Running Cultures: Racing in Time and Space

ISBN-13: 9780714684246 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 232 str.

John Bale

Opis

Running is one of the world's most widely practised sports and recreations. This book 'reads between the lines' of both running and some of its textual and visual representations. It deals with the runner's body and also with the globalisation of running and its practitioners. Although it focuses mainly on serious running, it also examines alternative forms of the sport such as jogging. Drawing on a variety of sources including literature, poetry, art, sculpture, statistics and training manuals, Running Cultures breaks new ground in several ways. It introduces the work of the renowned humanistic geographer Yi-Fu Tuan to the field of sports studies, provides new 'ways of seeing' familiar sporting phenomena, and brings sport into the realm of the humanities. Despite its focus on running, Running Cultures will be of interest to teachers, students and researchers in all sports.

Recenzje

"Bale begins by commenting on how running is the first technology of the body that seeks to compress time and space. He then goes on to examine running and its representations through the lens of the humanistic-geographical writer Yi-Fu Tuan. Bale describes the ways of running, for fun, freedom, fitness, achievement, “slowness,” records beyond quantification, and running ways, such as within the norms of achievement running, as means of dominance and affection (in Tuan’s terms) and as a means of gaining the spectators’ gaze. He describes formal and informal running arenas and the human landscapes they create, how athletes live as pets within and without bounds, and how running is both transgression and resistance while also an element in a conscious, good life within space and time." --Reference & Research Book News

Spis treści

Introduction 1. Ways of Running 2. Running Ways 3. Beyond the Arena 4. Athletes as Pets 5. Running as Transgression and Resistance 6. Escape: Runners as Cosmopolites 7. Running and Racing: Moral Dilemmas and a Good Life?

O autorze

Bale, John