Sociology Of Sports

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By Mike Brown,Barbara Humberstone

ISBN-10: 1138546666

ISBN-13: 9781138546660

ISBN-10: 1472424336

ISBN-13: 9781472424334

although the ocean covers 70 consistent with cent of the Earth’s floor, and is indispensable to the workings of the area, it's been mostly ignored or perceived as marginal in glossy awareness. This edited assortment disrupts notions of the ocean as ‘other’, as international and featureless, via particular, located debts which spotlight the centrality of the ocean for the contributors involved.

Bringing jointly lecturers who mix scholarly services with lived reports on, in and with the ocean, it examines people’ relationships with the ocean. by utilizing auto-ethnographic accounting, the members ponder how the ocean has formed their feel of id, belonging and connection. They learn what it truly is to be engaged with the ocean, and narrate their lived, sentient, corporeal studies.

The sea is a cultural seascape simply because it is actual fact. the ocean shapes us and we, in flip, try to ‘shape it’ as we build a number of models of it that replicate our on-going and mutable courting with it. using embodied bills, as a manner of conveying lived-experiences, and the mixing of appropriate theoretical frames for knowing the wider cultural implications offer new possibilities to appreciate seascapes.

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