New PDF release: A Companion to Sport (Blackwell Companions in Cultural

By David L. Andrews,Ben Carrington

ISBN-10: 1405191600

ISBN-13: 9781405191609

A spouse to Sport brings jointly writing by means of major activities theorists and social and cultural thinkers, to discover activity as a valuable portion of modern culture.

  • Positions game as an important topic for serious research, as probably the most major different types of renowned culture
  • Includes either famous social and cultural theorists whose paintings lends itself to an interrogation of activity, and best theorists of recreation itself
  • Offers a finished exam of recreation as a social and cultural perform and institution
  • Explores recreation when it comes to modernity, postcolonial thought, gender, violence, race, incapacity and politics

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