Overview

Full Product Details

Author:   Natalie Koch (Syracuse University, USA)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.498kg
ISBN:  

9781138927124

ISBN 10:   1138927120
Pages:   272
Publication Date:   29 September 2016
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction: Critical geographies of sport in global perspective (Natalie Koch) PART I: Sports, geopolitics, and state space 2. Geopolitics, identity, and horse sports in Finland (Pauliina Raento) 3. Spreading the game or reproducing hegemony? The United States and the regional geopolitics of women’s football in the Americas (Jon Bohland) 4. Nation-building and sporting spectacles in authoritarian regimes: Turkmenistan’s Aziada-2017 (Slavomír Horák) 5. Sports and politics in Israel: Settler colonialism and the native Palestinians (Magid Shihade) 6. Sports fields and corporate governmentality: Gazprom’s all-Russian gas program as energopower (Veli-Pekka Tynkkynen) 7. Athletic autocrats: Understanding images of authoritarian leaders as sportsmen (Natalie Koch) 8. Playing identity politics: The Gaelic Athletic Association in modern Ireland (Arlene Crampsie) PART II: Sports, community, and urban space 9. Soccer and the mundane politics of belonging: Latino immigrants, recreation, and spaces of exclusion in the rural US South (Lise Nelson) 10. Competing visions for urban space in Seoul: Understanding the demolition of Korea’s Dongdaemun Baseball Stadium (Jung Woo Lee) 11. Running order: Urban public space, everyday citizenship and sporting subjectivities (Simon Cook, Jon Shaw, Paul Simpson) 12. Mallparks and the symbolic reconstruction of urban space (Michael Friedman) 13. Sports and the social integration of migrants in South Dublin (Neil Conner) 14. Spatial maneuvers: Geographies of power and labor practices in professional wrestling’s territorial era (Bradley Gardener) 15. In the shadow of mega-events: The value of ethnography in sports geography (Nicholas Wise) 16. Conclusion: Toward a critical geography of sport: Space, power, and social justice (David Jansson and Natalie Koch)

Reviews

Overall, this is a valuable text that I would recommend to geographers and non-geographers alike. The collection successfully achieves its aim `to showcase the merits of a deeply geographic approach to the study of sport' (p. 1). It is therefore deserving of a wider audience than those already persuaded by the usefulness of a geographic approach to studying sport...For non-geographers, this text provides a useful insight into what geography can offer as a disciplinary perspective and how core geographical concepts including space, place and scale can guide and frame studies of sport. - Catherine Waite, Environmental and Geographical Sciences, University of Northampton, International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics The book's main virtue is sporting and geographical diversity. It is not dominated by the Olympics, men's football, the USA and Europe, like many other monographs and anthologies with a sports focus. - Karin Book, Department of Sport Sciences, Malmoe University, Idrottsforum.org

Overall, this is a valuable text that I would recommend to geographers and non-geographers alike. The collection successfully achieves its aim 'to showcase the merits of a deeply geographic approach to the study of sport' (p. 1). It is therefore deserving of a wider audience than those already persuaded by the usefulness of a geographic approach to studying sport...For non-geographers, this text provides a useful insight into what geography can offer as a disciplinary perspective and how core geographical concepts including space, place and scale can guide and frame studies of sport. - Catherine Waite, Environmental and Geographical Sciences, University of Northampton, International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics The book's main virtue is sporting and geographical diversity. It is not dominated by the Olympics, men's football, the USA and Europe, like many other monographs and anthologies with a sports focus. - Karin Book, Department of Sport Sciences, Malmoe University, Idrottsforum.org

Author Information

Natalie Koch is Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography, The Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University, USA. Her current research focuses on state-making, nationalism, geopolitics, and authoritarianism, with a special interest in spectacle – both in urban landscapes and in events like national celebrations and sports. An elite cyclist herself, she has a long interest in the intersection between political geography and sport, and has published numerous articles in journals such as Political Geography, Urban Geography, Geoforum, Social and Cultural Geography, and Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers

Tab Content 6

Author Website:  

Customer Reviews

Recent Reviews

No review item found!

Add your own review!

Countries Available

All regions