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Europeans body cultures and the making of the modern world: zones of prestige and established-outsider relations
journal contribution
posted on 2014-10-02, 11:27 authored by Joseph MaguireThis paper seeks to outline aspects of the relations, interactions and contradictions of European body cultures. On this basis, I focus on the global diffusion of one of these European body cultures, modern sport. This diffusion is viewed as a critical case study that provides clues to the making of the modern world. A process sociological perspective informs this analysis and, in so doing, I hope to show how such an approach can help make sense of broader questions concerning globalisation and inter-civilisational relations. That is, the study of sport can cast light on the character of and transformations wrought by global processes more generally.
History
School
- Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences
Published in
Human FigurationsVolume
1Issue
1Pages
1 - 16Citation
MAGUIRE, J., 2012. Europeans body cultures and the making of the modern world: zones of prestige and established-outsider relations. Human Figurations, 1 (1), pp.1-16.Publisher
Michigan PublishingVersion
- VoR (Version of Record)
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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/Publication date
2012eISSN
2166-6644Publisher version
Language
- en