Ethnographies in sport and exercise research /

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Imprint:London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2016.
Description:xiii, 219 pages ; 24 cm
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10354886
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Other authors / contributors:Molnár, Gyözö.
Purdy, Laura G.
ISBN:9781138015289
1138015288
9781138705043
9781315794457
1138705047
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Ethnography in sport-related research: influences, continuities, possibilities
  • Part 1. Ethnography: methodological and theoretical considerations
  • 3. Finding the Field: Ethnographic Research in Exercise Settings
  • 4. Ethnography as a sensual way of being: Methodological and representational challenges
  • 5. Ethnographic creative non-fiction: Exploring the what's, why's and how's
  • Part 2. Case Studies
  • 6. Women's lived experiences of health and ageing in physical activity
  • 7. Suffering and the Loneliness of the Fell Runner: An Ethnographic Foray
  • 8. The boxer in the mirror: The ethnographic-self as a resource while conducting insider research among professional boxers
  • 9. Considering micropolitical (under)'currents': Reflections on fieldwork within an elite men's rowing programme
  • 10. Reflecting on the 'perils of ethnography': A case study of football fan rivalry in Birmingham
  • 11. The legitimacy of ethnographic filming: Literary thoughts and practical realities
  • 12. Traversing ontological dispositions: The intersection between remote Indigenous communities and elite urban-based men's football organisation
  • Part 3. Future considerations and directions
  • 13. Walking the streets: The flâneur and the sociology of sport
  • 14. The marginal place of ethnographic research in sport management