The Role of Sports in the Formation of Personal Identities: Studies in Community Loyalties

John Hughson; Clive Palmer; Fiona Skillen

The Role of Sports in the Formation of Personal Identities: Studies in Community Loyalties

John Hughson (Editor), Clive Palmer (Editor), Fiona Skillen (Editor)

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Abstract

This is a collection of essays examining the role of sports in shaping personal and national identity. Studies ranging from skateboarding as resistance to conformity, cricket and the imagined community of Yorkshire, gender identity and rock climbing, and violence in soccer, among others are offered in this text.

Original language	English
Publisher	The Edwin Mellen Press
Number of pages	312
ISBN (Print)	9780773426665
Publication status	Published - 2012

Keywords

sport
personal identities

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Hughson, J., Palmer, C., & Skillen, F. (Eds.) (2012). The Role of Sports in the Formation of Personal Identities: Studies in Community Loyalties. The Edwin Mellen Press. http://www.mellenpress.com/mellenpress.cfm?bookid=8629&pc=9

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