Planet sport / Kath Woodward.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Woodward, Kath, author.

Series:

Shortcuts (Routledge (Firm))

Shortcuts

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sports--Sociological aspects.

Sports.

Sports and globalization.

Sports--Cross-cultural studies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (113 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Sport generates some of the most intense feelings and levels of commitment. It is big business globally, but also the source of the most powerful personal identifications and individual and collective pleasures. Sporting events are routine and embodied, whether in the gym, on the field or at the training ground, and they are also spectacular, for example in mega events at the stadium or, for followers at a distance, through the media of television, radio and the Internet. Large numbers of people are caught up in personal and collective investment and public engagement with sport. Why does i

Contents:

Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; CONTENTS; Acknowledgements; 1 Hold the back page; sport matters; 2 What counts as sport: how and why?; 3 This sporting planet: G/local sport; 4 Economies of sport; 5 Boundaries of certainty; 6 Everyday routines: the ordinary affects of sport; 7 Spectacles, spectators and the spectacular; 8 Do we live on planet sport?; Glossary; References; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p.92-96) and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

1-136-64658-2

1-283-54733-3

9786613859785

1-136-64659-0

0-203-80522-4

9780203805220

OCLC:

829462051