By John Sugden,Alan Tomlinson
ISBN-10: 0415251001
ISBN-13: 9780415251006
ISBN-10: 041525101X
ISBN-13: 9780415251013
The booklet attracts upon the disciplines of politics, sociology, heritage and philosophy to supply a severe research of strength kinfolk in the course of the global of game, whereas providing vital new case stories from such different wearing contexts because the Olympics, international soccer, boxing, cricket, tennis and windsurfing. within the approach, it addresses key subject matters such as:
* international locations and nationalism
* globalisation
* race
* gender
* political economy.
Power Games can be utilized as a whole advent to the examine of recreation and society. and should be crucial studying for any critical scholar of activity. even as, it's a provocative publication that via argument and instance demanding situations those that study and write approximately recreation to make their paintings suitable to social and political reform.
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