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Running Cultures - Racing in Time and Space (Paperback)
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Running Cultures - Racing in Time and Space (Paperback)
Series: Sport in the Global Society
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Running is one of the world's most widely practiced sports and
recreations but until now it has intended to elude serious study
outside of the natural sciences. John Bale brings the sport into
the realm of the humanities by drawing on sources including
literature, poetry, film, art and sculpture as well as statistics
and training manuals to highlight the tensions, ambiguities and
complexities that lie hidden beneath the commonplace notion of
running.
The text explores both local and personal, as well as communal and
global aspects of running and its practitioners. It examines the
streets, tracks and stadiums where athletes run, the races in which
they compete, and the running relationships such as exist between
the athlete and the coach, between runners and between the athlete
and spectator. It discusses the importance of speed and records,
how running has been used to symbolise resistance and
transgression, and the extent to which it can be associated with a
healthy lifestyle.
Running Cultures provides new ways of seeing a familiar sporting
phenomenon. it will appeal to both students and researchers with an
interest in running in particular, and sport and leisure cultures
more generally.
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