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The Making of Sporting Cultures (Paperback)
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The Making of Sporting Cultures (Paperback)
Series: Sport in the Global Society - Contemporary Perspectives
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The Making of Sporting Cultures presents an analysis of western
sport by examining how the collective passions and feelings of
people have contributed to the making of sport as a 'way of life'.
The popularity of sport is so pronounced in some cases that we
speak of certain sports as 'national pastimes'. Baseball in the
United States, soccer in Britain and cricket in the Caribbean are
among the relevant examples discussed. Rather than regarding the
historical development of sport as the outcome of passive spectator
reception, this work is interested in how sporting cultures have
been made and developed over time through the active engagement of
its enthusiasts. This is to study the history of sport not only
'from below', but also 'from within', as a means to understanding
the 'deep relationship' between sport and people within class
contexts - the middle class as well as the working class.
Contestation over the making of sport along axes of race, gender
and class are discussed where relevant. A range of cultural writers
and theorists are examined in regard to both how their writing can
help us understand the making of sport and as to how sport might be
located within an overall cultural context - in different places
and times. The book will appeal to students and academics within
humanities disciplines such as cultural studies, history and
sociology and to those in sport studies programmes interested in
the historical, cultural and social aspects of sport. This book was
published as a special issue of Sport in Society.
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