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Human Geography and the Study of Sport

2000
J. Bale
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Politics, place and nation: comparing the hosting of sport events in Korea and Taiwan

Sport in Society, 2018
Many emerging market countries have utilized sport events as a vehicle to develop international relations and enhance their national images while promoting sport and health.
Doyeon Won, Weisheng Chiu
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It’s cold and there’s something to do: The changing geography of Canadian National Hockey League players’ hometowns

International Review for the Sociology of Sport, 2018
Set within the framework of the birthplace effect literature and the seminal work of Curtis and Birch, this paper draws information from the publicly available database www.hockeydb.com and from the Census to examine the hometowns of Canadian National ...
Lisa Kaida, Peter Kitchen
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A prospect for the geographical research of sport in the age of Big Data

Sport in Society, 2018
Along with the ever-accelerated update of computer science and techniques, the data-driven ‘computational social science’ has been blooming. But some important questions are: Will this trend bring any changes in sports geographical research?
Enqing Tian
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Using Sports Examples in Geography Courses

Journal of Geography, 2014
AbstractDespite the popularity of sports, relatively few instructors use sports examples in their classes to get students interested in a variety of human geography topics. This article offers detailed descriptions of several ways in which sports case studies can be used to explore topics connected to migration and diversity as well as urban geography.
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Using Sports to Teach Geography: Examples From Kansas City

Journal of Geography, 2004
Abstract This paper illustrates how sports can be used to teach geographic concepts, using illustrative examples from the Kansas City area. Given the global popularity of sport and its impacts and links to environment, economy, and culture, it is surprising that more attention has not been paid to sport as a vehicle for the conceptualization and ...
Lisa M. Dechano, Fred M. Shelley
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Sports Geography

Geographical Review, 1991
Karl B. Raitz, John Bale
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Sportgeographie – Sport aus der Tiefe des Raumes / Sports Geography – Sport from the Deepness of Space

Sport und Gesellschaft, 2007
Zusammenfassung Die Sportgeographie als ein noch sehr junges Teilgebiet der Sportwissenschaft und der Geographie begann sich erst vor circa vier Jahrzehnten zu entfalten. Abgesehen von einigen Vorläufern nahm die Sportgeographie ihren eigentlichen Anfang in den 1970er und insbesondere in den 1980er Jahren.
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Sports geography

Choice Reviews Online, 1990
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Prevotella diversity, niches and interactions with the human host

Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2021
Adrian Tett, Edoardo Pasolli, Giulia Masetti   +2 more
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