One Game at a Time: Why Sports Matter - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1849351368 ISBN 13 : 9781849351362

Editeur : AK Press, 2014

Synopsis

Sports are serious stuff. Football, basketball, tennis, mixed martial arts, and beyond: these are arenas of immense power, with mass appeal, yet far too many of us have abandoned the sporting world as a legitimate site of contestation and innovation. Why? What do we gain by handing over the power of sports to the world of hyper-consumption, militarism, violence, sexism, and homophobia - the worst elements of our culture? As Matt Hern suggests, not a whole lot. On the basis of his forty-plus years of sports fanaticism, Hern makes an impassioned and entertaining plea for a more active engagement with sports, both physically and intellectually. His eye is critical, and his analysis is sharp, but this book is more than a critique - it's a celebration of what sports have taught us, and a map of how much more we still have to learn. Matt Hern is a former sportswriter and a radical urbanist whose writing has been published on six continents. Fun, engaging, and fast-paced, 'One Game at a Time' is for anyone willing to get their head into the game.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Matt Hern lives and works in east Vancouver, where he founded the Purple Thistle Center and Car-Free Vancouver Day. A former sportswriter and a radical urbanist whose writing has been published on six continents and in ten languages, he is the author of Common Ground in a Liquid City (AK Press, 2010), which was shortlisted for the Vancouver Book Award.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: AK Press
• Date d'édition: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1849351368
• ISBN 13: 9781849351362
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 136
• Éditeur: Hern Matt
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