Tous les ebooks de la collection "Global Culture and Sport Series" - Palgrave Macmillan

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Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Motorsport and Fascism Paul Baxa This book is the first English-language study of motorsport and Italian Fascism, arguing that a synergy existed between motor racing and Fascism that did not exist with other sports. Motorsport was able to bring together the two dominant, and often opposed, cultural... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2022-04-28 Collection : Global Culture and Sport Series PDF, ePub 105,49 € PDF ePub
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Football (Soccer) in Africa Augustine E. Ayuk This volume provides an analysis of the history, origins, and development of football in Africa. It brings together an edited assemblage of essays that describe and analyse football in nine African countries, including Cameroon, DRC, Egypt, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria,... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2022-04-26 Collection : Global Culture and Sport Series PDF, ePub 147,69 € PDF ePub
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies The History and Politics of Sport-for-Development Simon C. Darnell , Russell Field , Bruce Kidd This book focuses on the major social and political forces that have shaped the ways in which sport has been understood, organized, and contested in an effort to engender social change. Integrating the history of international development with the... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2019-03-04 Collection : Global Culture and Sport Series PDF, ePub 94,94 € PDF ePub
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Leisure Cultures and the Making of Modern Ski Resorts Aneta Podkalicka , Philipp Strobl This edited volume offers an historical perspective on the creation of a global mass industry around skiing. By focusing on the ski resort as loci par excellence for global exchange, the contributors consider the development of skiing around the world during the... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2018-09-11 Collection : Global Culture and Sport Series PDF, ePub 84,39 € PDF ePub
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Cricket's Changing Ethos Jon Gemmell This book examines historically how cricket was codified out of its variant folk-forms and then marketed with certain lessons sought to reinforce the values of a declining landed interest. It goes on to show how such values were then adapted as part of the imperial... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2018-04-28 Collection : Global Culture and Sport Series PDF, ePub 116,04 € PDF ePub
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Sports and The Global South S. Janaka Biyanwila This book reimagines the pleasures of sports and provides a critical perspective from the Global South. Analysing the spread of sports markets in Sri Lanka along with a range of struggles, the book highlights how the celebration of ‘sportive nationalism,’ promoting... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2018-03-05 Collection : Global Culture and Sport Series PDF, ePub 94,94 € PDF ePub
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Forbidden Football in Ceausescu's Romania László Péter This book presents an ethnographic description and sociological interpretation of the ‘football gatherings’ that evolved out of central Romania in the late twentieth century. In the 1980's, Romanian public television did not broadcast football mega-events for economic... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2018-02-08 Collection : Global Culture and Sport Series PDF, ePub 52,74 € PDF ePub
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Women in Action Sport Cultures Rebecca Olive , Holly Thorpe Young, white men have dominated action sports for many years, yet women have refused to accept positions on the margins of these unique sporting cultures. Developing in a different context to many traditional sports, girls and women have adopted highly proactive... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2016-11-09 Collection : Global Culture and Sport Series PDF, ePub 73,84 € PDF ePub
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Sport, Protest and Globalisation Jon Dart , Stephen Wagg This volume is built around three assumptions - first, that for huge numbers people around the world, including many sport lovers, there are more important things in life than sport; second, that the governance of sport is in many ways problematic and needs to be... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2016-11-08 Collection : Global Culture and Sport Series PDF, ePub 73,84 € PDF ePub
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies African Football, Identity Politics and Global Media Narratives Tendai Chari , Nhamo A. Mhiripiri This edited volume addresses key debates around African football, identity construction, fan cultures, and both African and global media narratives. Using the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa as a lens, it explores how football in Africa is intimately bound up with... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2016-02-10 Collection : Global Culture and Sport Series PDF 52,74 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Snowboarding Bodies in Theory and Practice H. Thorpe This book provides the first in-depth analysis of the global phenomenon of snowboarding culture. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach, it offers key insights into the sport, lifestyle, industry, media, gender relations, travel, and physical experience of snowboarding,... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2015-12-04 Collection : Global Culture and Sport Series PDF 52,74 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies The Global Gym J. Andreasson , T. Johansson By participating in the everyday life of fitness professionals, gym-goers and bodybuilders, The Global Gym explores fitness centres as sites of learning. The authors consider how physical, psychological and cultural knowledge about health and the body is incorporated... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2014-06-17 Collection : Global Culture and Sport Series PDF 52,74 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Identity and Nation in African Football G. Akindes , C. Onwumechili The 2010 South African World Cup launched African football onto the global stage. This volume brings together top scholars on African football to explore a range of issues such as gender, identity, nationalism, history, cyber-fandom, the media and fan... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2014-04-08 Collection : Global Culture and Sport Series PDF 52,74 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Global Sport-for-Development Daryl Adair This book provides a critical approach to sport-for-development, acknowledging the potential of this growing field but emphasising challenges, problems and limitations – particularly if programs are not adequately planned, delivered or monitored. Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2014-01-21 Collection : Global Culture and Sport Series PDF 52,74 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Football and National Identities in Spain A. Quiroga This book investigates the use of football to create, shape and promote Spanish, Catalan and Basque national identities and explores the utilization of soccer to foster patriotic feelings, exposing the often dark vested interests behind the propagation of national... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2013-10-25 Collection : Global Culture and Sport Series PDF 52,74 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies The Olympic Games and the Environment J. Karamichas This book examines the environmental credentials of Olympic Host cities and the opportunities afforded by hosting the Games towards the ecological modernization of the host nation by using perspectives offered by environmental sociology. It also sets out projections for... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2013-01-11 Collection : Global Culture and Sport Series PDF 52,74 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies International Diplomacy and the Olympic Movement Aaron Beacom This book explores the relationship between diplomatic discourse and the Olympic Movement, charting its continuity and change from an historical perspective. Using the recent body of literature on diplomacy it explores the evolution of diplomatic discourse around a... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2012-07-31 Collection : Global Culture and Sport Series PDF 105,49 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Discourses of Olympism D. Chatziefstathiou , I. Henry This book evaluates the moral project of Olympism, analzying the changing value positions adopted in relation to the ideology of Olympism across the period from the 1890s to the present day. The book also analyzes discourses of Olympism concerned with youth, governance,... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2012-07-30 Collection : Global Culture and Sport Series PDF 116,04 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Sport under Communism M. Dennis , J. Grix Based on original Stasi and Communist Party archival sources, this book uncovers why East Germany was for two decades running one of the most successful nations in the Summer and Winter Olympics, exploring how the central elite sports system was beset by internal... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2012-04-24 Collection : Global Culture and Sport Series PDF 105,49 €
Ajouter à ma liste d'envies Olympic Games, Mega-Events and Civil Societies G. Hayes , J. Karamichas This volume explores sporting mega-events, their social, political, and cultural characters, the value systems that they inscribe and draw on, the claims they make on us and the claims the organisers make for them, the spatial and ethical relationships they create, and... Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan Parution : 2011-12-15 Collection : Global Culture and Sport Series PDF 52,74 €
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