Critical geographies of sport : space, power and sport in global perspective /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: ProQuest (Firm)
Other Authors: Koch, Natalie (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2017.
Series:Routledge critical studies in sport.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : critical geographies of sport in global perspective / Natalie Koch
  • Geopolitics, identity, and horse sports in Finland / Pauliina Raento
  • Spreading the game or reproducing hegemony? : the United States and the regional geopolitics of women's football in the Americas / Jon Bohland
  • Nation-building and sporting spectacles in authoritarian regimes : Turkmenistan's Aziada-2017 / Slavomír Horák
  • Sports and politics in Israel : settler colonialism and the native Palestinians / Magid Shihade
  • Sports fields and corporate governmentality : Gazprom's all-Russian gas program as energopower / Veli-Pekka Tynkkynen
  • Athletic autocrats : understanding images of authoritarian leaders as sportsmen / Natalie Koch
  • Playing identity politics : the Gaelic Athletic Association in modern Ireland / Arlene Crampsie
  • Soccer and the mundane politics of belonging : Latino immigrants, recreation, and spaces of exclusion in the rural US South / Lise Nelson
  • Competing visions for urban space in Seoul : understanding the demolition of Korea's Dongdaemun Baseball Stadium / Jung Woo Lee
  • Running order : urban public space, everyday citizenship and sporting subjectivities / Simon Cook, Jon Shaw, Paul Simpson
  • Mallparks and the symbolic reconstruction of urban space / Michael Friedman
  • Sports and the social integration of migrants in South Dublin / Neil Conner
  • Spatial maneuvers : geographies of power and labor practices in professional wrestling's territorial era / Bradley Gardener
  • In the shadow of mega-events : the value of ethnography in sports geography / Nicholas Wise
  • Conclusion : toward a critical geography of sport : space, power, and social justice / David Jansson and Natalie Koch.