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Sport Across Asia

Politics, Cultures, and Identities

Edited by Katrin Bromber, Birgit Krawietz, Joseph Maguire

To Be Published June 30th 2012 by Routledge – 240 pages

Series: Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society

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Description

This volume gathers work from a wide range of disciplines – anthropology, cultural studies, geography, history, law, sociology, and post-colonial studies – to explore the paradoxical processes of emulation, resistance and transformation that are at work in the global diffusion and development of "sport" and body cultures.

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Joseph Maguire is Professor of Sociology of Sport at Loughborough University.

Birgit Krawietz is Professor of Islamic Studies at the Free University of Berlin.

Katrin Bromber is a researcher at the Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO).

Name: Sport Across Asia: Politics, Cultures, and Identities (Hardback) – Routledge 
Description: Edited by Katrin Bromber, Birgit Krawietz, Joseph Maguire. This volume gathers work from a wide range of disciplines – anthropology, cultural studies, geography, history, law, sociology, and post-colonial studies – to explore the paradoxical processes of emulation, resistance and...
Categories: Sport and Leisure Studies, Sports Geography, Sociology of Sport