Beschreibung:
A Companion to Sport brings together writing by leadingsports theorists and social and cultural thinkers, to explore sportas a central element of contemporary culture.* Positions sport as a crucial subject for critical analysis, asone of the most significant forms of popular culture* Includes both well-known social and cultural theorists whosework lends itself to an interrogation of sport, and leadingtheorists of sport itself* Offers a comprehensive examination of sport as a social andcultural practice and institution* Explores sport in relation to modernity, postcolonial theory,gender, violence, race, disability and politics