Sport and body politics in Japan / / Wolfram Manzenreiter
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| Autore: |
Manzenreiter Wolfram
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| Titolo: |
Sport and body politics in Japan / / Wolfram Manzenreiter
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| Pubblicazione: | New York : , : Routledge, , 2014 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (330 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 796.0952 |
| Soggetto topico: | Sports - Japan - History |
| Sports and society - Japan - History | |
| Human body - Social aspects - Japan | |
| Human body - Political aspects - Japan | |
| Culture and globalization - Japan | |
| 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Sport and body politics in Japan |
| ISBN: | 1-138-95289-3 |
| 1-135-02234-8 | |
| 0-203-76735-7 | |
| 1-135-02235-6 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910825520403321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society