Brad Millington, Brian Wilson

The greening of golf

Sport, globalization and the environment

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Produktbeschreibung

This book is the first comprehensive study of the varying responses to golf-related environmental issues. The authors examine golf as a sport and as a global industry, drawing on literatures pertaining to environmental sociology, global social movements, institutional change, corporate environmentalism and the sociology of sport.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 258
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 398g
• ISBN-13: 9781526143662
• ISBN-10: 1526143666
• Artikelnr.: 55813844

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: Introduction and tools for seeing golf sociologically 1.
Introduction: approaching golf and environmental issues 2. Light green to
dark green: how to make sense of responses to environmental problems Part
II: Background and history 3. Waging a war on pests: golf comes to America
4. Golf in consumer culture and the making of Augusta National syndrome
Part III: The light-greening of golf 5. 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
exemption Part IV: The dark-greening of golf 8. 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 alternative Part V: Conclusion 10. Reflections,
recommendations and minor utopian visions for a game we love Index