Greening of Golf - Sport, Globalization and the Environment

Informationen zum Autor Brad Millington is Lecturer in the Department for Health at the University of Bath, UK Brian Wilson is Professor in the School of Kinesiology at the University of British Columbia, Canada Klappentext This book is the first comprehensive study of the varyingresponses to golf-related environmental issues. The authors examine golf as asport and as a global industry, drawing on literaturespertaining to environmental sociology, global social movements, institutionalchange, corporate environmentalism and the sociology of sport. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I: Introduction and tools for seeing golf sociologically 1. Introduction: approaching golf and environmental issues2. Light green to dark green: how to make sense of responses to environmental problems Part II: Background and history 3. Waging a war on pests: golf comes to America4. Golf in consumer culture and the making of Augusta National syndrome Part III: The light-greening of golf 5. The turn to responsible golf and the roots of golf's light-green movement6. Environmentalism incorporated: professionalization and post-politics in the time of responsible golf7. Light-green regulation? Environmental managerialism and golf's conspicuous exemption Part IV: The dark-greening of golf 8. Anti-golfers across the world unite! Global and local forms of resistance to golf-course development9. Organic golf 'on the fringe': the potential and challenges of a chemical-free golf alternative Part V: Conclusion 10. Reflections, recommendations and minor utopian visions for a game we loveIndex

Product details

• Authors: Brad Millington, Brad Wilson Millington, Millington Brad, Brian Wilson, Wilson Brian
• Assisted by: John Horne (Editor)
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.04.2016
• EAN: 9781784993276
• ISBN: 978-1-78499-327-6
• No. of pages: 264
• Series: Globalizing Sport Studies; Globalizing Sport Studies
• Subjects: Guides > Sport > General, dictionaries, handbooks, yearbooks, history; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Golf, NATURE / Natural Resources, Globalization, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Globalization, SPORTS & RECREATION / Golf, Sociology: sport & leisure, Environmental Management, Sociology: sport and leisure, SPORTS & RECREATION / Cultural & Social Aspects