Routledge handbook of sport history / edited by Murray G. Phillips, Douglas Booth and Carly Adams.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Adams, Carly, editor.

Booth, Douglas, editor.

Phillips, Murray G. (Murray George), editor.

Series:

Routledge international handbooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sports--History.

Sports.

Genre:

Handbooks and manuals.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxiv, 406 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, New York : Routledge, [2022]

Biography/History:

Murray G. Phillips is a Professor of Sport History in the School of Human Movement and Nutrition Sciences at the University of Queensland, Australia, and President of the North American Society for Sport History. Douglas Booth is the Dean of Adventure, Culinary Arts and Tourism at Thompson Rivers University, Canada, Emeritus Professor at the University of Otago, New Zealand, and Honorary Professor at the University of Queensland, Australia. Carly Adams, is a Professor in the department of Kinesiology and Physical Education and Co-Director of the Centre for Oral History and Tradition at the University of Lethbridge in Alberta, Canada.

Summary:

The Routledge Handbook of Sport History is a new and innovative survey of the discipline of sport history. Global in scope, it examines the key contemporary issues in sports historiography, sheds light on previously ignored topics, and sets an intellectual agenda for the future development of the discipline.

Contents:

Part 1: History and representing the sporting past. History and Representing the sporting past: introduction

Reflexivity in sports history

The last comparative review of sport history and sport sociology?

Writing macro and micro sport history

Sports history and the challenge of physical cultural studies

Narrative/s in sport history

Expanding repertoires inside and outside the archives: methods

Sport and material culture

Why read historical fiction about sport?

Sport and activism

Part 2: New perspectives on old themes. New perspectives on old themes: introduction

The origin and diffusion of modern sport

Time, space and sport

Sport and the body

Sport and visuality

Sport and politics

Sport and international relations

Sport and nationalism

Race, racism, and racial entanglements

Sport in post-apartheid South Africa: the race to class

Women's sport history

Troubling sexuality and sport: early histories of queer athletic visibility

Part 3: Emerging Themes. Emerging themes: introduction

Digital sport history: history and practice

teaching / learning sports history

Competitive gaming

Sport and emotion

Sport heritage

Towards new materialist sport history

Deaf and disability sport

Sporting borderlands

Part 4: Indigenous sport history. Indigenous sport history: introduction

Settler colonialism and sport history

Māori and indigenous sport histories: Hero/ine or dupe?

a critical discussion of history and indigenous sport in Australia

Indigenous Sport History in Canada: Past and Future Considerations

American indian sport history

Part 5: Sport history journals. Sport history journals: introduction

Sport history journals and neoliberalism: auditing the subdiscipline

Fifty years of sport history review

The Journal of sport history

STADION: International Journal of the history of sport

The Sport in history journal

The International Journal of the history of sport 1984-2020: Twenty-four million words and still counting

The History of sporting traditions: The Journal of the Australian society for sports history

Materiales para la historia del Deporte: the journal on the history of sport, a reference for the Latin American world, with International scope

Recorde - Revista de História do Esporte: A Brazilian, Latin-American, Ibero-American Journal - Conclusion. Sport history: past, present, future

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record and online resource.

ISBN:

0-429-31830-8

1-000-44161-X

9780429318306

OCLC:

1262191838