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Battleground: Sports
Michael Atkinson

0-313-34024-2/978-0-313-34024-6

Description
Engaging and accessible to a wide variety of readers, this fascinating reference illustrate how sports controversies reflect the historically enduring and changing nature of our broader cultures, and the social battles we engage on a day-to-day basis surrounding the struggles for equality, debates about social violence, the ethics of competition, the politics of civic life, the creation of global communities, and the State's role in protecting citizens.

Reviews:
-"BOTTOM LINE: Accessible, engaging, and logically organized for a wide variety of readers, this work will surely provide students, teachers, and librarians with a solid foundation for understanding sports issues and how sports controversies are like mirrors that reflect the historically enduring and changing nature of our broader culture." —Library Journal
-"Obviously, attempting comprehensive coverage of contentious sports issues in a work of this size would be near impossible, but Atkinson has succeeded in bringing together a diverse range of topics that demonstrates the scope of the subject." —Reference & Research Book News
-"If one is interested in knowing what skateboarding means, then this book is a good place to start. . . . The 86 entries, such as Animal blood sports, Parent misconduct, Steroid use by athletes, and Terrorism and the Olympics, provide some good historical background and outline what battles over the subject tell us about ourselves and our cultures. . . . These volumes should be considered with other works that help high-school students through lower-level undergraduates begin their research on topics of general interest in world (although mostly North American) culture. Libraries purchasing multiple titles in the Battleground series may want to consider shelving all titles together to emphasize the common theme of controversies related to the areas covered in each title." —Booklist
About the Author
Michael Atkinson is Senior Lecturer in the School of Sport and Exercise Sciences at Loughborough University, Loughborough, UK. A noted expert in sports deviance and physical cultural studies, Michael conducts publishes on such subjects as sports crime, violence against athletes, asceticism in sports cultures, terrorism in sport, and youth sport counter-cultures. He is the author of Tattooed: The Sociogenesis of a Body Art (2003), co-author of Deviance and Social Control in Sport (2008) and co-editor of Tribal Play: Subcultural Journeys Through Sport (2008).
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