Millington / Wilson The greening of golf

Sport, globalization and the environment
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-5261-0703-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet

E-Book, Englisch, 264 Seiten

Reihe: Globalizing Sport Studies

This book is the first comprehensive study of the varying
responses to golf-related environmental issues. The authors examine golf as a
sport and as a global industry, drawing on literatures
pertaining to environmental sociology, global social movements, institutional
change, corporate environmentalism and the sociology of sport.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Millington, Brad

Wilson, Brian

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Freizeitsoziologie, Konsumsoziologie, Alltagssoziologie, Populärkultur
• Sozialwissenschaften Sport | Tourismus | Freizeit Sport Ballsportarten Golf

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part I: Introduction and tools for seeing golf sociologically
1. Introduction: approaching golf and environmental issues
2. Light green to dark green: how to make sense of responses to environmental problems
Part II: Background and history
3. Waging a war on pests: golf comes to America
4. Golf in consumer culture and the making of Augusta National syndrome
Part III: The light-greening of golf
5. The turn to responsible golf and the roots of golf's light-green movement
6. Environmentalism incorporated: professionalization and post-politics in the time of responsible golf
7. Light-green regulation? Environmental managerialism and golf's conspicuous exemption
Part IV: The dark-greening of golf
8. Anti-golfers across the world unite! Global and local forms of resistance to golf-course development
9. Organic golf 'on the fringe': the potential and challenges of a chemical-free golf alternative
Part V: Conclusion
10. Reflections, recommendations and minor utopian visions for a game we love
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Millington Brad:
Brad Millington is Lecturer in the Department for Health at the University of Bath, UKWilson Brian:
Brian Wilson is Professor in the School of Kinesiology at the University of British Columbia, CanadaBrad Millington is Lecturer in the Department for Health at the University of Bath

Brian Wilson is Professor in the School of Kinesiology at the University of British Columbia, Canada