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Drawing upon interviews with key people in the World Rally Championship as well as trans-local ethnographic research, this book explores questions of commerciality and sporting identity, tackling the sport's controversial handling of the shift into 'the commercial age'. It is essential reading on combining sporting heritage and commercial progress.
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Hans Erik Næss is a Research Fellow in Sociology at the University of Oslo, Norway. He is affiliated with the interdisciplinary research programme CULTRANS (Cultural Transformation in the Age of Globalization). His blog, Thrills and Spills: Sociology goes to the FIA World Rally Championship, can be found here: http://hanserikness.blogspot.no/
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: A Sociology of the World Rally Championship
Book Subtitle: History, Identity, Memories and Place
Authors: Hans Erik Naess
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137405449
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Social Sciences Collection, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-40543-2Published: 19 September 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-48771-4Published: 01 January 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-40544-9Published: 23 September 2014
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 260
Topics: Sociology of Culture, Regional and Cultural Studies, Sociology of Sport and Leisure, Social History, Marketing, Services