Lawrie Berg wrote:
>
>Finally, am I reading too much into things, or is it particularly notable
>to see how 'sport' has colonised many of the disclosures?
>
> On other hand, the lack of interest in sport among geographers - especially CULTURAL
geographers - in their professional work remains astonishing. No paper explictly
focusing on the subject has ever been published in the AAG or TIBG . Oddly, this is far
from being the case in similar status journals in other disciplines. On the other hand I
sense that much of what Nigel Thrift has recently written about dance could be also
applied to sport. And the super chapter by Allan Pred on the Stockholm Globe in (plus his
earlier paper on the 'journey to spectate' at 19th.c. baseball games [Jnl of Hist Geog.
some yrs. ago] recognises the 'place' of modern sports. But in the end it seems that
non-geographers (e.g. Charles Springwood, 'From Cooperstown to Dyersville', and
Henning Eichberg, 'Body Cultures' [recently pub. by Routlege]) write the best
geographies of sports.
I think the mention of UK soccer club affliliations in many of the disclosures may say
more about the respondents (or their masculinities?) than anything else. Lawrie - this is
one of your fields; a response?
Cheers
John Bale
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