Running cultures : racing in time and space / John Bale.
Running is one of the world's most widely practised sports and recreations. This book 'reads between the lines' of both running and some of its textual and visual representations. It deals with the runner's body and also with the globalisation of running and its practitioners. Al...
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| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
Frank Cass,
2004.
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| Series: | Sport in the global society.
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Table of Contents:
- Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of Illustrations; Series Editor's Foreword; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Ways of Running; Running Ways; Beyond the Arena; Athletes as Pets; Running as Transgression and Resistance; Escape: Runners as Cosmopolites; Running and Racing: Moral Dilemmas and a Good Life?; Notes; Bibliography; Index.