A Companion to Sport by Andrews, David L.

A Companion to Sport (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781405191609)

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A Companion to Sport by Andrews, David L.

A Companion to Sport

$62.95
A Companion to Sport by Andrews, David L.

A Companion to Sport

$62.95
Format: Hardcover
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A Companion to Sport brings together writing by leading sports theorists and social and cultural thinkers, to explore sport as a central element of contemporary culture.

  • Positions sport as a crucial subject for critical analysis, as one of the most significant forms of popular culture
  • Includes both well-known social and cultural theorists whose work lends itself to an interrogation of sport, and leading theorists of sport itself
  • Offers a comprehensive examination of sport as a social and cultural practice and institution
  • Explores sport in relation to modernity, postcolonial theory, gender, violence, race, disability and politics


Author: David L. Andrews
ISBN-10: 1405191600
ISBN-13: 9781405191609
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Language: English
Published: 09/10/2013
Pages: 640
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.46lbs
Size: 9.80h x 6.90w x 1.40d
By David L. Andrews
By David L. Andrews
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David L. Andrews is Professor of Physical Cultural Studies in the Department of Kinesiology at the University of Maryland, College Park, USA. He is the author of Sport-Commerce-Culture: Essays on Sport in Late Capitalist America (2006) and coauthor of Sports Coaching Research: Context, Consequences, and Consciousness (with A. Bush, M. Silk, and H. Lauder, 2013).

Ben Carrington teaches sociology at the University of Texas at Austin, USA and is a Carnegie Research Fellow at Leeds Metropolitan University in England. His most recent book is Race, Sport and Politics: The Sporting Black Diaspora (2010).

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