228 Pages
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Routledge
232 Pages
by
Routledge
232 Pages
by
Routledge
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Running is one of the world's most widely practiced sports and recreations but until now it has intended to elude serious study outside of the natural sciences. John Bale brings the sport into the realm of the humanities by drawing on sources including literature, poetry, film, art and sculpture as well as statistics and training manuals to highlight the tensions, ambiguities and complexities that... Read more
Introduction 1. Ways of Running 2. Running Ways 3. Beyond the Arena 4. Athletes as Pets 5. Running as Transgression and Resistance 6. Escape: Runners as Cosmopolites 7. Running and Racing: Moral Dilemmas and a Good Life?
Biography
Bale, John
"Bale begins by commenting on how running is the first technology of the body that seeks to compress time and space. He then goes on to examine running and its representations through the lens of the humanistic-geographical writer Yi-Fu Tuan. Bale describes the ways of running, for fun, freedom, fitness, achievement, “slowness,” records beyond quantification, and running ways, such as within the norms of achievement running, as means of dominance and affection (in Tuan’s terms) and as a means of gaining the spectators’ gaze. He describes formal and informal running arenas and the human landscapes they create, how athletes live as pets within and without bounds, and how running is both transgression and resistance while also an element in a conscious, good life within space and time." --Reference & Research Book News
