Sports and violence : history, theory and practice / edited by Craig Hovey, Myles Werntz and John B. White.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hovey, Craig, 1974- editor.

Werntz, Myles, editor.

White, John B., 1967- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Violence in sports.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (177 pages) : illustrations, photographs

Place of Publication:

Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017.

Summary:

"Sports and Violence is an edited collection arising out of the 2016 Sports and Violence Conference, hosted at the Ashland Center for Nonviolence at Ashland University, Ohio, USA. This volume contains 11 essays authored by a range of scholars reflecting on the confluence of violence within organized sports. The three sections of book (history, theory, and practice) create a full-scale exploration of this topic. The authors not only detail past phenomena of sports violence, but also offer ethnographic and sociological explorations alongside philosophical treatments of sports violence. Crucial to the volume's treatment of a wide range of phenomena associated with sports violence is not only how it addresses violence within sport, but also how it considers the ways that sport fosters and mitigates violence outside of sports, and how audiences and spectators contribute to, and are shaped by, the practice of sports."

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed March 20, 2017).

ISBN:

9781443879408

1443879401

OCLC:

978399866