Sport, Culture and Ideology (RLE Sports Studies)
Author | : Jennifer Hargreaves |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 2014-04-24 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781317681014 |
ISBN-13 | : 1317681010 |
Rating | : 4/5 (010 Downloads) |
Download or read book Sport, Culture and Ideology (RLE Sports Studies) written by Jennifer Hargreaves and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-24 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sport celebrates basic human values of freedom, justice and courage. This collection of essays probes beneath those assumptions in order to illuminate how sport is intimately related to power and domination. Topics include the media treatment of sport, drug-taking in sport and the controversial and problematic relationship between sport and politics in Russia and South Africa.