Matters of Sport

Essays in Honour of Eric Dunning

Dominic Malcolm, Ivan Waddington (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

208 Seiten

2007
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-415-34833-1 (ISBN)

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This festschrift in honour of Eric Dunning – the leading sports sociologist in the English- speaking world – addresses his contributions to the sociological and historical study of sport with reflections from leading international academics.

This volume was previously published as a special issue of the journal Sport in Society.

Matters of Sport is a tribute to Eric Dunning, the leading sports sociologist in the English-speaking world. This book addresses Dunning's contributions to the sociological and historical study of sport, covering key topics such as hooliganism, celebrity and gender relations.

A broad range of leading academics from Europe and North America reflect on the ways in which Dunning's work has influenced their own research and understanding of sport.

This volume was previously published as a special issue of the journal Sport in Society.

Malcolm, Dominic; Waddington, Ivan

1. Eric Dunning and the Development of the Sociology of Sport2. The Gendering of Sports Injury: A Look at 'Progress' in Women's Sport Through a Case Study of the Biomedical Discourse on the Injured Athletic Body 3. The Leicester School and the Study of Soccer Hooliganism4. Civilized Mayhem: Origins and Early Development of American Football5. Millwall and the Making of Football's Folk Devils: Revisiting the Leicester period6. Boxing Blind: The Development of a Predominantly Unplanned Process 7. Illusion in Sport 8. Sport and Gender Relations9. Sport, Physical Education and Figurational Sociology 10. Sports Celebrity and the Civilizing Process

Erscheint lt. Verlag	27.12.2007
Reihe/Serie	Sport in the Global Society
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	174 x 246 mm
Gewicht	540 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Infektiologie / Immunologie
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
	Weitere Fachgebiete ► Sportwissenschaft
ISBN-10	0-415-34833-1 / 0415348331
ISBN-13	978-0-415-34833-1 / 9780415348331
Zustand	Neuware