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Sporting performances : politics in play / edited by Shannon L. Walsh.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sports--Sociological aspects.
- Sports.
- Sports and theater.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (ix, 215 pages) : illustrations, maps
- Place of Publication:
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2021.
- System Details:
- text file
- Biography/History:
- Shannon L. Walsh is an Associate Professor of Theatre History at Louisiana State University, USA.
- Contents:
- Introduction : the field of our play / Shannon L. Walsh
- "You're out!" : presence and absence at the ballpark / Sean Bartley
- Constraint and violence : boxing on the popular stage in the nineteenth century / Susan Kattwinkel
- Sumo : pressure to perform as a capitalist sport / John D. Swain
- Sport and spectacle in Olympic history : moving the body politic at the 1912 Stockholm Games / Susan Tenneriello
- Relational movements : fútbol and peace-building in Colombia / Lisa Jackson-Schebetta
- The politics of performing the butterfly stroke : Yusra Mardini and the 2016 Olympic Refugee Team / Kelsey Blair
- Skirting the ideal : embodying hyperfemininity through rhythmic gymnastics' evolutionary leotard and other aesthetic sports' vested vestments / Christine Mazumdar
- "If you see me collapse, pause my strava" : biopower, fitness data, and the anxious online performance of the fit body / E.J. Westlake
- Fit and fierce : CrossFit as counter conduct / Shannon L. Walsh
- At play : Cap Anson's performance of "Cap Anson" in A runaway colt / Travis Stern
- Not knowing who won : Muhammad Ali and the Broadway musical / Stephen Harrick
- NFL activism and protest in the age of Trump / Noe Montez
- Epilogue : sporting performances from organisms to algorithms / Kimberly Jannarone.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 28, 2020).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Sporting performances
- ISBN:
- 9780429265167
- 0429265166
- 9780429560187
- 0429560184
- 9780429564659
- 0429564651
- 9780429555718
- 0429555717
- Publisher Number:
- 40030120891
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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