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Sport and modernity / Richard Gruneau.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, UK ; Malden, MA, USA : Polity Press, [2017]Description: x, 246pContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781509501564 (hardback)
  • 9781509501571 (pbk.)
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Online version:: Sport and modernityDDC classification:
  • 306.483 G923S 23
LOC classification:
  • GV706.5 .G785 2017
Contents:
Athletics, body imagery and spectacle : Greco-Roman practices, discourses and ideologies -- The politics of representation : English sport as an object and project of modernity -- "Staging" (capitalist/colonial) modernity : international exhibitions and Olympics -- German modernism, anti-modernism and the critical theory of sport -- A savage sorting of "winners" and "losers" : modernization, development, sport, and the challenge of slums.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Athletics, body imagery and spectacle : Greco-Roman practices, discourses and ideologies -- The politics of representation : English sport as an object and project of modernity -- "Staging" (capitalist/colonial) modernity : international exhibitions and Olympics -- German modernism, anti-modernism and the critical theory of sport -- A savage sorting of "winners" and "losers" : modernization, development, sport, and the challenge of slums.

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