Sport and Body Politics in Japan.

There is more to Japanese sport than sumo, karate and baseball. This study of social sport in Japan pursues a comprehensive approach towards sport as a distinctive cultural sphere at the intersection of body culture, political economy, and cultural globalization. Bridging the gap between Bourdieu an...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Manzenreiter, Wolfram
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2013.
Series:Routledge research in sport, culture and society.
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Summary:There is more to Japanese sport than sumo, karate and baseball. This study of social sport in Japan pursues a comprehensive approach towards sport as a distinctive cultural sphere at the intersection of body culture, political economy, and cultural globalization. Bridging the gap between Bourdieu and Foucault, it explains the significance of the body as a field of action and a topic of discourse in molding subject and society in modern Japan. More specifically, it provides answers to questions such as how and to what purposes are politics of the body articulated in Japan, particularly in th.
Physical Description:1 online resource (592 pages)
ISBN:9781135022341
1135022348
9781135022358
1135022356
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Print version record.