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  • Stadium Worlds

    Football, Space and the Built Environment

    Edición de Sybille Frank, Silke Steets ...
    Series series Architext
    Analyzing football as a cultural practice, this book investigates the connection between the sport and its built environment. Four thematic sections bring together an international multi-disciplinary range of perspectives with particular focus on the stadium.Examples from architectural design, media studies and archaeology are used while studying advertising, economics, migration, fandom, local ... Leer más

    $1,183 MXN

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  • Soccer Vs. The State 2nd Edition

    Tackling Football and Radical Politics

    de Gabriel Kuhn ...
    Football has turned into a multi-billion industry. Professionalism and commercialisation dominate its global image. Yet the game retains a rebellious side, maybe more so than any other sport co-opted by money makers and corrupt politicians. From its roots in working-class Britain to political protests by players and fans, and a current radical soccer underground, the notion of football as the ... Leer más

    $138 MXN

  • Soccer and Philosophy

    Beautiful Thoughts on the Beautiful Game

    de Ted Richards ...
    Series Libro 51 - Popular Culture and Philosophy
    This collection of incisive articles gives a leading team of international philosophers a free kick toward exploring the complex and often hidden contours of the world of soccer. What does it really mean to be a fan (and why should we count Aristotle as one)? Why do great players such as Cristiano Ronaldo count as great artists (up there alongside Picasso, one author argues)? From the ethics of ... Leer más

    $340 MXN

  • Canada's Game: Hockey and Identity

    de Andrew Holman ...
    Contributors include Julian Ammirante (Laurentian University at Georgian) Jason Blake (University of Ljubljana Slovenia) Robert Dennis (Queen's University) Jamie Dopp (University of Victoria) Russell Field (University of Manitoba) Greg Gillespie (Brock University) Richard Harrison (Mount Royal College) Craig Hyatt (Brock University) Brian Kennedy (Pasadena City College) Karen E.H. Skinazi ... Leer más

    $1,380 MXN

  • Gaming the World

    How Sports Are Reshaping Global Politics and Culture

    de Andrei S. Markovits, Lars Rensmann ...
    The globalizing influence of professional sportsProfessional sports today have truly become a global force, a common language that anyone, regardless of their nationality, can understand. Yet sports also remain distinctly local, with regional teams and the fiercely loyal local fans that follow them. This book examines the twenty-first-century phenomenon of global sports, in which professional ... Leer más

    $407 MXN

  • How Modernity Forgets

    de Paul Connerton ...
    Why are we sometimes unable to remember events, places and objects? This concise overview explores the concept of 'forgetting', and how modern society affects our ability to remember things. It takes ideas from Francis Yates classic work, The Art of Memory, which viewed memory as being dependent on stability, and argues that today's world is full of change, making 'forgetting' characteristic of ... Leer más

    $408 MXN

  • Knowing the Score

    What Sports Can Teach Us About Philosophy (And What Philosophy Can Teach Us About Sports)

    de David Papineau ...
    In Knowing the Score, philosopher David Papineau uses sports to illuminate some of modern philosophy's most perplexing questions. As Papineau demonstrates, the study of sports clarifies, challenges, and sometimes confuses crucial issues in philosophy. The tactics of road bicycle racing shed new light on questions of altruism, while sporting family dynasties reorient the nature v. nurture debate. ... Leer más

    $219 MXN

  • The Tourist Gaze 3.0

    de John Urry, Jonas Larsen ...
    Series series Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society
    "The original Tourist Gaze was a classic, marking out a new land to study and appreciate. This new edition extends into fresh areas with the same passion and insight of the object. Even more essential reading!"- Nigel Thrift, Vice-Chancellor, Warwick UniversityThis new edition of a seminal text restructures, reworks and remakes the groundbreaking previous versions making this book even more ... Leer más

    $1,736 MXN

  • Watching the Olympics

    Politics, Power and Representation

    Edición de John Sugden, Alan Tomlinson ...
    Global sporting events involve the creation, management and mediation of cultural meanings for consumption by massive media audiences. The apotheosis of this cultural form is the Olympic Games. This challenging and provocative new book explores the Olympic spectacle, from the multi-media bidding process and the branding and imaging of the Games, to security, surveillance and control of the Olympic ... Leer más

    $1,217 MXN

  • Museum Making

    Narratives, Architectures, Exhibitions

    Edición de Suzanne Macleod, Laura Hourston Hanks, Jonathan Hale ...
    Series series Museum Meanings
    Over recent decades, many museums, galleries and historic sites around the world have enjoyed an unprecedented level of large-scale investment in their capital infrastructure, in building refurbishments and new gallery displays. This period has also seen the creation of countless new purpose-built museums and galleries, suggesting a fundamental re-evaluation of the processes of designing and ... Leer más

    $1,269 MXN

  • German Football

    History, Culture, Society

    Edición de Alan Tomlinson, Christopher Young ...
    This topical book provides unprecedented analysis of football's place in post-war and post-reunification Germany.The expert team of German and British contributors offers wide-ranging perspectives on the significance of football in German sporting and cultural life, showing how it has emerged as a focus for an expression of German national identity and pride in the post-war era.Some of the themes ... Leer más

    $1,183 MXN

  • Curating Architecture and the City

    Edición de Sarah Chaplin, Alexandra Stara ...
    Series series Critiques
    Addressing the collection, representation and exhibition of architecture and the built environment, this book explores current practices, historical precedents, theoretical issues and future possibilities arising from the meeting of a curatorial ‘subject’ and an architectural ‘object’.Striking a balance between theoretical investigations and case studies, the chapters cover a broad methodological ... Leer más

    $1,457 MXN