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    An examination of its growth and development

    True or false: Roller skating, in its quad form, has been around longer than inline skating. True or false: Aggressive Rollerblading® is the only form of inline skating that people practice. Of course, both of these statements are false. This new ebook, Inline skating in contemporary sport - An examination of its growth and development, looks at various forms of inline skating—ranging from ... Read more

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  • Ethnographic Borders and Boundaries

    Permeability, Plasticity, and Possibilities

    Immigrants, migrants, displaced, and diasporic persons: all have been constrained or enabled by borders of some sort. This book explores international cases of how and why such boundaries come to be; who is affected by socially constructed borders; what it means to individuals and nation-states to recognise and deal with arbitrary divisions; and finally, what might be done to find – and act on – ... Read more

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  • Sport and the Social Significance of Pleasure

    Series series Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society
    This innovative text's critical examination foregrounds the prime reason why so many people participate in or watch sport – pleasure. Although there has been a "turn" to emotions and affect within academia over the last two decades, it has been somewhat remiss that pleasure, as an integral aspect of human life, has not received greater attention from sociologists of sport, exercise and physical ... Read more

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  • Ethnographies in Pan Pacific Research

    Tensions and Positionings

    Series series Routledge Studies in Anthropology
    The book is about exciting ethnographic happenings in the vibrant and growing global interface which includes Australia, New Zealand, and some of the Asian geographical regions, as well as - more broadly - the global South. It explores ethnographic writing as culture(s) (re)produced, positionalities of authors, tensions between authors and others, multi-faceted groups, and as co-productions of ... Read more

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  • Southern Hemisphere Ethnographies of Space, Place, and Time

    This book is about exciting ethnographic happenings in the Global South. It brings together a wide range of authors who explore the spatial and temporal forms of various ethnographic projects, examining how individuals relate to their homes, their nation-states and their «moments» and trajectories. It also seeks to contest the twenty-first-century hegemonic colonialist project: to this end, the ... Read more

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  • Ethnographic Worldviews

    Transformations and Social Justice

    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book discusses ethnography from the three points of view of Emerging Methodologies, Practice and Advocacy, and Social Justice and Transformation, with an over arching emphasis on researchers' and participants' worldviews. While these three thematic threads cut across each other, the actual chapters will be located so that the reader understand many of the current issues and concerns—with ... Read more

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    This book won the 2014 AESA (American Educational Studies Association) Critics Choice Award.This reader begins a conversation about the many aspects of critical youth studies. Chapters in this volume consider essential issues such as class, gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, cultural capital, and schooling in creating a dialogue about and a conversation with youth. In a society that continues to ... Read more

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    Series series Latin America Otherwise
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    Series series Families in Focus
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