Brad Millington, Brian Wilson

The greening of golf (eBook, ePUB)

Sport, globalization and the environment

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC) open access license. Golf is a major global industry. The sport is played by more than 60 million people worldwide and there are more than 32,000 courses in 140 countries across the globe. This book looks at the power relationships in and around golf, examining whether the industry has demonstrated sufficient leadership on environmental matters to be trusted to make weighty decisions with implications for public and environmental health. The first comprehensive study of the varying responses to golf-related environmental issues, it is based on extensive empirical work, including research into historical materials and interviews with stakeholders in golf such as course superintendents, protesters and health professionals. The authors examine golf as a sport and as a global industry, drawing on and contributing to literatures pertaining to environmental sociology, global social movements, institutional change, corporate environmentalism and the sociology of sport.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: LAPA Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. April 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526104854
• Artikelnr.: 55007811

Autorenporträt

Brad Millington and Brian Wilson

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