Sport, Culture and Ideology (RLE Sports Studies) - 9781138774773

Taylor & Francis

Sport, Culture and Ideology (RLE Sports Studies)Author(s): Jennifer Hargreaves\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138774773, 978-1138774773\nSynopsis\nSport celebrates basic human values of freedom, justice and courage. This collection of essays probes beneath those assumptions in order to illuminate how sport is intimately related to power and domination. Topics include the media treatment of sport, drug-taking in sport and the controversial and problematic relationship between sport and politics in Russia and South Africa.