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Sport and Body Politics in Japan.
There is more to Japanese sport than sumo, karate and baseball. This study of social sport in Japan pursues a comprehensive approach towards sport as a distinctive cultural sphere at the intersection of body culture, political economy, and cultural globalization. Bridging the gap between Bourdieu an...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken :
Taylor and Francis,
2013.
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| Colección: | Routledge research in sport, culture and society.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Half Title; Routledge Research in Sport Culture and Society; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Researching Sport and the Political Economy of the Body in Japan; Part I Configurations of Modernity: Sport, the Body and the Nation; 1 Modern Bodies, Capital Cities: The Institutionalization of Sport in Late Nation-States; 2 Creating Space: Urbanity and Modernity in the Japanese Sport Landscape; 3 Sport, Body Control and National Discipline in Prewar and Wartime Japan.
- Part II New Roles, New Faces: Sport in the Service of Various Masters4 Sport and Gender in the Japanese Classroom; 5 How to Sell a Public Good: The Current State of Sport Supply in Japan; 6 Sport and Challenges of the Aged Society in Japan; 7 Health, Lifestyle Risks and the Japanese Obesity Crisis; 8 The World Cup Comes to Town: Critical Investigation of the Political Economy of Sport Mega-Events; Part III Global Dimensions: Sport and Geo-Politics of the Body; 9 The Global Game in the Service of Japan's Foreign Diplomacy.
- 10 Sport, Spectacles and Subalternity: Positioning East Asia in World Sports11 Japan, Asia and the New International Division of Sport Apparel Labour; Epilogue: Japanese Sport and Global Body Culture; Notes; References; Index.