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Bicycle racing --- Bicycle racing --- Cyclists --- Political aspects --- History
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Features a collection of never-before-published essays by stock car racing's most prominent writers
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A sociologist writing for a general audience challenges myths about NASCAR racing, considers the significance of its rise in popularity, and analyzes issues of gender, region, ethnicity, and social class in stock car racing.
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Automobile racing --- Automobile engineers --- Biography. --- Biography. --- Chapman, Colin,
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Bicycle racing --- Social aspects --- Paris-Roubaix (Bicycle race) --- History.
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The Sport of Kings is an ethnography of the British racing industry based upon two years of participant observation in Newmarket, the international headquarters of flat racing. Racing in Britain provides a lens through which ideas of class, status, tradition and hierarchy can be examined in an environment which is both superficially familiar and richly exotic. This book explores concepts about 'nature' specific to thoroughbred racehorse breeding, and pursues the idea that in making statements about animals, we reveal something of ourselves. It explains the action that takes place on racecourses, in training yards, on studs and at bloodstock auctions. It analyses the consumption of racing through betting on the racecourse and in betting shops, and it proffers an insightful description of a unique class system: that of the humans and animals involved in the production of British flat racing.
Horse industry. --- Horse racing. --- Horse racing - England - Newmarket. --- Race horses. --- Thoroughbred horse. --- Thoroughbred horse --- Race horses --- Horse racing --- Horse industry --- Recreation & Sports --- Social Sciences --- Breeding --- Equine industry --- Horse business --- Flat racing --- Horseracing --- Racehorses --- American thoroughbred horse --- Animal industry --- Horse sports --- Racing --- Competition horses --- Working animals --- Horse breeds --- Anglo-Arab horse --- Anthropology --- Chevaux de course --- Éleveurs de chevaux --- Course de chevaux --- Classes sociales --- Anthropologie culturelle --- Grande-Bretagne --- Grande-Bretagne Pur-sang --- Élevage --- Aspect social --- Newmarket (Suffolk, GB) --- Angleterre --- Aspects sociaux
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What role do sporting spectacles play in the making of a 'world-class' city?Indy Dreams and Urban Nightmares reports on the conflict that arose between a Vancouver community and the civic boosters who wanted to move the Molson Indy Vancouver motorsport event to their neighbourhood park. Arguing that such events are simply a matter of economic and cultural 'common sense', the civic boosters promoted the Indy spectacle as a means of gaining 'world-class' status for the city. Against this background, Lowes explores the complex relations among major league sport, urban landscape, and civic identity. He argues that the capacity to articulate a city's 'vision' for itself is an important manifestation of power and ideology, and a notable point of struggle in contemporary urban life. This encompasses much larger issues related to the struggle over urban public space and the legitimacy of a particular narrative of urban growth and civic identity - one that increasingly privileges the consumer over the citizen. Provocative and engaging, this study examines the impact of major sports events on urban centres, and shows how urban public culture is defined and shaped by competition for the right to conceptualize, control, and experience a city's public spaces.
City planning --- Public spaces --- Automobile racing --- Sports and tourism --- Urban economics --- Community organization --- Sports and tourist trade --- Tourism and sports --- Tourism --- Auto racing --- Motorsports --- Racing --- Sports car events --- Public places --- Social areas --- Urban public spaces --- Urban spaces --- Cities and towns --- Civic planning --- Land use, Urban --- Model cities --- Redevelopment, Urban --- Slum clearance --- Town planning --- Urban design --- Urban development --- Urban planning --- Land use --- Planning --- Art, Municipal --- Civic improvement --- Regional planning --- Urban policy --- Urban renewal --- CBOs (Community organization) --- Community-based organizations --- Community councils --- Community life --- Citizen participation. --- Citizen participation --- Government policy --- Management --- Hastings Park (Vancouver, B.C.)
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