Power games : a critical sociology of sport /
edited by John Sugden and Alan Tomlinson.
- xi, 304 pages ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Theory and method for a critical sociology of sport / John Sugden, Alan Tomlinson -- Globalisation theory, global sport, and nations and nationalism / John Hargreaves -- Theorising spectacle: beyond Debord / Alan Tomlinson -- Network football / John Sugden -- Leading with the left: boxing, incarnation and Sartre's progressive-regressive method / Leon Culbertson -- Critical social research and political intervention: moralistic versus radical approaches / Ian McDonald -- 'It's not a game': the place of philosophy in a study of sport / Graham McFee -- Sport, power and the state in Weimar Germany / Udo Merkel -- Contest, conflict and resistance in south Africa's sport policies / Marc Keech -- Sport, sectarianism and society in a divided Ireland revisited / Alan Bairner -- The sports star in the media: the gendered construction and youthful consumption of sports personalities / Gill Lines -- Shifting balances of power in the new football economy / Jon Magee -- Babes on the beach, women in the surf: researching gender, power and difference in the windsurfing culture / Belinda Wheaton -- Sport, masculinity and black cultural resistance / Ben Carrington.
"This ground-breaking new book is the first to offer a comprehensive theory and method for a critical sociology of sport. It argues that class, political economy, hegemony and other concepts central to the radical tradition are essential for framing, understanding and changing social and political relations within sport and between sport and society. It takes the reader through the big themes in the discipline, including social history, sociological and political theory, comparative research and ethnography, this book is essential reading for any serious student of sport."--Publisher description.