Télécharger le livre :  Gender, Politics and Change in Mountaineering
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This book is the first edited collection to offer an intersectional account of gender in mountaineering adventure sports and leisure. It provides original theoretical, methodological, and empirical insights into mountain spaces as sites of socio-cultural production and...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2023-06-12
Collection : Global Culture and Sport Series
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Télécharger le livre :  The History and Politics of Motor Racing
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This book explores the history and politics of motor racing, one of the most popular and lucrative elements in the international sport industry. Written by a group of international scholars and motor racing specialists it discusses the sport’s origins, the relationship...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2023-06-09
Collection : Global Culture and Sport Series
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Télécharger le livre :  Sport and Physical Culture in Global Pandemic Times
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This book provides a definitive and comprehensive contribution to the expanding body of research related to sport/physical culture and the COVID-19 global pandemic. By examining the generative complexities that simultaneously link and shape sport/physical...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2023-05-03
Collection : Global Culture and Sport Series
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Télécharger le livre :  Global Sports and Contemporary China
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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. It analyses how this system has shaped domestic social class...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2023-01-05
Collection : Global Culture and Sport Series
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Télécharger le livre :  Motorsport and Fascism
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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
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Télécharger le livre :  Football (Soccer) in Africa
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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
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Télécharger le livre :  The History and Politics of Sport-for-Development
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  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
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Télécharger le livre :  Leisure Cultures and the Making of Modern Ski Resorts
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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
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Télécharger le livre :  Cricket's Changing Ethos
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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
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Télécharger le livre :  Sports and The Global South
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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
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Télécharger le livre :  Forbidden Football in Ceausescu's Romania
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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
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Télécharger le livre :  Women in Action Sport Cultures
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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
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Télécharger le livre :  Sport, Protest and Globalisation
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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
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Télécharger le livre :  African Football, Identity Politics and Global Media Narratives
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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
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Télécharger le livre :  Snowboarding Bodies in Theory and Practice
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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
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Télécharger le livre :  The Global Gym
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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
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Télécharger le livre :  Identity and Nation in African Football
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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
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Télécharger le livre :  Global Sport-for-Development
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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
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Télécharger le livre :  Football and National Identities in Spain
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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
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Télécharger le livre :  The Olympic Games and the Environment
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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
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