Barbaric Sport A Global Plague

Name: Barbaric Sport A Global Plague
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ISBN: 9781844678594

ISBN-10: 1844678598

ISBN-13: 9781844678594

Edition: 2012

Authors: Marc Perelman, John Howe, John Howe

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Marc Perelman pulls no punches in this succinct and searing essay against the global phenomenon of sport, which he describes as both arecent form of savagery and the opium of the people. The charges leveled against sport are damning and numerous: sport is an instrument for racism and the bolstering of repression, with global events such as the Olympics used to legitimize major political crackdowns; doping must be understood as an imperative rather than an aberration of sport. Most ominously, with its location at the very center of the society of the spectacle, globalization, and the liberal-capitalist system, the phenomenon of sport has become a new world power and an immense destructive…

Book details

List price: $12.99
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Verso Books
Publication date: 5/3/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 144
Size: 5.10" wide x 7.80" long x 0.47" tall
Weight: 0.374
Language: English