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Language: en
Pages: 307
Authors: K. Spracklen
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-06-24 - Publisher: Springer

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This book develops a new theory of instrumental whiteness and leisure. Empirical research is drawn upon to highlight whiteness across a comprehensive and intern
Heavy Metal Music, Texts, and Nationhood
Language: en
Pages: 265
Authors: Catherine Hoad
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-10-25 - Publisher: Springer Nature

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This book addresses how whiteness is represented in heavy metal scenes and practices, both as a site of academic inquiry and force of cultural significance. The
The Meaning and Purpose of Leisure
Language: en
Pages: 181
Authors: K. Spracklen
Categories: Sports & Recreation
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-05-07 - Publisher: Springer

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This book uses the work of Jurgen Habermas to interrogate leisure as a meaningful, theoretical concept. Drawing on examples from sport, culture and tourism, and
Constructing Leisure
Language: en
Pages: 232
Authors: K. Spracklen
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-10-12 - Publisher: Springer

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This book looks back at the meaning and purpose of leisure in the past. But this is not a simple social history of leisure. It is not enough to write a history
Race and Sport
Language: en
Pages: 252
Authors: Charles K. Ross
Categories: Sports & Recreation
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-09-18 - Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi

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Even before the desegregation of the military and public education and before blacks had full legal access to voting, racial barriers had begun to fall in Ameri