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Record Nr.

UNINA9910826096703321

Autore

Bale John

Titolo

Running cultures : racing in time and space / / John Bale

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 2004

ISBN

1-280-07955-X

1-135-75749-6

0-203-61008-3

0-203-49931-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (228 p.)

Collana

Sport in the global society

Classificazione

76.12

Disciplina

796.42

Soggetti

Running - Social aspects

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 (p. [166]-208) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Ways of running -- Running ways -- Beyond the arena -- Athletes as pets -- Running as transgression and resistance -- Escape: runners as cosmopolites -- Running and racing: moral dilemmas and a good life?

Sommario/riassunto

Running is one of the world's most widely practiced sports and recreations but until now it has intended to elude serious study outside of the natural sciences. John Bale brings the sport into the realm of the humanities by drawing on sources including literature, poetry, film, art and sculpture as well as statistics and training manuals to highlight the tensions, ambiguities and complexities that lie hidden beneath the commonplace notion of running.The text explores both local and personal, as well as communal and global aspects of running and its practitioners. It examines the streets, t