Ben (Hrsg.) Carrington

A Companion to Sport

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A Companion to Sport brings together writing by leadingsports theorists and social and cultural thinkers, to explore sportas a central element of contemporary culture.* Positions sport as a crucial subject for critical analysis, asone of the most significant forms of popular culture* Includes both well-known social and cultural theorists whosework lends itself to an interrogation of sport, and leadingtheorists of sport itself* Offers a comprehensive examination of sport as a social andcultural practice and institution* Explores sport in relation to modernity, postcolonial theory,gender, violence, race, disability and politics

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Andrews, David L. (Hrsg.)

ISBN: 978-1-118-32529-2
EAN: 9781118325292
Produktnummer: 16383666
Verlag: Wiley-Blackwell
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
Seitenangabe: 632 S.
Plattform: PDF
Masse: 7'587 KB

Über den Autor

David L. Andrews is Professor of Physical Cultural Studies at the University of Maryland. He previously held an associate professorship in the Department of Human Movement Sciences and Education at the University of Memphis. He is the author of Sport-Commerce-Culture: Essays on Sport in Late Capitalist America (2006), and the co-editor of Sport, culture and advertising: Identities, commodities and the politics of representation (2004), Sport and Corporate Nationalisms (2004), and Qualitative methods in sport studies (2005). Ben Carrington teaches sociology at the University of Texas at Austin and is a Carnegie Visiting Research Fellow at Leeds Beckett University in England. His most recent book is Race, Sport and Politics: The Sporting Black Diaspora (2010).