Sport and body politics in Japan / Wolfram Manzenreiter.
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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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York ; Oxfordshire, England :
Routledge,
©2014.
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| Series: | Routledge research in sport, culture and society ;
26. |
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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 the r. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiv, 315 pages) : illustrations, graphs, maps. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780203767351 0203767357 9781135022358 1135022356 9781135022334 113502233X 9781135022341 1135022348 0415840406 9780415840408 9781138952898 1138952893 |
| Language: | English. |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Online resource; title from title page (ebrary, viewed August 31, 2013) |