Playing for Change : : The Continuing Struggle for Sport and Recreation / / Russell Field.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press Pilot 2014-2015
• HerausgeberIn: Field, Russell,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2018]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (480 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: For Jets and Country, a Reminder that Sport Matters -- 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 the Dubin Inquiry to Move Forward -- 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 North America, 1875-1935 -- 7. Continentalization and America's Contested Baseball Hegemony: The Post-War Challenge to Major League Baseball in Mexico, Quebec, and the Caribbean, 1945-55 -- 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 -- 11. "Can You Do This for My Neighbourhood?": Public Sport History, the Environment, and Community in an Industrial City -- 12. Where History Meets Biography: Towards 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 -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Index