Critical geographies of sport : space, power and sport in global perspective / edited by Natalie Koch.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Koch, Natalie, editor.

Series:

Routledge critical studies in sport

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sports--Anthropological aspects.

Sports.

Sports--Social aspects.

Human geography.

Physical Description:

xvi, 256 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2017.

Contents:

Introduction : critical geographies of sport in global perspective / Natalie Koch

Geopolitics, identity, and horse sports in Finland / Pauliina Raento

Spreading the game or reproducing hegemony? : the United States and the regional geopolitics of women's football in the Americas / Jon Bohland

Nation-building and sporting spectacles in authoritarian regimes : Turkmenistan's Aziada-2017 / Slavomír Horák

Sports and politics in Israel : settler colonialism and the native Palestinians / Magid Shihade

Sports fields and corporate governmentality : Gazprom's all-Russian gas program as energopower / Veli-Pekka Tynkkynen

Athletic autocrats : understanding images of authoritarian leaders as sportsmen / Natalie Koch

Playing identity politics : the Gaelic Athletic Association in modern Ireland / Arlene Crampsie

Soccer and the mundane politics of belonging : Latino immigrants, recreation, and spaces of exclusion in the rural US South / Lise Nelson

Competing visions for urban space in Seoul : understanding the demolition of Korea's Dongdaemun Baseball Stadium / Jung Woo Lee

Running order : urban public space, everyday citizenship and sporting subjectivities / Simon Cook, Jon Shaw, Paul Simpson

Mallparks and the symbolic reconstruction of urban space / Michael Friedman

Sports and the social integration of migrants in South Dublin / Neil Conner

Spatial maneuvers : geographies of power and labor practices in professional wrestling's territorial era / Bradley Gardener

In the shadow of mega-events : the value of ethnography in sports geography / Nicholas Wise

Conclusion : toward a critical geography of sport : space, power, and social justice / David Jansson and Natalie Koch.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781138927124

1138927120

OCLC:

961248627