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Sport and the Neoliberal University: Profit, Politics, and Pedagogy
by Susan Searls Giroux • Joshua I. Newman • Michael D. Giardina • Ryan King-White • Henry Giroux • Neal C. Ternes • Jaime DeLuca • Callie Batts Maddox • Matthew G. Hawzen • Lauren C. Anderson • Ellen J. Staurowsky • Richard M. Southall • Crystal Southall • Oliver Rick • Adam Beissel • Jacob J. Bustad • Ronald L. MowerCollege students are now regarded as consumers, not students, and nowhere is the growth and exploitation of the university more obvious than in the realm of college sports, where the evidence is in the stadiums built with corporate money, and the crowded sporting events sponsored by large conglomera... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2018 -
Sport, Physical Culture, and the Moving Body: Materialisms, Technologies, Ecologies (Critical Issues in Sport and Society)
by David Andrews • Samantha Frost • Simone Fullagar • Mary Louise Adams • Samantha King • Pirkko Markula • Michael D. Giardina • Matthew G. Hawzen • Oliver Rick • Jacob J. Bustad • Richard Pringle • Mary G. McDonald • Kiri Baxter • Douglas Booth • Kyle S Bunds • Mariana Clark • Simon C Darnell • Jennifer Sterling • Christopher McLeod • Shannon Leigh Jette • Katelyn Esmonde • Carolyn Pluim • Gavin WeedonThe moving body—pervasively occupied by fitness activities, intense training and dieting regimes, recreational practices, and high-profile sporting mega-events—holds a vital function in contemporary society. As the body moves—as it performs, sweats, runs, and jumps—it sets in motion an intricate web... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2020 -
Humanizing Digital Reality
by Christoph Gengnagel • Jane Burry • Mette Ramsgaard Thomsen • Klaas De Rycke • Olivier Baverel • Caitlin Mueller • Minh Man Nguyen • Philippe RahmThis book aims at finding some answers to the questions: What is the influence of humans in controlling CAD and how much is human in control of its surroundings? How far does our reach as humans really go? Do the complex algorithms that we use for city planning nowadays live up to their expectations... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2018 -
Mapping Faith: Theologies of Migration and Community
by David Mason • Sheila Curran • Ruth Padel • Alison Phipps • Ibrahim Mogra • Faiza Omar • Ric Stott • Oliver Joseph • Katy Radford • Julie Khovacs • Ivan Khovacs • Hassan Rabbani • Katherine Baxter • Yvonne Green • Tawona Sithole • Rachel Godfrey • Sofia Rehman • Michael Nausner • Robyn Ashworth-Steen • Sayed Razawi • Jacqueline Nicholls • Aviva Dautch • Pádraig Ó Tuama • Harvey Kwiyani • Hajra Williams • Sally Style • Mohamed Omar • Jennifer Langer • Issam Kourbaj • Nazneen Ahmed • Amir DarwishThis enlightening edited collection shows how migration shapes the lives of faith communities - and vice versa - through diverse prisms including diaspora, generational change, cultural conflict, conceptions of 'ministry' and artistic response. The contributors comprise writers, poets and artists fr... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2020