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Objects and Materials
A Routledge Companion
Series: CRESC
There is broad acceptance across the Humanities and Social Sciences that our deliberations on the social need to take place through attention to practice, to object-mediated relations, to non-human agency and to the affective dimensions of human sociality. This Companion focuses on the objects and...
To Be Published July 10th 2013 by Routledge
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Rights, Cultures, Subjects and Citizens
This book questions the political logic of foregrounding cultural collectives in a world shaped by globalization and neoliberalization. Throughout the world, it is no longer only individuals, but increasingly collective "cultures" who are made responsible for their own regulation, welfare and...
Published November 19th 2012 by Routledge
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Understanding Sport
A socio-cultural analysis
Series: CRESC
In the decade or more since publication of the first edition of Understanding Sport, both sport and wider global society have undergone profound change. In this fully updated, revised and expanded edition of their classic textbook, John Horne, Alan Tomlinson, Garry Whannel and Kath Woodward offer a...
Published July 15th 2012 by Routledge
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Planet Sport
Series: Shortcuts
Sport generates some of the most intense feelings and levels of commitment. It is big business globally, but also the source of the most powerful personal identifications and individual and collective pleasures. Sporting events are routine and embodied, whether in the gym, on the field or at the...
Published June 26th 2012 by Routledge
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Understanding Sport
A Socio-Cultural Analysis
What is the significance of sport in contemporary society? To what extent can sport be seen as an agent of socio-cultural change? In the decade or more since publication of the first edition of Understanding Sport, both sport and wider global society have experienced profound change. In this...
Published July 31st 2011 by Routledge
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Social Sciences
The Big Issues, 2nd Edition
Social Sciences: The Big Issues second edition offers an introduction to the big debates within the social sciences and to what the social sciences can provide as a means of explaining the changing world. The social sciences focus upon people as individuals and as members of wider communities...
Published July 28th 2009 by Routledge
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Boxing, Masculinity and Identity
The 'I' of the Tiger
Boxing is infused with ideas about masculinity, power, race and social class, and as such is an ideal lens through which social scientists can examine key modern themes. In addition, its inherent contradictions of extreme violence and beauty and of discipline and excess have long been a source of...
Published November 8th 2006 by Routledge
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The Natural and the Social
Uncertainty, Risk, Change, 2nd Edition
Series: Understanding Social Change
The age in which people in the West have treated society and nature as essentially separate matters is at an end. Environmental change and degradation impinge on all our lives, and even our genes are increasingly seen by employers and insurers as commodities.The Natural and the Social draws on...
Published March 31st 2004 by Routledge
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Questioning Identity
Gender, Class, Nation, 2nd Edition
Series: Understanding Social Change
Our world is an increasingly unstable place, but current changes offer new opportunities as well as new challenges. This key volume provides an accessible exploration of identity as a contemporary concern in everyday life and as a key concept in social science. Drawing on work from a range of...
Published March 31st 2004 by Routledge