1st Edition

Body Cultures Essays on Sport, Space & Identity by Henning Eichberg

Edited By John Bale, Chris Philo Copyright 1998
180 Pages
by Routledge

180 Pages
by Routledge

184 Pages
by Routledge

Body Cultures explores the relationship between the body, sport and landscape. This book presents the first critically edited collection of Henning Eichberg's provocative essays into 'body culture'. Eichberg, a well-known scholar in continental Europe who draws upon the ideas of Elias, Focault, Habermas and others, is now attracting considerable interest from Anglo-American sociologists,... Read more
List of figures, Notes on contributors, Acknowledgements, Introductory essays, Essays by Henning Eichberg, The body in space, Bodies, cultures and identities, Towards a new paradigm, Index

Biography

John Bale is Reader in Geography and Education at Keele University and Chris Philo is Professor of Geography at Glasgow University.