Recentering Beijing: Sport, space, and subjectivities
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The efforts to host major sporting events are located within the dynamics of the spatial reconfigurations in Beijing, a rapid reording based on capital space, gentrification, and lifestyle practices of a burgeoning middle and upper class of Beijingers. A multidimensional account of the complex manner is presented in which power, mobility and transformation in Beijing intersects with the discursive constitution of bodies.
Publication Name: Sociology of Sport Journal
Subject: Sports and fitness
ISSN: 0741-1235
Year: 2006
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Travel and the home advantage in professional sports
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This article investigates the notion that home teams have an advantage due to the effects travel has on the visiting team. The authors argue that empirical evidence suggests that travel has little to do with the performance of the visiting team or the outcome of the game, and assert the belief that the visiting team has a disadvantage is due to social forces.
Publication Name: Sociology of Sport Journal
Subject: Sports and fitness
ISSN: 0741-1235
Year: 2000
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Negotiating gender: bodybuilding and the natural/unnatural continuum
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Bodybuilding demonstrates attempts by participants to make active choices about their bodies. A range of bodybuilders' attitudes about what constitutes natural and unnatural appearance is a framework for how they use various body technologies, cosmetic surgery, and muscle-enhancing drugs.
Publication Name: Sociology of Sport Journal
Subject: Sports and fitness
ISSN: 0741-1235
Year: 2001
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