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special theme of this issue of Soundings is sport - which plays
an important role in shaping the ways in which we think about ourselves,
for our sense of gender, class and national identity. The themes addressed
in this issue include identifications and identity; legal and political
intervention in sport; the changing role of business in sport; and the
new developments in communications technologies which have both facilitated
sport and changed its meaning. Sports looked at include soccer, women's
kick-boxing, cricket, hunting, athletics and body-building.
As well as the themed section, special feature articles include:Letter from Turkey by Fred Halliday; New Left and New Labour: Modernisation or a New Modernity by Geoff Andrews; Confronting Breast Cancer: Marvea's Story, a photo essay by Cherron Lee Johnson; and The Art of Life by Jonathan Rutherford; plus Birmingham, Kosovo, poems, reviews.
Contributors and Contents:
Part I
Editorial: The Lesson of Kosovo
Michael Rustin
New Left and New Labour: Modernisation or a New Modernity?
Geoff Andrews
Confronting Breast Cancer: Marvea's Story
Photo Essay by Cherron Lee Johnson
Five Poems: Geoffrey Adkins, Susanne Ehrhardt, Judith Kazantzis, Robin
Leanse, Gregory warren Wilson
Letter from Turkey
Fred Halliday
rethinking 'Global' City Centres: The Example of Birmingham
Nick Henry and Adrian Passmore
The Art of Life
Jonathan Rutherford
Reviews
Angela McRobbie, Alyson Pendlebury, Andy Wallis
Part II: These Sporting Times
Introduction: These Sporting Times
Andrew Blake
This Sporting Nation
Carol Smith
Where's My Match? A British Subject Interrogates the National Broadcaster
Simon Cook
Tilting at windmills: Manchester United and the Defeat of the BSkyB Bid
Adam Brown
The Legal Colonisation of Cricket
Steve Greenfield and Guy Osborn
Field Sports: The Pursuit of the Right?
Andrew Blake
Taking the Punches
Gemma Bryden
Making Faces: When Socu-Soap was Young
Steve Hawes
Staging the Spectacle: Reflections on Olympic and World Cup Ceremonies
Alan Tomlinson
Ask Him Referee: Wrestling in Romsey
Alastair Loadman
Notes on Camp: New Labour and the Body(building) Politic
Adam Locks
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