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Author Manzenreiter, Wolfram

Title Sport and Body Politics in Japan
Published Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (592 pages)
Series Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society
Routledge research in sport, culture and society.
Contents Cover; Half Title; Routledge Research in Sport Culture and Society; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Researching Sport and the Political Economy of the Body in Japan; Part I Configurations of Modernity: Sport, the Body and the Nation; 1 Modern Bodies, Capital Cities: The Institutionalization of Sport in Late Nation-States; 2 Creating Space: Urbanity and Modernity in the Japanese Sport Landscape; 3 Sport, Body Control and National Discipline in Prewar and Wartime Japan
Part II New Roles, New Faces: Sport in the Service of Various Masters4 Sport and Gender in the Japanese Classroom; 5 How to Sell a Public Good: The Current State of Sport Supply in Japan; 6 Sport and Challenges of the Aged Society in Japan; 7 Health, Lifestyle Risks and the Japanese Obesity Crisis; 8 The World Cup Comes to Town: Critical Investigation of the Political Economy of Sport Mega-Events; Part III Global Dimensions: Sport and Geo-Politics of the Body; 9 The Global Game in the Service of Japan's Foreign Diplomacy
10 Sport, Spectacles and Subalternity: Positioning East Asia in World Sports11 Japan, Asia and the New International Division of Sport Apparel Labour; Epilogue: Japanese Sport and Global Body Culture; Notes; References; Index
Summary There is more to Japanese sport than sumo, karate and baseball. This study of social sport in Japan pursues a comprehensive approach towards sport as a distinctive cultural sphere at the intersection of body culture, political economy, and cultural globalization. Bridging the gap between Bourdieu and Foucault, it explains the significance of the body as a field of action and a topic of discourse in molding subject and society in modern Japan. More specifically, it provides answers to questions such as how and to what purposes are politics of the body articulated in Japan, particularly in th
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Subject Sports -- Japan -- History
Sports and society -- Japan -- History
Human body -- Social aspects -- Japan
Human body -- Political aspects -- Japan
Culture and globalization -- Japan
GAMES -- Gambling -- Sports.
SPORTS & RECREATION -- Business Aspects.
SPORTS & RECREATION -- Essays.
SPORTS & RECREATION -- History.
SPORTS & RECREATION -- Reference.
TRAVEL -- Special Interest -- Sports.
Culture and globalization
Human body -- Political aspects
Human body -- Social aspects
Sports
Japan
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781135022341
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9781135022358
1135022356