H. Naess

A Sociology of the World Rally Championship

History, Identity, Memories and Place. 2014 edition. Sprache: Englisch.
gebunden , 260 Seiten
ISBN 1137405430
EAN 9781137405432
Veröffentlicht September 2014
Verlag/Hersteller Springer Nature Singapore

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Beschreibung

Drawing upon interviews with key people in the World Rally Championship as well as trans-local ethnographic research, this book explores questions of commerciality and sporting identity, tackling the sport's controversial handling of the shift into 'the commercial age'. It is essential reading on combining sporting heritage and commercial progress.

Portrait

Hans Erik Næss is a Research Fellow in Sociology at the University of Oslo, Norway. He is affiliated with the interdisciplinary research programme CULTRANS (Cultural Transformation in the Age of Globalization). His blog, Thrills and Spills: Sociology goes to the FIA World Rally Championship, can be found here: http://hanserikness.blogspot.no/