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Author : W. HO
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783896652669
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (526 download)
Download or read book SPORT AND LOCAL IDENTITY written by W. HO and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Daniel A. Nathan
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252094859
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)
Download or read book Rooting for the Home Team written by Daniel A. Nathan and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2013-05-01 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rooting for the Home Team examines how various American communities create and maintain a sense of collective identity through sports. Looking at large cities such as Chicago, Baltimore, and Los Angeles as well as small rural towns, suburbs, and college towns, the contributors consider the idea that rooting for local athletes and home teams often symbolizes a community's preferred understanding of itself, and that doing so is an expression of connectedness, public pride and pleasure, and personal identity. Some of the wide-ranging essays point out that financial interests also play a significant role in encouraging fan bases, and modern media have made every seasonal sport into yearlong obsessions. Celebrities show up for big games, politicians throw out first pitches, and taxpayers pay plenty for new stadiums and arenas. The essays in Rooting for the Home Team cover a range of professional and amateur athletics, including teams in basketball, football, baseball, and even the phenomenon of no-glove softball. Contributors are Amy Bass, Susan Cahn, Mark Dyreson, Michael Ezra, Elliott J. Gorn, Christopher Lamberti, Allison Lauterbach, Catherine M. Lewis, Shelley Lucas, Daniel A. Nathan, Michael Oriard, Carlo Rotella, Jaime Schultz, Mike Tanier, David K. Wiggins, and David W. Zang.
Author : Hideaki Ōkubo
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Local Identity and Sport written by Hideaki Ōkubo and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gertrud Pfister
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781614729891
Total Pages : 3 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (298 download)
Download or read book Berkshire Encyclopedia of World Sport written by Gertrud Pfister and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 3 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains knowledge from sports management, sports science, human movement studies, sport history, and sport sociology synthesised in 450 comprehensive illustrated articles. Covers key social issues such as doping, racism, sexism, civic life, youth participation and public policy, with all perspectives covered.
Author : Philip Dine
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9783039119776
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (197 download)
Download or read book Sport, Representation and Evolving Identities in Europe written by Philip Dine and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2010 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sport annually mobilizes millions of people across Europe: as practitioners in a wide variety of competitive, educational, or recreational contexts, and as spectators, who are physically present or following events through the mass media. This book presents original research into modern sport funded by the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences. Its aim is to examine the distinctive contribution made by this complex phenomenon to the construction of European identities. Attention is focused on sport's social significance, as a set of mass-mediated practices and spectacles giving rise to a network of images, symbols, and discourses. The book seeks to explore, and ultimately to explain, the processes of representation and mediation involved in the sporting construction, and subsequent renegotiation, of local, national, and, increasingly, global identities. It offers a survey of key developments in sporting Europe - from the mid-nineteenth century to the present, and from the Atlantic to the Urals - presenting findings by acknowledged international experts and emerging scholars at the level of individuals, communities, regions, nation-states, and Europe as a whole, in both its geographical and political incarnations. Its focus on representation offers a broadly conceived, and consciously inclusive, approach to issues of 'Europeanness' in modern and contemporary sport.
Author : Philip Dine
Publisher : Peter Lang Pub Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9783039118984
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (189 download)
Download or read book Sport and Identity in France written by Philip Dine and published by Peter Lang Pub Incorporated. This book was released on 2012 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How does sport shape society? This book seeks to answer this question by examining the meaning of sport in French society and the construction of local, national and, increasingly, global identities through sport. It begins by reassessing modern sport's emergence and consolidation in France in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and then traces developments from the Second World War to the present, reflecting on the current status and future role of French sport. Horse racing, cycling, tennis, adventure sports, rugby and football, as well as the role of the Olympic Games, are discussed. The author investigates the interaction of these mass and elite physical practices with a wide variety of sporting locations - spatial and temporal, concrete and imagined - and in a rich field of representations, including literature and the fine arts, the press, cinema, radio, television and digital media. Related concepts of sporting celebrity, stardom and heroism also inform the discussion, offering new contributions to this developing critical area.
Author : 国際体育スポーツ史学会
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (675 download)
Download or read book Local identity and sport written by 国際体育スポーツ史学会 and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Holly Thorpe
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 113745797X
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (374 download)
Download or read book Women in Action Sport Cultures written by Holly Thorpe and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-11-09 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Young, white men have dominated action sports for many years, yet women have refused to accept positions on the margins of these unique sporting cultures. Developing in a different context to many traditional sports, girls and women have adopted highly proactive approaches and developed unique strategies to negotiate space alongside their male peers in the waves, skate parks and cityscapes, on mountains and climbing walls, along trails, as well as around rinks. This international collection features contributions from a group of leading and emerging researchers, many of whom are passionate action sport participants themselves. With authors representing a range of theoretical and disciplinary perspectives including cultural studies, sociology, performance studies, media studies, sport for development, and education, this book offers the first collective focus on women in action sports cultures in the past, present and into the future. Ultimately, the book offers a vivid and powerful illustration of the new and ongoing struggles facing women in contemporary sporting cultures, as well as the various strands of activism, agency and politics being performed in the surf, on the slopes, and at the crag. The book will be of interest to students and scholars in the fields of sociology of sport and physical culture, gender studies, youth cultures, sport history, and pedagogy and education.
Author : Trevor Slack
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780714680781
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (87 download)
Download or read book The Commercialisation of Sport written by Trevor Slack and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sport has become increasingly commercialised and there are many examples of close links that have developed between sport and business. This collection examines five of them in a global context.
Author : Otmar Weiss
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004464719
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)
Download or read book Introduction to the Sociology of Sport written by Otmar Weiss and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-07-26 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction to the Sociology of Sport offers a comprehensive overview of topics, theories, definitions and results of sport sociological research and discussions. A unique approach to the social specificity of sport is outlined.
Author : Simon Roberts
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443886661
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)
Download or read book Sport, Media and Regional Identity written by Simon Roberts and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2015-11-25 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The increasing potency of identity politics across Europe often sees sport acting as a vehicle for the promotion and celebration of regional and sub-national identities. However, while the relationship between sport, the media and national identity has featured in numerous academic and political debates in recent years, the links between sports media and regional identity have received little attention. This seems a curious oversight, because the links between sport and region frequently become a celebration of the local and the distinctive, emblematic of community and continuity. This volume will explore that sense of the counter-hegemonic, where sport is celebrated by a media often keen to promote notions of difference, which might verge on rebellion in some contexts, conceived as resisting global homogeneity or national hegemony. At other times, they may merely reflect a commercial nose for the local audience’s tastes, but there is always the sense of preserving something important, a celebration of the diversity that makes us human. This book considers the centrality and cultural significance of particular sports, or clubs, to regional and sub-national identities across Europe and beyond, adopting a comparative approach to the mediatized nature of such portrayals.
Author : Zinon Papakonstantinou
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317051122
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Sport and Identity in Ancient Greece written by Zinon Papakonstantinou and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-04-24 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the eighth century BCE to the late third century CE, Greeks trained in sport and competed in periodic contests that generated enormous popular interest. As a result, sport was an ideal vehicle for the construction of a plurality of identities along the lines of ethnic origin, civic affiliation, legal and social status as well as gender. Sport and Identity in Ancient Greece delves into the rich literary and epigraphic record on ancient Greek sport and examines, through a series of case studies, diverse aspects of the process of identity construction through sport. Chapters discuss elite identities and sport, sport spectatorship, the regulatory framework of Greek sport, sport and benefaction in the Hellenistic and Roman world, embodied and gendered identities in epigraphic commemoration, as well as the creation of a hybrid culture of Greco-Roman sport in the eastern Mediterranean during the Roman imperial period.
Author : Michael J. Gennaro
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429668554
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (296 download)
Download or read book Sports in African History, Politics, and Identity Formation written by Michael J. Gennaro and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-04-01 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sports in African History, Politics, and Identity Formation explores how sports can render a key to unlocking complex social, political, economic, and gendered relations across Africa and the Diaspora. Sports hold significant value and have an intricate relationship with many components of African societies throughout history. For many Africans, sports are a way of life, a site of cultural heroes, a way out of poverty and social mobility, and a site for leisurely play. This book focuses on the many ways in which sports uniquely reflect changing cultural trends at diverse levels of African societies. The contributors detail various sports, such as football, cricket, ping pong, and rugby, across the continent to show how sports lay at the heart of the discourse of nationalism, self-fashioning, gender and masculinity, leisure and play, challenges of underdevelopment, and ideas of progress. Bringing together the newest and most innovative scholarship on African sports, this book will be of interest to students and scholars of contemporary Africa, African history, culture and society, and sports history and politics.
Author : Robert Edelman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199858918
Total Pages : 577 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (998 download)
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Sports History written by Robert Edelman and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 577 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Practiced and watched by billions, sport is a global phenomenon. Sport history is a burgeoning sub-field that explores sport in all forms to help answer fundamental questions that scholars examine. This volume provides a reference for sport scholars and an accessible introduction to those who are new to the sub-field.
Author : ALINA BERNSTEIN
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136344918
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (363 download)
Download or read book Sport, Media, Culture written by ALINA BERNSTEIN and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of the central features of the sport-media phenomenon, focusing on Europe and the USA. The book analyses such issues as new media technology; gender, ethnicity and local dimensions of collective identity; women in American basketball advertising; and cult football radio in Scotland.
Author : Paddy Dolan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315519119
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (155 download)
Download or read book Sport and National Identities written by Paddy Dolan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-13 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While globalisation has undoubtedly occurred in many social fields, in sport the importance of ‘the nation’ has remained. This book examines the continuing but contested relevance of national identities in sport within the context of globalising forces. Including case studies from around the world, it considers the significance of sport in divided societies, former global empires and aspirational nations within federal states. Each chapter looks at sport not only as a reflection of national rivalries but also as a changing cultural tradition that facilitates the reimagining of borders, boundaries and identities. The book questions how these national, state and global identifications are invoked through sporting structures and practices, both in the past and the present. Truly international in perspective, it features case studies from across Europe, the UK, the USA and China and touches on the topics of race, religion, terrorism, separatism, nationalism and militarism. Sport and National Identities: Globalisation and Conflict is fascinating reading for anyone with an interest in the sociology of sport or the relationship between sport, politics, geography and history. Chapter 8 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.
Author : Jorge Iber
Publisher : Human Kinetics Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780736087261
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (872 download)
Download or read book Latinos in U.S. Sport written by Jorge Iber and published by Human Kinetics Publishers. This book was released on 2011 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Latinos in U.S. Sport presents a long-overdue look at the history of Latino participation in multiple facets of American sport and provides a balanced history of the contribution of Spanish-speaking people to the world of U.S. sport.
