Sites of Sport : Space, Place, Experience

by Bale, John (NA)

• ISBN13: 9780203496435
• ISBN10: 0203496434
• Copyright: 2004-01-31
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Summary

This collection uses spatial concepts and examples to examine the nature and development of sporting practices. It shows how the study of built environments such as gymnasiums and football stadiums can provide unique information about the body.

Table of Contents

Locating a "Sense of Place" - Space, Place and Gender in the Gymnasium

Sensing the Stadium

Educative Pools - Water, School and Space in 20th-Century France

Freezing Social Relations - Ice, Rinks, and the Development of Figure Skating

Just Another Classroom? Observations of Primary School Playgrounds

Putting Bodies on the Line - Marching Spaces in Cold War Culture

Homebush - Site of the Clean/sed and Natural Australian Athlete

Surf Lifesavers and Surfers - Cultural and Spatial Conflict on the Australian Beach

Playing with Gravity - Mountains and Mountaineering

The Homoerotic Space of Sport in Pornography

The Space that (in)Difference Makes - (Re)Producing Subjectivities in/through Abjection - A Locker Room Case Study

For Pleasure? Or Profit? Or Personal Health? - College Gymnasia as Contested Terrain

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