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Robert E. Rinehart
Researcher at University of Waikato
Publications - 35
Citations - 401
Robert E. Rinehart is an academic researcher from University of Waikato. The author has contributed to research in topics: Ethnography & Pleasure. The author has an hindex of 8, co-authored 35 publications receiving 356 citations. Previous affiliations of Robert E. Rinehart include Idaho State University.
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Alternative sport and affect: non-representational theory examined
Holly Thorpe,Robert E. Rinehart +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a concerned response to the tendency in critical studies of physical culture and alternative sport to reduce experience to language, discourse, texts or representation is presented. But this paper is not concerned with sport.
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Action Sport NGOs in a Neo-Liberal Context: The Cases of Skateistan and Surf Aid International
Holly Thorpe,Robert E. Rinehart +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, sport nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) have flourished in the contemporary moment, particularly situated within neoliberal global politics, focusing on the relatively recent pro- sport organizations.
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Inside of the outside. Pecking orders within alternative sport at ESPN's 1995 "The eXtreme Games".
TL;DR: Despite an ever-increasing number of alternative sports which have begun encroaching into mainstream sport, the process of commodification of such alternative sports has been little examined as mentioned in this paper, despite the fact that many of these sports are not mainstream sports.
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Poetic Sensibilities, Humanities, and Wonder: Toward an E/Affective Sociology of Sport
TL;DR: The poet, using the skills that enable compression, packs a world into a tennis ball and the reader, through attentive reading, unpacks that world in a matter of moments as discussed by the authors.
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Sport and the Social Significance of Pleasure
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine sport and the moving body via a "pleasure lens" and provide new insights about the production of various identities, power relations and social issues, and the dialectical links between socio-cultural and the body.