Bøger af David L. Andrews

This book provides a definitive and comprehensive contribution to the expanding body of research related to sport/physical culture and the COVID-19 global pandemic. By examining the generative complexities that simultaneously link and shape sport/physical culture and COVID, the book develops a collection of multi-faceted readings. The anthology is framed by an ontological understanding prefigured on relationality, liminality, and perpetual becoming. The contributions theoretically, methodologically and representationally explore COVID-sport assemblages as a dynamic and diverse ¿ad hoc grouping¿of interpenetrating affecting elements, encompassing material and expressive forms, human and non-human, animate and inanimate matter. The book will be of interest to advanced undergraduate and students and scholars of kinesiology, sociology of sport, critical studies of the body, physical education, sport and social issues, public health, physical cultural studies, sociology, foreign policy studies, and international studies.

Challenges the unexamined belief that sports stadiums, events, and teams in cities are always beneficial to the comunities.

Sociocultural Issues in Sport and Physical Activity explores the intersections between modern physical activity and society. The text applies social theory to a broad range of physical activities such as sports, fitness, dance, weightlifting, and others.

Blending critical theory, conjunctural cultural studies, and assemblage theory, Making Sport Great Again introduces and develops the concept of uber-sport: the sporting expression of late capitalism's conjoined corporatizing, commercializing, spectacularizing, and celebritizing forces.

Addresses the issue of sport as a form of pleasure, contending that sport, like any form of popular culture, reveals a lot about the society in which it appears. This book examines sports through Marxist, feminist, and poststructuralist viewpoints. It explores the intersections of sport and politics, sport and class, and sport and identity.

Laser application in chemistry and related fields is an area growing at rapid pace in line with new developments in laser technology. The fields of application range from fundamental chemical research to sophisticated analytical methods in chemical and biotechnological industry and in environmental chemistry.

A collection of essays on the symbolic role of sport in the delicate interplay of the superpowers during the Cold War, which shows how sport and politics became inextricably intertwined.