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Pages: 251
Authors: Andreas Niehaus
Categories: Sports & Recreation
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-09-13 - Publisher: Routledge

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This book clarifies and verifies the role sport has as an alternative marker in understanding and mapping memory in Japan, by applying the concept of lieux de m
Shifting Currents
Language: en
Pages: 456
Authors: Karen Eva Carr
Categories: Sports & Recreation
Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-07-18 - Publisher: Reaktion Books

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A deep dive into the history of aquatics that exposes centuries-old tensions of race, gender, and power at the root of many contemporary swimming controversies.
Sport, Tourism and National Identities
Language: en
Pages: 116
Authors: John Harris
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-03-23 - Publisher: Routledge

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The role of both sport and tourism in the (re)creation and (re)presentation of national identities is well established, yet relatively little work has criticall
Sport and South Asian Diasporas
Language: en
Pages: 142
Authors: Stanley Thangaraj
Categories: Sports & Recreation
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-10-14 - Publisher: Routledge

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This original collection demonstrates the importance of sporting practices, spaces and leisure affiliations to understanding issues around identity, (post-) mig
Designing the Olympics
Language: en
Pages: 328
Authors: Jilly Traganou
Categories: Sports & Recreation
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-04-14 - Publisher: Routledge

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Designing the Olympics claims that the Olympic Games provide opportunities to reflect on the relationship between design, national identity, and citizenship. Th