ISBN:
1405191600
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1299701450
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1118325273
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9781299701458
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9781118325278
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (2144 KB, 632 S.)
Edition:
1. Aufl.
Series Statement:
Wiley Blackwell Companions in Cultural Studies 15
Parallel Title:
Print version Companion to sport
DDC:
306.483
Keywords:
Sports Anthropological aspects
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Sports Sociological aspects
Abstract:
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
Abstract:
A Companion to Sportbrings 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 institutionExplores sport in relation to modernity, postcolonial theory, gender, violence, race, disability and politics David L. Andrewsis Professor of Physical Cultural Studies at the University of Maryland. He previously held an associate professorship in the Department of Human Movement Sciences and Education at the University of Memphis. He is the author of Sport-Commerce-Culture: Essays on Sport in Late Capitalist America(2006), and the co-editor of Sport, culture and advertising: Identities, commodities and the politics of representation(2004), Sport and Corporate Nationalisms(2004), and Qualitative methods in sport studies(2005).Ben Carringtonteaches sociology at the University of Texas at Austin and is a Carnegie Visiting Research Fellow at Leeds Metropolitan University in England. His most recent book is Race, Sport and Politics: The Sporting Black Diaspora(2010).
Description / Table of Contents:
AcknowledgmentsReferences; Further Reading; 2: Sport and Globalization; Introduction; The Historical Aspects of Global Sport: Six Phases; Germinal phase (1400-1750s); Incipient phase (1750s-1870s); Take-off phase (1870s-1920s); Struggle-for-hegemony phase (1920s-late 1960s); Uncertainty phase (late 1960s-2000); Millennial phase (from 2001); The Sociocultural Aspects of Global Sport; Universalism, particularism, and relativization; Homogenization and heterogenization; Glocalization; Cosmopolitanism; Political-economic Aspects of Globalization; Nation state and globalization.
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Introduction: Sport as Escape, Struggle, and Art; Introduction: Anti-sport/Pro-sport; What Is Sport? Some Definitional Observations; Sports Matter: A Companion to Sport; References; Further Reading; Part One: Sporting Structures and Historical Formations; Introduction; Further Reading; 1: Constructing Knowledge: Histories of Modern Sport; Introduction; Questions (and Unstable Answers); Origins and causes; Diffusion; Reception; Epistemologies (and Floating Truths); Objective knowledge; Contextualized knowledge; Conclusion.
Description / Table of Contents:
FigurationalismNeo-Marxism; Jockraker activism; The cultural turn; Bourdieu's neo-Weberian approach; Emergent paradigms; Conclusion: Social Class, the Sporting Body, and Neoliberalism; References; Further Reading; 5: Gender, Feminist Theory, and Sport; Introduction; Liberal Feminism; Radical Feminism; Marxist/Socialist Feminism; Black Feminism; The Impact of Poststructuralism, Queer Theory, and Postcolonialism; New Avenues and New Questions for Sport Feminism: Middle Ground Theorizing and Intersectional Analysis; Conclusion: Revisiting "Old" Questions in the Twenty-First Century; References.
Description / Table of Contents:
Further Reading6: Sports Medicine, Health, and the Politics of Risk; Introduction; Locating Sport in the Risk Society; Expect the Unexpected: Selling Safety; Anxiety, Assurance, and the Risk-Caution Citizenship Project; High Performance Sport and Health within the Risk Society; Conclusion; References; Further Reading; 7: Sport, Ecological Modernization, and the Environment; Environmental Issues and the Sociology of Sport: The "Early" Years; Sport, Sociology and the Environment: Contemporary Themes; Sport, the Environment, and Neoliberalism; Ecological Modernization and Environmental Sociology.
Description / Table of Contents:
Sport and the global economic systemThe Emerging Global Civil Society and Sport; Conclusions: Globalization, Sport, and "Active Glocalism"; References; Further Reading; 3: The Sport/Media Complex: Formation, Flowering, and Future; Introduction: Three Decades in a Complex Life; Complex Prehistory; Television Complex; Complex Today; Conclusion: Future Complex; Acknowledgments; References; Further Reading; 4: Political Theories of Social Class, Sport, and the Body; Introduction; Sport, Industrial Capitalism, and Revolution; Sport and Social Class: A Critical Sociology; Structural functionalism.
Note:
Environmental Discourses and Promotional Culture: Examples from the Global Forum for Sports and the Environment
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Edition statement from running title area
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Includes bibliographical references and index
DOI:
10.1002/9781118325261
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