New Directions in Sport History

ISBN-13: 9781138057333 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 115 str.

Opis

Despite its relevance to the study of race, gender and class in society, sports history has long struggled to gain acceptance as a valuable sub-discipline by those operating within more traditional realms of historical research. This book examines how sport history may capitalise on its previous successes, be recognised more widely as a valuable contextual tool by other branches of historical research, and overcome the challenges posed by the recent administrative and financial changes in the UK’s higher education sector. This book was originally published as a special issue of the International Journal of the History of Sport.

Spis treści

1. Introduction  2. Last Man Picked: Do Mainstream Historians Need to Play with Sports Historians?  3. Sports History: Outside of the Mainstream? A Response to Ward’s ‘Last Man Picked’  4. Cracks in the (Self-Constructed?) Ghetto Walls? Comments on Paul Ward's ‘Last Man Picked’  5. ‘The Postmodernist Always Rings Twice: Reflections on the "New" Cultural Turn in Sports History’  6. The Sporting Image: A Personal Journey Utilising History to Develop Academic Inquiry and Creativity  7. ‘Ordinary working men … transformed into giants on the rugby field’: ‘Collective’ and ‘Individual’ Memory in Oral Histories of Rugby League  8. Asylums and Sport: Participation, Isolation and the Role of Cricket in the Treatment of the Insane  9. What's the Point of Sports History?

O autorze

Duncan Stone recently completed his Ph.D. at the University of Huddersfield, UK. His main research interests include amateurism, regionalism, the role of urban/suburbanisation upon social and cultural identities, the ‘cultural war’ over the definition of sporting practice, and the legitimate function and meaning of sporting activity.

John Hughson is Professor of Sport and Cultural Studies at the University of Central Lancashire, UK. He is the Director of the International Football Institute, and works in research partnership with the National Football Museum, Manchester, UK. He is author of The Making of Sporting Cultures (Routledge, 2009) and The Uses of Sport (Routledge, 2005).

Rob Ellis is Lecturer in History at the University of Huddersfield, UK. He has published articles on the West Riding Pauper Asylum’s relationship with the Poor Law. More recently, he has worked with West Yorkshire Archive Service, the Thackery Medical Museum, Leeds City museums and South West Yorkshire Mental Health Trust to bring the asylum story to a wider audience.