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.
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Sports--Sociological aspects Identity (Psychology) Human body. Physical education and training--Social aspects Postmodernism.