Body cultures : essays on sport, space, and identity /
Eichberg, Henning,
Body cultures : essays on sport, space, and identity / Henning Eichberg ; edited by John Bale and Chris Philo ; with a contribution by Susan Brownell. - xi, 166 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
List of figures -- Notes on contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Henning Eichberg, Space, Identity and Body Culture -- Thinking Dangerously: The Person and his Ideas -- The Enclosure of the Body: The Historical Relativity of 'Health', 'Nature' and the Environment of Sport -- New Spatial Configurations of Sport? Experiences from Danish Alternative Planning -- Sport in Libya: Physical Culture as an Indicator of Societal Contradictions -- Olympic Sport: Neo-Colonialism and Alternatives -- Body Culture as Paradigm: The Danish Sociology of Sport -- A Revolution of Body Culture? Traditional Games on the Way from Modernisation to 'Postmodernity' -- The Societal Construction of Time and Space as Sociology's Way Home to Philosophy: Sport as Paradigm -- Index. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9.
0415172322 9780415172325
97019206
Sports--Sociological aspects
Identity (Psychology)
Human body.
Physical education and training--Social aspects
Postmodernism.
GV706.5 / .E54213 1998
306.483
Body cultures : essays on sport, space, and identity / Henning Eichberg ; edited by John Bale and Chris Philo ; with a contribution by Susan Brownell. - xi, 166 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
List of figures -- Notes on contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Henning Eichberg, Space, Identity and Body Culture -- Thinking Dangerously: The Person and his Ideas -- The Enclosure of the Body: The Historical Relativity of 'Health', 'Nature' and the Environment of Sport -- New Spatial Configurations of Sport? Experiences from Danish Alternative Planning -- Sport in Libya: Physical Culture as an Indicator of Societal Contradictions -- Olympic Sport: Neo-Colonialism and Alternatives -- Body Culture as Paradigm: The Danish Sociology of Sport -- A Revolution of Body Culture? Traditional Games on the Way from Modernisation to 'Postmodernity' -- The Societal Construction of Time and Space as Sociology's Way Home to Philosophy: Sport as Paradigm -- Index. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9.
0415172322 9780415172325
97019206
Sports--Sociological aspects
Identity (Psychology)
Human body.
Physical education and training--Social aspects
Postmodernism.
GV706.5 / .E54213 1998
306.483