05985cam a2200673Ii 4500 ocn851972469 OCoLC 20171106093827.0 m o d cr |n||||||||| 130706s2013 enk ob 001 0 eng d 9781118325261 (electronic bk.) 1118325265 (electronic bk.) 9781118325292 111832529X 9781405191609 1299701450 9781299701458 AU@ 000052185435 DEBSZ 431445540 NZ1 15351086 DEBBG BV043396063 (OCoLC)851972469 (OCoLC)851154048 501396 MIL EBLCP eng rda pn EBLCP OCLCO OCLCQ CUS YDXCP CUS DG1 OCLCF OCLCQ DEBSZ OCLCQ IDEBK CDX RECBK MAIN GV706.2 306.483 A companion to sport / edited by David L. Andrews and Ben Carrington. [electronic resource] First edition. Chichester, West Sussex : Wiley Blackwell, 2013. 1 online resource (xiv, 613 pages). text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Wiley Blackwell Companions in Cultural Studies ; 15 Edition statement from running title area. Environmental Discourses and Promotional Culture: Examples from the Global Forum for Sports and the Environment. Includes bibliographical references and index. Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Introduction: Sport as Escape, Struggle, and Art; Introduction: Anti-sport/Pro-sport; What Is Sport? Some Definitional Observations; Sports Matter: A Companion to Sport; References; Further Reading; Part One: Sporting Structures and Historical Formations; Introduction; Further Reading; 1: Constructing Knowledge: Histories of Modern Sport; Introduction; Questions (and Unstable Answers); Origins and causes; Diffusion; Reception; Epistemologies (and Floating Truths); Objective knowledge; Contextualized knowledge; Conclusion. AcknowledgmentsReferences; Further Reading; 2: Sport and Globalization; Introduction; The Historical Aspects of Global Sport: Six Phases; Germinal phase (1400-1750s); Incipient phase (1750s-1870s); Take-off phase (1870s-1920s); Struggle-for-hegemony phase (1920s-late 1960s); Uncertainty phase (late 1960s-2000); Millennial phase (from 2001); The Sociocultural Aspects of Global Sport; Universalism, particularism, and relativization; Homogenization and heterogenization; Glocalization; Cosmopolitanism; Political-economic Aspects of Globalization; Nation state and globalization. Sport and the global economic systemThe Emerging Global Civil Society and Sport; Conclusions: Globalization, Sport, and "Active Glocalism"; References; Further Reading; 3: The Sport/Media Complex: Formation, Flowering, and Future; Introduction: Three Decades in a Complex Life; Complex Prehistory; Television Complex; Complex Today; Conclusion: Future Complex; Acknowledgments; References; Further Reading; 4: Political Theories of Social Class, Sport, and the Body; Introduction; Sport, Industrial Capitalism, and Revolution; Sport and Social Class: A Critical Sociology; Structural functionalism. FigurationalismNeo-Marxism; Jockraker activism; The cultural turn; Bourdieu's neo-Weberian approach; Emergent paradigms; Conclusion: Social Class, the Sporting Body, and Neoliberalism; References; Further Reading; 5: Gender, Feminist Theory, and Sport; Introduction; Liberal Feminism; Radical Feminism; Marxist/Socialist Feminism; Black Feminism; The Impact of Poststructuralism, Queer Theory, and Postcolonialism; New Avenues and New Questions for Sport Feminism: Middle Ground Theorizing and Intersectional Analysis; Conclusion: Revisiting "Old" Questions in the Twenty-First Century; References. Further Reading6: Sports Medicine, Health, and the Politics of Risk; Introduction; Locating Sport in the Risk Society; Expect the Unexpected: Selling Safety; Anxiety, Assurance, and the Risk-Caution Citizenship Project; High Performance Sport and Health within the Risk Society; Conclusion; References; Further Reading; 7: Sport, Ecological Modernization, and the Environment; Environmental Issues and the Sociology of Sport: The "Early" Years; Sport, Sociology and the Environment: Contemporary Themes; Sport, the Environment, and Neoliberalism; Ecological Modernization and Environmental Sociology. A Companion to Sport brings together writing by leading sports theorists and social and cultural thinkers, to explore sport as a central element of contemporary culture. Positions sport as a crucial subject for critical analysis, as one of the most significant forms of popular cultureIncludes both well-known social and cultural theorists whose work lends itself to an interrogation of sport, and leading theorists of sport itselfOffers a comprehensive examination of sport as a social and cultural practice and institution. Online resource; title from PDF title page (Wiley, viewed October 8, 2013). Sports Anthropological aspects. Sports Sociological aspects. Sports and society. Sports Anthropological aspects. fast (OCoLC)fst01130434 Sports Sociological aspects. fast (OCoLC)fst01130532 Electronic books. Andrews, David L. Carrington, Ben, 1972- Print version: Companion to sport. Hoboken : Wiley-Blackwell, 2013 9781405191609 (DLC) 2012048373 (OCoLC)828332578 Blackwell companions in cultural studies ; 15. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/9781118325261 Wiley Online Library ddc BK 206871 206871