Sports and violence : history, theory and practice / edited by Craig Hovey, Myles Werntz and John B. White.

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9781443879408
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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Sports and violence.; Print version:: Sports and violence.DDC classification:

306.483 23

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GV706.7 .S65 2017

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Contents:

The ugly side of the beautiful game: picturing violence in soccer / Daniel Haxall -- Shattered nerves and broken bodies: violence in intercollegiate football and automotive racing during America's progressive era / Brian M. Ingrassia -- Wheel violence: the perils of bicycling, past and present / Duncan R. Jamieson -- The Mesoamerican ballgame: sport and violence in the beginning / Matt O'Mansky -- Dribbling on the grave of bin Laden: intercultural and international violence in the Carrier Classic / Raymond I. Schuck -- The violence of everyone and no one: sport and banality / John B. White and Myles Werntz -- Eliminating bare knuckle fighting from NHL hockey: a Kantian argument against self-mutilation / Matt Stolick -- Bullying in professional sports / Mark Hamilton -- "Killer slides" in Major League Baseball: on-field violence and entertainment value on sport / Brian H. Yim, Theresa Walton-Fisette, and James Tunney -- Aggression on and off the field: a survey of student athletes' behaviors and perspectives / Lori L. Braa -- Traversing hegemonic masculinity in athletics / Dessie Clark.

Summary: Sports and Violence is an edited collection arising out of the 2016 Sports and Violence Conference, hosted at the Ashland Center for Nonviolence at Ashland University, Ohio, USA. This volume contains 11 essays authored by a range of scholars reflecting on the confluence of violence within organized sports. The three sections of the book (history, theory, and practice) create a full-scale exploration of this topic. The authors not only detail past phenomena of sports violence, but also offer ethnographic and sociological explorations alongside philosophical treatments of sports violence. Crucia.

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Sports and Violence is an edited collection arising out of the 2016 Sports and Violence Conference, hosted at the Ashland Center for Nonviolence at Ashland University, Ohio, USA. This volume contains 11 essays authored by a range of scholars reflecting on the confluence of violence within organized sports. The three sections of the book (history, theory, and practice) create a full-scale exploration of this topic. The authors not only detail past phenomena of sports violence, but also offer ethnographic and sociological explorations alongside philosophical treatments of sports violence. Crucia.

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