How Postmodernism Explains Football and Football Explains Postmodernism: The Billy Clyde Conundrum
How Postmodernism Explains Football and Football Explains Postmodernism: The Billy Clyde Conundrum

Author: Robert Kerr

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-02-05

Total Pages: 150

ISBN-13: 1137534079

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American football and postmodernist theory are both objects of popular and scholarly interest that reveal remarkable sociological insights. Analysis of media-driven commercial football documents how narratives of sportsmanship/brutality, heroism/antiheroism, athleticism/self-indulgence, honor/chicanery, and chivalry/sexism compete and thrive.

How Postmodernism Explains Football and Football Explains Postmodernism
How Postmodernism Explains Football and Football Explains Postmodernism

Author: Robert Kerr

Publisher: Palgrave Pivot

Published: 2014-01-14

Total Pages: 143

ISBN-13: 9781349562961

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American football and postmodernist theory are both objects of popular and scholarly interest that reveal remarkable sociological insights. Analysis of media-driven commercial football documents how narratives of sportsmanship/brutality, heroism/antiheroism, athleticism/self-indulgence, honor/chicanery, and chivalry/sexism compete and thrive.

The Sociology of Sports-Talk Radio
The Sociology of Sports-Talk Radio

Author: Robert L. Kerr

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2017-09-20

Total Pages: 100

ISBN-13: 3319672533

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The Sociology of Sports-Talk Radio is the latest sports-media scholarship from the author of How Postmodernism Explains Football and Football Explains Postmodernism, winner of the 2017 Outstanding Book Award from the National Communication Association ’s Communication and Sport Division. The book provides a descriptive analysis of the social interaction transpiring in what the author has conceptualized as the “the hyper-mediated marketplace of sports narratives.” It examines the social structures and processes that make sports-talk radio such a vibrant societal milieu, and seeks to identify the essential sociological dynamics that make all that endless chatter so vital to listeners. A qualitative, descriptive analytical focus on this remarkable platform—where people come together to interact insistently, colorfully, and often with stunning ferocity—highlights key processes by which human communicators construct meaning.

Organs for Sale
Organs for Sale

Author: Susanne Lundin

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-04-29

Total Pages: 126

ISBN-13: 1137539852

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In this book, Susanne Lundin explores the murky world of organ trade. She tracks exploited farm workers in Moldova, prosecutors in Israel and surgeons in the Philippines. Utilizing unique source material she depicts a rapidly growing organ market characterized by both advanced medical technology and human trafficking.

American Presidential Power and the War on Terror: Does the Constitution Matter?
American Presidential Power and the War on Terror: Does the Constitution Matter?

Author: Justin DePlato

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2015-09-01

Total Pages: 178

ISBN-13: 1137539623

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This book examines the use of presidential power during the War on Terror. Justin DePlato joins the debate on whether the Constitution matters in determining how each branch of the federal government should use its power to combat the War on Terror. The actions and words of Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama are examined. DePlato's findings support the theory that executives use their own prerogative in determining what emergency powers are and how to use them. According to DePlato, the Presidents argue that their powers are implied in Article II of the Constitution, not expressed. This conclusion renders the Constitution meaningless in times of crisis. The author reveals that Presidents are becoming increasingly cavalier and that the nation should consider adopting an amendment to the Constitution to proffer expressed executive emergency powers.

Adult Literacy Policy and Practice
Adult Literacy Policy and Practice

Author: Vicky Duckworth

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2015-09-17

Total Pages: 223

ISBN-13: 1137535113

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This book explores the gradual evolution of Adult literacy policy from the 1970s using philosophical, sociological and economic frames of reference from a range of perspectives to highlight how priorities have changed. It also offers an alternative curriculum; a transformative model that presents a more socially just different value position.

Feederism
Feederism

Author: Kathy Charles

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2015-12-17

Total Pages: 162

ISBN-13: 1137470461

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This book explores the controversial and misunderstood world of sexualised weight gain known as feederism. Conversations with over 20 feeders and feedees are analysed through a psychological and sociological lens. The implications for health professionals working in bariatrics are discussed along with directions for future research.

Crafting Sustainable Wine Businesses: Concepts and Cases
Crafting Sustainable Wine Businesses: Concepts and Cases

Author: Armand Gilinsky, Jr.

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2015-10-01

Total Pages: 144

ISBN-13: 1137553081

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Sustainable wine businesses are being crafted around the world, leaving the land in better shape for the next generation. In this book, four case studies reveal that sustainability in the wine industry it is tied tightly to long-term profitability.

New Paths to Public Histories
New Paths to Public Histories

Author: Margot Finn

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2015-09-17

Total Pages: 186

ISBN-13: 1137480505

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New Paths to Public Histories challenges readers to consider historical research as a collaborative pursuit enacted across a range of individuals from different backgrounds and institutions. It argues that research communities can benefit from recognizing and strengthening the ways in which they work with others.

Eurafrican Migration
Eurafrican Migration

Author: Rino Coluccello

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-04-29

Total Pages: 128

ISBN-13: 1137391359

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Informed by witness testimonies, Eurafrican Migration details how the perilous journeys undertaken by irregular migrants are enabled by complex networks of guides during the Sahara phase, and explores the relationship between migrants and the criminal groups who arrange for them to be transported across the sea to southern Europe.