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Sport, Physical Culture, and the Moving Body: Materialisms, Technologies, Ecologies (Critical Issues in Sport and Society)
by David Andrews • Samantha Frost • Simone Fullagar • Mary Louise Adams • Samantha King • Pirkko Markula • Michael D. Giardina • Matthew G. Hawzen • Oliver Rick • Jacob J. Bustad • Richard Pringle • Mary G. McDonald • Kiri Baxter • Douglas Booth • Kyle S Bunds • Mariana Clark • Simon C Darnell • Jennifer Sterling • Christopher McLeod • Shannon Leigh Jette • Katelyn Esmonde • Carolyn Pluim • Gavin WeedonThe moving body—pervasively occupied by fitness activities, intense training and dieting regimes, recreational practices, and high-profile sporting mega-events—holds a vital function in contemporary society. As the body moves—as it performs, sweats, runs, and jumps—it sets in motion an intricate web... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2020 -
Sport and the Neoliberal University: Profit, Politics, and Pedagogy
by Susan Searls Giroux • Joshua I. Newman • Michael D. Giardina • Ryan King-White • Henry Giroux • Neal C. Ternes • Jaime DeLuca • Callie Batts Maddox • Matthew G. Hawzen • Lauren C. Anderson • Ellen J. Staurowsky • Richard M. Southall • Crystal Southall • Oliver Rick • Adam Beissel • Jacob J. Bustad • Ronald L. MowerCollege students are now regarded as consumers, not students, and nowhere is the growth and exploitation of the university more obvious than in the realm of college sports, where the evidence is in the stadiums built with corporate money, and the crowded sporting events sponsored by large conglomera... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2018