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The Greening of Golf: Globalizing Sport Studies

Autor Brad Millington, Brian Wilson
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 20 apr 2016
Golf is a major global industry. It is played by more than 60 million worldwide, and there are more than 32,000 courses across the globe in 140 countries including Africa, Central America and Central Asia. It is a sport that has particularly appealed to the wealthy and powerful, though it is increasingly successful in attracting both golfers and spectators from a wide range of demographics. Golf has attracted criticism regarding its impact on the environment, with particular concerns about its use of pesticides and the resulting effect on both wildlife and humans, and its excessive use of water. The golf industry has, over time, responded to these and other concerns by stressing their capacity for recognizing and dealing with environmental problems. There are, however, reasons to be sceptical about the golf industry's environmental leadership, or, indeed, corporate environmentalism in general. This book looks at the power relationships in and around golf examining whether the industry has demonstrated such leadership on environmental matters that the government can trust them to make weighty decisions that have implications for public health, and what it is about sport and leisure in general and golf in particular that has inspired such latitude from government. This is the first comprehensive study of the varying impacts of golf on the environment, It is based on extensive empirical research, including interviews with major stakeholders in the golf industry and members of protest groups. The authors examine golf as a sport and as a global industry, drawing on three discrete literatures - the study of sport as a global social movement, environmental sociology and the study of corporate environmentalism.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781784993276
ISBN-10: 1784993271
Pagini: 256
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.59 kg
Editura: MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY PRESS
Seria Globalizing Sport Studies


Notă biografică

Brad Millington is Lecturer in the Department for Health at the University of Bath Brian Wilson is Professor in the School of Kinesiology at the University of British Columbia, Canada

Cuprins

Part I: Introduction and tools for seeing golf sociologically1. Introduction: approaching golf and environmental issues 2. Light green to dark green: how to make sense of responses to environmental problemsPart II: Background and history3. Waging a war on pests: golf comes to America 4. Golf in consumer culture and the making of Augusta National syndromePart III: The light-greening of golf5. The turn to responsible golf and the roots of golf's light-green movement 6. Environmentalism incorporated: professionalization and post-politics in the time of responsible golf 7. Light-green regulation? Environmental managerialism and golf's conspicuous exemptionPart IV: The dark-greening of golf8. Anti-golfers across the world unite! Global and local forms of resistance to golf-course development 9. Organic golf 'on the fringe': the potential and challenges of a chemical-free golf alternativePart V: Conclusion10. Reflections, recommendations and minor utopian visions for a game we love Index