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Record Nr.

UNINA9910452615703321

Autore

Manzenreiter Wolfram

Titolo

Sport and body politics in Japan / / Wolfram Manzenreiter

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2014

ISBN

1-138-95289-3

1-135-02234-8

0-203-76735-7

1-135-02235-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (330 p.)

Collana

Routledge research in sport, culture and society ; ; 26

Disciplina

796.0952

Soggetti

Sports - Japan - History

Sports and society - Japan - History

Human body - Social aspects - Japan

Human body - Political aspects - Japan

Culture and globalization - Japan

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. 1. Configurations of modernity : sport, the body and the nation -- pt. 2. New roles, new faces : sport in the service of various masters -- pt. 3. Global dimensions : sport and geo-politics of the body.

Sommario/riassunto

There is more to Japanese sport than sumo, karate and baseball. This study of social sport in Japan pursues a comprehensive approach towards sport as a distinctive cultural sphere at the intersection of body culture, political economy, and cultural globalization. Bridging the gap between Bourdieu and Foucault, it explains the significance of the body as a field of action and a topic of discourse in molding subject and society in modern Japan. More specifically, it provides answers to questions such as how and to what purposes are politics of the body articulated in Japan, particularly in the r