Sports Events, Society and Culture

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Synopsis

This innovative and timely volume moves beyond existing operational and pragmatic approaches to events studies by exploring sports events as social, cultural, political and mediatised phenomena. As the study of this area is developing there is now a need for critical and theoretically informed debate regarding conceptualisation, significance and roles.
This edited collection explores the core themes of consumption, media technologies, representation, identities and culture to offer new insight into how sports events contribute to generation of individual and shared meaning over personal, community and national identities as well as the associated issues of conflict, resistance and power. Chapters promote a critical (re)evaluation of emerging empirical research from a diverse range of sports events and locations from the international to local level.  A multi-disciplinary approach is taken with contributions from areas including sports studies, media studies, sociology, cultural studies, communications, politics, tourism and gender studies.
Written by leading academics in the area, this thorough exploration of the contested relationship between sports events, society and culture will be of interest to students, academics and researchers in Events, Sport, Tourism and Sociology.

Book details

Series:
Routledge Advances in Event Research Series
Author:
Katherine Dashper, Thomas Fletcher, Nicola Mccullough
ISBN:
9781134053278
Related ISBNs:
9780203528020, 9780415826754, 9780415826754, 9781138082502, 9781138082502
Publisher:
Taylor and Francis
Pages:
246
Reading age:
Not specified
Includes images:
No
Date of addition:
2020-03-30
Usage restrictions:
Copyright
Copyright date:
2014
Copyright by:
N/A 
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Categories:
Business and Finance, Nonfiction, Travel