Palgrave Handbook of Sport, Politics and Harm

Palgrave Handbook of Sport, Politics and Harm

Wagg, Stephen; Pollock, Allyson M.

Springer Nature Switzerland AG

12/2021

629

Dura

Inglês

9783030728250

15 a 20 dias

1154

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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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History of Sport;Sport and capitalism;Sport and culture;Gender and sport;Violent sports