The Professionalization of Action Sports: The Changing Roles of Athletes, Industry and Media (Sport in the Global Society: Contemporary Perspectives) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1032204036 ISBN 13: 9781032204031

Verlag: Routledge, 2022

Inhaltsangabe

Action sports have undergone dramatic growth, commercialization, and institutionalization over recent decades. This book uncovers the social, political, economic and organizational dynamics of their professionalization.

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Guillaume Dumont is Assistant Professor at OCE Research Center, emlyon Business School, France. He is the author of Professional Climber: Creative Work on the Sponsorship Labor Market (2018), exploring ethnographically the working lives of professional rock climbers in North America and Europe.

Holly Thorpe is Professor of Sociology of Sport and Physical Culture at the University of Waikato, New Zealand. She is the author of Snowboarding Bodies in Theory and Practice (2011) and Transnational Mobilities in Action Sport Cultures (2014), and co-author of Action Sports and the Olympic Games: Past, Present, Future (2021).

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Routledge
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2022
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1032204036
• ISBN 13: 9781032204031
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 136
• Herausgeber: Dumont Guillaume, Thorpe Holly
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: preigu GmbH & Co. KG; mail@preigu.de; ; Lengericher Landstr. 19; Osnabrück; Niedersachsen; 49078; Deutschland