Overview
- First interdisciplinary exploration of sporting injury and harm Draws out intersecting issues to do with sporting harm and gender, race, policy, democracy and capitalism Has most relevance in the US, but contains a global spread of chapter authors and highlights a range of international cases
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Table of contents (30 chapters)
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Bodily Damage and Pre- and Early Industrial Sport
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The NFL: Politics, Injury, and American National Identity
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Sporting Females, Sexuality, and the Politics of Injury
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Sport as Transport: Horse, Cycle, and Motor Racing and the Politics of Safety
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“As an increasing number of sports are subjected to medical and legal scrutiny for their short- and long-term outcomes, this timely volume rams home the point that sports might not be so good for players afterall. Offering an impressive spread of pain-injury snapshots across the social sciences, public health and social policy disciplines, it proves what we have long suspected – pain and injury in sport do not only result from the nature of the game, but from the ways that sports are organized, managed and policed. In questioning the institutional innocence of sport, the volume crosses the explanatory bridge from sport studies to victimology and underlines the complexity of the central concept of consent in sports harm.” (Kevin Young, Professor of Sociology, University of Calgary, Canada)
“This is an essential guide to some of the most important questions facing sport today. It brings together a wide range of experts who interrogate harm, injury and physical abuse in sport from a variety of insightful perspectives. This is a groundbreaking and timely book that should be on the shelves of every sports historian, sociologist and policy-maker.” (Tony Collins, Emeritus Professor of History, De Montfort University, UK)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Allyson M. Pollock is Clinical Professor of Public Health in the Population Health Sciences Institute at Newcastle University in the UK and Co-Director Newcastle University Centre of Excellence in Regulatory Science.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Palgrave Handbook of Sport, Politics and Harm
Editors: Stephen Wagg, Allyson M. Pollock
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-72826-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-72825-0Published: 16 December 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-72828-1Published: 17 December 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-72826-7Published: 01 January 2022
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXXI, 629
Number of Illustrations: 26 b/w illustrations
Topics: Sociology of Sport and Leisure, Sports Medicine, Political Sociology, Sociology of Racism, Medical Sociology, Public Health