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Author:   Friederike Trotier ,  Alan Bairner
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.230kg
ISBN:  

9780367892715

ISBN 10:   0367892715
Pages:   114
Publication Date:   16 December 2019
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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1. Sport and body cultures in east and south-east Asia Friederike Trotier and Alan Bairner 2. Changing an image through sports events: Palembang’s success story Friederike Trotier 3. Extravagance and its decline: China’s triple East Asian Games since the 2000s Marcus P. Chu 4. Belly dancing as exercise: image-building of a foreign dance in Taiwan Yuchi Chang, Po-Hsiu Lin and Tsuneo Sogawa 5. The Buddhist Basketball Association: sport practice and the cultivation of the body among Tai Lue monastics Roger Casas 6. Civilizing the Devil’s Own Country. The Scouting movement in Netherlands New Guinea as a tool for social, cultural and political change, 1950–1962 Jelle Zondag 7. Sports clubs and organizations in changing times: the case of Singapore Wai Cheong Eugene Chew, Ho Jin Chung and Jung Woo Lee 8. An exploratory examination of risk-management practices in South Korean community sport clubs Sungwon Kim, Todd L. Seidler, Daniel P. Connaughton and John O. Spengler

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Friederike Trotier is a Research Assistant at the Department of Comparative Development and Cultural Studies at Passau University, Germany. In her PhD thesis, she analysis the role of sporting events in the changing Indonesian history and the local agency after Indonesia’s decentralization process with the example of Palembang as sports city. Alan Bairner is Professor of Sport and Social Theory at Loughborough University, UK. He is co-editor of The Politics of the Olympics: a survey (2010) and the Routledge Handbook of Sport and Politics (2017). He is the founding editor of the Asia Pacific Journal of Sport and Social Science.

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