Sites of sport : space, place, experience / editors, Patricia Vertinsky, John Bale.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Vertinsky, Patricia Anne, 1942-

Bale, John.

Series:

Sport in the global society.

Sport in the global society, 1368-9789

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sports--Social aspects.

Sports.

Sports--Psychological aspects.

Sports facilities.

Spatial behavior.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (280 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : Routledge, 2004.

Summary:

The study of built environments such as gymnasiums, football stadiums, swimmimg pools and skating rinks provides unique information about the historical enclosure of the gendered and sexualised body, the body's capabilities, needs and desires. It illuminates the tensions between the globalising tendencies of sport and the importance of local culture and a sense of place. This collection uses spatial concepts and examples to examine the nature and development of sporting practices. At a time when the importance of spacial theories and spacial metaphors to sport is being increasingly recogni

Contents:

Cover; SITES OF SPORT: Space, Place, Experience; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Series Editor's Foreword; Introduction; 1 Locating a 'Sense of Place': Space, Place and Gender in the Gymnasium; 2 Sensing the Stadium; 3 Educative Pools: Water, School and Space in Twentieth-Century France; 4 Freezing Social Relations: Ice, Rinks, and the Development of Figure Skating; 5 Just Another Classroom? Observations of Primary School Playgrounds; 6 Putting Bodies on the Line: Marching Spaces in Cold War Culture; 7 Homebush: Site of the Clean/sed and Natural Australian Athlete

8 Surf Lifesavers and Surfers: Cultural and Spatial Conflict on the Australian Beach9 Playing with Gravity: Mountains and Mountaineering; 10 The Homoerotic Space of Sport in Pornography; 11 The Space that (In)Difference Makes: (Re)Producing Subjectivities in/through Abjection - A Locker Room Theoretical Study; 12 For Pleasure? Or Profit Or Personal Health?: College Gymnasia as Contested Terrain; Notes; Bibliography; Notes on Contributors; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

1-280-11162-3

1-135-76294-5

0-203-60881-X

0-203-49643-4

1-135-76295-3

1-283-96155-5

9780203496435

OCLC:

58388362