I would argue that sport is simply one activity/bonding/showing
off/whatever that `people` do. A key problem is its distinction to the
exclusion of other kinds of practices that to all intents and purposes
supply the same to the human subject. Maybe we resisted this exclusion,
and got on wiht our lives. Maybe sport things are much better regarded
when they are just aprt of the wider flow.
David Crouch
Cultural Geography/leisuer/toursim
Anglia University
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On Fri, 4 Jun 1999 09:49:14 +0100
(BST) Niall Johnson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Emma (and others),
>
> > I look forward to more discussion on geography and sport, but
> > what about geographers and sport?
> >
> > Does anyone else get the impression from the discussion so far that
> > many geographers were marginalised from sport when they were kids -
> > that they were, like me, that miserable child that was always picked last.
> >
> > I certainly don't detect much affection for sport.
>
> I suspect that by and large you are right. But I do know a number of c-g-f
> members who participate in various sports.
> [Warning - never let Gerry Kearns challenge you to a game of squash! :-)]
> Is this just an extension of societal antipathy to sport or is it a
> particular form of academic snobbery? :-)
>
> I must say I no longer play as much or at the same elite levels of the
> past. :-( Trying to get a PhD finished rules that out!
>
> ----
> au revoir
>
> niall johnson
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>
> Department of Geography and Sidney Sussex College
> University of Cambridge Cambridge
> England CB2 3EN England CB2 3HU
>
>
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Anglia Polytechnic University
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