EAN: 9783039119776

SPORT REPRESENTATION AND EVOLVING IDENTITIES IN...

Sport annually mobilizes millions of people across Europe: as practitioners in a wide variety
of competitive  educational  or recreational contexts  and as spectators  who are physically
present or following events through the mass media. This book presents original research into
modern sport funded by the Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences. Its
aim is to examine the distinctive contribution made by this complex phenomenon to the
construction of European identities. Attention is focused on sport's social significance  as a
set of mass-mediated practices and spectacles giving rise to a network of images  symbols  and
discourses. The book seeks to explore  and ultimately to explain  the processes of
representation and mediation involved in the sporting construction  and subsequent
renegotiation  of local  national  and  increasingly  global identities. It offers a survey of
key developments in sporting Europe - from the mid-nineteenth century to the present  and from
the Atlantic to the Urals - presenting findings by acknowledged international experts and
emerging scholars at the level of individuals  communities  regions  nation-states  and Europe
as a whole  in both its geographical and political incarnations. Its focus on representation
offers a broadly conceived  and consciously inclusive  approach to issues of 'Europeanness' in
modern and contemporary sport.

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