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Found 5 from your keywords: subject="Sociology--Culture"
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Football Fans and Social Spacing
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Woolsey, Ian

This book is about the relationship between leisure and power. More specifically, it theorizes a group of supporters’ attempts to control social space within and around English football stadiums. Not only is football a popular leisure form, it is also one which has undergone a remarkable process of transformation during the last 30 years. Advance surveillance techniques, all seater-stadia, ri…

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1
ISBN/ISSN
978-3-030-74532-5
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xv, 170p.:ill
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004.08 Woo f
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Materiality and Visuality in North East India
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Nongbri, TiplutBhargava, Rashi

This edited book set in the context of North East India explores issues concerning symbols, meanings, representations, and social implications of materiality and visuality, as well as the dynamics of power, social reproduction, ideological dominance and knowledge production, from an interdisciplinary perspective. It seeks to answer the question of why some things matter more than others or wha…

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1
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978-981-16-1970-0
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xxxvii, 217p.:ill
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306.4 Mat
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A Historical Survey of the Yellow River and the River Civilizations
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Yunsheng Hu, Yunsheng HuJianxiong Ge,Jianxiong Ge,

This book explores the relationship between rivers and ethics in China, with a particular focus on the health of the Yellow River and China’s sustainable development. Though the book falls into the category of East Asian History, it is an interdisciplinary academic work that addresses not only history, but also culture, human geography and physical geography. It traces the changes in the…

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978-981-33-4481-5
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x, 242p.:ill
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306.4 Jia a
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Social Capital and Collective Action in Pakistani Rural Development
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Khan, Shaheen RafiKhan, Shahrukh Rafi

This book distinguishes conceptually between indigenous and constructed social capital and the associated spontaneous and induced collective action for rural development and natural resource preservation. While some of the case studies in this book show that induced collective action can lead to cost-effective, community-centric and empirically grounded rural development initiatives, other case…

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ISBN/ISSN
978-3-030-71450-5
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xviii,, 295p.:ill
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306.4 Kha s
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Hooligans, Ultras, Activists
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Kossakowski, Radosław

This book is the first comprehensive attempt to identify the deeper causes that have shaped contemporary behaviour patterns and motivations among football fans in Poland. Fan culture in Poland has long been based on a distinctively grassroots, spontaneous movements that ruled out any cooperation with local authorities and sports organizations. The activity of supporter groups has regul…

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1
ISBN/ISSN
978-3-030-56607-4
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xxi, 249p.:ill
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306.4 Kos h