Sports and Violence: History, Theory, and Practice

Sports and Violence: History, Theory, and Practice
ISBN-10
1443816876
ISBN-13
9781443816878
Category
Violence in sports
Pages
167
Language
English
Published
2017
Authors
John B. White, Craig Hovey, Myles Werntz

Description

"Sports and Violence is an edited collection arising out of the 2016 Sports and Violence Conference, hosted at the Ashland Center for Nonviolence at Ashland University, Ohio, USA. This volume contains 11 essays authored by a range of scholars reflecting on the confluence of violence within organized sports. The three sections of book (history, theory, and practice) create a full-scale exploration of this topic. The authors not only detail past phenomena of sports violence, but also offer ethnographic and sociological explorations alongside philosophical treatments of sports violence. Crucial to the volume's treatment of a wide range of phenomena associated with sports violence is not only how it addresses violence within sport, but also how it considers the ways that sport fosters and mitigates violence outside of sports, and how audiences and spectators contribute to, and are shaped by, the practice of sports."

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