Globalizing boxing / / Kath Woodward

• Autore: Woodward Kath
• Pubblicazione: London : , : Bloomsbury, , 2014
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (193 pages)
• Disciplina: 306.483
• Soggetto topico: Boxing
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Globalizing Boxing
• ISBN: 9781849667982 (ebook); 9781849667975 (PDF ebook); 9781849668101 (hardback)
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910597158603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Globalizing Sport Studies