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The uses of sport : a critical study / John Hughson, David Inglis and Marcus Free.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: London : Routledge, 2005Description: v,212 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0415260485
  • 9780415260480
  • 0415260477
  • 9780415260473
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.483 22
LOC classification:
  • GV706.5 .H83 2005
Contents:
Sport, culture and civilisation -- Sport, community and the common culture -- Sport, public culture and community: letters from America -- Sport and popular culture -- Sport, postmodernism and culture -- Sport, power and the material relations of culture -- Sport, culture and embodied experience -- Sport, culturalism and ethnography -- Conclusion: sport and the 'City of culture' -- --
1. Sport, culture and civilisation -- 2. Sport, community and the common culture -- 3. Sport, public culture and community : letters from America -- 4. Sport and popular culture -- 5. Sport, postmodernism and culture -- 6. Sport, power and the material relations of culture -- 7. Sport, culture and embodied experience -- 8. Sport, culturalism and ethnography -- Conclusion : sport and the 'city of culture'.
Summary: Putting sport in the spotlight of cultural inquiry, the authors engage with a number of themes including community and social capital, cultural populism, cultural materialism, visual culture and citizenship.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 188-202) and index.

Sport, culture and civilisation -- Sport, community and the common culture -- Sport, public culture and community: letters from America -- Sport and popular culture -- Sport, postmodernism and culture -- Sport, power and the material relations of culture -- Sport, culture and embodied experience -- Sport, culturalism and ethnography -- Conclusion: sport and the 'City of culture' -- --

1. Sport, culture and civilisation -- 2. Sport, community and the common culture -- 3. Sport, public culture and community : letters from America -- 4. Sport and popular culture -- 5. Sport, postmodernism and culture -- 6. Sport, power and the material relations of culture -- 7. Sport, culture and embodied experience -- 8. Sport, culturalism and ethnography -- Conclusion : sport and the 'city of culture'.

Putting sport in the spotlight of cultural inquiry, the authors engage with a number of themes including community and social capital, cultural populism, cultural materialism, visual culture and citizenship.

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