The greening of golf sport, globalization and the environment / Brad Millington and Brian Wilson
Golf is a major global industry. It is played by more than 60 million people worldwide, and there are more than 32,000 courses across the globe in 140 countries. This book looks at the power relationships in and around golf, examining whether the industry has demonstrated sufficient leadership on en...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Manchester, England :
Manchester University Press
2016
2016 |
| Colección: | Globalizing sport studies.
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009430226706719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- I. Introduction and tools for seeing golf sociologically
- 1. Introduction: approaching golf and environmental issues
- 2. Light green to dark green: how to make sense of responses to environmental problems
- II. Background and history
- 3. Waging a war on pests: golf comes to America
- 4. Golf in consumer culture and the making of Augusta National syndrome
- III. The light-greening of golf
- 5. The turn to responsible golf and the roots of golf’s light-green movement
- 6. Environmentalism incorporated: professionalization and post-politics in the time of responsible golf
- 7. Light-green regulation? Environmental managerialism and golf’s conspicuous exemption
- IV. The dark-greening of golf
- 8. Anti-golfers across the world unite! Global and local forms of resistance to golf-course development
- 9. Organic golf ‘on the fringe’: the potential and challenges of a chemical-free golf alternative
- V. Conclusion
- 10. Reflections, recommendations, and minor utopian visions for a game we love.
