Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Sport: (Routledge International Handbooks)

Men and women experience the city differently: in relation to housing assets, use of transport, relative mobility, spheres of employment and a host of domestic and caring responsibilities. An analysis of urban and gender studies, as co-constitutive subjects, is long overdue. Cities and Gender is a systematic treatment of urban and gender studies combined. It presents both a feminist critique of mainstream urban policy and planning and a gendered reorientation of key urban social, environmental and city-regional debates. It looks behind the 'headlines' on issues of transport, housing, uneven development, regeneration and social exclusion, for instance, to account for the 'hidden' infrastructure of everyday life. The three main sections on Approaching the City, Gender and Built Environment and, finally, Representation and Regulation explore not only the changing environments, working practices and household structures evident in European and North American cities today, but also those of the global south. International case studies alert the reader to stark contrasts in gendered life-chances (differences between north and south as well as inequalities and diversity within these regions) while at the same time highlighting interdependencies which globally thread through the lives of women and men as the result of uneven development. This book introduces the reader to previously neglected dimensions of gendered critical urban analysis. It sheds light, through competing theories and alternative explanations, on recent transformations of gender roles, state and personal politics and power relations; across intersecting spheres: of home, work, the family, urban settlements and civil society. It takes a household perspective alongside close scrutiny of social networks, gender contracts, welfare regimes and local cultural milieu. In addition to providing the student with a solid conceptual grounding across broad structures of production, consumption and social reproduction the argument cultivates an interdisciplinary awareness of, and dialogue between, the everyday issues of urban dwellers in affluent and developing world cities. The format of the book means that included with each chapter are key definitions, 'boxed' concepts and case study evidence along with specifically tailored learning activities and further reading. This is both a timely and trenchant discussion that has pertinence for students, scholars and researchers.

Table of Contents:
A historical introduction to the Philosophy of Sport Part I: Philosophical Approaches to the Conceptualisation of Sport 1. Formalism and Sport 2. Internalism and Sport 3. Conventionalism and Sport 4. An Institutional theory of sport Part II: Philosophical Theories and Sport 5. Asthetics of Sport 6. Bioethics and Sport 7. Eastern Philosophy 8. Epistemology and Sport 9. Ethics 10. Existential Philosophy and Sport 11. Feminism in the Philosophy of Sport 12. Phenomenology and Sport 13. Philosophy of Mind and Sport 14. Pragmatism and the Philosophy of Sport 15. The radical critique of Sport 16. Religion, Theology and Sport 17. Sport as a legal system 18. Metaphysics and Sport Part III: Key Issues and Themes in the Philosophy of Sport 19. Competition 20. Disability and Paralympic Sport 21. Doping and Anti-Doping: An inquiry into the Meaning of Sport 22. Fair Play 23. Genetics, science fiction and the ethics of athletic enhancement 24. Olympism – A Philosophy of Sport? 25. Philosophical Approaches to Coaching 26. Spectatorship – watching and following Sport 27. Sport, Commerce and the Market 28. Technology and Sport

About the Author :
Mike McNamee is Professor of Ethics at KU Leuven, Belgium, and Professor of Applied Ethics at Swansea University, UK. His research interests and teaching span a broad range from the philosophy and ethics of engineering to medicine and health care, the ethics of sports and research ethics. He is a former President of the International Association for the Philosophy of Sport and was the founding Chair of the British Philosophy of Sport Association. He serves or has served on the executive committees of many national and international associations, including the European College of Sport Science, the International Council for Sport Science and Physical Education, and the Philosophy of Education Society of Great Britain. He is the founding Editor of the journal Sport, Ethics and Philosophy, has written or edited 16 books in applied philosophy and ethics in sport and health, and is a founding co-editor of the landmark book series Ethics and Sport (Routledge). William J. Morgan is a Professor in the Division of Occupational Science and School of Communication, University of Southern California, USA. His major research interests are in ethics, critical theory and political theory, and most of his work has been devoted to the study of popular culture, especially contemporary sports and the Olympic Games. He is the author or editor of five books on sport, including Why Sports Morally Matter, the runner-up for the Best Book Award from the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport in 2006. He has been the recipient of the Distinguished Scholar Award from the International Association of the Philosophy of Sport and elected as a Fellow to the American Academy of Kinesiology, and he serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of the Philosophy of Sport and Sport, Ethics and Philosophy.

Review :
"This book makes an important contribution to urban studies and gender studies by combining a discussion of the Global South with urban scholarship that has focused on Europe and the US, bridging the gaps that keep us from seeing important worldwide continuities and connections." Professor Jessica Sewell, Boston University, USA "Cities and Gender provides a detailed ethnographic analysis demonstrating how gendered power relations are manifest in the structure of cities and everyday life within. At last, an accessible and incisive text that succeeds in intertwining urban and gender analysis." Diane Perrons, London School of Economics, UK