This book examines the formation of a globally oriented sports system in China, from the beginning of the reform process in 1978 to the present, focusing on the period after the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games.
Drawing on ethnographic accounts of children's media-referenced play, this book explores children's engagement with media cultures and playground experiences, analyzing a range of issues such as learning, fantasy, communication and identity.
This book combines pieces of work on Europe and Latin America, the two continents where football arouses the most ardent passions among its spectators.
Während digitale Spiele schon längst kein neues Medium mehr darstellen, ist die Spielfreude junger Menschen für viele Erziehende aber nach wie vor eine Herausforderung.
Während digitale Spiele schon längst kein neues Medium mehr darstellen, ist die Spielfreude junger Menschen für viele Erziehende aber nach wie vor eine Herausforderung.
Producing and Consuming the Craft Beer Movement is an ethnographic analysis of the craft beer movement and its rapid development as an industry that articulated a different set of values: celebrating, quality, community, and good taste.
This is the first book to examine the growing movement of organised networks of LGBT+ football supporters, exploring activists' biographies and the meanings they ascribe to participation in identity politics-centred social movements.
This is the first book to examine the growing movement of organised networks of LGBT+ football supporters, exploring activists' biographies and the meanings they ascribe to participation in identity politics-centred social movements.
Examining four major institutions, Michele Strong considers the experiences of working men and women, particularly artisans, but also young apprentices and clerks, who travelled abroad as participants in an educational reform movement spearheaded by middle-class liberals.
"e;The Richardson boys ganged up with two other big families in their buildings and, at various ages, had tried out most of the local youth organisations.
Die Einführung gibt einen Überblick über Inhalte und Methoden, holt den Leser mit seinen Vorverständnissen über Philosophie und Sport ab und eröffnet den Horizont für Themen, Fragen, Problemstellungen und Lösungsansätze einer Sportphilosophie.
This volume is the first to draw together theoretical reflection, empirical research, and critical reflection on practice occurring at the juncture of critical approaches in leisure studies and event studies within diverse explorations of deviance.
Drawing on extensive ethnographic, qualitative and quantitative research, this monograph provides a novel account of masculinities in an individual sport: competitive road cycling.
Beeindruckendes Fußball-Wissen zu 100 interessanten Fakten, tollen Persönlichkeiten, witzigen Geschichten und erstaunlichen Rekorden - Die besten Spieler und Spielerinnen - Unglaubliche Rekorde - Skandale und Skurriles Wer ist der beste Torwart?
"Cuerpos de elite" es una categoría analítica que permite comprender una transformación sociocultural y política: la del cuerpo rugbier masculino como indicador de una posición social distinguida, de los cuerpos profesionalizados en la actual industria del rugby global.
El presente libro reúne una serie de trabajos que, desde perspectivas teóricas y enfoques metodológicos diferentes, problematizan la historicidad de los cuerpos masculinos modernos, retomando un conjunto variado de propuestas de regulación, control, gestión, administración y gobierno de los cuerpos en movimiento.
This collection of essays highlights the controversies surrounding racism in sports and African American athletes, examining the racial discrimination that exists in one of the most public arenas in the 21st century.
Seattle Sports: Play, Identity, and Pursuit in the Emerald City, edited by Terry Anne Scott, explores the vast and varied history of sports in this city where diversity and social progress are reflected in and reinforced by play.
San Francisco Bay Area Sports brings together fifteen essays covering the issues, controversies, and personalities that have emerged as northern Californians recreated and competed over the last 150 years.
When high jumper Alice Coachman won the high jump title at the 1941 national championships with "e;a spectacular leap,"e; African American women had been participating in competitive sport for close to twenty-five years.
This chronicle of sports at West Virginia's 40 black high schools and three black colleges illuminates many issues in race relations and the struggle for social justice within the state and nation.
Given China's investment in sport, success in international competitions and recent hosting of high-profile events, there is no doubt the country is a rising power in the realm of global sports.
After Natalie Maines of The Dixie Chicks expressed her opposition to the Iraq War and President Bush in a country music concert, she was told to "e;shut up and sing.
'Mercenaries', 'cheats', 'destroying the soul of (English) football', 'destroying the link between football clubs and their supporters': foreign football players have been accused of being at the origin of all the ills of contemporary football.
