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Playing for change : the continuing struggle for sport and recreation /

This book provides wide-ranging examples of cutting-edge research in sports studies.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Field, Russell (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2015]
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Sport, development and the challenge of slums / Richard Gruneau
  • The new "Culture Wars" : the Vancouver 2010 Olympics, public protest, and the politics of resistance / Russell Field
  • Sochi 2014 : the Russian oligarchy and Winter Games funding / Hart Cantelon and James Riordan
  • The dialectic of modern, high-performance sport : returning to Dubin Inquiry to move forward / Rob Beamish
  • The 1904 Chicago-St. Louis transition and the social structuration of the American Olympic movement / John J. MacAloon
  • Two-way hockey : selling Canada's game in America, 1875-1935 / Stephen Hardy
  • Continentalization and America's contested baseball hegemony : the postwar challenge to Major League Baseball in Mexico, Quebec and the Caribbean, 1945-1955 / Colin Howell
  • Change rooms and change agents : the struggle against barriers to opportunities for physical activity and sport in erthnocultural communities in Toronto / Parissa Safai
  • Political ecology, discourse and shared-use trail development in Nova Scotia : braking for or breaking the environment? / Robert Pitter and Glyn Bissix
  • Intertwining histories, enhancing strengths : sport and recreation services in the Northwest Territories, 1962-2000 / Victoria Paraschak
  • "Can you do this for my neighbourhood?" : public sport history, the environment, and community in an industrial city / Nancy B. Bouchier and Ken Cruikshank
  • Where history meets biography : toward a public sociology of sport / Peter Donnelly and Michael Atkinson
  • Shadow disciplines, or a place for post-disciplinary liaisons in the North American research university : what are we to do with physical cultural studies? / Patricia Vertinsky
  • Bruce Kidd, sport history, and social emancipation / Douglas Booth.