Running Cultures: Racing in Time and SpaceRunning is one of the world's most widely practiced sports and recreations but until now it has intended to elude serious study outside of the natural sciences. John Bale brings the sport into the realm of the humanities by drawing on sources including literature, poetry, film, art and sculpture as well as statistics and training manuals to highlight the tensions, ambiguities and complexities that lie hidden beneath the commonplace notion of running. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
1 Ways of Running | 9 |
2 Running Ways | 37 |
3 Beyond the Arena | 61 |
4 Athletes as Pets | 77 |
5 Running as Transgression and Resistance | 109 |
Runners as Cosmopolites | 131 |
Moral Dilemmas and a Good Life? | 147 |
Notes | 166 |
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