Sport and body politics in Japan / Wolfram Manzenreiter.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Manzenreiter, Wolfram, author.

Series:

Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society

Routledge research in sport, culture and society ; 26

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sports--Japan--History.

Sports.

Sports and society--Japan--History.

Sports and society.

Human body--Social aspects--Japan.

Human body.

Human body--Political aspects--Japan.

Culture and globalization--Japan.

Culture and globalization.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (330 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

There is more to Japanese sport than sumo, karate and baseball. This study of social sport in Japan pursues a comprehensive approach towards sport as a distinctive cultural sphere at the intersection of body culture, political economy, and cultural globalization. Bridging the gap between Bourdieu and Foucault, it explains the significance of the body as a field of action and a topic of discourse in molding subject and society in modern Japan. More specifically, it provides answers to questions such as how and to what purposes are politics of the body articulated in Japan, particularly in the r

Contents:

pt. 1. Configurations of modernity : sport, the body and the nation

pt. 2. New roles, new faces : sport in the service of various masters

pt. 3. Global dimensions : sport and geo-politics of the body.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from title page (ebrary, viewed August 31, 2013).

ISBN:

1-138-95289-3

1-135-02234-8

0-203-76735-7

1-135-02235-6

9780203767351

OCLC:

855970191