James Rosbrook-Thompson

Sport, Difference and Belonging

Conceptions of Human Variation in British Sport

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book presents an original ethnographic study undertaken at a semi-professional football club and examines how raciological ideas shape the self-understandings of sportspeople and thereby influence the possibilities for action available to them.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Dezember 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 164mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 458g
• ISBN-13: 9780415626552
• ISBN-10: 0415626552
• Artikelnr.: 37042659

Autorenporträt

Rosbrook-Thompson, James

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction Part One: The History of the 'Impulsive' Black Sportsman
2. Plato, Property and Humanity 3. Darwin, Freud and "Good Instincts" Part
Two: Conceptions of Human Difference at Olfield United FC 4. Setting the
Scene 5. Ways to be Urban: People out of Place, Belonging and the case for
Denizenship 6. Classifying people: 'Freshies', Frontiers and Flatulence 7.
Conclusion.