Pacific Island Women and Contested Sporting Spaces
Title | Pacific Island Women and Contested Sporting Spaces PDF eBook |
Author | Yoko Kanemasu |
Publisher | Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | 128 |
Release | 2023-06-26 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1000902862 |
This book focuses on the variety of strategies developed by women athletes in the Pacific Islands to claim contested sporting spaces – in particular, rugby union, soccer, beach volleyball, recreational sports and exercise – as a prism to explore grassroots women’s engagement with heavily entrenched postcolonial (hetero)patriarchy. Based on primary research conducted in Fiji, Samoa, Solomon Islands, and Vanuatu, the book investigates contested sporting spaces as sites of infrapolitics intersected primarily by gender and also by other markers of inequality, including ethnicity, sexuality, class and geopolitics. Contrary to historical and contemporary representations of Pacific Island women as victims of gender injustice, it explores how these athletes and those who support them actively carve out space for their transformative agency. Pacific IslandWomen and Contested Sporting Spaces: Staking Their Claim focuses on a region underexamined by sport or gender studies researchers and will be of key interest to scholars and students in Gender Studies, Sport Studies, Sociology and Pacific Studies as well as sport practitioners and policymakers.
Pacific Salmon Life Histories
Title | Pacific Salmon Life Histories PDF eBook |
Author | Cornelis Groot |
Publisher | UBC Press |
Total Pages | 602 |
Release | 1991 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN | 9780774803595 |
Pacific salmon are an important biological and economic resource of countries of the North Pacific rim. They are also a unique group of fish possessing unusually complex life histories. There are seven species of Pacific salmon, five occurring on both the North American and Asian continents (sockeye, pink, chum, chinook, and coho) and two (masu and amago) only in Asia. The life cycle of the Pacific salmon begins in the autumn when the adult female deposits eggs that are fertilized in gravel beds in rivers or lakes. The young emerge from the gravel the following spring and will either migrate immediately to salt water or spend one or more years in a river or lake before migrating. Migrations in the ocean are extensive during the feeding and growing phase, covering thousands of kilometres. After one or more years the maturing adults find their way back to their home river, returning to their ancestral breeding grounds to spawn. They die after spawning and the eggs in the gravel signify a new cycle. Upon this theme Pacific salmon have developed many variations, both between as well as within species. Pacific Salmon Life Histories provides detailed descriptions of the different life phases through which each of the seven species passes. Each chapter is written by a scientist who has spent years studying and observing a particular species of salmon. Some of the topics covered are geographic distribution, transplants, freshwater life, ocean life, development, growth, feeding, diet, migration, and spawning behaviour. The text is richly supplemented by numerous maps, illustrations, colour plates, and tables and there is a detailed general index, as well as a useful geographical index.
Death at the Ballpark
Title | Death at the Ballpark PDF eBook |
Author | Robert M. Gorman |
Publisher | McFarland |
Total Pages | 344 |
Release | 2015-10-13 |
Genre | Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | 0786479329 |
When we think of baseball, we think of sunny days and leisurely outings at the ballpark--rarely do thoughts of death come to mind. Yet during the game's history, hundreds of players, coaches and spectators have died while playing or watching the National Pastime. In its second edition, this ground-breaking study provides the known details for 150 years of game-related deaths, identifies contributing factors and discusses resulting changes to game rules, protective equipment, crowd control and stadium structures and grounds. Topics covered include pitched and batted-ball fatalities, weather and field condition accidents, structural failures, fatalities from violent or risky behavior and deaths from natural causes.
The Union Pacific Magazine
Title | The Union Pacific Magazine PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 510 |
Release | 1927 |
Genre | Railroads |
ISBN |
Employee magazine of the Union Pacific System.
Trends in Asia Pacific Business and Management Research
Title | Trends in Asia Pacific Business and Management Research PDF eBook |
Author | Chris Rowley |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 230 |
Release | 2022-03-16 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1000547930 |
This book is based on the review of literature on different themes related to business and management in the Asia Pacific context. All seven chapters included in this book explore the past, present and future of business and research. They cover diverse topics in the Asia Pacific context ranging from different ways of thinking to innovation implementation and efficiency, responsible tourism, internal marketing to leadership. This book will be useful for researchers, practitioners and policy makers. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the Asia Pacific Business Review.
Atlas of Abundance and Distribution Patterns of Ichthyoplankton from the Northeast Pacific Ocean and Bering Sea Ecosystems Based on Research Conducted by the Alaska Fisheries Science Center (1972-1996)
Title | Atlas of Abundance and Distribution Patterns of Ichthyoplankton from the Northeast Pacific Ocean and Bering Sea Ecosystems Based on Research Conducted by the Alaska Fisheries Science Center (1972-1996) PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 304 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Marine fishes |
ISBN |
Post-Beijing 2008: Geopolitics, Sport and the Pacific Rim
Title | Post-Beijing 2008: Geopolitics, Sport and the Pacific Rim PDF eBook |
Author | J. A. Mangan |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 399 |
Release | 2013-10-18 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1317966074 |
In 2008, as few in the world are unaware, China was host to the world via the Beijing Olympics. The world watched the metamorphosis of Beijing from insecure capital to confident metropolis but, aware of it or not, the world was also watching the symbolic assertion, via the Games, of a rising superpower. The Pacific Rim will be the stage on which China initially displays its new hegemonic intentions, aspirations and ambitions. Thus in Post-Beijing 2008, the political, economic and cultural impact of Beijing 2008 on the geopolitical future of the Pacific Rim will be discussed. This perspective, analysed by some of the most distinguished academic commentators from some of the world's leading universities who are closely associated with the Pacific Rim (East and West), is original in focus and the analysis is pregnant with political possibilities. This book was previously published as a special issue of the International Journal of the History of Sport.