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Sporting dystopias : the making and meaning of urban sport cultures /

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Wilcox, Ralph C.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2003.
Series:SUNY series on sport, culture, and social relations.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Sport in the city : cultural, economic, and political portraits / Ralph C. Wilcox and David L. Andrews
  • Sport and community/communitas / Alan G. Ingham and Mary G. McDonald
  • Mediated sports, mayors, and the marketed metropolis / Gene Burd
  • Urban(e) statuary times / Synthia Sydnor Slowikowski
  • No Christmas dinner : the effect of major sporting events on local homelessness / Robin M. Mathy
  • Rounders or Robin Hoods? : questioning the role of the ticket scalper as entertainment outlaw or free market capitalist / Michael F. Atkinson
  • Horse racing in Chicago, 1883-1894 : the interplay of class, politics, and organized crime / Steven A. Reiss
  • Athletics in the Ward and beyond : neighborhoods, Jews, and sport in Toronto, 1900-1939 / Danny Rosenberg
  • Urban sanctuary : youth culture in a recreation drop-in center / Brian Wilson and Phil White
  • Researching youth sports programs in a metropolitan setting : essentials of, barriers to, and policy for achieving a comprehensive program / Michael A. Clark
  • Soccer, race, and suburban space / David L. Andrews [and others]
  • New politics of urban consumption : Hoop Dreams, Clockers, and "America" / C.L. Cole and Samantha King.
  • In place of "race," space : "Basketball in Canada" and the absence of racism / Gamal Abdel-Shehid
  • Driving the lane against the Raptor : the production and racialization of (transgressive) subjects on the streets of Toronto / Andrew D. Thornton.