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Showcasing some of the most important current research in football
studies, this book demonstrates the value of social theory and
sociology in helping us to better understand the world's favourite
sport. This book sheds critical new light on key issues in
contemporary football, with each chapter using a different
theoretical lens, drawing on the work of key thinkers from Elias
and Foucault to Hall and Maffesoli. It explores issues and topics
central to the study of modern football, including homophobia,
feminist-informed coaching practice, the racialised experiences of
black professional footballers, the concussion crisis and the role
of identity in online football communities. It also looks ahead at
the issues that are likely to define the research agenda in
football studies in years to come. This is fascinating reading for
any student or researcher with an interest in football, the
sociology of sport, social theory or social issues in wider
society.
Japanese youth and foreign migrants face stringent
institutionalised controls in Japan. This book questions the
efficacy of such social controls, focusing on the interrelation of
inequality (powerlessness, discriminate controls and class
inequality) and deviance (largely derived from power and the
violation of informal and formal norms). It provides a
comprehensive detailed description and explanation of inequality
and deviance of Japanese youth and 17 foreign migrant groups. The
book is aimed at individuals, students and academicians interested
in Japan area studies.
Tolkien, Race, and Racism in Middle-earth is the first systematic
examination of how Tolkien understood racial issues, how race
manifests in his oeuvre, and how race in Middle-earth, his
imaginary realm, has been understood, criticized, and appropriated
by others. This book presents an analysis of Tolkien's works for
conceptions of race, both racist and anti-racist. It begins by
demonstrating that Tolkien was a racialist, in that his mythology
is established on the basis of different races with different
characteristics, and then poses the key question "Was Tolkien
racist?" Robert Stuart engages the discourse and research
associated with the ways in which racism and anti-racism relate
Tolkien to his fascist and imperialist contemporaries and to
twenty-first-century neo-Nazis and White Supremacists-including
White Supremacy, genocide, blood-and-soil philology, anti-Semitism,
and aristocratic racism. Addressing a major gap in the field of
Tolkien studies, Stuart focuses on race, racisms and the Tolkien
legendarium.
Based on fieldwork spanning two decades, this book presents a
longitudinal study of deviance and crime among youths in
Kanagawa-ken, with a focus upon two groups of young people a
working class group and a middle-class group. The author, a
long-term resident in Japan, has managed to keep in touch with his
subjects for twenty years and offers vivid descriptions of
nonconformity among Japanese youngsters and an in-depth analysis of
the way in which youth deviance is reproduced along class lines.
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On the History and Art of Warming and Ventilating Rooms and Buildings, by Open Fires, Hypocausts, German, Dutch, Russian, and Swedish Stoves, Steam, Hot Water, Heated Air, Heat of Animals, and Other Methods - With Notices of the Progress of Personal and Fi (Hardcover)
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On the History and Art of Warming and Ventilating Rooms and Buildings, by Open Fires, Hypocausts, German, Dutch, Russian, and Swedish Stoves, Steam, Hot Water, Heated Air, Heat of Animals, and Other Methods - With Notices of the Progress of Personal and Fi (Paperback)
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On the History and Art of Warming and Ventilating Rooms and Buildings, by Open Fires, Hypocausts, German, Dutch, Russian, and Swedish Stoves, Steam, Hot Water, Heated Air, Heat of Animals, and Other Methods; With Notices of the Progress of Personal And...; (Paperback)
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