[PDF] Sport And Postmodern Times eBook

Author : Genevieve Rail
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 43,73 MB
Release : 1998-09-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1438416741

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This book provides critical insight into the questions of race, gender, sexuality, and locality in sport and society. Topics discussed include postmodern sport writing; sport and the postmodern deconstruction of gender and sexuality; virtual sport and the postmodern mediascape; discipline, normalization, rationalization, surveillance, panopticism, and other forms of power used to "invest" postmodern sporting bodies; and new perspectives on sport and physical culture, consumer culture, and postmodern geography.

Author : Geneviève Rail
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 14,88 MB
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780791439258

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Using postmodern social theory, this book expands our understanding of sport, the body, and the broader physical culture.

Author : Murray G. Phillips
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 26,77 MB
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 0791482502

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This groundbreaking collection challenges the accepted principles and practices of sport history and encourages sport historians to be more adventurous in their representations of the sporting past in the present. Encompassing a wide range of critical approaches, leading international sport historians reflect on theory, practice, and the future of sport history. They survey the field of sport history since its inception, examine the principles that have governed the production of knowledge in sport history, and address the central concerns raised by the postmodern challenge to history. Sharing a common desire to critique contemporary practices in sport history, the contributors raise the level of critical analysis of the production of historical knowledge, provide examples of approaches by those who have struggled with or adapted to the postmodern challenge, and open up new avenues for future sport historians to follow.

Author : Jay Coakley
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 614 pages
File Size : 32,98 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780761949497

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"This handbook contains useful reviews of major theoretical frameworks and research topics in sports studies-especially sport sociology-written by a star-studded array of internationally recognized experts. The scope and depth of this volume demonstrates the intellectual maturity of this area. Each chapter provides an informative historical context and an organized conceptual framework for making sense of the relevant scholarly literature. The book will be particularly useful to graduate students, advanced undergraduates, and college and university faculty who are seeking to gain rapid, informed access to the literature." --Janet C. Harris, Professor and Chair, Dept. of Kinesiology and Physical Education, California State University, Los Angeles This vital new Handbook marks the development of sports studies as a major new discipline within the social sciences. Edited by the leading sociologist of sport, Eric Dunning, and author of the best selling textbook on sport in the USA, Jay Coakley, it both reflects and richly endorses this new found status. Key aspects of the Handbook include: an inventory of the principal achievements in the field; a guide to the chief conflicts and difficulties in the theory and research process; a rallying point for researchers who are established or new to the field, which sets the agenda for future developments; a resource book for teachers who wish to establish new curricula and develop courses and programmes in the area of sports studies. With an international and inter-disciplinary cast of contributors the Handbook of Sports Studies is comprehensive in scope, relevant in content and far-reaching in its discussion of future prospect.

Author : Kevin A. Young
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 37,40 MB
Release : 2012-10-12
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1780522967

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Addresses issues in methodology, contemporary issues in research methods and innovative trends in qualitative research that are addressed through case study examples from areas of research in sport studies. This title includes: historical methods; ethnography; auto-ethnography; embodied methods; interviewing; and, narratives.

Author : Donald L. Deardorff
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 25,40 MB
Release : 2000-09-30
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 0313095469

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This guide to the available literature on sports in American culture during the last two decades of the 20th century is a companion to Jack Higg's Sports: A Reference Guide (Greenwood, 1982). The types of individual or team sports included in this volume include those that are viewed as physical contests engaged in for physical, emotional, spiritual, or psychological fulfillment. With a focus on books alone, chapters review the available literature regarding sports and each concludes with a bibliography. Academic journals likely to contain articles on the topics discussed are listed at the end of each chapter. Twelve chapters discuss sports and American history, business and law, education, ethnicity and race, gender, literature, philosophy and religion, popular culture, psychology, science and technology, sociology and world history. This reference and guide to further research will appeal to scholars of popular culture and sports. An index and two appendixes are included, one listing important dates in American sports from 1980 through 2000 and one listing sports halls of fame, museums, periodicals, and websites.

Author : David L. Andrews
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 14,56 MB
Release : 2002-09-11
Category : History
ISBN : 1134598548

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Sport Stars investigates the nature of contemporary sporting celebrity, examining stars' often turbulent relationship with the press, and exploring themes of identity, race, and spectacle.

Author : Ray Gamache
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 20,80 MB
Release : 2023-09-07
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1476650799

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This expanded second edition traces the development and popularity of the sportscast highlight--the dominant news frame in the crowded medium of electronic sports journalism--as the primary means of communicating about sports and athletes. The book explores the intricate relationships among media producers, sports leagues and organizations, and audiences, and explains that sportscast highlights are not a recent development. They were often used within a news context in every medium--from early news film actualities and newsreels to network and cable television to today's new media platforms. New to this edition are three chapters that explore developments in sports media from cultural, economic and technological perspectives. An obsession with highlights has seen video replay increasingly used to adjudicate sporting events, marking a new level of reliance on technology. The media's quest for greater certitude and integrity corresponds with the rise of sponsorship of pro teams by gambling operators--with sports betting ads and on-screen odds now routinely appearing in sportscasts. Long-form sports documentaries have become popular, often highlighting a fascination with "firsts"--rooted in notions of human conquest over nature--that has remained an important source of sports mythmaking.

Author : Ellis Cashmore
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 44,29 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780415253215

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Sport psychology is no longer just an academic subject, it is a discipline studied and applied by all those associated with sport, whether athletes, coaches, journalists or fans. This text concerns key topics in the field of sport psychology.