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Canter, David V. Football in its place: An environmental psychology of football grounds. Routledge, 1989.

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Sen, Amartya. Our Obligation to Future Generations. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198825067.003.0007.

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Our reasoned sense of obligations to others can arise from at least three possible sources: cooperation, having caused harm, and effective power to improve suffering. The last source, this chapter argues, is particularly important in considering our obligations to future generations. It draws on a line of reasoning that takes us well beyond contractarian motivations to the idea of the “impartial spectator” as developed by Adam Smith. The interests of future generations come into the story because they are important in our attempt to be impartial spectators. The obligation of power contrasts wi

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Harris, Joanne. Place in the Sun/Al and Christine's World of Leather/the Spectator (Storycuts). Transworld Publishers Limited, 2011.

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Doane, Mary Ann. Bigger Than Life. Duke University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/9781478021780.

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In Bigger Than Life Mary Ann Doane examines how the scalar operations of cinema, especially those of the close-up, disturb and reconfigure the spectator's sense of place, space, and orientation. Doane traces the history of scalar transformations from early cinema to the contemporary use of digital technology. In the early years of cinema, audiences regarded the monumental close-up, particularly of the face, as grotesque and often horrifying, even as it sought to expose a character's interiority through its magnification of detail and expression. Today, large-scale technologies such as IMAX and

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Bontemps, Arna. Recreation and Sports. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252037696.003.0021.

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This chapter describes Negro recreation and sports in Illinois in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In 1847, a ten-mile foot race in Chicago was witnessed by more than 1,000 spectators. The event was won by a Canadian. Nine years later, a Negro represented Cook County at the Alton Convention of Colored Citizens of Illinois. In 1854, a skating match took place on the canal at Elmira between Patrick Brown and George Tate, a colored man. In 1874, the Chicago Evening Journal announced that “the Napoleons, a colored baseball club of St. Louis, are coming to this city to play the Un

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Schliesser, Eric. Philosophy of Science. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190690120.003.0011.

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This chapter articulates Adam Smith’s philosophy of science. The first section emphasizes the significance of Smith’s social conception of science—science takes place, not always comfortably, within a larger society and is itself a social enterprise in which our emotions play a crucial role. Even so, in Smith’s view science ultimately is a reason-giving enterprise, akin to how he understands the role of the impartial spectator. The second and third sections explain Smith’s attitude to theorizing and its relationship, if any, to Humean skepticism. Smith distinguishes between theory acceptance a

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Slocum, Karla. Black Towns, Black Futures. University of North Carolina Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469653976.001.0001.

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Some know Oklahoma’s Black towns as historic communities that thrived during the Jim Crow era—this is only part of the story. In this book, Karla Slocum shows that the appeal of these towns is more than their past. Drawing on interviews and observations of town life spanning several years, Slocum reveals that people from diverse backgrounds are still attracted to the communities because of the towns’ remarkable history as well as their racial identity and rurality. But that attraction cuts both ways. Tourists visit to see living examples of Black success in America, while informal predatory le

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Bailey, Doug. Cutting Skin. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190611873.003.0002.

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This chapter provides a detailed description, discussion, and interpretation of the performance artist Ron Athey’s 1994 show 4 Scenes in a Harsh Life, and the controversy that it caused at local, national, and international levels. Discussion places that performance in the contexts of Athey’s other work, and the broader practice of performance art of the body, and then argues for the relevance of the Athey work for understanding the Neolithic pit-houses at Neolithic Măgura. Primary articulations of relevance are the previously under-represented role of the digger-as-performer, of the audience-

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Valls-Russell, Janice, and Katherine Heavey, eds. Shakespeare’s Classical Mythology: A Dictionary. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781350125902.

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Why does Bassanio compare himself to Jason? What is Hecuba to Hamlet? Is the mechanicals’ staging of the Pyramus and Thisbe story funny or sad? This dictionary elucidates Shakespeare's use of mythological references in an early modern context, while bringing them to life for today’s audiences and readers, at a time of renewed critical interest in the reception of the classics and fascination with classical mythology in popular culture. It is also a precious tool for practitioners who may not always know quite what to make of mythological references. Mythological figures, creatures, places and

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Koehlinger, Amy. History of Sport and Religion in the United States and Britain. Edited by Robert Edelman and Wayne Wilson. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199858910.013.34.

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This chapter surveys scholarly writing about the intersection of religion and sport in the United States and Britain. It reviews the dominant historiography of works on religion and athletics, arguing that historians have focused primarily on clergy within Protestant traditions and the question of whether specific sports were considered licit or illicit in different places and times. This perspective occludes consideration of Catholic and other religions, the historical importance of bloodsport, and the informal nature of the interrelationship of religion and sport in daily life. The chapter a

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Holt, Robin. Unhomeliness. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199671458.003.0008.

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Arguing that Smith’s spectator is notable for its bridging skepticism and Kant’s sense of a unified subject, but wanting in its presenting a somewhat cosy, moralized, and self-sustaining sense of self, this chapter brings in the more unsettling views of spectating propounded by William Hazlitt. Hazlitt takes up the ideas propounded by Smith and Kant, but refuses to entertain the idea of there being a certain or sustained sense of self outside of the effort of self presenting. The characters of King Lear, Lady Macbeth and Macbeth are used to illustrate this argument. In this sense the self is c

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Miah, Andy. Sport 2.0. The MIT Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/9780262035477.001.0001.

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Digital technology is changing everything about modern sports. Athletes and coaches rely on digital data to monitor and enhance performance. Officials use tracking systems to augment their judgment in what is an increasingly superhuman field of play. Spectators tune in to live sports through social media, or even through virtual reality. Audiences now act as citizen journalists whose collective shared data expands the places in which we consume sports news. Sport 2.0 examines the convergence of sports and digital cultures, examining not only how it affects our participation in sport but also h

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Freedman, Lew. Encyclopedia of Stock Car Racing. Greenwood, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798216019022.

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This two-volume encyclopedia is the Daytona 500 of stock car racing books—an essential "Bible" that provides an all-encompassing history of the sport as well as an up-to-date examination of modern-day stock car racing. How did stock car racing become firmly entrenched in American pop culture, especially in light of the lack of interest in motorsports overall as a spectator activity in the United States? And what has been the secret to NASCAR's financial success and growth over the last six decades? Encyclopedia of Stock Car Racinghighlights approximately 250 subjects that have defined the spor

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Johnson, Catherine. Telefantasy. BFI Publishing, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781839025402.

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Telefantasy offers the first book length study to consider the place of fantasy, science fiction, and horror dramas in the history of British and US television. Looking at two periods (the 1950s/60s and the 1990s/2000s) when telefantasy has been particularly prevalent on television, this book provides detailed historical accounts of the production of key 'telefantasy' programmes: the Quatermass serials, The Prisoner, Star Trek, The X-Files, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased). Each case study is situated in relation to the development of the British and US television i

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Gray, Louise. Avocado Anxiety. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781472969644.

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A TIMES ENVIRONMENT BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 SHORTLISTED FOR SCOTLAND'S NATIONAL BOOK AWARDS 2023 ‘This is fantastic’ THE TIMES ‘Deeply relatable’ SPECTATOR ‘Rigorous, incisive, warm and brave’LUCY JONES ‘Essential reading for anyone that eats’ JAKE FIENNES ‘Universally urgent. Everyone should read it.’ CAROLINE EDEN - The food stories behind your favourite fruits and vegetables. Have you ever wondered who picked your Fairtrade banana or how far your green beans travelled to reach your plate? We are all part of a complex food system. Trying to make sense of it, environmental journalist Louise Gra

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Hirschbein, Ron. Voting Rites. Praeger, 1999. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798216033233.

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Does it really matter if a voter decides to vote-or, as a significant number of Americans do each election, not vote? Ron Hirschbein explores this issue and shows why enfranchisement cannot be understood unless it is placed in context and history. Clearly, the meaning of a vote depends upon the situation: a vote cast among the 400 of Athens or in the College of Cardinals has one significance; this is considerably different from pulling a lever every four years in a mass society of spectacles and commodities. Hirschbein also examines how voting was transformed from an expression of the politica

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Sullivan, Jill M. Bands of Sisters. The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 2011. https://doi.org/10.5040/9798881810412.

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On Saturday, November 14, 1944, radio listeners heard an enthusiastic broadcast announcer describe something they had never heard before: Women singing the "Marines' Hymn" instead of the traditional all-male United States Marine Band. The singers were actually members of its sister organization, The Marine Corps Women's Reserve Band of Camp Lejeune, North Carolina. Today, few remember these all-female military bands because only a small number of their performances were broadcast or pressed to vinyl. But, as Jill Sullivan argues in Bands of Sisters: U.S. Women's Military Bands during World War

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Sheldon, Sara. The Few. The Proud. Praeger, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798400650680.

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On a dark night in February 2005, Sara Sheldon arrived at Camp Fallujah, outside the dangerous ancient city for which it was named. Armed only with a camera, a laptop, and notepads, she was a spectator to the war who secured permission to embed with the 1st MEF and observe and interview Marines who happened to be women then posted at Camp Fallujah. In the time she spent there, Sheldon interviewed women who held ranks from corporal to colonel to gain a broad and varied perspective of the experiences representative of female Marines throughout Iraq. She reveals much about her subjects: the preco

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The Unnatural son, or, A sad and deplorable relation of the unfortunate end of H. Jackson: At Horsham near Sussex who having spent the estate his father left him, in drunkenness and whoreing, murthered his own mother, and robb'd the house : also how he was apprehended, and his confession at his tryal, his pertinent behaviour at the place of execution, his prayer and the ministers also, his dying words, and how he was hang'd in chains at Horsham on Friday the 11th of August 1700, where ravens pickt out his eyes, to the wonder of several spectators. Printed for R. Brown, 1985.

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