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The Palgrave Handbook of Sport, Politics and Harm
Title
The Palgrave Handbook of Sport, Politics and Harm [electronic resource] / edited by Stephen Wagg, Allyson M. Pollock.
ISBN
9783030728267
Edition
1st ed. 2021.
Publication
Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021.
Physical Description
1 online resource (XXXI, 629 p.) 26 illus.
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Summary
This book looks historically at the harm that has been inflicted in the practice of sport and at some of the issues, debates and controversies that have arisen as a result. Written by experts in history, sociology, sport journalism and public health, the book considers sport and injury in relation to matters of social class; gender; ethnicity and race; sexuality; political ideology and national identity; health and wellbeing; childhood; animal rights; and popular culture. These matters are, in turn, variously related to a range of sports, including ancient, pre- and early industrial sports; American football; boxing; wrestling and other combat sports; mountaineering; horseracing; cycling; motor racing; rugby football; cricket; association football; baseball; basketball; Crossfit; ice hockey; Olympic sports; Mixed Martial Arts; and sport in an imagined dystopian future.
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Language
English
Added to Catalog
January 06, 2022
Contents
Introduction
Part 1 Bodily Damage and Pre- and Early Industrial Sport
1 The Perils of Rewarding Toughness: Honor, Injury, and Death in the Athletics of the Ancient World
2 'Beastly furie, and exstreme violence': pain, injury and death resulting from football and other ball games played in the British Isles before the Reformation
3 Violence, injury, and the politics of the evolving football codes
4 "Though he was evidently suffering great pain, he bore it well:" Public Discourse on Benefits, Risk, and Injury in North American Wrestling, 1880 to 1914
Part 2 The NFL: Politics, Injury and American National Identity'
5 Inflaming the Civic Temper: Progress, Violence, and Concussion in Early American Football
6 A Problem That Cries Out For Standards: Football Helmets, Conceptions of Risk, and the National Commission on Product Safety, 1961-1970
7 Lights Out: Concussion Research, the National Football League, and Employer Duty of Care
8 Race and Injury in American Football
Part 3 Sporting Females, Sexuality and the Politics of Injury
9 Injury at the Extreme: Alison Hargreaves, Mountaineering and Motherhood
10 Gendered Bodies, Gendered Injuries
11 The Not So Glamorous World of Women's Wrestling
12 Pride, Prejudice and Death: The Emile Griffiths Story
Part 4 Sport as Transport: Horse, Cycle and Motor Racing and the Politics of Safety
13 Runners, Riders and Risk: Safety Issues in the History of Horseracing
14 "Dishing out the pain" in professional cycling
15 It Was Ironic That He Should Die in Bed: Injury, Death and the Politics of Safety in the History of Motor Racing
Part 5 Sport, Injury and the Culture of Late Capitalism
16 The Death of Jordan McNair: The Inevitability of the Avoidable Life-Threatening Injury
17 From Body Snatchers to Brain Banks: The Cadaver as Commodity and the Sports-Concussion "Crisis"
18 On the Front Lines: Black Boys and Injury in Basketball
19 All Power to Your Elbow? Injury in US Baseball and the Politics of 'Tommy John Surgery'
20 Is Injury "On Brand"? Examining the Contexts of the CrossFit Injury Connection
21 'This must be done right, so we don't lose the income': Medical care and commercial imperatives in mixed martial arts
22 Vanguards on The Starting Line: Race, Work, and Dissent in Sport Dystopian films from Rollerball to The Hunger Games
Part 6: Sport and Injury - Case Studies
23 Injury and Olympics Politics, 1896-1988
24 Fits and Starts: Re-examining the Mystery of Brazil's Ronaldo and the Rumours Swirling Around his Controversial Role in the World Cup final of 1998
25 The Cricket Pitch as 'Unsafe Workplace': Sports Culture and the Death of Phillip Hughes
26 Muhammad Ali, Sport Celebrity and Perceptions of Parkinson's Disease
27 'Snipers Stop Play': The Israeli Defence Force and the Shooting of Palestinian Footballers
Part 7 Sport, Harm and the Politics of Wellbeing
28 The politics of safeguarding and protecting children in sport in England
29 Sidelined: Boys, Sport, and Depression
30 Injuries in Schools' Rugby: Occasional Niggles and Scrapes?.
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