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A Companion to Sport
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David L. Andrews
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Ben Carrington
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August 16 2013
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John Wiley & Sons, Ltd
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9781118325261
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9781405191609
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August 16 2013
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10.1002/9781118325261
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Book chapters
pp. i
Front Matter
pp. 17
Introduction
pp. 23
Constructing Knowledge
pp. 41
Sport and Globalization
pp. 61
The Sport/Media Complex
pp. 78
Political Theories of Social Class, Sport, and the Body
pp. 96
Gender, Feminist Theory, and Sport
pp. 112
Sports Medicine, Health, and the Politics of Risk
pp. 129
Sport, Ecological Modernization, and the Environment
pp. 143
Introduction
pp. 149
Paradox of Privilege
pp. 164
Racism, Body Politics, and Football
pp. 179
Physical Culture, Pedagogies of Health, and the Gendered Body
pp. 196
Gay Male Athletes and Shifting Masculine Identities
pp. 210
Sport, the Body, and the Technologies of Disability
pp. 223
Introduction
pp. 229
US Imperialism, Sport, and “the Most Famous Soldier in the War”
pp. 246
The Realities of Fantasy
pp. 257
Sport, Palestine, and Israel
pp. 270
Cities and the Cultural Politics of Sterile Sporting Space
pp. 287
Swimming Pools, Civic Life, and Social Capital
pp. 305
Introduction
pp. 311
Sports Fandom
pp. 327
Sporting Violence and Deviant Bodies
pp. 341
Dissecting Action Sports Studies
pp. 359
Heidegger, Parkour, Post-sport, and the Essence of Being
pp. 375
Race-ing Men
pp. 390
Chess as Art, Science, and Sport
pp. 405
Introduction
pp. 411
Sport Mega-events as Political Mega-projects
pp. 427
Sporting Mega-events, Urban Modernity, and Architecture
pp. 445
Sports, the Beijing Olympics, and Global Media Spectacles
pp. 465
Always Already Excluded
pp. 481
To Be Like Everyone Else, Only Better
pp. 493
Sport, Spectacle, and the Political Economy of Mega-events
pp. 507
Introduction
pp. 513
Global Sporting Icons
pp. 532
Embodying American Democracy
pp. 548
Monty Panesar and the New (Sporting) Asian Britishness
pp. 564
Earl's Loins - Or, Inventing Tiger Woods
pp. 582
Deleuze and the Disabled Sports Star
pp. 602
Index
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