Matters of Sport - Essays in Honour of Eric Dunning

Informationen zum Autor Malcolm, Dominic; Waddington, Ivan Zusammenfassung This festschrift in honour of Eric Dunning – the leading sports sociologist in the English- speaking world – addresses his contributions to the sociological and historical study of sport with reflections from leading international academics. This volume was previously published as a special issue of the journal Sport in Society. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Eric Dunning and the Development of the Sociology of Sport2. The Gendering of Sports Injury: A Look at 'Progress' in Women's Sport Through a Case Study of the Biomedical Discourse on the Injured Athletic Body 3. The Leicester School and the Study of Soccer Hooliganism4. Civilized Mayhem: Origins and Early Development of American Football5. Millwall and the Making of Football's Folk Devils: Revisiting the Leicester period6. Boxing Blind: The Development of a Predominantly Unplanned Process 7. Illusion in Sport 8. Sport and Gender Relations9. Sport, Physical Education and Figurational Sociology 10. Sports Celebrity and the Civilizing Process

Product details

• Authors: Dominic (Loughborough University Malcolm
• Assisted by: Dominic Malcolm (Editor), Malcolm Dominic (Editor), Ivan Waddington (Editor), Waddington Ivan (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 21.12.2007
• EAN: 9780714682822
• ISBN: 978-0-7146-8282-2
• No. of pages: 208
• Series: Sport in the Global Society
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology; Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / General, SPORTS & RECREATION / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, Social & cultural history, Society & culture: general, history of sport, Social and cultural history, Society and culture: general