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Michael Simonetti was to own it all. In a world of pain and misery
he developed an unnatural appreciation towards violence, murder and
extortion became a means to an end. An unstoppable force ruthless
and unforgiving he would overcome all adversity until all that
remained was the final battle, the war between the families. This
is his story Welcome to Brooklyn.
An examination of the relationship between sport and its cultural
heritage. Sport is an integral part of British culture and an
important aspect of modern life. Although its importance has been
recognised by academic historians, sport has yet to be fully
appreciated in the growing and related fields of heritage and
museum studies. Sport and heritage have operated as seemingly
separate spheres, yet together they can convey powerful messages;
convergence between them is seen in the rise and popularity of
sports museums, the collecting of sporting art and memorabilia, and
popular concern over the demise of historic sports buildings and
sport-related sites. These places, exhibitions and activities help
to shape our understanding of sport, history and the past. The
essays in this volume explore sports history as manifested in
academic enquiry, museum exhibitions and heritage sites. They deal
among other things with the public representation of sport and its
significance; its impacton public spheres; the direction of sports
heritage studies and their aims; the role of museums in public
history; and place, memory and meaning in the historic sports
landscape. Contributors: Jeffrey Hill, Jed Smith,Anthony Bateman,
Ray Physick, Neil Skinner, Matthew Taylor, Tim O'Sullivan, Kevin
Moore, Max Dunbar, Santiago De Pablo, John K. Walton, Wray Vamplew,
Honor Godfrey, Jason Wood, Andrea Titterington, Stephen Done, Mike
McGuinness, David Storey, Daphne Bolz, Jean Williams, Richard Holt
Jeffrey Hill is Emeritus Professor of Historical and Cultural
Studies, De Montfort University, Leicester; Kevin Moore is
Director, National Football Museum, Manchester; Jason Wood is
Director, Heritage Consultancy Services.
Brings together recent research in this rapidly changing field,
blending contributions of academic researchers with museum
managers. Papers by practitioners take real-life situations as
their starting point and draw upon wider management theory as
appropriate. Topics include creative management in museums,
visionary leadership, the challenge of managing retired volunteers
in small museums, and the lack of female museum directors. Other
subjects are organizational cultures in museums and art galleries,
and TQM in museums. Moore is director of the Preston Football
Museums, and has published widely in the fields of labor history
and museum studies.
This book explores, in breadth and depth, the role of sport in
museums. It surveys the history of sport in museums, including the
growth in sport museums and halls of fame driven by major sports
teams and sport organisations. The book considers the humanistic
benefits of the promotion of sporting heritage within museums, and
presents cases, museums stories and best practice from around the
world. Sport in Museums is essential reading for all students,
researchers, curators, and historians with an interest in sport. It
is also a useful resource for researchers and advanced students
working in museum studies, heritage studies or cultural history.
This book addresses the paradox that, despite quantifiable
advances, people often struggle to experience positive wellbeing.
Kevin Moore argues that two key insights can help resolve this
paradox: first, that we live in an 'aspirational culture' that has
its roots in the agrarian revolution and now demands constant
economic growth, individual ambition, and self-improvement while
promoting change and uncertainty; and second, that we are persons,
and persons are created when cultures interact with our biology.
Accordingly, our wellbeing depends on how personhood develops
through that interaction. Bringing together wellbeing and
personhood research from multiple disciplines, Moore explains how
aspirational cultures are detrimental to wellbeing because they
consistently undermine and disrupt the ordinary tasks of life that
are essential to sustaining our personhood and wellbeing. He
concludes that if we are serious about improving wellbeing, we have
to create a culture not based on aspiration but which, instead,
focuses on supporting persons and personhood.
Football is unquestionably the world's most popular and influential
sport. There is no corner of the globe in which the game is not
played or followed. More countries are affiliated to FIFA,
football's governing body, than to the United Nations. The sport
has therefore become an important component of our social,
cultural, political and economic life. The Routledge Handbook of
Football Studies is a landmark work of reference, going further
than any other book in considering the historical and contemporary
significance of football around the world. Written by a team of
leading sport scholars, the book covers a broad range of
disciplines from history, sociology, politics and business, to
philosophy, law and media studies. The central section of the book
examines key themes and issues in football studies, such as the
World Cup and international competition, governance and ownership,
fandom and celebrity. The concluding section offers in-depth
surveys of the culture and organisation of football in each of the
regional confederations, from UEFA to CONCACAF. This book is
fascinating reading for all serious football fans and an essential
resource for students and scholars of sport studies, as well as any
practitioner or policymaker working in football. .
Football, or soccer, is unquestionably the world's most popular and
influential sport. There is no corner of the globe in which the
game is not played or followed - indeed, more countries are
affiliated to FIFA, football's governing body, than to the United
Nations - and it has therefore become a significant component of
our international social, cultural, political and economic life.
The Routledge Handbook of Football Studies is a landmark work of
reference, going further and deeper than any other book in
considering the historical and contemporary significance of
football around the world. Written by a team of leading
international sport studies scholars with particular research
interests in football, the book covers an impressively broad range
of disciplines, from history, sociology, politics and business, to
philosophy, law and media studies. The central section of the book
examines key themes and issues in football studies, such as the
World Cup and international competition, governance and ownership,
fandom, celebrity, and the historical links between soccer and
other football codes.A concluding section offers in-depth surveys
of the history and contemporary culture and organisation of
football in each of the regional confederations, from UEFA to
CONCACAF. The Routledge Handbook of Football Studies is an
essential tool for any advanced student or scholar undertaking
social scientific research in football or sport studies, or any
practitioner, administrator or policy-maker working in football,
and is a fascinating read for any serious football fan.
Collecting a selection of essential writings by some of the
leading authors in the field, Kevin Moore examines the developments
in, and effectiveness of, museum management in a world dominated by
new and exciting heritage and leisure attractions.
The selected papers in Museum Management outline the development
of museum management to date, the challenges museums currently
face, and the key areas of future development in management and
marketing practice, and addresses:
- strategic management issues: policy formulation, corporate
planning and performance measurement
- human resource management
- financial management
- the importance of marketing.
This volume is an invaluable introduction to the key issues,
controversies and debates in the subject. It will be essential
reading for all students, museum managers and staff who need to
keep up to date with latest developments in this field.
Elaine Mayes was a young photographer living in San Francisco's
lively Haight-Ashbury District during the 1960s. She had
photographed the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967 and, later that
year, during the waning days of the Summer of Love, embarked on a
set of portraits of youth culture in her neighborhood. By that
time, the hippie movement had turned from euphoria to harder drugs,
and the Haight had become less of a blissed-out haven for young
people seeking a better way of life than a halfway house to runaway
teens. Realizing the gravity of the cultural moment, Mayes shifted
from the photojournalistic approach she had applied to musicians
and concert-goers in Monterey to making formal portraits of people
she met on the street. Choosing casual and familiar settings, such
as stoops, doorways, parks, and interiors, Mayes instructed her
subjects to look into her square-format camera, to concentrate and
be still: she made her exposures as they exhaled. Mayes'
familiarity with her subjects helped her to evade mediatized
stereotypes of hippies as radically utopian and casually tragic,
presenting instead an understated and unsentimental group portrait
of the individual inventors of a fleeting cultural moment. Elaine
Mayes: The Haight-Ashbury Portraits 1967-1968 is the first
monograph on one of the decade's most important bodies of work,
presenting more than forty images from Mayes' extensive series. An
essay by art historian Kevin Moore elaborates an important chapter
in the history of West Coast photography during this critical
cultural and artistic period.
In this era of evidence-based medicine, one of the biggest
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Disturbed Home is the first comprehensive survey of the artist's
architectural interventions, including photographic and filmic
interpretations of those structural works. Highlighting projects of
the past twelve years and spanning geographies from Strange's
native Australia, to New Zealand, Japan, Poland, and the United
States, Strange's provocative transformations of damaged or
abandoned homes unlock themes of social upheaval and geographic
displacement caused by a variety of factors-economic blight,
environmental disaster, and social migrations. Published on the
occasion of exhibitions at the 2020 Perth Festival and the 2022
FotoFocus Biennial, Disturbed Home features lucid commentary and
original imagery on numerous distinct projects. Also included are
scholarly essays by FotoFocus artistic director and curator Kevin
Moore and Britt Salvesen, curator and head of the Wallis Annenberg
Photography Department and the Prints and Drawings Department at
the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Essays address Strange's
practice within traditions of street art, photography, film, public
sculpture, and dance performance.
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