Tag: Gabriel Kuhn
Sport for development and change through activism
Russell Holden has read a new book by Gabriel Kuhn, Playing as if the World Mattered: An Illustrated History of Activism in Sports (PM Press). The full-color illustrations make this book an attractive buy, but Kuhn could have done better in the analyses; for instance, there are no women beyond cheerleading and roller derby.
Fotboll som motmakt
Matti Goksøyr
Norges idrettshøgskole, NIH, Oslo
Gabriel Kuhn
Soccer vs. the State: Tackling Football and Radical Politics
260 sidor, hft., ill.
Oakland, CA: PM Press 2011
ISBN 978-60486-053-5
Den moderne fotballen er et kulturelt felt og en sosial praksis som stadig mer er blitt innhyllet i en kommersiell diskurs. Penger, karriere, kjendisstatus, millionlønninger, sponsorer, investorer, reklame og big business er ord som knyttes til fotballen. Politikere...