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oapen-20.500.12657-587722022-10-15T03:20:31Z Globalizing Boxing Woodward, Kath Globalization Boxing Sociology: sport and leisure bic Book Industry Communication::K Economics, finance, business & management::KN Industry & industrial studies::KNS Service industries::KNSP Sport & leisure industries bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JH Sociology & anthropology::JHB Sociology::JHBS Sociology: sport & leisure bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JF Society & culture: general::JFF Social issues & processes::JFFS Globalization This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. Boxing is a traditional sport in many ways, characterized by continuities in the form of practices and regulations and heavy with legends and heroes reflecting its traditional/historical values. Associations with class, hegemonic masculinity and racialized inclusions/exclusions, however, sit alongside developments such as women's boxing and involvement in Mixed Martial Arts. This book will be the first to use boxing as a vehicle for exploring social, cultural and political change in a global context. It will consider to what degree and in what ways boxing reflects social transformations, and whether and how it contributes to those transformations. In exploring the relationship it will provide new ways of thinking critically about the everyday. 2022-10-14T14:53:32Z 2022-10-14T14:53:32Z 2014 book ONIX_20221014_9781849667999_103 9781849667999 9781849667975 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/58772 eng Globalizing Sport Studies application/pdf n/a 9781849667975.pdf Bloomsbury Academic Bloomsbury Academic 10.5040/9781849667982 10.5040/9781849667982 066d8288-86e4-4745-ad2c-4fa54a6b9b7b 9781849667999 9781849667975 Bloomsbury Academic 176 London open access
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This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. Boxing is a traditional sport in many ways, characterized by continuities in the form of practices and regulations and heavy with legends and heroes reflecting its traditional/historical values. Associations with class, hegemonic masculinity and racialized inclusions/exclusions, however, sit alongside developments such as women's boxing and involvement in Mixed Martial Arts. This book will be the first to use boxing as a vehicle for exploring social, cultural and political change in a global context. It will consider to what degree and in what ways boxing reflects social transformations, and whether and how it contributes to those transformations. In exploring the relationship it will provide new ways of thinking critically about the everyday.
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