Planet Sport

ISBN-13: 9780415681124 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 102 str.

Kath Woodward

Opis

This text demonstrates why sport matters and how, by arguing that we should take sport seriously and explore what is social about sport. Sport is not just another domain to which social theories can be applied, sport is also distinctive.

Spis treści

1. Hold the Back Page; Sport Matters  2. What Counts As Sport: How and Why?  3. This Sporting Planet: G/Local Sport  4. Economies of Sport  5. Boundaries of Certainty  6. Everyday Routines: The Ordinary Affects of Sport  7. Spectacles, Spectators and the Spectacular  8. Do We Live On Planet Sport?  Glossary.  References.

O autorze

Kath Woodward is Professor of Sociology at the Open University and has published extensively on the subject of sport, including Sex, Power and the Games (Palgrave, forthcoming 2012), Embodied Sporting Practices (Palgrave, 2009), and Boxing, Masculinity and Identity: the 'I' of the Tiger (Routledge, 2007). Her introduction to the Social Sciences: the Big Issues (Routledge) is in its second edition. She is building a collection for the British Library on sex, gender and the games for the 2012 Olympics and has contributed to the Summer Games website.