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Author |
: John Bale |
Publisher |
: U of Minnesota Press |
Total Pages |
: 316 |
Release |
: 2002 |
ISBN-10 |
: 081663386X |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780816633869 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (6X Downloads) |
Synopsis Imagined Olympians by : John Bale
Author |
: Barbara J. Keys |
Publisher |
: Harvard University Press |
Total Pages |
: 289 |
Release |
: 2013-09-09 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780674726635 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0674726634 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (35 Downloads) |
Synopsis Globalizing Sport by : Barbara J. Keys
In this impressive book, Barbara Keys offers the first major study of the political and cultural ramifications of international sports competitions in the decades before World War II. Focusing on the United States, Nazi Germany, and the Soviet Union, she examines the transformation of events like the Olympic Games and the World Cup from relatively small-scale events to the expensive, political, globally popular extravaganzas familiar to us today.
Author |
: John Bale |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 235 |
Release |
: 2016-04-14 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781317637653 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1317637658 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (53 Downloads) |
Synopsis Women’s Sport in Africa by : John Bale
In recent decades Africa has emerged as a sporting giant. The African sporting phenomenon has been addressed in the popular press and it has also attracted scholarly interest; however, this interest is almost entirely focussed on men. Yet women’s participation in recreational and elite sport is worthy of exploration and research. This path-breaking collection of essays provides an introduction to a variety of dimensions of women’s participation in African sports. Several key concepts are addressed in the book: women and media, women and sport-migration, sport and empowerment, sporting and social development, women’s sport and postcolonial Africa, and professional sport and economic development. This collection, authored by established scholars, will attract readership from students from Sports Studies to African Studies and from undergraduate students to university teachers. This book was published as a special issue of Sport in Society.
Author |
: John Nauright |
Publisher |
: University of Arkansas Press |
Total Pages |
: 413 |
Release |
: 2014-11-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781610755344 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1610755340 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (44 Downloads) |
Synopsis Beyond C. L. R. James by : John Nauright
Beyond C. L. R. James brings together essays analyzing the intercon¬nections among race, ethnicity, and sport. Published in memory of C. L. R. James, the revolutionary sociologist and writer from Trinidad who penned the famous autobiographical account of cricket titled Beyond a Boundary, this collection of essays, many of which originated at the 2010 conference on race and ethnicity in sport at the University of West Indies, Cave Hill in Barbados, cover everything from Aborigines in sport and cricket and minstrel shows in Australia to Zulu stick fighting and football and racism in northern Ireland. The essays, divided into four sections that include introductory comments by each editor, are written by some of the more well-known sport historians in the world and characterized by a focus on the role of culture and sport in society in the context of both political economies and the state as well as colonial and postcolonial struggles. Included also are discussions on how sport at once brings people together, shapes the identities of its participants, and reflects the continuing search for social justice.
Author |
: Lungile Augustine Tshuma |
Publisher |
: Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages |
: 141 |
Release |
: 2024-09-27 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781040224977 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1040224970 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (77 Downloads) |
Synopsis Photographing the Liberation Struggle in Zimbabwe by : Lungile Augustine Tshuma
After assuming power in 1980, the Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU) has sought to control the narrative of the struggle for liberation from colonialism, to the exclusion of other players such as the Zimbabwe African People’s Union (ZAPU). This book investigates the ways in which photographs are being used within Zimbabwe, especially on social media, to challenge the prevailing narrative and reclaim the memories of the subjugated. The book analyses the photographs produced by Zenzo Nkobi during the struggle against colonialism. Drawing on the memories of veterans from ZAPU and its military wing the Zimbabwe People’s Revolutionary Army (ZPRA), the book shows that photographs can both act as a conduit for existing narratives, and as a tool for shaping memory narratives, and evidencing ZPRA military prowess ahead of other movements. At a time when Zimbabwe is reassessing the legacy of liberation, this book offers a powerful multidisciplinary assessment for researchers across the fields of history, memory, political science, African studies, and media studies.
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Total Pages |
: 529 |
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: |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780199213818 |
ISBN-13 |
: 019921381X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (18 Downloads) |
Synopsis A Dictionary of Sports Studies by :
Author |
: John Nauright |
Publisher |
: Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages |
: 2056 |
Release |
: 2012-04-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781598843019 |
ISBN-13 |
: 159884301X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (19 Downloads) |
Synopsis Sports around the World [4 volumes] by : John Nauright
This multivolume set is much more than a collection of essays on sports and sporting cultures from around the world: it also details how and why sports are played wherever they exist, and examines key charismatic athletes from around the world who have transcended their sports. Sports Around the World: History, Culture, and Practice provides a unique, global overview of sports and sports cultures. Unlike most works of this type, this book provides both essays that examine general topics, such as globalization and sport, international relations and sport, and tourism and sport, as well as essays on sports history, culture, and practice in world regions—for example, Latin America and the Caribbean, the Middle East and North Africa, Europe, and Oceania—in order to provide a more global perspective. These essays are followed by entries on specific sports, world athletes, stadiums and arenas, famous games and matches, and major controversies. Spanning topics as varied as modern professional cycling to the fictional movie Rocky to the deadly ball game of the ancient Mayans, the first three volumes contain overview essays and entries for specific sports that have been and are currently practiced around the world. The fourth volume provides a compendium of information on the winners of major sporting competitions from around the world. Readers will gain invaluable insights into how sports have been enjoyed throughout all of human culture, and more fully comprehend their cultural contexts. The entries provide suggestions for further reading on each topic—helpful to general readers, students with school projects, university students and academics alike. Additionally, the four-volume Sports Around the World spotlights key charismatic athletes who have changed a sport or become more than just an outstanding player.
Author |
: Yannis Pitsiladis |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 318 |
Release |
: 2007-01-24 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781134183517 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1134183518 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (17 Downloads) |
Synopsis East African Running by : Yannis Pitsiladis
What makes East African middle and long distance runners the best in the world? How should contemporary academia approach this question? The success of East African distance runners has generated a plethora of studies but much of the 'evidence' presented to support hypotheses is anecdotal, arguments being led by non-academics who use popular media as their medium rather than relying on scientific publications. This has resulted in many stereotypical arguments being advocated. Within the academic community, research has also been restricted by its isolation within either the natural science or social science communities. East African Running: Towards a Cross Disciplinary Perspective, presents a rare collaboration between researchers from the sports sciences and social sciences to explore the questions raised by the phenomena of East African success on the track. The text includes: psycho-social and economic explanations physiological and genetic explanations attempts to provide unified theories bringing together ideas from natural and social sciences Includes contributions from John Bale, Jim Denison, Timothy D. Noakes and Craig Sharp.
Author |
: Niko Besnier |
Publisher |
: Univ of California Press |
Total Pages |
: 336 |
Release |
: 2017-12-08 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780520963818 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0520963814 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (18 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Anthropology of Sport by : Niko Besnier
Few activities bring together physicality, emotions, politics, money, and morality as dramatically as sport. In Brazil’s stadiums or China’s parks, on Cuba’s baseball diamonds or Fiji’s rugby fields, human beings test their physical limits, invest emotional energy, bet money, perform witchcraft, and ingest substances. Sport is a microcosm of what life is about. The Anthropology of Sport explores how sport both shapes and is shaped by the social, cultural, political, and historical contexts in which we live. Core themes discussed in this book include the body, modernity, nationalism, the state, citizenship, transnationalism, globalization, and gender and sexuality.
Author |
: Henning Eichberg |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 477 |
Release |
: 2015-02-11 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781317988137 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1317988132 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (37 Downloads) |
Synopsis Bodily Democracy by : Henning Eichberg
Sport has gained increasing importance for welfare society. In this process, however, the term of ‘sport’ has become less and less clear. Larger parts of what nowadays is called ‘sport for all’ are non-competitive and derived from traditions of gymnastics, dance, festivity, games, outdoor activities, and physical training rather than from classical modern elite sports. This requires new philosophical approaches, as the philosophy of sport, so far, has been dominated by topics of elite sports. Based on Scandinavian experiences, the book presents studies about festivities of sport, outdoor activities, song and movement, and play and game. The engagement of elderly people challenges sports. Games get political significance in international cooperation, for peace culture and as means against poverty (in Africa). The empirical studies result in philosophical analyses on the recognition of folk practice in education and on relations between identity and recognition. The study of ‘sport for all’ opens up for new ways of phenomenological knowledge, moving bottom-up from sport to the philosophy of "the individual", of event, of nature, and of human energy. Popular sports give inspiration to a philosophy of practice as well as to a phenomenological understanding of ‘the people’, of civil society and the ‘demos’ of democracy – as folk in movement. This book was published as a special issue in Sport, Ethics and Philosophy.