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Geography, Sport and Geographical Education

Geography, 1981
Both recreational and spectator sports are of great importance in modern life but have been relatively ignored in academic studies. A conceptual framework for geographic studies of sport and examples of sports-geographic approaches are provided.
J. Bale
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Rural Restructuring and the Changing Geography of Competitive Sport

Australian Geographer, 2005
Abstract The geography of sport has received relatively little attention from those interested in processes of rural social and economic change. This is despite the important role that sport plays in the structure of rural communities and regions.
Matthew Tonts, Kim Atherley
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Female empowerment through sport: an exploratory narrative review

Sport in Society, 2023
Empowering females is a critical global priority. Sports participation is a mechanism to increase female empowerment employed throughout the world. However, measuring empowerment remains challenging because definitions often differ between geographical ...
Aspen E. Streetman, Katie M Heinrich
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From utilitarianism and neoclassical sport management to a new geopolitical economy of sport

European Sport Management Quarterly, 2022
Research question In a fast-changing world, this study poses a simple question: is it time to start looking at sport in a different way? Thus far, utilitarian and neoclassical economic thinking has dominated sport management scholarship; however, here it
Simon Chadwick
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Teaching geopolitics through sport

Journal of Geography in Higher Education, 2023
This paper reflects on teaching sport in political geography undergraduate courses in the United States, through which I simultaneously aim to de-essentialize geopolitics and de-essentialize sport.
Natalie Koch
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What Makes Sport Spectating Family-Friendly? A Phenomenological Study of Mothers’ Sport Fan Game-Day Experiences

Journal of Sport Management, 2022
Sport organizations are developing family-friendly spectator initiatives to boost engagement and sales to parents and children. While the number of women sport fans continues to grow, research has yet to explore how women, as mothers and fans, experience
Katherine Sveinson, K. Toffoletti
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A NOTE ON THE GEOGRAPHY OF SPORT

The Professional Geographer, 1962
T. M. Burley
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