Planet Sport.
Sport generates some of the most intense feelings and levels of commitment. It is big business globally, but also the source of the most powerful personal identifications and individual and collective pleasures. Sporting events are routine and embodied, whether in the gym, on the field or at the tra...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Hoboken :
Taylor and Francis,
2012.
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| Series: | Shortcuts.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; CONTENTS; Acknowledgements; 1 Hold the back page; sport matters; 2 What counts as sport: how and why?; 3 This sporting planet: G/local sport; 4 Economies of sport; 5 Boundaries of certainty; 6 Everyday routines: the ordinary affects of sport; 7 Spectacles, spectators and the spectacular; 8 Do we live on planet sport?; Glossary; References; Index.