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Globalizing Boxing

Autor Professor of Sociology Kath Woodward
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This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com.Boxing is a traditional sport in many ways, characterized by continuities in the form of practices and regulations and heavy with legends and heroes reflecting its traditional/historical values. Associations with class, hegemonic masculinity and racialized inclusions/exclusions, however, sit alongside developments such as women's boxing and involvement in Mixed Martial Arts.This book will be the first to use boxing as a vehicle for exploring social, cultural and political change in a global context. It will consider to what degree and in what ways boxing reflects social transformations, and whether and how it contributes to those transformations. In exploring the relationship it will provide new ways of thinking critically about the everyday.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781474253055
ISBN-10: 1474253059
Pagini: 192
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 10 mm
Greutate: 0.28 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Caracteristici

Engages with many topics of contemporary interest across the social sciences eg migration and diaspora, the power of spectacle, the economics of the 'media moment', the body, the relationship between the local and the global

Notă biografică

Kath Woodward is Professor of Sociology at the Open University. Her publications include Embodied Sporting Practices Regulating and Regulatory bodies (2009), Social Sciences; the Big Issues, 2nd edition (2009) Boxing Masculinity and Identity: the "I" of the Tiger (2007), Questions of Identity (2004), Understanding Identity (2002) and, with Sophie Woodward, Why Feminism Matters (2009). She has just completed work on Sport Across Diasporas at the BBC World Service as part of the AHRC funded, Diasporas, Migration and Identities programme and works on gender race and diversity at the ESRC funded Centre for Research into Socio-Cultural Change (CRESC) at the Open University and Manchester University. She is on the editorial board of Soccer and Society and the Journal of Leisure Studies and has forthcoming special editions of Soccer and Society, Football, Sounds and Things and of the journal M/C on Diasporas.

Cuprins

Introduction Strands and Traditions. Economic of Scale Inside and Outside the Ring. Boxing Rules and Regulations Transforming the Fight Game. Conclusion Index

Recenzii

Kath Woodward does a great job of demonstrating how boxing can provide a constructive site for exploring social, economic, political and cultural processes ... and [sheds] light on the many contradictions that shape boxing today ... Woodward's book is a good read for any boxing fan ... [as well as] academics and others interested in gender studies in sport.

Descriere

This book uses boxing as a vehicle for exploring social, cultural and political change in a global context. It considers to what degree and in what ways boxing reflects social transformations, and how it contributes to those transformations. Woodward provides new ways of thinking critically about our everyday assumptions and social world.