The Role of Sports in the Formation of Personal Identities : Studies in Community Loyalties

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hughson, John, 1958-

Contributor:

Palmer, Clive.

Skillen, Fiona.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Group identity.

Hughson, John, 1958-.

Palmer, Clive.

Sociology.

Sports--Social aspects--Cross-cultural studies.

Sports.

Nationalism and sports.

Local Subjects:

Group identity.

Hughson, John, 1958-.

Palmer, Clive.

Sociology.

Sports--Social aspects--Cross-cultural studies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (310 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lewiston : The Edwin Mellen Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This is a collection of essays examining the role of sports in shaping personal and national identity. Studies ranging from skateboarding as resistance to conformity, cricket and the imagined community of Yorkshire, gender identity and rock climbing, and violence in soccer, among others are offered in this text. A theme the authors discuss at length is how communities are formed on the basis of sports, and how different identities emerge out of these shared experiences, and whether there is a socio-political aspect to this process. The contributing scholars undertook their studies in such fiel

Contents:

TitlePage; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Tables; Foreword; Sport and Identity- Introduction: John Hughson; Workers' Fields: Sport, Politics, and Landscape in Inter-War South Wales: Daryl Leeworthy; MIners and Students; For the Welfare of All; Social Democratic Space; Sports and Politics; Conclusion; Bibliography; Yorkshire, Cricket and Identity: An Ethnographic Analysis of Yorkshire Cricket's Imagined Community- Thomas Fletcher; Introduction; The Myth of Yorkshire, ""Yorkshireness"" and Yorkshiremen; Yorkshire's Otherness; Yorkshire's Birthright Policy: A Legacy of Exclusion?

ConclusionBibliography; The Weight of Shame: Discourses of Health on The N's 'Student Body'- Tiffany Henning; Analysis; Conclusion; Bibliography; We're not English, we are Scouse!"" Examining civic loyalty and collective fan identities at Liverpool Football Club- Joel Rookwood; The Fields of Anfield Road; Eye aye addio, reclaim the Kop; Livercool- capital of Merseyprode:; Bibliography; Challenging the Status Quo of Irish Nationalism: Southern Nationalism. the Gaelic Athletic Association and Rule 43- Elizabeth Moreland; Introduction; The GAA and Irishnationalism; The GAA in Northern Ireland

Rule 42: ""The fear of GAA fields being over-run?""The Republic of Ireland: ""The Configuration of a Mindset""; Conclusion; Bibliography; Women, sport and national identity in Ireland- Rachael Brooks; Introduction; Sports Research in Ireland; The gnedered political and sporting landscapes of Ireland; A civic-ethniccontinuum of gendered expressions of national identity in sport; Conclusion; Selected Bibliography; Consuming the Physical and Cultural Practices of Aboriginal Peoples: Spaces of Exchange, Conflict and (Post)colonial Power Relations- Courtney W. Mason; Introduction

The Histories of Local Aboriginal CulturesContextualizing the Mueseum; Representing Physical and Cultural Practices; The Gift Shop: Post-Tourists and Commodifying ""Aboriginality""; Global Market Demands and Representations of Indigenour Peoples; Conclusion; Bibliography; Embodying Difference: Gender, Identity and Climbing- Rachel Dilley; Introduction; Sportswomen and gender identity; Methods; Embodying difference; Competing femininities in climbing; Conclusion; Bibliography; A Man Before Anaything: Soccer, Violence and Competing Masulinities- Sean Afnan Morrissey; Introduction

Zidane the ManThe 'Story' of the Head-Butt; Formalisation and Deformalisation; Men of Honour: The (Franco-)Kabyle Habitus; Revaluating the Head-butt; Conclusion; Bibliography; ""Sport's me life"". The role of sport in developing core, gender and civic identity in Australian young males.- Neil Hall; Introduction; Background; Methods; Findings; Conclusion; Bibliography; Skate Conform or Die: The Conflict of Lifestyle Sports Identity and Public Policy- Daniel Turner; Introduction; Methodology; Skate or Die: The Rise of Lifestyle Sports; Leisure Policy and Provision Agendas

Creating Conformity and Conflict

Notes:

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ISBN:

0-7734-1211-5

OCLC:

802279340