Matters of Sport: - Essays in Honour of Eric Dunming

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

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Dominic Malcolm, Ivan Waddington
• Con la collaborazione di: Dominic Malcolm (Editore), Dominic (Loughborough University Malcolm (Editore), Malcolm Dominic (Editore), Ivan Waddington (Editore), Ivan (University of Chester Waddington (Editore), Waddington Ivan (Editore)
• Editore: Routledge Academic
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 01.12.2005
• EAN: 9780415348331
• ISBN: 978-0-415-34833-1
• Serie: Sport in the Global Society; Sport in the Global Society
• Categorie: Libri scolastici > Didattica > Formazione professionale; Scienze naturali, medicina, informatica, tecnica > Biologia; 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