Sport and Body Cultures in East and Southeast Asia

ISBN-13: 9780815365235 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 114 str.

Friederike Trotier; Alan Bairner

Opis

The book consists of six case studies which examine various aspects of the relationship between sport and /or body cultures more generally in East and South East Asian countries. The chapters were originally published in Asia Pacific Journal of Sport and Social Science.

Spis treści

1. Sport and body cultures in east and south-east Asia Friederike Trotier and Alan Bairner 2. Changing an image through sports events: Palembang’s success story Friederike Trotier 3. Extravagance and its decline: China’s triple East Asian Games since the 2000s Marcus P. Chu 4. Belly dancing as exercise: image-building of a foreign dance in Taiwan Yuchi Chang, Po-Hsiu Lin and Tsuneo Sogawa 5. The Buddhist Basketball Association: sport practice and the cultivation of the body among Tai Lue monastics Roger Casas 6. Civilizing the Devil’s Own Country. The Scouting movement in Netherlands New Guinea as a tool for social, cultural and political change, 1950–1962 Jelle Zondag 7. Sports clubs and organizations in changing times: the case of Singapore Wai Cheong Eugene Chew, Ho Jin Chung and Jung Woo Lee 8. An exploratory examination of risk-management practices in South Korean community sport clubs Sungwon Kim, Todd L. Seidler, Daniel P. Connaughton and John O. Spengler

O autorze

Friederike Trotier is a Research Assistant at the Department of Comparative Development and Cultural Studies at Passau University, Germany. In her PhD thesis, she analysis the role of sporting events in the changing Indonesian history and the local agency after Indonesia’s decentralization process with the example of Palembang as sports city. Alan Bairner is Professor of Sport and Social Theory at Loughborough University, UK. He is co-editor of The Politics of the Olympics: a survey (2010) and the Routledge Handbook of Sport and Politics (2017). He is the founding editor of the Asia Pacific Journal of Sport and Social Science.