Charles
On the contrary: the geographies of identity and sexuality are far more developed and
written about in academic geography than sport is. Having said that the following may be of
interest.
On the significance of sport in geography see J. Scott and P. Simpson-Housley 'Relativizing
the relativizes" _TIBG_, NS14, 1989, pp. 231-6.; C. Philo, 'In the same ballpark?', in J. Bale (ed)
_Community, Landscape and identity: Horizons in a Geography of Sport_, Dept. Geog. Occ.
pap 20, Keele University, 1995, pp. 1-8.
It might also be of interest to note the significance of sport in written work in geography that
is ostensibly concerned with other things: e.g. A. Pred, in _Re-cognizing European
Modernities_ (1995) devotes almost a third of the book to a sports/leisure facility in Stockholm
(the Globe) while in a recent paper in _Antipode_ (1997) C. Gallaher in 'Identity politics and the
religious right' reads the presence of NCAA Div. I sports at Jerry Falwell's Liberty University
as a means of legitimating that institution's fundamentalist views.
Cheers
John Bale
On Fri, 04 Jun 1999 13:53:21 -0400 Charles Small <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>THANK YOU ROBERT CAMPBELL! FINALLY SOME `TRUTH' ABOUT LACROSSE!
>
>Interesting how lacrosse and notions of elitist sports... generate more
>interest than issues of marginalistion and identity in the UK, in light of
>the communities that were recently bombed in London.
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