One Game at a Time
How to Mix Sports and Politics (And Why it Matters so Much)
Published on 6. May 2014
Book
Paperback/Softback
136 pages
978-1-84935-136-2 (ISBN)
Description
For the love of sports! An unabashed intellectual explores the contemporary fascination with sports and their cultural and political importance.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Edinburgh
United Kingdom
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 202 mm
Width: 141 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
Weight
168 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-84935-136-2 (9781849351362)
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Matt Hern is a radical urbanist and deschooling advocate who lives and works in East Vancouver, where he founded the Purple Thistle Centre and Car-Free Vancouver Day. He holds a PhD in Urban Studies and lectures as Simon Fraser University and the University of British Columbia. His books and articles have been published on all six continents and translated into ten languages, the most recent of which, Common Ground in a Liquid City (AK Press), was shortlisted for the City of Vancouver Book Award. A former sportswriter and talk radio host, Hern continues to obsessively watch sports and participate as much as his body will allow. More information is available at www.mightymatthern.com.
Content
TABLE OF CONTENTS
FOREWORD, by TK
CHAPTER ONE They're running the score up on us: Sports as a field of radical possibilities
CHAPTER TWO A rough beast slouching: Authenticity, the real, im/materiality and physicality
CHAPTER THREE Chipping away at a big lead: Bodies of work, gender and sexuality
CHAPTER FOUR Leaving the field under our own power: Violence, collisions and everyday life
CHAPTER FIVE Getting our game faces on: In/difference, racialized conversations in play
CHAPTER SIX Levelling the playing field: Meritocracies, class, competition and solidarity
CHAPTER SEVEN Blowing the game wide open: Art, creativity, narrative, belonging, community
FOREWORD, by TK
CHAPTER ONE They're running the score up on us: Sports as a field of radical possibilities
CHAPTER TWO A rough beast slouching: Authenticity, the real, im/materiality and physicality
CHAPTER THREE Chipping away at a big lead: Bodies of work, gender and sexuality
CHAPTER FOUR Leaving the field under our own power: Violence, collisions and everyday life
CHAPTER FIVE Getting our game faces on: In/difference, racialized conversations in play
CHAPTER SIX Levelling the playing field: Meritocracies, class, competition and solidarity
CHAPTER SEVEN Blowing the game wide open: Art, creativity, narrative, belonging, community