Selling permissible violence: The commodification of Australian rugby league 1970-1995

International Review for the Sociology of Sport

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 161-176

  Hutchins, Brett ^a   Phillips, Murray G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANBERRA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australia; commodification; figurational theory; rugby league; sport; violence

Indexed keywords

EID: 0009422664     PISSN: 10126902     EISSN: 14617218     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/101269097032002004     Document Type: Article

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