Sociology: sport and leisure Books
Human Kinetics Publishers Social Sciences in Sport
Book Synopsis Written by leading figures in the social sciences, the book synthesizes theory and research in social science and sport and promotes development of and through sport. Table of ContentsIntroduction: Making the Case for the Social Sciences of Sport, Exercise, and Health The Sport Ethic and the Natural Sciences Proposing a Human Development Model Part I. Identity: Definitions, Development, and the IndividualChapter 1. History of Sport Wray Vamplew, PhD Relationships With Other Disciplines Core Concepts Main Theoretical Perspectives Critical Findings Key Debates Summary Chapter 2. Philosophy of Sport Sigmund Loland, PhD, and Michael McNamee, PhD Historical Overview of the Discipline Main Theoretical Perspectives Key Debates Future Directions Summary Chapter 3. Psychology of Sport David Lavallee, PhD, John Kremer, PhD, and Aidan Moran, PhD Core Concepts Main Theoretical Perspectives Critical Findings Key Debates Summary Part II. Community: Place, Space, Image, and the Social Chapter 4. Anthropology of Sport Alan Klein, PhD Foundations in Sociocultural Anthropology Post-1970: The Athletic El Dorado and the Anthropologists Who Seek Him Looking Outward Summary Chapter 5. Sociology of Sport Joseph Maguire, PhD Historical Development and Core Concepts Main Theoretical Perspectives A Sociological Account of Sport: Critical Findings Future Directions and Key Debates Summary Chapter 6. Geography of Sport Christopher Gaffney, PhD Historical Trajectory of the Geography of Sport Core Concepts Main Theoretical Perspectives Key Debates and Critical Findings Future Directions Summary Chapter 7. Media Studies and Sport David Rowe, PhD Historical Connections and Questions in Media Studies Understanding Media: Core Concepts Media Powers and Routines: Main Theoretical Perspectives Critical Findings and Key Debates in Sport and Media Conclusion: Sport and Media Studies in Transition Part III. Capital: Wealth, Power, and ResourcesChapter 8. Economics and Sport Stefan Szymanski, PhD Professional League Model: Theory and Policy Productivity Studies Economic Impact: Measurement, Theory, and Policy Sport, Physical Activity, and Well-Being Illustrations of Economic Issues Conclusions Chapter 9. Political Science and Sport Jonathan Grix, PhD Core Concepts in Political Science Study of Sport and Politics Research Paradigms and Theoretical Perspectives in Political Science Applying Political Science and Sport: The Governance of Sport and the Politics of Mega-Events Summary Chapter 10. International Relations and Sport Roger Levermore, PhD, and Aaron Beacom, PhD Core Concepts and Main Theoretical Perspectives Critical Findings and Key Debates Summary Part IV. Governance: Regulation, Organization, and ImplementationChapter 11. Sport and the Law Deborah Healey, LLB, LLM (Hons) The Global Organization and Regulation of Sport Overview: The Place of Law in Sport Are the Courts Always Interested in Sport? Governance Aspects of Industry Self-Regulation in Sport Summary Chapter 12. Sport and Social Policy Ramón Spaaij, PhD Discipline of Social Policy: A Historical Overview Main Theoretical Perspectives Key Concepts Key Debates Summary Chapter 13. Sport and Management Studies Lucie Thibault, PhD Sport as a Unique Industry Historical Overview Core Concepts Main Theoretical Perspectives Critical Findings Key Debates Summary Chapter 14. Sport and Education Dawn Penney, PhD Core Concepts Theoretical Perspectives Critical Findings Key Debates Summary
£70.20
MN - University of British Columbia Press A Wilder West Rodeo in Western Canada
Book SynopsisChallenging the well-worn images of rodeo as a white man’s sport, A Wilder West shows how rodeo brought together Aboriginal and settler men and women into relationships of competition and camaraderie, forging new identities and communities in the process.Trade ReviewBy using rodeo as the central contact zone, Kelm provides a very interesting and nuanced way of examining settler and Aboriginal relations in Western Canada...Kelm's book makes an important contribution to Canadian history. She successfully demonstrates that Western Canadian settlers and Aboriginal peoples did not operate in a static fashion or interact solely along the rigid lines of the colonization narrative. -- Michael Commito, McMaster University * Essays in History *Mary-Ellen Kelm’s book is a welcome addition to a somewhat sparse scholarly literature on the history of rodeo in Canada…overall, this study is well conceived and filled with personalized stories to keep readers interested and to deepen knowledge about localities. Kelm fulfills her intent to demonstrate the palpable “linkages between cultural display and political action” in terms of colonial history and has also created a good resource for studies about masculinities linked to sport and identity... -- Lynda M. Annik, Newfoundland Memorial University * American Historical Review *Table of ContentsIntroduction1 An Old-Timers’ Town: Western Communities, Performance, and Contact Zones2 Truly Western in Its Character: Identities, Affinities, and Intimacies at Western Canadian Rodeo3 A Sport, Not a Carnival Act: Transforming Rodeo from Performance to Sport4 Heavens No! Let’s Keep It Rodeo! Pro Rodeo and the Making of the Modern Cowboy5 Going Pro: Community Rodeo in the Era of Professionalization6 Where the Cowboys Are Indians: Indian and Reserve Rodeo in the Canadian WestConclusionGlossary; Notes; Index
£73.95
University of British Columbia Press Sexual Assault in Canadian Sport
Book SynopsisSexual assault by and against athletes is a pervasive and long-standing problem in Canada, but reports are commonly minimized, doubted, and dismissed by sport administrators, police, and judges. Through a detailed examination of over 300 cases appearing in news media and legal files across Canada from 1990 to 2020, Sexual Assault in Canadian Sport uncovers an enduring institutional tolerance of sexual assault in Canadian sport and the betrayal that many victims experience by those same institutions. Curtis Fogel and Andrea Quinlan argue further that both the Canadian sport system and the criminal legal system have failed to ensure victims' safety and often undermine sexual assault prevention and trauma-informed care.Sexual Assault in Canadian Sport opens new avenues for critical dialogue about sport, law, masculinities, and gender-based violence. Crucially, it also offers constructive strategies to increase safety in sport. Table of Contents1 Sport, Sexual Assault, and the Law: An Introduction2 Athlete-Perpetrated Sexual Assault: Misogyny, White Male Privilege, and Entitlement in Competitive Men’s Sport3 Group Sexual Assault: A Theatre for Performing Violent Masculinities4 Sexually Violent Hazing: Power, Humiliation, and Group Dominance Bonding5 Sexual Exploitation by Authority Figures: Institutional Tolerance and Betrayal within the Canadian Sport System6 Breaking the Cycle of Sexual Assault in Canadian SportAppendix A: Reports of Athlete-Perpetrated Sexual AssaultAppendix B: Reports of Athlete-Perpetrated Group Sexual AssaultAppendix C: Reports of Sexually Violent HazingAppendix D: Reports of Sexual Assaults Involving Authority Figures in SportNotes; References; Index
£69.70
Cornell University Press Russia at Play
Book SynopsisAn athlete becomes a movie star; a waiter rises to manage a chain of nightclubs; a movie scenarist takes to writing restaurant reviews. Intrepid women hunt bears, drive in automobile races, and fly, first in balloons and then in airplanes. Sensational...Trade ReviewFirst and foremost it is a recovery of little-known stories of Russian leisure activities, an effort to 'resurrect' what has largely 'vanished' from historical memory.... This recovery of the past is often quite celebratory (the author's pleasure in discovering and telling these tales of Russians 'at play' is apparent), yet this appreciation has interpretive weight. Louise McReynolds argues, against the well-known contempt for commercial entertainment by contemporary culturalist intellectuals, that Russia's growing commercial mass culture offered citizens facing a rapidly changing modern society much of value. Above all, it offered Russians opportunities to orient themselves as individuals and social beings, to fashion and adapt new identities, and to find refuge. * Slavic Review *In her well-researched and stimulating book, Louise McReynolds brings firmly to our attention the late tsarist leisure industry and show show it can deepen our understanding of Russian culture and society.... The book also has more than fifty well-chosen illustrations: street scenes, sports photos, photo-portraits (especially of actors), cartoons, and promotional pictures of resorts. * SEER *Table of ContentsThe origins of Russia's legitimate stage -- Commercializing the legitimate stage -- Sporting life as modern life -- The actress and the wrestler -- The Russian tourist at home and abroad -- "Steppin' out" in the Russian night at the fin-de-siaecle -- Inthe whirlwind of a waltz -- Tsarist Russia's dream factories.
£52.20
University of Toronto Press The Vulnerable Fortress
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£22.79
University of Nebraska Press Young Black Rich and Famous
Book SynopsisThe author chronicles how basketball and hip hop have gone from being reviled by the American mainstream in the 1970s to being embraced and imitated globally today. For young black men, he argues, they represent a new version of the American dream, one embodying the hopes and desires of those excluded from the original version.Trade Review“A powerful and provocative history of modern basketball and how issues of race, class and popular culture have played out both on and off the basketball court.”—Publishers Weekly“An insightful look at how African American basketball players and rappers have gone from being reviled by mainstream audiences to being imitated around the world.”—Essence“Boyd effortlessly threads the past thirty years of basketball culture, the cost of being outspoken, and the pressures of a power structure and media glare that both cheers and reviles.”—UpscaleTable of ContentsIntroduction to the Bison Books EditionIntroduction: The Playa's Life1. Young, Black, Rich and Famous: 'Ball, Hip Hop, and the Redefinition of the American Dream2. Don't Get High on Your Own Supply: The NBA's Image Problem Back in the Day3. That Ol' Black Magic and the Great White Hope: Basketball and Race in the Reagan Era4. Chocolate City: Georgetown and the Intelligent Hoodlums5. I Am: Hip Hop, the Individual, and the Culture of Michael Jordan6. My Detroit Playaz: Ballin' in the Motor City7. The Takeover: The Fab Five, Hip Hop, and College 'Ball8. Leaders of the New School: The Answer, "Karaoke Jordan," and the Modern-Day Balla9. Can It All Be So Simple? Internationally Known, Nationally Recognized, and Locally Accepted
£14.24
University of Nebraska Press In Search of Powder
Book SynopsisAn exploration of ski bum history and culture and the socio-economic factors that are shaping it todayTrade Review“In Search of Powder by Jeremy Evans is funny, irreverent, hedonistic, saucy, insightful, and ski-obsessed. Much like the ski bums detailed within.”—Rob Story, editor at large of Powder and Skiing magazines"A provocative new book."—Sam McManis, Sacramento Bee"[A] superb book about ski towns like ours."—George Shirk, Mammoth Times"Evans' book chronicles all this in fine details, gathered over several seasons of boarding and interviewing. He has all the history, all the names and all the places. If you're an ex-ski bum, this is required reading. If you remember those days, ditto. Or if you just like tales of men and women on the edge, give it a read. And keep an eye out for Evans, he's still riding our slopes."—Sam Bauman, Nevada Appeal"In Search of Powder is a comprehensive, well-written and well-reasoned homage to a lifestyle that many of us yearn for, secretly or otherwise."—Ted Holteen, Durango Herald"Evans tells the story of quintessentially American characters—rejecting materialism, taking risks, following their own paths—and of the glories and pitfalls their lifestyles present."—ForeWord e-newsletterTable of ContentsForeword by Glen PlakeAcknowledgmentsIntroduction Chapter 1 - Shangri-laChapter 2 - Den of the Face RatsChapter 3 - Suburbanite Ski BumsChapter 4 - Ski Town InvasionChapter 5 - Resorting to MadnessChapter 6 - Swift, Silent, DeepChapter 7 - Kodak CourageEpilogueBibliography
£16.14
University of Nebraska Press Playing with the Big Boys Basketball American
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Antolihao provides a well-crafted narrative of the historical and social discourse of basketball in the Philippines."—Chad Carlson, Journal of Sport History"Antolihao has written a very interesting study that nobody working on Philippine basketball and baseball can ignore."—Stefan Hübner, Journal of Asian American Studies“Attentive to the ways in which so many aspects of political and national discourse intersect with the game of basketball. Any historians working on Philippine history or the history of sport and colonialism would be well served by reading this work.”—Andrew D. Morris, professor of history at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo Table of ContentsList of IllustrationsList of TablesAcknowledgmentsList of AbbreviationsIntroduction1. Spheroid of Influence: Sports, Colonization, Modernity2. From Baseball Colony to Basketball Republic: Postcolonial Transition and National Sporting Culture3. The Hollywoodization of Hoops: Basketball, Mass Media, Popular Culture4. Rooting for the Underdog: Sports, Spectatorship, Subalternity5. Basketball without Borders: Globalization and National Sports in Postcolonial ContextConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex
£40.50
University of Nebraska Press The Black Migrant Athlete
Book SynopsisAnalyses the construction of race in Western societies through a study of the black African migrant athlete. Munene Franjo Mwaniki presents ten black African migrant athletes as a conceptual starting point to interrogate the nuances of white supremacy and of the migrant and immigrant experience with a global perspective.Trade Review"Using extensive archival news database research, the author examines representations of these athletes in terms of racial and national stereotypes. Mwaniki's particular strength here is in his multilayered analyses. He skillfully examines how the athletes themselves navigate both positive and negative media representations, explores the ways their reactions impact their identity, and finally considers what those representations mean to the larger African and Western communities. Scholars of race, media, and nationalism, among other areas, will find this work to be a valuable contribution to the field."—A. Curtis, Choice"Mwaniki’s text is an absolute must read: it is groundbreaking, captivating, eye-opening, and truly innovative in its discussions of the representation of the Black African migrant. . . . Whether situated in the United States, the United Kingdom, or any other part of the Western world, I implore scholars to read this book and engage with its dominant messages."—Rory Magrath, American Journal of Sociology“Engaging, timely, and important, The Black Migrant Athlete carves out new ground within discussions of sport and society with its focus on migration, African athletes, and media representations. Truly novel and innovative, this is a must-read.”—David J. Leonard, author of Playing While White “The Black Migrant Athlete is a fascinating analysis of media representations of African immigrant athletes. . . . Mwaniki expertly shows that [a] contradiction lies at the heart of paternalistic loathing that greets even the most privileged African immigrants to the West.”—Monica McDermott, associate professor of sociology at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and author of Working Class White: The Making and Unmaking of Race Relations “Ground-breaking. . . . An original and timely text that encourages us to think globally, historically, and critically about the myriad situated ways that black migrant athletes are rendered variously similar and Other in the Western imagination.”—Daniel Burdsey, deputy head of research in the School of Sport and Service Management at the University of Brighton and author of Race, Place, and the Seaside: Postcards from the Edge Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Introduction: Black African Immigration to the West 1. Race and Sport: Situating the Black African Athlete 2. Everyday Othering: Boundary Making and Maintenance 3. Model Minorities: Origin Stories, Hard Workers, and Humanitarians 4. “Bad” Blacks: Contingent Acceptance and Essentialized Blackness 5. Immigrant Reception: Nationalism, Identity, Politics, and Resistance 6. The Diasporic Athlete: Blackness and Meaning in the African Diaspora 7. The Sporting Migrant: Antiblack Racism and the Foreign Other Appendix A: Methodology and Data-Gathering Procedures Appendix B: Individuals in the Study Notes Bibliography Index
£35.10
University of Nebraska Press Football
Book SynopsisFootball. Far more than a game, America's favourite spectator sport is an intrinsic part of the nation's popular culture - a proving ground for high school athletes, a springboard for stars, a multimillion-dollar business, and a vast entertainment enterprise. Football: An Encyclopedia of Popular Culture provides a detailed look at America's pastime through the lens of pop culture.Trade Review"Armchair quarterbacks as well as pop-culture junkies will enjoy diving into this informative and wide-ranging A-Z rundown on the players, teams, epic match-ups, concepts, equipment, expressions and other assorted gridiron odds 'n' ends that have made football an intrinsic part of American life."—Neil Pond, American Profile"From African Americans to the number Zero, this clever and informative book is designed to acquaint you with the developments in the game, the major players, coaches and innovators, and the cultural influences on (and from) the great game of football."—Doc Kirby, Book Bit, WTBF-AM/FM"A treasure trove of information for fans and history/culture lovers alike."—Kevin Holtsberry, Collected Miscellany"For those who want a better overall understanding of the gridiron game, Football: An Encyclopedia of Popular Culture . . . is an excellent starting point."—Ron Kaplan, ForeWord"[Football: An Encyclopedia of Popular Culture] is an interesting collection of items and essays. . . . It is a reference work worthy of a library, whether university, public, or personal."—Richard C. Crepeau, AreteTable of ContentsPreface African Americans (College) African Americans (Professional) Agents All-America Football Conference American Football League (i, ii, iii) American Football League (iv) American Indians Apparel Arctic Football Arena Football AstroTurf Autry, Carlos Alan (b. 1952) Baugh, Samuel Adrian (Slingin’ Sammy, the Texas Tornado) (19142008) Bednarik, Charles Philip (Concrete Charlie) (b. 1925) Belichick, William Stephen (b. 1952) Big Hit Black College Football Bowden, Robert Cleckler (Bobby) (b. 1929) Bowl Games Bradshaw, Terry Paxton (b. 1948) Brady, Thomas Edward, Jr. (b. 1977) Brown, James Nathaniel (b. 1936) Brown, Johnny Mack (the Dothan Antelope) (19041974) Brown, Paul Eugene (19081991) Bryant, Paul William (Bear) (19131983) Camp, Walter Chauncey (the Father of American Football) (18591925) Canadian Football League Canton Bulldogs Carlisle Indian Industrial School Celebrations Cheating Cheerleaders Coin Toss Commercials and Advertisements Commissioners Concussions Cosell, Howard William (19181995) Crime Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders Davis, Allen (Al) (b. 1929) Davis, Ernie (the Elmira Express) (19391963) Disabilities Ditka, Michael Keller, Jr. (Iron Mike, Da Coach) (b. 1939) Dogfighting Downtown Athletic Club Draft Drive, The Dropkick Education Eliot, Charles William (18341926) Elway, John Albert (b. 1960) Equipment Extreme Football Eyeglasses Falwell, Jerry Lamon (19332007) Fantasy Football Favre, Brett Lorenzo (b. 1969) Films Fitzgerald, F. (Francis) Scott Key (18961940) Flag Football Flying Wedge Forward Pass Four Horsemen of Notre Dame Friday Night Lights Gambling Gangs and Street Violence Gibbs, Joe Jackson (b. 1940) Gifford, Frank Newton (the Giffer) (b. 1930) Gil Thorp Gipp, George (the Gipper) (18951920) Globalism Golden Dome Graham, Otto Everett, Jr. (Automatic Otto) (19212003) Grambling State University Grandfathers Grange, Harold Edward (Red, the Galloping Ghost) (19031991) Greatest Game Greene, Charles Edward Joseph (Mean Joe) (b. 1946) Gridiron Gun Violence “Hail Mary” Pass Halas, George Stanley (Papa Bear) (18951983) Hall of Fame (College) Hall of Fame (Professional) Hay, Ralph E. (18911944) Hayes, Wayne Woodrow (Woody) (19131987) Heffelfinger, William W. (Pudge) (18671954) Heisman, John William (18691936) Heisman Trophy Hirsch, Elroy Leon (Crazylegs) (19232004) Hnida, Katharine Anne (Katie) (b. 1981) Holy Roller Hornung, Paul Vernon (the Golden Boy) (b. 1935) Hudson, Donald Edward (b. 1929) Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Ice Bowl Immaculate Reception Instant Replay Internet Ivy League Jackson, Vincent Edward (Bo) (b. 1962) Jewelry (Bling) Katrina (Hurricane) Kennedy, John F., Assassination of Kerouac, Jack (Jean Louis Lebris de Kerouac) (19221969) Kickoffs Korean War Labor-Management Relations Landry, Thomas Wade (19242) Language Leahy, Francis William (Frank) (19081973) Literature Little Rock Central Tigers Lombardi, Vincent Thomas (19131970) Madden, John Earl (b. 1936) Magazines Manning, Peyton Williams (b. 1976) Marino, Daniel Constantine, Jr. (b. 1961) Marshall University Air Tragedy Mascots and Team Names McNally, John Victor (Johnny Blood, the Vagabond Halfback) (19031985) Middle Age Monday Night Football Montana, Joseph Clifford (the Comeback Kid, Joe Cool) (b. 1956) Moss, Randy Gene (b. 1977) Mr. Inside and Mr. Outside Music Nagurski, Bronislaw (Bronko) (19081990) Namath, Joseph William (Joe Willie, Broadway Joe) (b. 1943) Newspapers Newsreels nfl Junior Player Development Nicknames Obesity Officials (Zebras) Ohio League Olsen, Merlin Jay (b. 1940) Oorang Indians Page, Alan Cedric (b. 1945) Parcells, Duane Charles (Bill, the Big Tuna) (b. 1941) Parseghian, Ara Raoul (b. 1923) Paterno, Joseph Vincent (JoPa) (b. 1926) Payton, Walter Jerry (Sweetness) (19541999) Peanuts Perfection Perry, William Anthony (the Refrigerator, the Fridge) (b. 1962) Plimpton, George Ames (19272003) Poe, Edgar Allan (18091849) Politicians Pollard, Frederick Douglass (Fritz) (18941986) Pop Warner Little Scholars Practice Squad Presidents of the United States Professional Football Origins Punt, Pass & Kick Purdue’s Golden Girl Quarterback Radio Radio Helmet Religion Retirement Rice, Grantland (18801954) Rice, Jerry Lee (World) (b. 1962) Rivalries Robeson, Paul Leroy Bustill (18981976) Robinson, Eddie Gay (19192007) Rockne, Knute Kenneth (18881931) Rooney Rule Rugby Saban, Nick Lou (b. 1951) Sanders, Barry David (b. 1968) Sanders, Deion Luwynn (Neon Deion, Prime Time) (b. 1967) Sayers, Gale Eugene (b. 1943) Scouts September 11 Terrorist Attacks Sexuality Shotgun Formation Shula, Donald Francis (b. 1930) Simpson, Orenthal James (O.J., the Juice) (b. 1947) Six-Man (Eight- and Nine-Man) Football Stagg, Amos Alonzo (the Grand Old Man of the Midway) (18621965) Substance Abuse Subway Alumni Suicide Super Bowl Tailgating Tank McNamara Taylor, Lawrence Julius (b. 1959) Television Broadcasting Text Messaging/Instant Messaging Thanksgiving Thorpe, James Francis (Wa-Tho-Huk) (18881953) Tillman, Patrick Daniel (19762004) Title ix Tittle, Yelberton Abraham (Y.A.) (b. 1926) Tomlinson, LaDainian (lt) (b. 1979) Touch Football Touchdown Jesus Trades Trading Cards Trick Plays Triple Crown Unitas, John Constantine (Johnny U, the Golden Arm) (19332002) United States Football League Upshaw, Eugene Thurman, Jr. (19452008) Vietnam War Walker, Ewell Doak, Jr. (the Doaker, Dynamite Doak, Dauntless Doak) (19271998) Walsh, William Ernest (the Genius) (19312007) Ward, Arch (the Cecil B. de Mille of Sports) (18961955) Warner, Glen Scobey (Pop) (18711954) Wheaties White, Byron Raymond (Whizzer) (19172002) White, Reginald Howard (Reggie, the Minister of Defense) (19612004) Wild Card Wildfires Williams, Errick Lynne, Jr. (Ricky) (b. 1977) Wine Women Players World Football League World War i World War ii X’s and O’s Yost, Fielding Harris (Hurry Up) (18711946) Young, Jon Steven (Steve) (b. 1961) Zero Index
£21.59
University of Nebraska Press We Average Unbeautiful Watchers
Book SynopsisSports fandom determines how millions of Americans define themselves. In We Average Unbeautiful Watchers, Noah Cohan examines contemporary sports culture to show how mass-mediated athletics are in fact richly textured narrative entertainments rather than merely competitive displays.Trade Review"Cohan's book will appeal to cultural critics, fans of all stripes, and American Studies scholars as it thoroughly and convincingly examines an understudied and undertheorized perspective of the Sport(s) Media Industrial Complex."—Scott D. Peterson, Sports Literature Association"For a different look at sports fandom, this is a book well worth checking out."—Lance Smith, Guy Who Reviews Sports Books“This is a first-rate contribution to the field of sports studies and an important work for scholars within literary studies. The thoroughness and breadth of this interdisciplinary research is breathtaking. But more impressive still is the deft and precise manner in which Noah Cohan has brought the many and varied concepts and sources to bear to clarify our understanding of his objects of study and of his argument. He manages to be at once engaging, vivid, interesting, and crystal clear. . . . This book is a pioneering and genuinely unique contribution.”—Yago Colás, professor of English at Oberlin College and author of Ball Don’t Lie: Myth, Genealogy, and Invention in the Cultures of Basketball“Noah Cohan’s We Average Unbeautiful Watchers offers novel ways of thinking about and contextualizing sports fandom as an important, diverse, complex, and artful creative practice. It brings together an eclectic range of source material to broaden understandings of fandom beyond its stereotypical roots in ‘fanaticism’ and association with torso-painted and hollering bros to explain this phenomenon’s contested politics and cultural work.”—Travis Vogan, author of ABC Sports: The Rise and Fall of Network Sports Television “Noah Cohan deftly demonstrates that, far from mindless entertainment, sports fandom is an enormously complex and significant form of human meaning-making. Analyzing sports fan narratives across a staggering range of media, Cohan draws us into the inner and the social lives of American sports fans, which are by turns disturbing, fascinating, and inspiring.”—Erin C. Tarver, associate professor of philosophy at Oxford College of Emory University and author of The I in Team: Sports Fandom and the Reproduction of IdentityTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Introduction 1. So We Fabricate: Baseball and the Unfriendly Confines of History 2. It was My Fate, My Destiny, My End, to Be a Fan: Football, Mental Illness, and the Autobiographical Novel 3. Race in the Basketball Memoir: Fan Identity and the Eros of “a Black Man’s Game” 4. It’s Been a Problem with Me and Women: Failed Masculinities in Depictions of Sports Fans on Film 5. Reimagined Communities: Web-Mediated Fandom and New Narrative Possibilities for Sport Epilogue: Feminist Rewritings of Sports Fan Culture Notes Bibliography Index
£33.25
University of Pennsylvania Press Slantwise Moves
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Slantwise Moves is an important contribution to a materialist history and analysis of the ideological work of amusement cultures in the United States . . . While scholars narrowly focused on video games may find the promise of some terms unfulfilled, Guerra presents a nuanced set of readings that has something to offer every scholar working along on the diagonal line of literature, games, and history." * Modern Philology *"Guerra offers an important advance in thinking about games in relation to the major currents of American history. More than a reflection of ideology or a product of social relations, games are sites where individuals could rehearse and transform their repertoires of social life." * American Journal of Play *"Slantwise Moves recovers forgotten nineteenth-century games from obscurity and interprets them as part of a history of American selfhood or agency, reading them against and in relation to other nineteenth-century cultural productions. This important and original book will prove compelling for Americanists, especially scholars of nineteenth-century literature and the history of the book, but will also find readers among anyone with an interest in games and game studies." * Lisa Gitelman, New York University *
£52.70
University Press of Florida Baseball and Cultural Heritage
Book SynopsisBaseball’s past has been lauded, romanticized, and idealized, and much has been written about both the sport and its history. This is the first volume to explore the understudied side of baseball - how its heritage is understood, interpreted, commodified, and performed for various purposes today.
£63.75
The Catholic University of America Press Goal A Cultural and Social History of Modern
Book SynopsisCovers the history of the beautiful game from its origins in English public schools in the early 19th century to its current role as a crucial element of a globalized entertainment industry. The authors explain how football transformed from a sport at elite boarding schools in England to become a pastime popular with the working classes.Trade ReviewThis fascinating history of football in its social and cultural context offers many fresh insights. Grounded in sound scholarship, but written in an engaging and accessible style, it will be of considerable interest to football fans as well as being a core text for courses in sports history.""- Wyn Grant, University of Warwick and coeditor of The Transformation of European Football, blogs at Addicks Championship Diary and The Political Economy of Football.
£23.96
Rutgers University Press SportsWorld
Book SynopsisTough and witty, SportsWorld is a well-known commentator's overview of the most significant form of mass culture in Americasports. It's a sweaty Oz that has grown in a century from a crucible for character to a complex of capitalism, a place where young people can find both self-fulfillment and cruel exploitation, where families can huddle in a sanctuary of entertainment and be force fed values and where cities and countries can be pillaged by greedy team owners and their paid-for politicians. But this book is not just a screed, it's a guided visit with such heroes of sports as Muhammad Ali, Billie Jean King, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, and Joe Namath, who the author knew well, and with some he met in passing, like Richard Nixon, who seemed never to have gotten over missing the cut in college varsity football, a major mark of manhood. We see how SportsWorld sensibilities help elect our politicians, judge our children, fight our wars, and oppress our minorities. And now featuring a new introduTrade Review"Robert Lipsyte is one of the most significant sports journalists of my lifetime. SportsWorld features the insight, prescience, social conscience, and willingness to break from the pack that set Lipsyte apart." -- Bob Costas"Robert Lipsyte is our best guide to the dramatic, wondrous, and ultimately all-absorbing culture of American sports. Brilliantly written and sharply articulated, this classic text is an insightful and important journey into the heart of American sports and by extension, American society." -- Gay Talese * bestselling author and journalist *"Bob Lipsyte's underappreciated masterpiece. Ahead of its time in every way. Nothing less than the most important sports book ever written." -- Dave Zirin * Sports Editor, The Nation *“An incisive, intelligent, beautifully written book.” * Newsday *“Mr. Lipsyte is a brilliant writer. He can turn a phrase as effortlessly as Earl the Pearl spinning, faking left, then right, to sink a fallaway jumper. He is as erudite in his references . . . as Bill Bradley. He is a phrase maker and a wit.” -- Anatole Broyard * The New York Times * “You will never look at a sports event in quite the same way again.” -- Paul D. Zimmerman * Newsweek *"It is in that other thing, the simple and wonderful act of playing, that Lipsyte, despite his withering analysis of the country’s sports obsession, finds hope: 'Yet for all the cynicism and oppression and betrayal, the rhythms of sport, the sensations, and the emotions, are often the most intense and pleasurable ever experienced.'" * New Yorker *"Tomgram: Robert Lipsyte, Trump's War on Black Jocks" by Robert Lipsyte, mention of book * TomDispatch *"I'd like to believe that all of us, even overserved, media-saturated fans, are more willing to follow Lipsyte's example in believing that 'sports matters event if there is something the matter with sports.'" * Bookforum *"A very readable book!" * Idrottsforum *"What We Can Learn From Sports Fandom’s Moral Drift," by Robert Lipsyte * The Nation *"Robert Lipsyte is one of the most significant sports journalists of my lifetime. SportsWorld features the insight, prescience, social conscience, and willingness to break from the pack that set Lipsyte apart." -- Bob Costas"Robert Lipsyte is our best guide to the dramatic, wondrous, and ultimately all-absorbing culture of American sports. Brilliantly written and sharply articulated, this classic text is an insightful and important journey into the heart of American sports and by extension, American society." -- Gay Talese * bestselling author and journalist *"Bob Lipsyte's underappreciated masterpiece. Ahead of its time in every way. Nothing less than the most important sports book ever written." -- Dave Zirin * Sports Editor, The Nation *“An incisive, intelligent, beautifully written book.” * Newsday *“Mr. Lipsyte is a brilliant writer. He can turn a phrase as effortlessly as Earl the Pearl spinning, faking left, then right, to sink a fallaway jumper. He is as erudite in his references . . . as Bill Bradley. He is a phrase maker and a wit.” -- Anatole Broyard * The New York Times * “You will never look at a sports event in quite the same way again.” -- Paul D. Zimmerman * Newsweek *"It is in that other thing, the simple and wonderful act of playing, that Lipsyte, despite his withering analysis of the country’s sports obsession, finds hope: 'Yet for all the cynicism and oppression and betrayal, the rhythms of sport, the sensations, and the emotions, are often the most intense and pleasurable ever experienced.'" * New Yorker *"Tomgram: Robert Lipsyte, Trump's War on Black Jocks" by Robert Lipsyte, mention of book * TomDispatch *"I'd like to believe that all of us, even overserved, media-saturated fans, are more willing to follow Lipsyte's example in believing that 'sports matters event if there is something the matter with sports.'" * Bookforum *"A very readable book!" * Idrottsforum *"What We Can Learn From Sports Fandom’s Moral Drift," by Robert Lipsyte * The Nation *Table of ContentsContents Introduction to the 2017 Edition Introduction to the Original Edition Chapter 1. Welcome to SportsWorld Chapter 2. Please Rise for Our National Pastime Chapter 3. Sport of the Sixties: Instant Replay ... Replay ... Replay ... Chapter 4. The Heavyweight Crown Prince of the World Chapter 5. Sport of the Seventies: Sly, Midnight Moves Chapter 6. The Rack Page Chapter 7. The Body Biz Chapter 8. Designated Heroes, Ranking Gods, All-Star Holy Persons Chapter 9. The Last American Dream Index
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MI - New York University Faithful to Fenway
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New York University Press Faithful to Fenway
Book SynopsisInvestigates the mystique of the ballparkTrade Review"A fascinating book!" -- Doug Miller,for MLB.com"Borer's text is a solid achievement." -- Robert Trumpbour * American Studies Journal *"Borer has captured the magic of Fenway Park." -- Doris Kearns Goodwin"Even if you dont already love the Red Sox, youll love this account of the stories people tell about why Fenway matters." -- Nancy T. Ammerman,author of Everyday Religion: Observing Modern Religious Lives"Even Yankee fans will have much to consider from this book, published so soon after the Red Sox curse has ended. This is an important work of the sociology of sport and of urban sociology." -- Gary Alan Fine,author of With the Boys: Little League Baseball and Pre-adolescent Culture"Borer haunted Fenway Park for several season. He talked to players, executives, vendors, fans. Trot Nixon discussed the Red Sox-Yankees rivalry with him, and former Red Sox second basemen Mike Andrews described the sadness of being traded." * The Falmouth Enterprise *"Along with his astute social scientific insight, Borer also includes plenty of first-person accounts of the ballpark from Red Sox greats like Carl Yastrzemski and Johnny Pesky and from regular Bostonians and out-of-town baseball fans. This ability to intermingle scholarly research with Americas beloved pastime has allowed Borer to write an astute academic treatise that has the appeal of a consumer sports pub." * Publishers Weekly *"Borers Faithful to Fenway: Believing in Boston, Baseball, and Americas Most Beloved Ballpark gives proper props to the Red Sox home since 1912" * Sacramento Bee *"Faithful to Fenway is a must-have item for the Red Sox fans who champion their old stadium despite its uncomfortable seats" * Portland Press Herald *"A must-have item for Red Sox fans who champion their old stadium." * Maine Sunday Telegram *"Borer assesses the attraction of Fenway Park through his own expert lens. The results . . . will prove invaluable not only to Red Sox and more general baseball scholars but also to students of urban life, the organization of limited inner-city space, social psychology and collective memory, how a baseball park can become a cultural shrine, and a cohorts shared valuesnot to mention Fenways contributions to our understanding of fandom" * Library Journal *"While many writers have likened Americas particular devotion to baseball to religious devotion, Borer gives texture and substance to the metaphor through curious and moving stories of Red Sox fans treatment of Fenway as sacred turf." * American Journal of Sociology *"Bostons Fenway Park has become as valued as any star player in those cities and as much an attraction as the teams themselves. Borer, a sociologist and lifelong New Englander, explores the history of Fenway and its place in Bostons culture through research and interviews with players, stadium personnel, fans, and team owners. . . . [H]e explains Fenways place in the culture as an example of identity continuity. Fenway is an emotional anchor for fans in the sense that it encompasses a part of an individuals past and present." * Booklist *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments INTRODUCTIONThe Sociology of Green Monsters and Broken CursesBOSTON BELIEVESFenway Park, a "Lyrical Little Bandbox"THE BIRTH OF AN URBAN BALLPARKLeisure, Nostalgia, and the Baseball Creed THE BALLPARK AT RESTThe Civic Partnership between Boston, the Red Sox, and the Fenway Faithful OBJECTS OF FAITH AND CONSUMPTION Souvenirs, Replicas, and Other Representations of Fenway Park SOME DIAMONDS ARE NOT FOREVERDebating the Future of Fenway Park BELIEVE IN BOSTONRed Sox Nation and the Cultural Power of Place APPENDIXMaking the Familiar Strange: Urban Sociology at the Ballpark Notes Bibliography Index About the Author
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MJ - Ohio University Press Alternative Models of Sports Development in Amer
Book SynopsisB. David Ridpath offers clear steps to address the exploitative entanglement of sports and education in America and to create a new status quo. He lays out four possible alternative models that draw various elements from academic, athletic, and European approaches.Trade Review“The day will come when we fundamentally reimagine the role of sports in schools—the health, social and economic needs of the 21st century demand it. Dave Ridpath gets the conversation started with this fascinating exploration of what’s possible.”
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Ohio University Press Alternative Models of Sports Development in
Book SynopsisB. David Ridpath offers clear steps to address the exploitative entanglement of sports and education in America and to create a new status quo. He lays out four possible alternative models that draw various elements from academic, athletic, and European approaches.Trade Review“The day will come when we fundamentally reimagine the role of sports in schools—the health, social and economic needs of the 21st century demand it. Dave Ridpath gets the conversation started with this fascinating exploration of what’s possible.”
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Duke University Press The Quality of Home Runs
Book SynopsisIn parks and cafes, homes and stadium stands, Cubans talk baseball. This work contends that when they are analyzing and debating plays, teams, and athletes, Cubans are exchanging ideas not just about baseball but also about Cuba and cubanidad, or what it means to be Cuban. It explores the interconnections between baseball and Cuban identity.Trade Review“The Quality of Home Runs offers engaging and provocative perspectives on socialism, nationalism, masculinity, and the embodiment and poetics of sport in Cuba, all seen from the vantage point of the stadium stands and the streets of Havana. Thomas F. Carter’s emphasis on themes such as spectacle, social drama, struggle, and discipline of both players and fans, on and off the field, builds a persuasive analysis of changing notions of what it means to be Cuban.”—Thomas M. Wilson, Binghamton UniversityTable of ContentsPreface: Entering the Field vii Acknowledgments xv Introduction. The Theoretical "Stretching:" of Sport and the State 1 1. Baseball and the Language of Contention 17 2. Circling the Base Paths: Baseball, Migration, and the Cuban Nation 36 3. The Spectacle of and for Cuba 63 4. The State in Play: The Politics of Cuba's National Sport 89 5. Fans, Rivalries, and the Play of Cuba 111 6. Talking a Good Game 136 7. The Qualities of Cubanidad: Calidad and Lucha in Baseball 159 Conclusion: Touching 'Em All: Recalling and Recounting Home Runs 183 Notes 203 Works Cited 213 Index 231
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Duke University Press Transnational Sport
Book SynopsisAnthropologist Rachael Joo explores the gendered and mediated role of sports in producing a Korean sense of self on a global stage.Trade Review"In this far-reaching work, Rachael Miyung Joo reveals transnational sport as a powerful lens for observing the making of 'global Koreanness.' From the South Korean golfer Se Ri Pak and the baseball player Chan Ho Park to the Korean adoptee and Olympic skier Toby Dawson and the mixed-race Korean NFL player Hines Ward, and from the 2002 FIFA World Cup Korea/Japan to North–South Korea sporting matches, we learn not only of adoring fan bases, but more expansively of South Korean, Korean American, and transnational Korean publics whose affinities and potentials far exceed sport. Transnational Sport beautifully demonstrates the power and pleasures of sport, as well as its enormous scholarly reach."—Nancy Abelmann, author of The Intimate University: Korean American Students and the Problems of Segregation"To be part of the international sports community means, in our moment, to live paradoxically: to simultaneously support from within the nation and to express that support across national boundaries in such a way as to almost invalidate the nation. Transnational Sport is a dedicated study of this dilemma. Rachael Miyung Joo delineates the difficult, sometimes conflicting ways in which the national and the transnational cohabit in the global Korean sports community. Written with passion and a sympathetic critical eye, Transnational Sport lends a vivacity and a certain pathos to the standing of Korean athletes, such as the baseballer Chan Ho Park, the golfer Se Ri Pak, and the Olympic gold-medalist figure skater Kim Yuna."—Grant Farred, author of Long Distance Love: A Passion for Football“Joo’s use of ethnographic material, participant observation, and interviews are justifiably necessary and highly enriching to her study of the negotiations between gender, media, and global Korea.” -- Myoung-Sun Song * International Journal of Communication *“Transnational Sport is an accessible yet rigorously written book that will help closely investigate the world that transnational/Korean media sport has made. Thus, the book is highly recommended for courses on, as well as for scholars and students in the fields of, anthropology, sociology, and cultural studies of sport; Asian American studies; and Asian studies.” -- Jin-Kyung Park * Journal of Asian Studies *“Transnational Sport makes an excellent contribution to both Korean and Korean American studies by offering thoughtful analyses of wide-ranging interesting data and critical ethnographic commentaries on the sociocultural and political economic significance of transnational media sport.” -- Chunghee Sarah Soh * American Ethnologist *“Rachael Miyung Joo presents a well-rounded look at transnational sport in her book. It covers many important and interesting topics. . . .[The] content of each topic is informative and the analysis, inspiring. . . . The various topics discussed in the book offer multiple entries for worthwhile comparison beyond South Korea alone.” -- Hsueh-cheng Yen * Asian Anthropology *"Writing in clear authoritative prose and avoiding the jargon of historical discourse and examined identity, Joo provides clear explanations in each chapter of her main points and conclusions. . . . Recommended." -- K. Lynass * Choice *"Joo... advance[s] our understanding of the key roles that sports play in gendering societies in Asia, but with clear application to other parts of the world. [Transnational Sport is] invaluable for researchers, and I highly recommend [the book] for classroom use." -- Yunxiang Gao * Signs *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Note on Transliteration xiii Introduction: Manufacturing Koreanness through Transnational Sport 1 Part I. Situating Transnational Media Sport 1. To Be a Global Player: Sport and Korean Developmental Nationalisms 35 2. A Leveraged Playing Field: U.S. Multiculturalism and Korean Athletes 65 Part II. Reading Masculinities and Femininities through Transnational Athletes 3. Playing Hard Ball: The Athletic Body and Korean/American Masculinities 101 4. Traveling Ladies: Neoliberalism and the Female Athlete 131 Part III. The Transnational Publics of the World Cup 5. Nation Love: The Feminized Publics of the Korean World Cup 163 6. Home Field Advantage: Nation, Race, and Transnational Media Sport in Los Angeles's Koreatown 194 7. Generations Connect: Discourses of Generation and the Emergence of Transnational Youth Cultures 222 Conclusion: The Political Potentiality of Sport 250 Notes 267 References 303 Index 323
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University of Hawai'i Press The Pearl Frontier Indonesian Labor and Indigenous Encounters in Australias Northern Trading Network
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CABI Publishing Leisure Education Community Development and
Book SynopsisThis book is a result of an output of a Commission of the World Leisure and Recreation Association (WLRA) to examine the role of leisure and education for leisure activities among people with special needs living in the community, and requiring social or health services outside hospital. It provides a conceptual and practical framework for understanding the role of leisure education for community development with a special emphasis on special populations. It will also serve the reader as a foundation for developing models and programmes for leisure education within community settings.Table of Contents1: Educating the Community for Developmental Opportunities in Leisure, Jay Shivers, University of Connecticut, USA 2: Leisure Education, Serious Leisure and Community Development, Robert A Stebbins, University of Calgary, Canada 3: Community Development Through Leisure Education: Conceptual Approaches, Atara Sivan 4: Leisure Education, Quality of Life and the Community Development: Toward a Systematic and Holistic Coping and Resilient Model for the Third Millennium, Joseph Levy, York University, Ontario, Canada 5: Mobility for Action - Advocacy and Empowerment for the Right of Leisure Play and Recreation, Arnold H Grossman, New York University, USA 6: Global Edutainment: The Role of Leisure Education for Community Development, Wolfgang Nahrstedt, University of Bielefeld, Germany 7: Community Vision and Resources: Commitment, Capacity and Collective Effort, Arnold H Grossman 8: Leisure Opportunities for Persons with Disabilities, Jay Shivers 9: The Role of Leisure Counselling for Special Populations in Facilitating Successful Adjustment to Life in the Community, Michael J Leitner, California State University, USA 10: Serious Leisure for People with Disabilities, Robert A Stebbins 11: Leisure Education, Quality of Life and Populations with Special Needs, Atara Sivan 12: Active Living for People with Disabilities: Towards the Concept of Equality of Well-Being and Human Authenticity, Joseph Levy 13: Community Empowerment, Poverty and Leisure Education, Elisheva Sadan, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel 14: Establishing a Model for the Rehabilitation of Children with Special Needs, Sam Raz, Jerusalem, Israel 15: Youth at Risk and Leisure Education, Hillel Ruskin 16: Practical Approaches to Leisure Education for the Elderly, Debra Markus, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel 17: Concluding Remarks, Atara Sivan and Hillel Ruskin
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MP-OSU Oregon State Universi Studies in Outdoor Recreation Search and
Book SynopsisThe first book to integrate the social science literature on outdoor recreation, this volume reviews studies from this broad, interdisciplinary field and synthesizes them into a body of knowledge, providing an historical perspective on outdoor recreation research and developing its practical management implications.
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Edward Elgar Publishing Handbook on Sport and Culture
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Anthropology of Performance
Book SynopsisThe Anthropology of Performance is an invaluable guide to this exciting and growing area. This cutting-edge volume on the major advancements in performance studies presents the theories, methods, and practices of performance in cultures around the globe. Leading anthropologists describe the range of human expression through performance and explore its role in constructing identity and community, as well as broader processes such as globalization and transnationalism. Introduces new and advanced students to the task of studying and interpreting complex social, cultural, and political events from a performance perspective Presents performance as a convergent field of inquiry that bridges the humanities and social sciences, with a distinctive cross-cultural perspective in anthropology Demonstrates the range of human expression and meaning through performance in related fields of religious & ritual studies, folkloristics, theatre, language arts, andTrade Review“This volume is a comprehensive and well-structured compilation of previously published essays, articulating how anthropology has explored diverse instances of performance . . This book will be of great use to graduate students looking to specialize in the field, or faculty members who wish to deepen their understanding of established concepts and perhaps recast their own work.” (Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 1 June 2015) Table of ContentsAcknowledgments to Sources vii The Anthropology of Performance: An Introduction 1 Frank J. Korom Part I Performance in Prehistory and Antiquity 9 1 Singing the Rug: Patterned Textiles and the Origins of Indo-European Metrical Poetry 11 Anthony Tuck 2 Performance and Written Literature in Classical Greece: Envisaging Performance from Written Literature and Comparative Contexts 26 Rosalind Thomas Part II Verbal Genres of Performance 37 3 Playing the Dozens 39 Roger D. Abrahams 4 The La Have Island General Store: Sociability and Verbal Art in a Nova Scotia Community 49 Richard Bauman 5 Proverbs and the Ethnography of Speaking Folklore 61 E. Ojo Arewa and Alan Dundes 6 Gbaya Riddles in Changing Times 73 Philip A. Noss 7 Shadows of Song: Exploring Research and Performance Strategies in Yolngu Women’s Crying-Songs 80 Fiona Magowan Part III Ritual, Drama, and Public Spectacle 95 8 Prayer as Person: The Performative Force in Navajo Prayer Acts 97 Sam D. Gill 9 Performance and the Cultural Construction of Reality 107 Edward L. Schieffelin 10 “He Should Have Worn a Sari”: A “Failed” Performance of a Central Indian Oral Epic 124 Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger 11 Representing History: Performing the Columbian Exposition 133 Rosemarie K. Bank 12 The Palio of Siena: Performance and Process 150 Alice Pomponio Logan Part IV Performance and Politics in the Making of Communities 165 13 Poetry and Politics in a Transylvanian Village 167 Gail Kligman 14 The Matter of Talk: Political Performances in Bhatgaon 174 Donald Brenneis 15 Celebrating Cricket: The Symbolic Construction of Caribbean Politics 183 Frank E. Manning 16 Performing the Nation: China’s Children as Little Red Pioneers 199 T.E. Woronov Part V Tourist Performances and the Global Ecumene 215 17 The Promise of Sonic Translation: Performing the Festive Sacred in Morocco 217 Deborah A. Kapchan 18 Ethnic Tourism in Hokkaidoˆ and the Shaping of Ainu Identity 234 Lisa Hiwasaki 19 What They Came With: Carnival and the Persistence of African Performance Aesthetics in the Diaspora 250 Esiaba Irobi 20 Global Breakdancing and the Intercultural Body 260 Halifu Osumare Further Readings 273 Index 287
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Anthropology of Performance
Book SynopsisThe Anthropology of Performance is an invaluable guide to this exciting and growing area. This cutting-edge volume on the major advancements in performance studies presents the theories, methods, and practices of performance in cultures around the globe. Leading anthropologists describe the range of human expression through performance and explore its role in constructing identity and community, as well as broader processes such as globalization and transnationalism. Introduces new and advanced students to the task of studying and interpreting complex social, cultural, and political events from a performance perspective Presents performance as a convergent field of inquiry that bridges the humanities and social sciences, with a distinctive cross-cultural perspective in anthropology Demonstrates the range of human expression and meaning through performance in related fields of religious & ritual studies, folkloristics, theatre, language arts, andTrade Review“This volume is a comprehensive and well-structured compilation of previously published essays, articulating how anthropology has explored diverse instances of performance . . This book will be of great use to graduate students looking to specialize in the field, or faculty members who wish to deepen their understanding of established concepts and perhaps recast their own work.” (Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 1 June 2015) Table of ContentsAcknowledgments to Sources vii The Anthropology of Performance: An Introduction 1Frank J. Korom Part I Performance in Prehistory and Antiquity 9 1 Singing the Rug: Patterned Textiles and the Origins of Indo-European Metrical Poetry 11Anthony Tuck 2 Performance and Written Literature in Classical Greece: Envisaging Performance from Written Literature and Comparative Contexts 26Rosalind Thomas Part II Verbal Genres of Performance 37 3 Playing the Dozens 39Roger D. Abrahams 4 The La Have Island General Store: Sociability and Verbal Art in a Nova Scotia Community 49Richard Bauman 5 Proverbs and the Ethnography of Speaking Folklore 61E. Ojo Arewa and Alan Dundes 6 Gbaya Riddles in Changing Times 73Philip A. Noss 7 Shadows of Song: Exploring Research and Performance Strategies in Yolngu Women’s Crying-Songs 80Fiona Magowan Part III Ritual, Drama, and Public Spectacle 95 8 Prayer as Person: The Performative Force in Navajo Prayer Acts 97Sam D. Gill 9 Performance and the Cultural Construction of Reality 107Edward L. Schieffelin 10 "He Should Have Worn a Sari": A "Failed" Performance of a Central Indian Oral Epic 124Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger 11 Representing History: Performing the Columbian Exposition 133Rosemarie K. Bank 12 The Palio of Siena: Performance and Process 150Alice Pomponio Logan Part IV Performance and Politics in the Making of Communities 165 13 Poetry and Politics in a Transylvanian Village 167Gail Kligman 14 The Matter of Talk: Political Performances in Bhatgaon 174Donald Brenneis 15 Celebrating Cricket: The Symbolic Construction of Caribbean Politics 183Frank E. Manning 16 Performing the Nation: China's Children as Little Red Pioneers 199T.E. Woronov Part V Tourist Performances and the Global Ecumene 215 17 The Promise of Sonic Translation: Performing the Festive Sacred in Morocco 217Deborah A. Kapchan 18 Ethnic Tourism in Hokkaidô and the Shaping of Ainu Identity 234Lisa Hiwasaki 19 What They Came With: Carnival and the Persistence of African Performance Aesthetics in the Diaspora 250Esiaba Irobi 20 Global Breakdancing and the Intercultural Body 260Halifu Osumare Further Readings 273 Index 287
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd A Companion to Sport
Book SynopsisA 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.Trade Review“No doubt, many students will be inspired by it to undertake further research and create yet new and deeper thoughts on the role sport can play in our society.” (Reference Reviews, 1 December 2014Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors ix Introduction: Sport as Escape, Struggle, and Art 1 Ben Carrington and David L. Andrews Part One: Sporting Structures and Historical Formations 17 1 Constructing Knowledge: Histories of Modern Sport 23 Douglas Booth 2 Sport and Globalization 41 Richard Giulianotti and Roland Robertson 3 The Sport/Media Complex: Formation, Flowering, and Future 61 David Rowe 4 Political Theories of Social Class, Sport, and the Body 78 Joshua I. Newman and Mark Falcous 5 Gender, Feminist Theory, and Sport 96 Sheila Scraton and Anne Flintoff 6 Sports Medicine, Health, and the Politics of Risk 112 Parissa Safai 7 Sport, Ecological Modernization, and the Environment 129 Brian Wilson and Brad Millington Part Two: Bodies and Identities 143 8 Paradox of Privilege: Sport, Masculinities, and the Commodifi ed Body 149 Jeffrey Montez de Oca 9 Racism, Body Politics, and Football 164 Mark Q. Sawyer and Cory Charles Gooding 10 Physical Culture, Pedagogies of Health, and the Gendered Body 179 Emma Rich and John Evans 11 Gay Male Athletes and Shifting Masculine Identities 196 Eric Anderson 12 Sport, the Body, and the Technologies of Disability 210 P. David Howe Part Three: Contested Space and Politics 223 13 US Imperialism, Sport, and “the Most Famous Soldier in the War” 229 Toby Miller 14 The Realities of Fantasy: Politics and Sports Fandom in the Twenty-fi rst Century 246 Michael Bérubé 15 Sport, Palestine, and Israel 257 Tamir Sorek 16 Cities and the Cultural Politics of Sterile Sporting Space 270 Michael L. Silk 17 Swimming Pools, Civic Life, and Social Capital 287 Jeff Wiltse Part Four: Cultures, Subcultures, and (Post)Sport 305 18 Sports Fandom 311 Edwin Amenta and Natasha Miric 19 Sporting Violence and Deviant Bodies 327 Kevin Young and Michael Atkinson 20 Dissecting Action Sports Studies: Past, Present, and Beyond 341 Holly Thorpe and Belinda Wheaton 21 Heidegger, Parkour, Post-sport, and the Essence of Being 359 Michael Atkinson 22 Race-ing Men: Cars, Identity, and Performativity 375 Amy L. Best 23 Chess as Art, Science, and Sport 390 Antony Puddephatt and Gary Alan Fine Part Five: Sport, Mega-events, and Spectacle 405 24 Sport Mega-events as Political Mega-projects: A Critical Analysis of the 2010 FIFA World Cup 411 Scarlett Cornelissen 25 Sporting Mega-events, Urban Modernity, and Architecture 427 John Horne 26 Sports, the Beijing Olympics, and Global Media Spectacles 445 Douglas Kellner and Hui Zhang 27 Always Already Excluded: The Gendered Facts of Anti-Blackness and Brazil’s Male Seleção 465 João H. Costa Vargas 28 To Be Like Everyone Else, Only Better: The US Men’s Football Team and the World Cup 481 Grant Farred 29 Sport, Spectacle, and the Political Economy of Mega-events: The Case of the Indian Premier League 493 Ian McDonald and Abilash Nalapat Part Six: Sporting Celebrities/Cultural Icons 507 30 Global Sporting Icons: Consuming Signs of Economic and Cultural Transformation 513 Barry Smart 31 Embodying American Democracy: Performing the Female Sporting Icon 532 C.L. Cole and Michael D. Giardina 32 Monty Panesar and the New (Sporting) Asian Britishness 548 Daniel Burdsey 33 Earl’s Loins – Or, Inventing Tiger Woods 564 Davis W. Houck 34 Deleuze and the Disabled Sports Star 582 Pirkko Markula Index 602
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Johns Hopkins University Press Game Changer
Book SynopsisGame Changer will change the way you look at sports-and the outsized impact technoscience has on them.Trade ReviewMr Fouché makes important points about sport’s growing grey areas—The EconomistThe text is an interesting exploration into the obsession with sports and the influence of what the author calls the "technoscientific revolution." There is no discussion of the specific science and technology that undergird the tremendous changes. Recommended. all readers.—ChoiceGame Changer offers a fine introduction to complex questions raised by the application of science and technology to athletic competition. Where does the athlete stop and the technology begin? This and a host of other issues should spark debate in upper-division and graduate courses in sociology, ethics, American Studies, and sports history.—The History TeacherGame Changer is not an easy read. The analysis and arguments are delivered in all of their complexity. The use of technical language and academic jargon will put off many non-specialists, but if you have the patience to slog through those passages, you will be rewarded. This is an important and thought provoking book and sheds light on the past, while anticipating the future technological leaps that will further blur the line between the athlete and the performance.—New York Journal of BooksFouche’s Game Changer provides important and original insights and understandings and is highly recommended reading for scholars within the social sciences and humanities of sport and of technoscience, and, more generally, for all those with an interest in the current status and future of sport.—MetascienceTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Sports, Bodies, and Technoscience1: Black is the New Fast: Swimsuit Technoscience and the Recalibration of Elite Swimming2: Gearing up for the Game: Equipment as a Shaper of Sport3: Disabled, Superabled, or Normal: Oscar Pistorius and Physical Augmentation4: "I Know One When I See One": Sport and Sex Identification in an Age of Gender Mutability5: The Parable of a Cancer Jesus: Lance Armstrong and the Failure of Direct Drug Testing6: "May I See Your Passport?": The Athlete Biological Passport as a Technology of ControlConclusion: Body/Motor/Machine: The Future of Technology and SportNotesIndex
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Temple University Press,U.S. Sport and Neoliberalism
Book SynopsisHow neoliberal politics appropriates sports for its own endsTrade Review"Sport and Neoliberalism is a sophisticated collection of well-reasoned essays that collectively provide a landmark statement on neoliberalism as a dominant political, social, and economic organizing mechanism. The multidisciplinary nature and range of topics covered are impressive, as is the way that the editors have thematically organized the contributions. Scholars who are interested in any aspect of the political and economic governance of sport will find Sport and Neoliberalism a 'must read,' as will policy makers keen to understand more about the potential consequences of strategies of economic maximization and social control." - John Amis, Department of Management, University of Memphis "[A]n extensive collection of essays that provide a look at sport from political, social, and economic points of view (with a neoliberal slant)... [T]his book attempts to redefine how sport is viewed, discussed, and understood. It will be particularly useful to those interested in the intersection of politics, economics, and sport. Summing Up: Recommended." Choice, January 2013Table of Contents1 Sport and the Neoliberal Conjuncture: Complicating the Consensus • Michael L. Silk • David L. AndrewsPart I Structures, Formations, and Mechanics of Neoliberalism2 A Distorted Playing Field: Neoliberalism and Sport through the lens of Economic Citizenship • Toby Miller3 Advanced Liberal Government, Sport Policy, and “Building the Active Citizen” • Mick Green4 Race, Class, and Politics in Post-Katrina America • Michael D. Giardina • C. L. Cole5 Nike U: Full-Program Athletics Contracts and the Corporate University • Samantha King6 Growth and Nature: Reflections on Sport, Carbon Neutrality, and Ecological Modernization • Brian Wilson7 The Uncanny of Olympic Time: Michael Phelps and the End of Neoliberalism • Grant FarredPart II Government, Governance, and the Cultural Geographies of Neoliberalism8 The Governance of the Neoliberal Sporting City • Michael L. Silk • David L. Andrews9 Governing Play: Moral Geographies, Healthification, and Neoliberal Urban Imaginaries • Caroline Fusco10 Neoliberal Redevelopment, Sport Infrastructure, and the Militarization of U.S. Urban Terrain • Kimberly S. Schimmel11 Economies of Surf: Evolution, Territorialism, and the Erosion of Localism • Leslie Heywood • Mark Montgomery12 Free Running: Post-Sport Liminality in a Neoliberal World • Michael AtkinsonPart III Consuming Pleasure: Citizenship, Subjectivities, and “Popular” Sporting Pedagogies13 Out-of-Bounds Plays: The Women’s National Basketball Association and the Neoliberal Imaginings of Sexuality • Mary G. McDonald14 Pedagogies of Fat: The Social Currency of Slenderness • Jessica M. Francombe • Michael L. Silk15 Technologies of the South: Sport, Subjectivity, and “Swinging” Capital • Joshua I. Newman16 Hijacking Canadian Identity: Stephen Harper, Hockey, and the Terror of Neoliberalism • Jay Scherer • Lisa McDermott17 Global Smackdown: Vince McMahon, World Wrestling Entertainment, and Neoliberalism • Ted ButrynAfterword: Sport and Neoliberalism • Norman K. DenzinContributorsIndex
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Temple University Press,U.S. The Eternal Present of Sport
Book SynopsisIn his persuasive study The Eternal Present of Sport, Daniel Grano rethinks the sport-religion relationship by positioning sport as a source of theological trouble. Focusing on bodies, time, movement, and memory, he demonstrates how negative theology can be practically and theoretically useful as a critique of elite televised sport. Grano asserts that it is precisely through sport's highest religious ideals that controversies are taking shape and constituting points of political and social rupture. He examines issues of transcendence, legacye.g., greatest ever, or all-timeand witnessing through instant replay, which undermine institutional authority. Grano also reflects on elite athletes representing especially powerful embodiments of religious and social conflict, including around issues related to gender, sexuality, ability doping, traumatic brain injury, and institutional greed. Elite sport is in a period of profound crisis. It is through the ideals Grano analyzes that we can i
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Temple University Press,U.S. Suicide Squeeze
Book SynopsisAppearance- and performance-enhancing drugsspecifically, anabolic steroids (APEDs)provide a tempting competitive advantage for amateur baseball players. But this shortcut can exact a fatal cost on talented athletes. In his urgent book Suicide Squeeze, William Kashatus chronicles the experiences of Taylor Hooton and Rob Garibaldi, two promising high school baseball players who abused APEDs in the hopes of attracting professional scouts and Division I recruiters. However, as a result of their steroid abuse, they ended up taking their own lives. In Suicide Squeezenamed for the high-risk play in baseball to steal homeKashatus identifies the symptoms and dangers of steroid use among teens. Using archival research and interviews with the Hooton and Garibaldi families, he explores the lives and deaths of these two troubled young men, the impact of their suicides on MLB, and the ongoing fight against adolescent APED use by their parents. A passionate appeal to prevent additional senseless
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Temple University Press,U.S. Whose Game
Book SynopsisDemonstrates how fantasy sport offers a space in which its participants experience gendered power while they engage in an active, competitive fandomTrade Review“Whose Game? is well written and compelling, and the research important and timely. The authors’ sociological examinations of fantasy sports make a convincing argument that this is a unique realm of fandom. In its gender analysis, Whose Game? is a strong, valuable contribution to the literature. The breadth and depth of the data make for a rich analysis that allows us to examine and understand patterns of meaning and experience. This book will have significant appeal to those in the fantasy sport world, including participants and organizers, as well as general sports fans.”—Rachel Allison, Assistant Professor of Sociology at Mississippi State University and author of Kicking Center: Gender and the Selling of Women’s Professional Soccer“In this fascinating new study, Kissane and Winslow show us how often aging, non-athletic men can engage in fantasy sports leagues as to both secure a claim on legitimate masculinity and, importantly, to forge much needed emotional bonds with other men. Through careful research, Whose Game? documents the possibilities and perils involved in playing fantasy sports and issues an important call for thinking seriously about the way leisure and fun can reinforce existing gendered, raced, and classed inequalities.”—C.J. Pascoe, Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Oregon, and author of Dude, You’re a Fag: Masculinity and Sexuality in High School
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Temple University Press,U.S. It Was Always a Choice
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Steele, a sports journalist, connects recent efforts by Black athletes to effect social change, initiated by Colin Kaepernick kneeling for the national anthem, to the history of Black athletes using their platform to draw attention to racial injustice.... In particular, Steele draws a direct line from the famous protest by John Carlos and Tommie Smith at the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City. He contrasts this with the period from the 1980s to the early 2000s, when Black athletes mostly tried to stay out of larger social justice debates.... [A]s Steele demonstrates, given recent high-profile incidents of police violence against Black people and the demagoguery of now former President Donald Trump and his supporters, the need for protest and social justice campaigns remains as great as ever.... Summing Up: Recommended."—Choice"Steele takes on the task of positioning recent sports activism in the United States within the longer history of athletes in that country taking a stand against racial injustice.... Steele writes in an engaging and impassioned style that will certainly attract a broad readership.... It Was Always a Choice is a book with a clear argument – that athletes cannot and should not stand above the fray when it comes to civil rights activism – and anyone who is looking to understand recent events in US sporting history would benefit from reading it."—Sport in History"David Steele’s authoritative and engaging account uses historical reflection and up-to-date analysis to locate the key issues firmly in the present; but also, encouragingly, it turns its gaze to the future, and considers what, and who, might come next. Within the broader realm of sporting activism, Steele’s book focuses specifically on race and racism, and explores the actions undertaken largely but not exclusively by African American athletes in the United States. Through a comprehensive and thoughtful delineation of their actions, bodily gestures and spoken words, Steele outlines how Black sportspeople are inseparable from the communities which they emerge from and represent.... It Was Always a Choice is an important and insightful text."—Ethnic and Racial Studies
£17.09
Bristol University Press Sports Criminology
Book SynopsisThis is the first book to provide a critical criminological perspective on sport and the connections between sport and crime. Part of the New Horizons in Criminology series, it draws on the inter-disciplinary nature of criminology and incorporates emerging perspectives like social harm, gender and sexuality, and green criminology.Trade Review"The book does a fantastic job of introducing readers to sports criminology and offers a starting point for those interested in critical criminology of sport." Human Enhancement Drugs“A thought-provoking book, although one driven by suspense…Groombridge has thrown out the first pitch. It is now up to us. Batter up.” Critical Criminology“A timely and much needed overview and consideration of Sports Criminology, which will help define this emerging field and become an essential resource for a wide range of scholars and students” Garry Crawford, University of Salford“Groombridge’s fluency with methodology across the social sciences and his choice selection of case studies leavened with engaging revelations of his own sporting life, make this focussed scholarship an entertaining and thoroughly recommended read.” Pat Kane, author of The Play Ethic, writer and musicianTable of ContentsIntroduction: just men fighting?; A criminological history of sport; Celebrity and corruption: case studies of sports scandals; Game of two halves: mainstream criminological theory and sport; The second half: critical criminological theory and sport; Red card: sport, justice and social control; Retraining: crime prevention and desistance through sport; Conclusion: no such thing as crime, no such thing as sport.
£62.99
Policy Press Sports Criminology
Book SynopsisThis is the first book to provide a critical criminological perspective on sport and the connections between sport and crime. Part of the New Horizons in Criminology series, it draws on the inter-disciplinary nature of criminology and incorporates emerging perspectives like social harm, gender and sexuality, and green criminology.Trade Review"The book does a fantastic job of introducing readers to sports criminology and offers a starting point for those interested in critical criminology of sport." Human Enhancement Drugs“A thought-provoking book, although one driven by suspense…Groombridge has thrown out the first pitch. It is now up to us. Batter up.” Critical Criminology“A timely and much needed overview and consideration of Sports Criminology, which will help define this emerging field and become an essential resource for a wide range of scholars and students” Garry Crawford, University of Salford“Groombridge’s fluency with methodology across the social sciences and his choice selection of case studies leavened with engaging revelations of his own sporting life, make this focussed scholarship an entertaining and thoroughly recommended read.” Pat Kane, author of The Play Ethic, writer and musicianTable of ContentsIntroduction: just men fighting?; A criminological history of sport; Celebrity and corruption: case studies of sports scandals; Game of two halves: mainstream criminological theory and sport; The second half: critical criminological theory and sport; Red card: sport, justice and social control; Retraining: crime prevention and desistance through sport; Conclusion: no such thing as crime, no such thing as sport.
£23.74
Human Kinetics Publishers Fundamentals of Sociology of Sport and Physical
Book SynopsisFundamentals of Sociology of Sport and Physical Activity presents information on sociology of sport to prepare readers for advanced study or practice in the field. This text explores the impact of sport in society and examines careers in sport and physical activity. Table of ContentsPart I. Introduction to the Sociology of Sport and Physical ActivityChapter 1. What Is Sociology of Sport and Physical Activity? Sport and Physical Activity as Cultural Context Origins and Key Movements Functions of Sociology of Sport and Physical Activity Goals of the Field The Short of It Chapter 2. What Can I Do With Sociology of Sport and Physical Activity? Advocates for Ethical and Humane Sports and Physical Activity Allied Professionals in the Sociology of Sport and Physical Activity Academic Professionals in the Sociology of Sport and Physical Activity Building New Sociological Knowledge in Sport and Physical Activity Techniques for Sociological Knowledge Construction Thinking Beyond Sport The Short of It Part II. Building Blocks of Sociology of Sport and Physical ActivityChapter 3. Sport, Physical Activity, and the Major Spheres of Life Seeing Social Life as Harmonious or Conflictual Learning to See the Interdependence of Sport and Major Spheres of Life The Short of It Chapter 4. Body Projects in Sport and Physical Activity The Physical Body as Cultural Artifact Sociologists See Governing Structures for Embodiment and Body Projects The Short of It Chapter 5. Diversity, Difference, and Power in Sport and Physical Activity Sport, Physical Activity, and Social Stratification Systems of Power Are Not Individual Identities Social Conditions Versus Individual Identities The Short of It Chapter 6. Sport and Physical Activity in National and International Unity Linking Sport to the Nation Sport and Nationalism Sport and Globalization Corporate Nationalism The Short of It Chapter 7. Sport and Physical Activity in Societal Change Types of Social Change in Sport and Physical Activity Sport Development and Sport for Development The Process of Social Change Four Stages of Social Movements Sport and Physical Activity Advance Social Change The Short of It Epilogue: The Future of Sociology of Sport and Physical Activity
£29.45
Human Kinetics Publishers Sociocultural Issues in Sport and Physical
Book SynopsisSociocultural Issues in Sport and Physical Activity explores the intersections between modern physical activity and society. The text surpasses the scope of sociological texts that focus solely on sports, covering a broad range of physical activities such as fitness, dance, weightlifting, and others. The authors emphasize the promotion of healthy individuals and a healthy body in the many movement settings where the body is active.Sociocultural Issues in Sport and Physical Activity explores contemporary topics such as reducing disparities in education and income, increasing socioeconomic diversity in communities, the medicalization of fitness, the rise of cosmetic fitness, the promotion of physical activity as a requirement for health, and the globalization of the fitness industry. The text includes the following features to enhance student engagement: Chapter objectives help students achieve their learning goals Key points and terms to highlight important information throughout the text Active Bodies sidebars that offer context for concepts presented in the chapter and provide examples and applications Discussion questions that provide opportunities to reflect on chapter topics Part I of Sociocultural Issues in Sport and Physical Activity examines political, educational, media, and economic institutions that influence the relationship between society and physical activity. Part II explores how an individual’s race, gender, social class, and ability are interpreted through a social lens. Part III of the text discusses the process of developing healthy populations as well as promoting public health and body positivity.Sociocultural Issues in Sport and Physical Activity offers a cross-cultural perspective of society, health, and the body in motion. Readers will finish the text with a greater understanding of social theory applications in physical culture.Table of ContentsPart I. Body Institutions: Foundations and ConsiderationsChapter 1. IntroductionRobert Pitter, David L. Andrews, and Brandon WallaceDefining Physical CulturePhysical Culture and the Sociological ImaginationThe Importance of a Critical and Theoretical ApproachCase Study: Fitness and SocietyConclusionChapter 2. Politics of the Active BodyAndrew Grainger, Brandon Wallace, and David L. AndrewsPolitics as PowerAntonio Gramsci and HegemonyHegemony, Sport, and the Active BodyDominant, Residual, and Emergent Forms of Physical CultureConclusionChapter 3. Critical Pedagogy and the Active BodyRyan King-White and Matthew HawzenThe Focus of Physical EducationCritical PedagogyUnderstanding and Applying Critical PedagogyCritical Pedagogy in KinesiologyConclusionChapter 4. Medicine, Technology, and the Active BodyKatelyn EsmondePhysical Activity and EpidemiologyPhysical TechnoculturesSociocultural Issues and Possibilities for Technologies of Physical CultureConclusionChapter 5. The Corporeal Sport EconomyAdam Beissel, Chris McLeod, and David L. AndrewsThe Economic Base and Sporting SuperstructureSport and CapitalismThe Late Capitalist (Cultural) EconomySport and Late CapitalismWhat Is a Corporeal Economy?The Material and Social Relations of Late Capitalist ProductionThe Active Body as Instrument in Sport ProductionThe Active Body as Object of Sport ProductionConclusionPart II. Body Stratification: Meanings and Social IdentitiesChapter 6. Gender, Sex, and Physical CultureShannon Jette, David L. Andrews, and Robert PitterSocial Construction of Gendered IdentitiesPerformances of Exercise CulturePerformances of Sport CultureExpanding the Range of Gender Identity Through Physical CultureConclusionChapter 7. Racialized Bodies and Black and Indigenous Physical CulturesBrandon Wallace, Robert Pitter, and David L. AndrewsDisrupting the Myth of RaceRace or Ethnicity?African Americans and Black Physical CultureNative Americans and Indigenous Physical CulturesConclusionChapter 8. Social Class, Habitus, and Physical CultureRobert Pitter, David L. Andrews, and Brandon WallaceHow Social Class MattersSocial Class Distribution of Physical ActivityClass Habitus, Hexis, and Embodied Lifestyle CulturesConclusionChapter 9. Disability, Sport, Activity, and Public HealthMollie Greenberg and Stephanie J. CorkWhat Is Disability? A Note on LanguageEarly History of Disability in SocietyCurrent Models of DisabilityActivism and Civil Rights LegislationConfronting Health, Illness and DisabilityDiscrimination Against People With DisabilitiesAdapted Physical Activity and SportNeurodiversityThe Special OlympicsConclusionPart III. Body Movements: Scales and SpacesChapter 10. Popular Culture and the Active BodyMichael D. Giardina and A. Lamont WilliamsA Note About Popular CultureThe Active Body in Early Popular CultureThe Active Body in Contemporary Popular CultureConclusionChapter 11. Physical Activity and CommunityRobert Pitter, Brandon Wallace, and David L. AndrewsConceptualizing CommunityCreating Community via Physical CultureCommunity Development via Physical ActivityConclusionChapter 12. The Active Body in CitiesOliver J.C. Rick, Jacob J. Bustad, and Bryan C. CliftThe Rise of the Neoliberal CityModels of Urban Physical Activity ProvisionCreative Sport and Recreation: Designing Physical Activity AttractionsConclusionChapter 13. Globalization and Physical ActivityJoshua Newman, David L. Andrews, and Robert PitterLocal and Global MovementsWhat Is Globalization?Debates on GlobalizationGlobal Physical CultureGlobal Media SpectaclesThe Globalization of Culture and EconomyEconomic Globalization at WorkThe Problem of Global Sporting Goods ProductionGlobal Migration: People on the MoveConclusionChapter 14. The Environment and the Active BodyMartin Barrett and Kyle S. BundsThe Body as the EnvironmentThe Body in the EnvironmentThe Body for the EnvironmentConclusion
£63.00
The University of North Carolina Press Fit Citizens
Book SynopsisIn this first historical study of Black women's exercise, Ava Purkiss reveals that physical activity was both a path to self-improvement and a means to expand notions of Black citizenship. Through this narrative of national belonging, Purkiss explores how exercise enabled Black women to reimagine Black bodies, health, beauty, and recreation.
£19.90
Duke University Press Marxism Colonialism and Cricket
Book SynopsisMore than fifty years after the publication of C. L. R. James's classic Beyond a Boundary, the contributors to Marxism, Colonialism, and Cricket investigate its production and reception and its implication for debates about sports, gender, aesthetics, race, popular culture, politics, imperialism, and Caribbean and English identity.Trade Review"Impressively, the authors are respectful of James’ pivotal contribution to the Marxist analysis of sport but also explore aspects of his thought that fall short of a fully comprehensive materialist approach." -- Sean Ledwith * Marx & Philosophy Review of Books *"Marxism, Colonialism, and Cricket will likely be most appealing to specialists in British Caribbean cultural studies, and will also contribute to scholarly explorations of sport. Recommended. Researchers, faculty, and professionals." -- B. A. Lucero * Choice *"A fine and comprehensive attempt to reflect on the work of James . . . Represents the fluency of much of James’s writing and oratory as a charismatic speaker and public intellectual who sought to place himself at the forefront of public discussion. . . . Many will glean much pleasure and stimulation from a study of this text." -- Russell Holden * Nordic Sports Forum *"The most outstanding sports book of 2019, to date. . . . What the editors David Featherstone, Chistopher Gair, Christian Høgsberg and Andrew Smith have achieved is truly special mixing James’ personal and political lifestory, the context of cricket in the West Indies, the past, present and future of cricket writing. Superb, just the read whilst that old imperial encounter, The Ashes, seeks to nudge the Premier League’s off season from the back pages this sporting summer." -- Mark Perryman * Philosophy Football *“The collection takes us well beyond the boundaries of sport, of history, of politics, and of the auto/biographical self. . . . The collection is a vital contribution to and extension of our studies of, readings of, and deployment of [C.L.R.] James in sport and beyond. It is essential in grasping the limits and potentials of what remains a key text in the historical, cultural, and sociological analyses of sport.” -- Malcolm MacLean * Journal of Sport History *“Marxism, Colonialism, and Cricket is a major literary and intellectual accomplishment. It is a must read, and a timely reminder that the problem of the twentieth century has returned with a vengeance as the problem of the twenty-first century.” -- Leslie R. James * CLR James Journal *“I enjoyed this book immensely. I have indulged in reading it cover to cover; revisiting certain chapters and ideas, seeking clarity as my mind became cloudy. … Putting Beyond a Boundary at the core, this book epitomises the interdisciplinary application of James to fields as diverse as sport, sociology, cultural studies, history, literature and the arts.” -- Thomas Fletcher * Cultural Sociology *"This fine collection of essays and reflections makes a significant contribution to the existing literature on Beyond a Boundary and C.L.R. James more generally." -- Neil Lazarus * New West Indian Guide *Table of ContentsForeword. Opening Up / David Featherstone, Christopher Gair, Christian Høgsbjerg, and Andrew Smith vii Introduction. Beyond a Boundary at Fifty / David Featherstone, Christopher Gair, Christian Høgsbjerg, and Andrew Smith 1 Part I: Cricket, Empire, and the Caribbean 1. C. L. R. James: Plumbing His Caribbean Roots / Selwyn R. Cudjoe 35 2. C. L. R. James's "British Civilization"? Exploring the "Dark Unfathomed Caves" of Beyond a Boundary / Christian Høgsbjerg 51 3. The Boundaries of Publication: The Making of Beyond a Boundary / Roy McCree 72 4. "West Indian Through and Through, and Very British": C. L. R. James's Beyond a Boundary, Coloniality, and Theorizing Caribbean Independence / Minkah Makalani 88 5. Looking Beyond the Boundary, or Bondmen without the Bat: Modernism and Culture in the Worldview of C. L. R. James / David Austin 103 Part II. The Politics of Representation in Beyond a Boundary 6. "Periodically I Pondered over It": Reading he Absence/Presence of Women in Beyond a Boundary / Anima Adjepong 123 7. C. L. R. James, W. G. Grace, and the Representative Claim / Neil Washbourne 137 8. Shannonism: Learie Constantine and the Origins of C. L. R. James's Worrell Captaincy Campaign of 1959–60: A Preliminary Assessment / Clem Seecharan 153 Part III: Art, History, and Culture in C. L. R. James 9. C. L. R. James and the Arts of Beyond a Boundary: Literary Lessons, Cricketing Aesthetics, and World-Historical Heroes / Claire Westall 173 10. The Very Stuff of Human Life: C. L. R. James on Cricket, History, and Human Nature / Andrew Smith 191 11. C. L. R. James: Beyond the Boundaries of Culture / Paget Henry 204 Part IV: Reflections 12. Socrates and C. L. R. James / Michael Brearley 223 13. My Journey to James: Cricket, Caribbean Identity, and Cricket Writing / Hilary McD. Beckles 240 14. Confronting Imperial Boundaries / Selma James 254 Appendix. What Do They Know of England? / C. L. R. James 263 References 276 Contributors 283 Index 287
£80.10
New York University Press The Power of Sports
Book SynopsisA provocative, must-read investigation that both appreciates the importance ofand punctures the hype aroundbig-time contemporary American athleticsIn an increasingly secular, fragmented, and distracted culture, nothing brings Americans together quite like sports. On Sundays in September, more families worship at the altar of the NFL than at any church. This appeal, which cuts across all demographic and ideological lines, makes sports perhaps the last unifying mass ritual of our era, with huge numbers of people all focused on the same thing at the same moment. That timeless, live qualityimpervious to DVR, evoking ancient religious ritesmakes sports very powerful, and very lucrative. And the media spectacle around them is only getting bigger, brighter, and noisierfrom hot take journalism formats to the creeping infestation of advertising to social media celebrity schemes.More importantly, sports are sold as an oasis of community to a nation deeply divided: They are Trade ReviewMichael Serazio has done a remarkable analysis, and this book offers any student of American culture and sport much to contemplate...What this study offers is a full frontal examination of a multitude of areas with both a historical and contemporary focus that at times is dazzling. * New York Journal of Books *Fun, funny, and easy to read - not all bogged down by academic or scholarly jargon. * Americana: The Journal of American Popular Culture *This is a benchmark work: a lasting and influential volume that deals with major issues cast by the sociocultural shadow of sports with a savvy and comprehensive accessibility that could change the game as we know it. -- Lawrence Wenner, author of Sport, Beer, and Gender: Promotional Culture and Contemporary Social LifeIn direct and engaging style, Serazio approaches the media spectacle of contemporary sports with the knowing ambivalence of the critical-but-sentimental fan, combining sharp critique and warm personal reflection. With liveliness and insight, and some smart jokes, he explores the many ways in which the sports-media nexus exercises power over identities, imaginations, politics and consumer behavior. Rooted in the American culture that first nurtured sports as a staple of modern commerce, The Power of Sports is a literary shot that will be heard around the world by readers curious to understand how sports came to be both secular religion and temple of Mammon. -- David Rowe, author of Global Media Sport: Flows, Forms and FuturesSerazio digs the ball out of the dirt and fires it right on the money in this brilliant, entertaining and important analysis of the games we love that rarely love us back. A terrific book for fans and non-fans. -- Robert Lipsyte, author of SportsWorld: An American DreamlandThis is a powerful, intellectual, and vital contribution to our understanding of sports and sports culture. Michael Serazio walks the line between the scholarly and the popular with uncommon dexterity -- Dave Zirin, Sports Editor, The NationSharp writing, clear arguments, and impressive scope. Well worth a look. -- Brett Hutchins, author of Sport Beyond Television[Later chapters] delve into current affairs and Ivory Tower concepts that Serazio covers with ease and verve... [A] penetrating study. * Journal of American Culture *It is to Serazio’s credit that the arguments in his 2019 book about how tightly sports are interwoven with economics, politics, and culture in the United States resonate just as strongly in the era of the coronavirus disease... The breadth of examples and wealth of detail in the book are compelling. Further, The Power of Sports draws from extensive interviews with key figures in the sports media, lending to both behind-the-scenes credibility for its claims and examples for Serazio to deconstruct... The Power of Sports [is] a handy addition to a syllabus, inviting students to make connections between Serazio’s claims and current events, and the book is also likely to spur on future publications about the cultural and economic power embedded in sports. * Quarterly Review of Film and Video *Serazio's approach [is] productively interdisciplinary and as informative for those in leisure studies and sports communication as those in media studies [...] Though Serazio's work is broadly focused, it paves the way for more in-depth discussions of sports leagues' and networks' relationships with fans and spectators. The arrival of The Power of Sports to this ever-growing landscape of sports and sports media scholarship will contribute to future scholars' capacity to articulate and analyze how sports industries exercise power over the public. * The Velvet Light Trap *Ambitious analysis of sports’ role in American society and the symbiotic influence of sport and media in American culture... That Serazio draws from such a diverse and well-respected collection of scholars speaks to the ambition of the project. He is not only interested in explaining how we arrived here but reaches for the why, as well... His extensive interviews provide fascinating, if sobering, descriptions.... The Power of Sports succeeds in presenting several prominent consequences that have resulted from sports’ rise to societal totem. * Communication Booknotes Quarterly *Serazio succeeds in demonstrating the cultural, political, and gendered implications of sports in American society... Based on interviews with athletes, sports journalists, and other 'insiders' in the ever-expanding world of professional sports, Serazio’s volume successfully provides an internal perspective of the interference of multiple 'powers' in American sports. * The Journal of Popular Culture *This is a very fine book accessible to most potential adult readers... The interviews with various industry practitioners are very deeply analyzed and are a critically important and often overlooked part of academic research. As such, this is an extremely valuable book from an industrial perspective and deserving of a place on any bookshelf. * Popular Culture Studies Journal *
£26.59
Human Kinetics Publishers Dimensions of Leisure for Life
Book SynopsisDimensions of Leisure for Life, Second Edition With HKPropel Access, guides students through a study of leisure from both individual and societal perspectives. The editors and contributors, all key experts in the field, use social science methods and current research to study the multidisciplinary field of leisure and its practical applications. Relevant career opportunities within the broad scope of the leisure services delivery system are also presented. The text emphasizes inclusivity and prepares students and professionals to incorporate inclusive practices into their work. Part I of Dimensions of Leisure for Life, Second Edition, examines the broad dimensions of leisure and its related industries. It looks at leisure as a social science and analyzes its societal value. Part II discusses how individual dimensions of leisure affect a person’s quality of life, physical and mental health, and level of physical activity. Part III details how recreation hTable of ContentsPart I: Dimensions of LeisureChapter 1. Importance of Leisure to Individuals and SocietyDescriptions and DefinitionsImportance of Leisure and Recreation for Individuals and SocietyValue of a Leisure EthicAreas of the Leisure IndustrySummaryLearning ActivitiesReview QuestionsChapter 2. Leisure Through a Social Science LensWe Are All Social ScientistsBenefits of Social ScienceSocial Science PerspectivesConnecting the Social Sciences to LeisureSummaryLearning ActivitiesReview QuestionsPart II: Leisure as Part of Your LifestyleChapter 3. Leisure and Quality of LifeWhat Is Quality of Life?The Connection Between Leisure and Quality of LifeStrategies for Enhancing Quality of Life Through LeisureSummaryLearning ActivitiesReview QuestionsChapter 4. Leisure, Health, and Physical ActivityPhysical Activity TrendsWhat Is Health?Park and Recreation: Making a DifferenceLeisure and Life StressPromoting Lifelong Physical Health Through Recreation and LeisureExamining Factors That Influence BehaviorStrategies and Examples of Enhancing Physical Health Through LeisureSummaryLearning ActivitiesReview QuestionsChapter 5. Leisure and Well-BeingUnderstanding Well-Being and Mental HealthStress and Well-Being: The Important Role of CopingManaging Stress to Enhance Well-BeingParticipating in Meaningful Leisure to Enhance Well-BeingDeterminants of HappinessLeisure Choices That Undermine Well-BeingStrategies for Enhancing Mental Health and Well-Being Through LeisureSummaryLearning ActivitiesReview QuestionsPart III: Dimensions of Leisure in SocietyChapter 6. Leisure History and HeritageUnderstanding Leisure From a Historical PerspectiveThe Primacy of LeisureImportance of Fire and Its Effect on the Division of LaborAgricultural AlternativesRise of CivilizationLeisure in the Land of the PharaohsEmergence of GreeceCaput Mundi: The Glory of RomeMedieval Period: Castles, Churches, and the Peasant CultureRenaissance: A Resurgence of Classical ValuesIndustrial RevolutionOrigins and Development of Recreational Services in the United StatesHeritage of the National Recreation and Park AssociationLeisure, Recreation, and Quality of LifeSummaryLearning ActivityReview QuestionsChapter 7. Contemporary LeisureGenerationsWays of Seeing, Ways of KnowingDefining Popular and Culture: Historical and Sociological ViewsSummaryLearning ActivitiesReview QuestionsChapter 8. Leisure and Family LifeFamilies in SocietyFamily Functions That Support Health and Well-Being in SocietyWho Are Families?Using Leisure to Increase Families’ HealthCreating Maintenance and Growth Connection Experiences in Family LeisureSummaryLearning ActivitiesReview QuestionsChapter 9. An Introduction to Digital LeisureThe Role of Digital Technologies in Our Leisure TimeThe Role of Digital Technologies in Shaping IdentityThe Creepiness of Digital Technologies on Our BodiesThe Impact of Digital Technologies on Our Social LivesEquitability of Digital Leisure SpacesBig Brother Watching During Our Leisure TimeSummaryLearning ActivitiesReview QuestionsChapter 10. Leisure, Natural Landscapes, and SustainabilityChanging Landscapes in North AmericaManagerial ChallengesMoving Toward a Sustainable FutureMoving Beyond Islands of HopeSummaryLearning ActivitiesReview QuestionsChapter 11. Leisure EconomicsLeisure Economics: An IllustrationEconomic FoundationsLeisure Economics and Its ImportanceEconomic Impact Within the Predominant Leisure Service Delivery ModelsLeisure Trends: Economic ImplicationsSummaryLearning ActivitiesReview QuestionsChapter 12. Leisure, Politics, and Public PolicyGovernmental Role in LeisureFederalismPluralism and Public PolicyJustification for Public Recreation and LeisureSummaryLearning ActivitiesReview QuestionsPart IV: Leisure in Your WorldChapter 13. Campus and CommunityWhat Is a Microcosm?Explore Your Campus and Campus RecreationDiscover Opportunities: Components of Campus RecreationTechnology and Campus RecreationHave a Voice and Get Involved: Volunteer and Job Opportunities on CampusExplore Your CommunityDiscover Opportunities in Community RecreationSummaryLearning ActivitiesReview QuestionsChapter 14. Leisure for AllPeople With DisabilitiesOlder AdultsSportsLocation and IncomeLeisure and Segments of SocietySummaryLearning ActivitiesReview QuestionsChapter 15. Leisure and GeographySpatial Distribution of Leisure PlacesDevelopment of Leisure PlacesLeisure Travel and TransportationImpacts of Leisure on PlacesPositive Impacts of Leisure DevelopmentNegative Impacts of Leisure DevelopmentClimate Change and LeisureSummaryLearning ActivitiesReview QuestionsChapter 16. Leisure Across the Life SpanLife Span ConceptsIntroduction to Developmental TheoryDevelopmental Aspects and Leisure Participation Across the Life SpanSummaryLearning ActivitiesReview QuestionsChapter 17. Charting Your CourseWhose Life Is This, Anyway?Changing Obstacles Into OpportunitiesFinding ResourcesForm an Action PlanMonitor, Evaluate, and Modify Your Leisure ExperienceSummaryLearning ActivitiesReview Questions
£77.40
University of Nebraska Press National Pastimes
Book SynopsisKatharina Bonzel unravels the delicate matrix of national identity, sports, and emotion through the lens of popular sports films in comparative national contexts. Trade Review“Bonzel’s book joins Bruce Babington’s The Sports Film: Games People Play (2014) as an important book-length critical treatment of this film genre.”—S. C. Dillon, Choice“Katharina Bonzel eloquently explores the complex intersections that exist between national identity and class, ethnicity, and gender in sports films. Her historically nuanced readings trace the complex ways in which sports films have sought to generate a sense of emotional authenticity that promotes audience engagement with their visions of the nation. . . . [This is] a valuable intervention both in film theory and in ongoing debates about national identity.”—Nicholas Chare, author of Sportswomen in Cinema“Analyzing more than a dozen well-known films from the U.S., UK, and—importantly and unusually—Germany, Bonzel demonstrates how and why our sense of belonging to (or marginalization within) a nation morphs over time. This book is for anyone interested in national myths, dreams, anxieties, and nightmares, as conveyed through sports films. A welcome study of a burgeoning and influential film genre!”—Chris Holmlund, professor emerita of cinema studies, women/gender/sexuality studies, and French at the University of Tennessee“Sports and cinema are two of the most popular and significant cultural institutions in the contemporary world. Despite arguments to the contrary, the nation remains perhaps the world’s most potent sociopolitical construct. This book is without doubt a contribution not only to one field but to several.”—Alan Bairner, professor of sport and social theory at Loughborough University’s School of Sport, Exercise, and Health Sciences"Sports fans, movie fans and readers who are interested in social and political issues will all find something of interest in this book."—Lance Smith, Guy Who Reviews Sports BooksTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1. “Let Us Praise Famous Men”: Creating Myth and Memory in Chariots of Fire 2. Unifying Germany: The Miracle of Bern and National Identity 3. Anxious in America: Rocky Balboa and the American Dream 4. Small Towns, Big Dreams: American Pastoral, Race, and the Sports Film 5. Gendering the Nation: The “Hero Other” in Sports Films Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
£35.10
University of Nebraska Press Sports and Aging
Book SynopsisIn Sports and Aginga wide-ranging group of physically active people, including many scholar-athletes, discuss sports in the context of aging and their own athletic experiences.Trade Review“Sports and Aging includes inspiring narratives from a wide variety of individuals and a vast array of cultures and different ages to explore the way people who exercise regularly have embraced a healthy lifestyle and found meaning through exercise and in their communities. These essays are thoughtful and reflective accounts of the lived experience of aging practitioners of sport and physical activity. . . . [This book] will inspire others to join communities of movement, exercise, and fitness in a time when health and the communal are becoming increasingly important.”—Susan J. Bandy, professor in the Sport and Humanities Program at Ohio State University“Focusing on the lives of people from different ethnic groups, cultures, religions, and ages, this book is an important contribution to aging studies, which often lack such an intercultural and intersectional approach. . . . The fourteen stories of individuals show that there is neither one way of aging nor one way how one should age, and that the importance of physical activity and sport is different for each person throughout their life.”—Annette R. Hofmann, professor at the Ludwigsburg University of Education and president of the International Society for the History of Physical Education and SportTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Gerald R. Gems 1. A History of Aging Gerald R. Gems 2. Life with a Purpose Frances Gems 3. Looking Back Tony Kaleth 4. It Was Not Easy! Maha Ebeid 5. My Life of Physical Activity and Fitness James R. Coates Jr. 6. Aging, Antiaging, and Infinite Youth in Taiwan Chia-Ju Yen 7. A Matter of Perspective Samuel O. Regalado 8. Dance until the Music Stops Tansin Benn 9. Carpe Diem Luciane Lauffer 10. Aging as an Adventure M. Ann Hall 11. An Antiaging Sporting Life in an Aging Society Kohei Kawashima 12. Going Strong Gary Osmond 13. On a Meaningful Life with Sport as a Permanent Companion Else Trangbæk 14. Making a Difference Janice J. Crosswhite 15. Fit, Fun, Forever Young Gertrud Pfister Conclusion Gerald R. Gems Appendix: Aging Project Survey Contributors Index
£21.59
Cornell University Press They Will Have Their Game
Book SynopsisIn They Will Have Their Game, Kenneth Cohen explores how sports, drinking, gambling, and theater produced a sense of democracy while also reinforcing racial, gender, and class divisions in early America. Pairing previously unexplored financial records with a wide range of published reports, unpublished correspondence, and material and visual evidence, Cohen demonstrates how investors, participants, and professional managers and performers from all sorts of backgrounds saw these sporting activities as stages for securing economic and political advantage over others.They Will Have Their Game tracks the evolution of this fight for power from 1760 to 1860, showing how its roots in masculine competition and risk-taking gradually developed gendered and racial limits and then spread from leisure activities to the consideration of elections as races and business as a game. The result reorients the standard narrative about the rise of commercial popular culture to questiTrade ReviewIn this highly readable scholarly work, Cohen offers a descriptive study in power and hierarchy in American society from 1750 to 1860 and the evolving role of 'sporting culture' in their expression. Well-chosen and well-placed reproductions of period artwork illustrate socialization between social groups and the exclusionary divides that increasingly restricted participation by women, black slaves, and freemen. * Choice *They Will Have Their Game offers a compelling description of the process by which sporting culture emerged in eastern North America.... political and cultural historians should read it, and they should do so with care. * William & Mary Quarterly *The book is gracefully written, and a large number of well-chosen illustrations add to the narrative. They Will Have Their Game has many strengths. Perhaps most impressive is the research, especially in letters and legal records, which captures a level of detail I would not have thought possible. * Journal of the Early Republic *Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Meaning of Sport Part One: The Colonial Period 1. The Rise of Genteel Sport 2. A Revolution in Sporting Culture Part Two: The Early National Period 3. Sport Reborn 4. Prestige or Profit Part Three: The Antebellum Period 5. A Mass Sporting Industry 6. Sporting Cultures Epilogue: Change and Persistence
£20.89
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Sport and Modernity
Book SynopsisThis important new book from one of the world's leading sociologists of sport weaves together social theory, history and political economy to provide a highly original analysis of the complex relationship between sport and modernity. Incorporating a powerful set of theoretical insights from traditions and thinkers ranging from classical Marxism and the Frankfurt School to Foucault and Bourdieu, Gruneau analyzes the emergence of "sport" as a distinctive field of practice in western societies. Examining subjects including the legacy of Greek and Roman antiquity, representations of sport in nineteenth-century England, Nazism, and modern "mega-events" such as the Olympics and the World Cup, he seeks to show how sport developed into an arena which articulated competing understandings of the kinds of people, bodies and practices best suited to the modern western world. This book thereby explores with brio and sophistication how the ever-changing economic, social, and political relations of modernity have been produced and reproduced, and sometimes also opposed and escaped, through sport, from the Enlightenment to the rise of neoliberalism, as well as examining how the study of exercise, athletics, the body, and the spectacle of sport can deepen our understanding of the nature of modernity. It will be essential reading for students and scholars of the sociology and history of sport, sociology of culture, cultural history, and cultural studies.Trade Review"Ric Gruneau is the best theorist and analyst of sports writing today or yesterday; and probably will be tomorrow, as well. Sport and Modernity is as sophisticated theoretically and as rich empirically as it is pleasing to read. A landmark." Toby Miller, University of California, Riverside "With the publication of the brilliant Sport and Modernity, Richard Gruneau has not only produced a new way of looking at sport but, more importantly, has offered us a radical rereading of the origins and project of modernity itself and in so doing confirms his position as Canada’s leading social theorist and cultural historian of sport."Ben Carrington, University of Southern California ‘Richard Gruneau has become one of the foremost scholars in the socio-cultural study of sport, and in Sport and Modernity he has blended expert critical analyses of sport history with a highly nuanced sociological critique of modernity to produce an excellent text.’European Journal for Sport and Society ‘Sport and Modernity is a valuable reminder of the explanatory power of critical social theory. Irrespective of the degree to which one subscribes to this theory, Gruneau’s clear explication and skilful application will ensure that it remains a key analytical tool in the sociology of sport for some time to come.’Sociology of Sport Journal ‘A new book by Rick Gruneau is a major even for the academic study of sport. Gruneau is undeniably one of the most insightful and influential critical sport scholars and has been for many years.’Idrottsforum.orgTable of Contents Contents Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Athletics, Body Imagery and Spectacle: Greco-Roman Practices, Discourses and Ideologies 2. The Politics of Representation: English Sport as an Object and Project of Modernity 3. ‘Staging’ (Capitalist/Colonial) Modernity: International Exhibitions and Olympics 4. German Modernism, Anti-Modernism and the Critical Theory of Sport 5. A Savage Sorting of ‘Winners’ and ‘Losers:’ Modernization, Development, Sport, and the Challenge of Slums
£49.50
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Sport and Modernity
Book SynopsisThis important new book from one of the world's leading sociologists of sport weaves together social theory, history and political economy to provide a highly original analysis of the complex relationship between sport and modernity. Incorporating a powerful set of theoretical insights from traditions and thinkers ranging from classical Marxism and the Frankfurt School to Foucault and Bourdieu, Gruneau analyzes the emergence of "sport" as a distinctive field of practice in western societies. Examining subjects including the legacy of Greek and Roman antiquity, representations of sport in nineteenth-century England, Nazism, and modern "mega-events" such as the Olympics and the World Cup, he seeks to show how sport developed into an arena which articulated competing understandings of the kinds of people, bodies and practices best suited to the modern western world. This book thereby explores with brio and sophistication how the ever-changing economic, social, and political relations of modernity have been produced and reproduced, and sometimes also opposed and escaped, through sport, from the Enlightenment to the rise of neoliberalism, as well as examining how the study of exercise, athletics, the body, and the spectacle of sport can deepen our understanding of the nature of modernity. It will be essential reading for students and scholars of the sociology and history of sport, sociology of culture, cultural history, and cultural studies.Trade Review"Ric Gruneau is the best theorist and analyst of sports writing today or yesterday; and probably will be tomorrow, as well. Sport and Modernity is as sophisticated theoretically and as rich empirically as it is pleasing to read. A landmark."Toby Miller, University of California, Riverside "With the publication of the brilliant Sport and Modernity, Richard Gruneau has not only produced a new way of looking at sport but, more importantly, has offered us a radical rereading of the origins and project of modernity itself and in so doing confirms his position as Canada's leading social theorist and cultural historian of sport."Ben Carrington, University of Southern California ‘Richard Gruneau has become one of the foremost scholars in the socio-cultural study of sport, and in Sport and Modernity he has blended expert critical analyses of sport history with a highly nuanced sociological critique of modernity to produce an excellent text.’European Journal for Sport and Society ‘Sport and Modernity is a valuable reminder of the explanatory power of critical social theory. Irrespective of the degree to which one subscribes to this theory, Gruneau’s clear explication and skilful application will ensure that it remains a key analytical tool in the sociology of sport for some time to come.’Sociology of Sport Journal ‘A new book by Rick Gruneau is a major even for the academic study of sport. Gruneau is undeniably one of the most insightful and influential critical sport scholars and has been for many years.’Idrottsforum.org Table of Contents Contents Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Athletics, Body Imagery and Spectacle: Greco-Roman Practices, Discourses and Ideologies 2. The Politics of Representation: English Sport as an Object and Project of Modernity 3. ‘Staging’ (Capitalist/Colonial) Modernity: International Exhibitions and Olympics 4. German Modernism, Anti-Modernism and the Critical Theory of Sport 5. A Savage Sorting of ‘Winners’ and ‘Losers:’ Modernization, Development, Sport, and the Challenge of Slums
£17.09
John Wiley and Sons Ltd Superyachts: Luxury, Tranquility and Ecocide
Book SynopsisA superyacht is a boat that exceeds 30 metres in length, with some surpassing even 100 metres—more than a football field. At the beginning of the twenty-first century, there were about 2,000 of these vessels in the world; two decades and a financial crisis later, there are three times as many. Grégory Salle argues that these are not whimsical fads: on the contrary, luxury yachting highlights the social exclusivity of the wealthiest and the environmental waste they emit. Rather than being simply the plaything of billionaires with extravagant lifestyles, the superyacht offers a disconcerting reflection of the world as it is. A contemporary form of ostentatious seclusion, a magnifying glass for social inequalities, the superyacht leads us straight to the great questions of our time, including the question of ecocide. From class struggle to the over-consumption of the rich, from tax evasion to environmental crime, from eco-bleaching to the differential management of illegalities, to pull the thread of super yachting is to unspool the whole ball of capitalism.Trade Review‘Synecdoche is when a part stands in for the whole, and no part better represents the rise of a reckless, self-indulgent and damaging global plutocracy than superyachts. Once a rarity, there are now more than 5,000 of these monstrous floating mega-mansions, busy destroying marine ecosystems, undermining local, national and international law, and massively avoiding taxes. Grégory Salle paints a vivid picture of how these superyachts – costing hundreds of millions to build and many millions every year to operate – are a concrete expression of the grotesqueries of our current social disorder.’Naomi Oreskes, Harvard University‘Superyachts offers a deep dive into the world of the wealthiest. It is also a great case study for green criminology. In this breathtaking – and often humorous – book, Grégory Salle shows how capitalism is definitely destroying the planet.’Gwenola Ricordeau, California State UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Abbreviations & acronyms Preface to the English edition 1. A colossus at anchor 2. One form of excess can conceal another 3. Floating palaces 4. Specimens 5. UHNWI 6. Yachting lifestyle 7. The abode of production 8. Amsterdam’s red party 9. ISF-IFI & Co. 10. Riding the financial storm 11. Conspicuous seclusion 12. The political geography of luxury sailing 13. Playing the eco-friendly card (greenwashing) 14. Posidonia 15. The Marine Observatory 16. At sea/in a meeting 17. Red-handed 18. When Capitalocene and eco-socialism take to the water… Notes and references
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