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Playing on the Edge: Sport, Society and Culture in Asia and Oceania

Playing on the Edge: Sport, Society and Culture in Asia and Oceania

Rowe, David
Pang, Bonnie
Parry, Keith

Hardcover

Series: Sport in East and Southeast Asian Societies, Book 7

General ReferenceGeneral Political Science

ISBN10: 1433193558
ISBN13: 9781433193552
Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
Published: Jan 23 2026
Pages: 218
Weight: 1.02
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Contemporary global sport is in constant, sometimes bewildering flux. This book goes beyond orthodox globalisation theory, deploying the metaphor of 'playing on the edge' in analysing the dynamic process of making and remaking sport culture in Asia and Oceania. Beyond sport's traditionally dominant centres in the West, here the edges of the sport and media fields are vividly exposed, re-positioned, blunted and sharpened, revealing many points of tension - racial, ethnic, gendered, classed, sexual, cultural, linguistic, national, etc. - and in many combinations. This embraces many dimensions of the sport-society nexus relating to subjects including association (soccer) and Australia rules football, cricket, esport, casual and urban community sport, the Gay Games, and sports diplomacy. Playing on the Edge engages with the socio-cultural implications of this relentless sporting movement in considering the extent to which the Occidental may, in some respects, be becoming incidental.

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