Gaelic games in society : civilising processes, players, administrators and spectators / John Connolly, Paddy Dolan.
"In this book John Connolly and Paddy Dolan illustrate and explain developments in Gaelic games, the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA), and Irish society over the course of the last 150 years. The main themes in the book include: advances in the threshold of repugnance towards violence in the p...
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| Language: | English |
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Basingstoke :
Palgrave Macmillan,
[2020]
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| Series: | Palgrave studies on Norbert Elias.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : Gaelic games in society
- Gaelic games and player violence
- Spectators, emotions and the individualisation of violence
- The sociogensis and development and the GAA : centralising and decentralising tensions
- The amateur-professional tension balance
- The amplifying of professionalism and amateurism, and the emergence of 'player power'
- Integrating Irish youth, national identification and diminishing displays of superiority
- Cultural hybridisation as an essentialising strategy : the development of a new sport-international rules football
- Conclusion : some thoughts on contemporary developments.