Sport, leisure and culture in the postmodern city
By: edited by Peter Bramham and Stephen Wagg.
Contributors: Bramham, Peter.; Wagg, Stephen.
Series: Heritage, culture and identity
Publisher: Ashgate Pub.
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Farnham, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 221
ISBN-13: 9780754672746; 9780754691020
Subjects: Sports -- Social aspects -- England -- Leeds; Leisure -- Social aspects -- England -- Leeds; Industrialization -- England -- Leeds; Urbanization -- England -- Leeds; City planning -- England -- Leeds
Description: "The widespread concept of the 'postmodern city' is frequently linked to the decline of traditional manufacturing industries and a corresponding wane of white working-class culture. In place of these appear flexible working practices, a diversified workforce, and a greater emphasis on consumption, leisure, and tourism. Illustrated by an interdisciplinary study of Leeds, a typical postmodern city, this volume examines how such cities have reinvented themselves - commercially, politically and spatially - over the past two decades. The work addresses issues like cultural policy, city-centre development, sport, leisure and identity, and explores different urban processes in relation to changing configuration of class, gender and ethnicity in the postmodern city."--Publisher's description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Leeds: becoming the postmodern city / Peter Bramham and John Spink; title: Cranes over the city: the centre of Leeds, 1980-2008 / Janet Douglas; title: Mission or pragmatism? Cultural policy in Leeds since 2000 / Jonathan Long and Ian Strange; title: The history boy: made in Leeds / Peter Bramham; title: Leeds and the topographies of race: in six scenes / Ben Carrington; title: Nowt for being second: Leeds, Leeds United and the ghost of Don Revie / Stephen Wagg; title: Dreams of Parkside and Barley Mow / Karl Spracklen; title: 'Off with their headscarves, on with their football kits'? Unveiling myths and exploring identities of British-Muslim female footballers / Aarti Ratna; title: Barcelona of the North? Reflections on postmodern Leeds / Stephen Wagg and Peter Bramham.