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Sport and Physical Culture in Global Pandemic Times COVID Assemblages
This book provides a definitive and comprehensive contribution to the expanding body of research related to sport/physical culture and the COVID-19...
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A Sociological View of the NBA and How Aggressive Media and Culture Strategies Drove the Rise of a Mega Sport
The NBA has become a global mega-sport with fans turning in, in their millions to follow the world’s best basketball players. The sport has enjoyed...
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The Uptake of Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) and the COVID-19 Pandemic: Implications for Sport and Physical Culture
The COVID-19 pandemic has produced numerous crises (health, economic and social) for policymakers. In the face of these crises, policymakers in many...
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Disability Sport in Spain
Sport in Spain, since the restoration of democracy, has been configured as a structuring element in the social, educational and cultural spheres, and...
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The Performance and Reception of Race-Based Athletic Activism: Toward a Critical, Dramaturgical Theory of Sport
The emergence of an unprecedented wave of race-based athletic activism in the last decade presents the opportunity to formulate a more critical,...
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COVID-19, the Anthropocene, and the Need for Post-Sport
This chapter engages with the question of the future of sport in an age of pandemics, anthropogenic environmental destruction, and undeterred global...
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Sport for Development: A Social Movement Captured by Elites?
Over the last 30 years there has been a growth of actors involved in Sport for Development (SFD). Though some of these actors aligned with prevailing...
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Gliding on the edge of the iron cage: performing rationality and artistry in the sport of figure skating
Prior studies on growing formal rationalization in evaluation systems have overwhelmingly shown that they operate as “iron cages,” which redefine...
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Sport-for-Development and Peace and COVID-19: Technologies, the Body, and Virtual Forms of Programming
The COVID-19 pandemic has, like many other areas of life, disrupted the sport-for-development and peace (SDP) sector. This included SDP organizations...
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Top-Down or Bottom-Up? The Reciprocal Longitudinal Relationship Between Athlete’s Domain-General Gratitude and Sport-Specific Gratitude: A Latent Difference Score Analysis
For athletes, gratitude has received substantial attention because it promotes their optimal functioning both in the sport domain specifically and in...
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Introduction: Global Sport in Contemporary China
Building research time in China, this book encapsulates an extended research project. While the data collection in 2018 provides an essential central...
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Chinese Sport Policy from Reform to the Millennium
This chapter is the first in the establishment of a chronological summary of sport policy from the reform period until the millennium. This period is...
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New Forms of Domestic Distinction: Sport and Contemporary Chinese Class Structure
This chapter makes a turn inwards and is focused on develo** a model of how class is constructed in a Chinese context. Sport plays an important...
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Access & Crisis: Disrupting Ableist Definitions of Physical Activity & Culture
The COVID-19 pandemic amplified how the social model of disability defines crisis and access through cultural perception—more so than any diagnosis...
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Native Appropriation in Sport: Cultivating Bias Toward American Indians
Supporters of American Indian mascots claim that these mascots honor American Indians. If this is the case, then those who have more contact with,...
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The “Social Side”: Rugby Culture, Reflexivity and the Space of Women’s Rugby
Rugby is a sport that is associated with more than what happens on the pitch. For many, it goes with a certain lifestyle and adheres “the culture of...
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A Compact in the Rough: Beauty and Material Culture of Agrarian Women in Postbellum South Carolina
A fragment of a makeup compact was recovered at a postbellum, rural home site in the South Carolina Sandhills. This article explores the meanings...
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On the Subject of Race and Sport: Covid-19, Zoom, and the Necessity of Antiracist Dialogic Pedagogy
Amidst the chaos of COVID-19, existing structural inequities were exacerbated, disproportionately impacting communities of color. While engaging the...
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Sport for Gender Equality and Empowerment
There are many reasons for girls and women to participate in sports, not only from a health perspective but also from an individual and societal...
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The Landscape of Sport for Persons with a Disability: A System Within a System
In this handbook we examine the various ways grassroots sports for persons with a disability is delivered throughout Europe by means of 19...