Barbaric sport : a global plague / Marc Perelman ; translated by John Howe.
Material type: TextLanguage: English Original language: French Publisher: London ; New York : Verso, 2012Description: x, 134 pages ; 20 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 1844678598
- 9781844678594
- 1844679136
- 9781844679133
- Sport barbare. English
- 306.483 23
- GV706.35 .P47513 2012
Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Book | City Campus City Campus Main Collection | 306.483 PER (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | A417553B |
Browsing City Campus shelves, Shelving location: City Campus Main Collection Close shelf browser (Hides shelf browser)
306.483 HOW Sport, injury and the culture of risk / | 306.483 HUG The uses of sport : a critical study / | 306.483 LEV Leveraging legacies from sports mega-events : concepts and cases / | 306.483 PER Barbaric sport : a global plague / | 306.483 RAC "Race," sport, and British society / | 306.483 REA Critical readings : sport, culture and the media / | 306.483 ROW Sport, culture and the media : the unruly trinity / |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 133-134).
The real nature of the Olympic Games: Berlin 1936, Moscow 1980, the football World Cup, Argentina 1978 -- Beijing 2008: the games of shame -- The Olympic charter -- Competitive sport: globalized sports-spectacle and national fetish -- Sport: as old as the world? -- Origin and development of the theses on the critique of sport -- The stadium: consolidation of the masses -- Sport, culture and youth -- The sporting champion: addiction and drugs -- The globalization of sport through doping -- The globalization of sport and the sporting mode of production -- The show stadium -- The power of images -- A standardized aesthetic -- Sexuality, homosexuality and sport -- The religion of sport -- The critique of sport as it was -- The arrival of sport as an academic discipline -- The future of the critique of sport.
Translated from French.
Machine converted from AACR2 source record.
There are no comments on this title.