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Record Nr.

UNINA9910597158603321

Autore

Woodward Kath

Titolo

Globalizing boxing / / Kath Woodward

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Bloomsbury, , 2014

ISBN

9781849667982 (ebook)

9781849667975 (PDF ebook)

9781849668101 (hardback)

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (193 pages)

Collana

Globalizing Sport Studies

Globalizing sport studies

Disciplina

306.483

Soggetti

Boxing

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

Cover; Contents; Series Editor's Preface; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction: Boxing Going Global; 2 Traditions and Histories: Connections and Disconnections; 3 Movements and Mobilities; 4 Cultural Economies of Scale; 5 Boxing Bodies and Everyday Routines; 6 Inside and Outside the Ring; 7 Transforming the Fight Game; 8 Conclusion: G/local Boxing; Note; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Boxing is a traditional sport in many ways, characterized by continuities in the form of practices and regulations and heavy with legends and heroes reflecting its traditional/historical values. Associations with class, hegemonic masculinity and racialized inclusions/exclusions, however, sit alongside developments such as women's boxing and involvement in Mixed Martial Arts.This book will be the first to use boxing as a vehicle for exploring social, cultural and political change in a global context. It will consider to what degree and in what ways boxing reflects social transformations, and whether and how it contributes to those transformations. In exploring the relationship it will provide new ways of thinking critically about the everyday.