The role of sports in the formation of personal identities : studies in community loyalties /
This is a collection of essays examining the role of sports in shaping personal and national identity. Studies ranging from skateboarding as resistance to conformity, cricket and the imagined community of Yorkshire, gender identity and rock climbing, and violence in soccer, among others are offered...
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| Other Authors: | , , |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Lewiston, N.Y. :
Edwin Mellen Press,
©2012.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
| Summary: | This is a collection of essays examining the role of sports in shaping personal and national identity. Studies ranging from skateboarding as resistance to conformity, cricket and the imagined community of Yorkshire, gender identity and rock climbing, and violence in soccer, among others are offered in this text. A theme the authors discuss at length is how communities are formed on the basis of sports, and how different identities emerge out of these shared experiences, and whether there is a socio-political aspect to this process. The contributing scholars undertook their studies in such fiel. |
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| Item Description: | EBSCO eBook Academic Comprehensive Collection North America |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (ii, 297 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9780773412118 0773412115 |
