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  • Football Fandom and Migration

    An Ethnography of Transnational Practices and Narratives in Vienna and Istanbul

    by Nina Szogs ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book studies how transnationalisation, Europeanisation and migration processes intersect with football fandom, through an analysis of the transnational narratives and practices of Fenerbahçe and Galatasaray football fans in Vienna, Austria. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in Austria, Turkey and Germany, the author analyses the ways in which narratives about football fandom are often linked to ... Read more

    $115.99 CAD

  • New Ethnographies of Football in Europe

    People, Passions, Politics

    Edited by Alexandra Schwell, Micha? Buchowski, Malgorzata Kowalska, Nina Szogs ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Football has emerged as an important symbolic field through which various social, cultural, political, economic, and historical dimensions and antagonisms are negotiated. This volume covers a variety of themes illuminating the multiple ways that football impacts on people's everyday lives. Using anthropological research methods and data collected from ethnographic fieldwork, the contributors ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

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  • Religion and Modern Society

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    by Bryan S. Turner ...
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  • Taboo

    Why Black Athletes Dominate Sports And Why We're Afraid To Talk About It

    by Jon Entine ...
    In virtually every sport in which they are given opportunity to compete, people of African descent dominate. East Africans own every distance running record. Professional sports in the Americas are dominated by men and women of West African descent. Why have blacks come to dominate sports? Are they somehow physically better? And why are we so uncomfortable when we discuss this? Drawing on the ... Read more

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  • Voices From The Farm

    Edited by Rupert Fike ...
    Forty years ago, at the height of the counterculture movement, several hundred hippies drove their school buses into southern Tennessee and founded one of Americas largest, modern-day intentional communities, The Farm. In its heyday, the community was home to over 1,500 optimistic young people and the young at heart. Their purpose for coming together was to support each other in a quest for ... Read more

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  • The Athletics Incubus: How College Sports Undermine College Education

    by Andrew Hacker, Claudia Dreifus ...
    Previously published as part of Higher Education?In this provocative work, the renowned sociologist Andrew Hacker and New York Times writer Claudia Dreifus make an incisive case that American college athletics—which originally came into the campus as an innocent form of recreation—have overtaken academic pursuits, compromised the moral authority of educators, and gobbled up resources that should ... Read more

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  • Children, Media and Playground Cultures

    Ethnographic Studies of School Playtimes

    by R. Willett, C. Richards, J. Marsh, A. Burn, J. C Bishop ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Drawing on ethnographic accounts of children's media-referenced play, this book explores children's engagement with media cultures and playground experiences, analyzing a range of issues such as learning, fantasy, communication and identity. ... Read more

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  • The Palgrave Handbook of Olympic Studies

    Edited by H. Lenskyj, S. Wagg ...
    A comprehensive, state-of-the-art reference collection, bringing together an authoritative and international line-up of scholars to examine key social and political issues related to the Olympics. An essential, 'one-stop' volume for a wide range of academics, students and researchers. ... Read more

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  • Fair and Foul

    Beyond the Myths and Paradoxes of Sport

    by D. Stanley Eitzen ...
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  • Culture of the Slow

    Social Deceleration in an Accelerated World

    Edited by N. Osbaldiston ...
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