Racing Time

Name: Racing Time
Brand: EPFL Press English Imprint
SKU: 9782889155712
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ISBN: 978-2-88915-571-2

Interdisciplinary Perspectives on The Tour de France

by Bertrand Fincoeur (Editor), Kirsten Frandsen (Editor), Christopher Thompson (Editor)

Collection: Urbanism

september 2023

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160 x 240 format 280 pages In stock

39,85 €

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Le Tour de France, un succès toujours au rendez-vous : interview de Bertrand Fincoeur

Interview de Bertrand Fincoeur, professeur de sociologie du sport à l'Académie internationale des sciences et techniques du sport à Lausanne.

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The Tour de France is an event known worldwide by both fans of cycling and the general public as a distinguished and extreme physical challenge. Since the 1990s, however, the Tour has also become notorious as a testing ground for performance enhancement and a proving ground for anti-doping measures. The Tour has long been the focus of books that concentrate on racing, the personalities, the scandals, and gossip. Racing Time, instead, offers a serious study of the event, analyzed within its political, social, cultural, and economic context. Racing Time presents expert analyses of a range of topics and issues which the recent history of the Tour has shown to be of contemporary significance, including several studies that examine issues around doping from a range of perspectives.

Content

Introduction – Bertrand Fincoeur, Kirsten Frandsen, and Christopher Thompson
Part I. Inclusion, Exclusion and Identity
1 The 'Truce' that Never Was? The Tour de France and French Politics – Christopher S. Thompson
2 Where? A simple question with a comprehensive answer. Spatial dimensions of the Tour the France – Vladimir Bacík and Michal Klobucník
3 The tribulations of the Women's Tour de France: a symbol of the refusal to acknowledge women in cycling – Flora Plassard and Lucie Schoch
4 Le Tour de France and Women's Activism – Suzanne Ryder
Part II. Economic, Environmental and Psychological Stakes
5 Selling the Tour: The Tour’s Business, Past, Present, and Futur – Eric Reed
6 Does Hosting the Tour de France Yield Tangible Benefits? – Christian Gjersing Nielsen, Andreas Nygaard, Mette Eske, and Rasmus K. Storm
7 The central role of the Tour de France in the political economy of elite cycling – Fabien Ohl and Bertrand Fincoeur
8 Reflections on the environmental impacts of the Tour de France – Andrea Collins
9 Mental challenges in the modern period of the 'Great Loop' – Denis Hauw
Part III. Media Perspectives
10 Tour de France TV broadcasting – Daam Van Reeth
11 Television’s contribution to the experience of the Tour de France – Kirsten Frandsen
12 Tour de France on Twitter – the discursive modes of sport audience tweets – Mogens Olesen
13 Is there a future for a virtual Tour de France? – Bertrand Fincoeur
Biography of the Authors