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Playing for Change
The Continuing Struggle for Sport and Recreation
Russell Field (Edited by)
9781442628205
Paperback / softback, published 14 December 2015
480 pages, 6 b&w illustrations
22.9 x 15.7 x 3.2 cm, 0.72 kg
‘This is an enjoyable, well written book…. It is a book worth reading by anyone with a serious interest in sport, the roles that it plays in society and the roles that it could conceivably play.’ ‘Researchers will find prime reading for sport and physical culture studies and related philosophies of knowledge, and other readers will welcome the history of sport, recreation, and the body.’
For more than forty years, scholars of the history and sociology of sport and recreation have studied how, no matter the time or place, sport is always more than just a game. In Playing for Change, leading scholars in the field of sports studies consider that legacy and forge ahead into the discipline’s future. Through essays grouped around the themes of international and North American sport, including the Vancouver and Sochi Olympic Games; access to physical activity in Canadian communities; and the role of activism and the public intellectual in the delivery of sport, the contributors offer a comprehensive examination of the institutional structures of sport, physical activity, and recreation. This book provides wide-ranging examples of cutting-edge research in a vibrant and growing field.
Introduction - For Jets and Country: A Reminder of How Sport Matters Part I: Global promises: The Contested Terrain of International Sport 1. Sport, Development and the Challenge of Slums 2. The New ‘Culture Wars’: The Vancouver 2010 Olympics, Public Protest, and the Politics of Resistance 3. Sochi 2014: The Russian Oligarchy and Winter Games Funding 4. The Dialectic of Modern, High-Performance Sport: Returning to Dubin to Move Forward Part II: Continental divides: Revisiting the Shaping of Sport in North America 5. The 1904 Chicago-St. Louis Transition and the Social Structuration of the American Olympic Movement 6. Two-Way Hockey: Selling Canada’s Game in America, 1885-1935 7. Continentalization and America’s Contested Baseball Hegemony: the Postwar Challenge to Major League Baseball in Mexico, Quebec and the Caribbean, 1945-1955 Part III: Local contours: Debating Access to Physical Activity in Canadian Communities 8. Change Rooms and Change Agents: The Struggle against Barriers to Opportunities for Physical Activity and Sport in Ethnocultural Communities in Toronto 9. Political Ecology, Discourse and Shared-use Trail Development in Nova Scotia: Braking for or Breaking the Environment? 10. Intertwining Histories, Enhancing Strengths: Sport and Recreation Services in the Northwest Territories, 1962-2000 Part IV: Shifting Ground: Reconsidering the Role of the Public Intellectual in Sport 11. ‘Can you do this for my neighbourhood?’: Public Sport History, the Environment, and Community in an Industrial City 12. Where History meets Biography: Toward a Public Sociology of Sport 13. ‘Shadow Disciplines’ or A Place for ‘Post-Disciplinary Liaisons’ in the North American Research University: What are we to do with Physical Cultural Studies? 14. Bruce Kidd, Sport History, and Social Emancipation
Russell Field, University of Manitoba
Richard Gruneau, Simon Fraser University
Russell Field, University of Manitoba
Hart Cantelon, Professor Emeritus, University of Lethbridge, and James Riordan, Professor Emeritus, University of Surrey
Rob Beamish, Queen’s University
John J. MacAloon, The University of Chicago
Stephen Hardy, University of New Hampshire
Colin Howell, Saint Mary’s University
Parissa Safai, York University
Robert Pitter and Glyn Bissix, Acadia University
Victoria Paraschak, University of Windsor
Nancy B. Bouchier and Ken Cruikshank, McMaster University
Peter Donnelly and Michael Atkinson, University of Toronto
Patricia Vertinsky, University of British Columbia
Douglas Booth, University of Otago