Matt Hern

One Game at a Time

Why Sports Matter

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Produktbeschreibung

For the love of sports! An unabashed intellectual explores the contemporary fascination with sports and their cultural and political importance.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: AK PR INC
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Oktober 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 202mm x 141mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 168g
• ISBN-13: 9781849351362
• ISBN-10: 1849351368
• Artikelnr.: 36630923

Autorenporträt

Matt Hern is a radical urbanist and deschooling advocate who lives and works in East Vancouver, where he founded the Purple Thistle Centre and Car-Free Vancouver Day. He holds a PhD in Urban Studies and lectures as Simon Fraser University and the University of British Columbia. His books and articles have been published on all six continents and translated into ten languages, the most recent of which, Common Ground in a Liquid City (AK Press), was shortlisted for the City of Vancouver Book Award. A former sportswriter and talk radio host, Hern continues to obsessively watch sports and participate as much as his body will allow. More information is available at www.mightymatthern.com.

Inhaltsangabe

TABLE OF CONTENTS
FOREWORD, by TK
CHAPTER ONE They're running the score up on us: Sports as a field of
radical possibilities
CHAPTER TWO A rough beast slouching: Authenticity, the real, im/materiality
and physicality
CHAPTER THREE Chipping away at a big lead: Bodies of work, gender and
sexuality
CHAPTER FOUR Leaving the field under our own power: Violence, collisions
and everyday life
CHAPTER FIVE Getting our game faces on: In/difference, racialized
conversations in play
CHAPTER SIX Levelling the playing field: Meritocracies, class, competition
and solidarity
CHAPTER SEVEN Blowing the game wide open: Art, creativity, narrative,
belonging, community