Duelism : confronting sport through its doubles / edited by Brittany Reid & Taylor McKee.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Reid, Brittany, editor.

McKee, Taylor, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sports--Sociological aspects.

Sports.

Other Title:

Duelism

Place of Publication:

Common Ground Research Networks

Summary:

"In Duelism: Confronting Sport through Its Doubles, we adopt a consciously interdisciplinary approach to sport that accounts for its centrality and multiplicity of meaning in society. Together, we assert that sport is best understood alongside broader issues or concepts that can be thought of as its doubles, since each helps to define the parameters of what it means to critically consider sport in society. By inviting critical attempts to treat sport studies as an evolving, interdisciplinary field of research, we have endeavored to create a collection of emerging sport scholarship that reflects the multifaceted, contentious, and vital nature of sport, both in society and as an area of study"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction : sport, duality, and "duelism" / Brittany Reid and Taylor McKee

"The games must go on" : politics and the Olympic Games, from mythos to management / Kevin Witherspoon and Ashley Woodiwiss

Safeguarding children when playing sport : an abject failure of sport and law / Steven Greenfield

De-anglicized : sport, duelism, and nationhood in a transatlantic Brazilian perspective / Tiago J. Maranhao

That feeling when...what? : sport, society, and emotions / David Scott

Shuffling sideways : the arrested development of (girl) hockey goaltenders / Jamieson Ryan

Jocks and nerds : the role of sport in the North American education system / Tom Fabian

Messi and Maradona : the best player in football history as the doppelgänger? / Lukasz Muniowski

Combating war? : Joe Weider, bodybuilding, and the Korean War / Conor Heffernan, Phillip Chipman, and Nevada Cooke

'For both language groups to feel at home either as participants or sightseers' : sport, memory, resistance and nation at the 1952 Van Riebeeck Sports Festival / Hendrik Snyders

The Rusedski affair : treason, nationhood, and the making of a Canadian tennis traitor / Andrew Pettit

England vs Germany in the sports press : mistrust and glorifying the past / Christoph Wagner.

Notes:

Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher.

ISBN:

0-949313-49-1