations and heavy with legends and heroes reflecting its traditional/historical values. Associations with class, hegemonic masculinity and racialized inclusions/exclusions, however, sit alongside developments such as women's boxing and involvement in Mixed Martial Arts.This book will be the first to use boxing as a vehicle for exploring social, cultural and political change in a global context. It will consider to what degree and in what ways boxing reflects social transformations, and whether and how it contributes to those transformations. In exploring the relationship it will provide new ways of thinking critically about the everyday

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Note: Literaturverz. S. 356 - 395 , Enthält 28 Beiträge

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Note: Forthcoming publication , Previous edition: 2007.

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Note: Literaturangaben

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Note: Literaturangaben , General Introduction , Part One. The Background ; Greek Athletic Competitions : The Ancient Olympics and More , Sport in the Aegean Bronze Age , Sport in the Early Iron Age and Homeric Epic , Representations of Sport in Greek Literature , Picturing Victory : Representations of Sport in Greek Art , Inscriptions as Evidence for Greek Sport , Recent Trends in the Study of Greek Sport , Part Two. Places ; Panhellenic Athletics at Olympia , Sport and Society in Sparta , Sport, Society, and Politics in Athens , Athletic Festivals in the Northern Peloponnese and Central Greece , Sport and Society in the Greek West , Part Three. People, Settings, Ideas ; Sport and Democratization in Ancient Greece (with an Excursus on Athletic Nudity) , Growing Up with Greek Sport : Education and Athletics , Eros and Greek Sport , Greek Female Sport : Rites, Running, and Racing , People on the Fringes of Greek Sport , The Greek Stadium as a Reflection of a Changing Society , The Social Life of Greek Athletic Facilities (other than Stadia) , The Role of Religion in Greek Sport , Ancient Critics of Greek Sport , Sport, Spectacle, and Society in Ancient Macedonia , Part Four. Later Greek Sport and Spectacle ; Greek Sport in Egypt : Status Symbol and Lifestyle , Sport in Hellenistic and Roman Asia Minor , Section Two. Rome ; Part One. The Background ; Overview of Roman Spectacle , Etruscan Sport , Writing Arenas : Roman Authors and Their Games , Representations of Spectacle and Sport in Roman Art , Material Evidence for Roman Spectacle and Sport , Trends in the Study of Roman Spectacle and Sport , Part Two. Spectacles and Sport in Rome ; Gladiatorial Combat as Alluring Spectacle , Women with Swords : Female Gladiators in the Roman World , Roman Chariot Racing : Charioteers, Factions, Spectators , Roman Beast-Hunts , Spectacular Executions in the Roman World , Greek Sports in Rome , Part Three. People, Settings, Ideas ; Amphitheaters in the Roman World , Venues for Spectacle and Sport (other than Amphitheaters) in the Roman World , People on the Margins of Roman Spectacle , Religion and Roman Spectacle , Ancient Critics of Roman Spectacle and Sport , Part Four. Later Roman Spectacle and Sport ; Romanization through Spectacle in the Greek East , Spectacle and Sport in Constantinople in the Sixth Century CE

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Note: Literaturangaben

Note: Literaturangaben

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Note: Edition statement from running title area. - Environmental Discourses and Promotional Culture: Examples from the Global Forum for Sports and the Environment. - Includes bibliographical references and index. - A Companion to Sport brings together writing by leading sports theorists and social and cultural thinkers, to explore sport as a central element of contemporary culture. Positions sport as a crucial subject for critical analysis, as one of the most significant forms of popular cultureIncludes both well-known social and cultural theorists whose work lends itself to an interrogation of sport, and leading theorists of sport itselfOffers a comprehensive examination of sport as a social and cultural practice and institution

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Note: Beiträge teilweise deutsch, teilweise englisch , Literaturangaben

Note: Research on Indigenous participation in sport offers many oppertunities to better understand the political issues of equality, empowerment, self-determination and protection of culture and identity. This volume compares and conceptualises the sociological significance of Indigenous sports in different international contexts

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Note: Hardback. Paper over boards

Note: "Kevin Jefferys provides the first comprehensive historical account of the greatly increased interaction between sport and politics in Britain since World War Two. Jefferys sets sport within the changing socio-political context and balances an appreciation of continuity and change from the London Olympics of 1948 to those of 2012"-- Provided by publisher.

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Note: Based on the author's thesis (doctoral)--Roehampton University, 2007. , Includes bibliographical references and index

Note: Based on the author's thesis (doctoral)--Roehampton University, 2007.

Note: Includes bibliographical references and index , They think it's all over...It isn't yet! The persistence of structural racism and racialised exclusion in twenty-first century football , 'Dark town' and 'a game for Britishers': some notes on history, football and 'race' in Liverpool , Is football the new African slave trade? , Football, racism and the Irish , Racisms, resistance and new youth inclusions: the socio-historical development and shifting focus of black, Asian and minority ethnic football clubs in Leicester , What is Rangers resisting now? 'Race', resistance and shifting notions of blackness in local football in Leicester , British Muslim female experiences in football: Islam, identity and the Hijab , Flying the flag for England? National identities and British Asian female footballers , Mixing up the game: social and historical contours of black mixed heritage players in British football , 'Tough talk', muscular Islam and football: young British Pakistani Muslim masculinities , The limits to cosmopolitanism: English football fans at Euro 2008 , 'Wot, no Asian?': West Ham United Fandom, the Cockney Diaspora and the 'New' East Enders , ' They sing that song': sectarianism and conduct in the informalised spaces of Scottish football , Negative equity? Amateurist responses to race equality initiatives in English grass-roots football , Football, racism and the limits of 'colour blind' laws: revisited , Marrying passion with professionalism: examining the future of British Asian football

Note: Literaturangaben , Beitr. teilw. dt., teilw. engl.

Note: Includes bibliographical references and index

Note: previously published as a special issue of the International Journal of the History of Sport.

Note: Literaturverz. S. [278] - 311

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Note: Literaturangaben

Note: Includes bibliographical references and index